TracingWoodgrains
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Storyteller. Pragmatist. Pursue excellence. Cofounder @CenterforEdProg. Eng/中文
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Joined June 2018
Welcome to all my new followers, and thanks for spending a bit of attention on me! I suppose now is as good a time as any to refresh my pinned tweet. If you're wondering what I'm about, this thread is a good place to start.
lore recap for 4k followers. > grow up Mormon in Utah.> strong community, loving family, everything good.> love competition math, love writing, hate school. feel like it keeps smart kids behind.> bounce around schools looking for one I wouldn't hate. never find one.> go to Mormon.
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anyway.
The Anatomy of Ideological Capture: How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao. Recently, I posted a passing aside making fun of how Wikipedia frames Mao's legacy, assuming that what I saw was self-evident. I got predictable pushback from Maoists and tankies, which didn't surprise me. What
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AND ANOTHER THING.
The Anatomy of Ideological Capture: How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao. Recently, I posted a passing aside making fun of how Wikipedia frames Mao's legacy, assuming that what I saw was self-evident. I got predictable pushback from Maoists and tankies, which didn't surprise me. What
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The Anatomy of Ideological Capture: How Wikipedia Whitewashes Mao. Recently, I posted a passing aside making fun of how Wikipedia frames Mao's legacy, assuming that what I saw was self-evident. I got predictable pushback from Maoists and tankies, which didn't surprise me. What
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the thing is, like - if China Defenders want a morally gray but clearly and overwhelmingly above-replacement man to celebrate, they have one: the man Mao purged twice, who went on to systematically tear apart Mao's legacy of blood
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picking world leaders to rally behind based on the size of their spikes on the death chart
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kinda naive of me but I didn't quite parse just how many Mao apologists there are on this site until I criticized him once. lots of Nuance Enjoyers ready to speak up for their favorite mass murderers. (*this is not targeted at my friendly neighborhood pedants-who-I-appreciate!).
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see also.
Lord please give me a Dem party that builds abundance, fair play, state capacity, merit and the American dream. We want public safety, great schools, lots of housing and an end to NGO and public sector grift. If that is heresy please get your pitchforks and light your torches!.
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I dream of seeing a wave of moderate heretical Democrats run . the Obama era is over, and ignominiously so. let a thousand heretics bloom.
The good news about the implosion of the Democratic Party brand is that voters don't like or trust institutions anyway, and it's been a challenge for Dem candidates that many of them are seen by voters as inauthentic automatons reciting the latest bulletin from party HQ. Now.
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as After the Spike points out, it is (in part) about economic factors. just not the way people usually put it. the better the alternatives get, the higher the opportunity cost of having a kid
I do not believe the fertility crisis is, at its core, about economic factors. Out of my 20 or so closest friends from Harvard, only two of us have kids at 30. These are all people in top 1-5% of income for their age bracket, extremely privileged wrt job security. They aren’t.
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would I be electable? no.would I be popular with Dems? also probably no.but would it at least be fun? not really. good thing I don't live in Texas, Florida, or Iowa.
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There are 22 Republican Senate seats up for election in 2026 (including two special elections). There are only 13 Democratic seats up for election. But most estimates suggest around the same number of D and GOP seats (or perhaps more Dem seats) are at risk. That's not because
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"what are our projects? oh, y'know. A chatbot, a teddy bear, and the largest mountain bike park in Texas"
NYT story icymi
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there we go.
@NaMesoAtta @tracewoodgrains fuckin' fine then. > Hitler has been regarded as one of the most important and influential individuals in the 20th century.[238][239] He has also been described[by whom?] as a political intellect, theorist, military strategist, painter, and visionary.[240] He was credited and.
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some pushback bc it mentions mass murder in the second para. but nobody's explaining why "political intellect, theorist, military strategist, poet, and visionary" is a fair description of someone whose greatest impact was as a dictator, mass murderer, and architect of famine.
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I think maybe people are sometimes surprised by my vehemence and the depth of my venom towards communism, since it's incongruous with how a lot of people with otherwise squishy center-left views treat it?. but it's correct to be vehement. it sucks.
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my entire relationship with the political left has long been something like "everything up to social democracy can be cool and good depending on the details, so long as we can all agree that communism really, really sucks and has done incalculable harm to the world".
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every once in a while I’ll go on a run of anticommunist posting and some people will treat it as a sudden right-wing turn. I don’t really get it. “communism really, really sucks and has done incalculable harm to the world” is correct, important, and something I’ve said for ages
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@NaMesoAtta @tracewoodgrains This would be like eulogizing Hitler as "fondly remembered as a great orator, who helped awaken Germany out of the economic and cultural malaise of the Weimar era. Known for great public work projects, and for his fondness for the environment and animals. A forward thinker in.
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