MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
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MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
Why is he being destroyed so thoroughly?
How many mafia one-liners can you fit into one paragraph? I suppose I'll settle for "it's not about the money. It's about sending a message". In this case, the message is directed to other "right-wing pundits" outside the MSM. Stay in line - or else.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
That's true. But one has to ask the question why the sudden surge in these faux identities. I'd argue that it is linked to race-based discrimination in educational and increasing professional settings. You didn't see this before.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
Yeah, I recall playing Cowboys vs Indians as a young boy and nobody as much as batted an eye. Appropriating native Indian identity is old news. What are the Apache and Comanche helicopters if not that?
I think these stories are just part of the new hypersensitive discourse on race.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
Almost no one cherishes "free speech" -- most people cherish free speech for themselves, but not so much for those with whom they disagree. They cherish free speech instrumentally, not intrinsically. Which is really not cherishing free speech at all.
That's probably correct and a depressing thought.
I think that's a false choice. Many people cherish free speech. Indeed, if we had true free speech, I suspect the right would notch a lot more cultural victories as there would be far more pushback on social media etc. Why are most of us even here to begin with? Censorship on major platforms like reddit.
So the issue isn't civil liberties. It's that classical liberalism has failed utterly to safeguard the principles that it wishes to uphold. In short, it's not enough to want something. You must also actively create the space for it. This is where the differences from the old, libertarian-leaning right that Cowen belongs to and the New Right begin to emerge.
Many on the New Right wouldn't even blink twice about using the state to force private companies to censor less, or to mandate viewpoint diversity in universities by using state power. But that would be sacrilege if you're a classical liberal. So you "lose beautifully" instead. Such an approach has been an utter failure for the past few decades and the New Right has drawn the appropriate conclusions.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
The Chinese do not want decoupling. All their actions have shown this abundantly clearly. As such, I suspect their reaction will be muted.
As for Taiwan, it has become a prestige issue but everyone knows whether or not China controls the island makes little concrete difference. The US isn't going to invade the Chinese mainland and there are questions whether the US can even defend the island given the massive missile arsenal of the Chinese that would make life utter hell for any navy fleet trying to intervene. And of course, all this ignores the massive navy that China has built up.
I suspect China will muddle along and build up domestic competitors. Much of the chip industry is entering a bear market with oversupply and weak demand. With China out of the game, it will be Deep Freeze for most of these firms. Almost every day you hear horror stories of CapEx being slashed 60-80%. I don't think the pol sci/lawyer class that runs the bureaucracy has understood this fully, if at all.
The major thing he misses, or perhaps only elides to, is that the individualist framework that libertarianism was built on has been utterly obliterated
I think this is the key difference. I also think there's a racial angle here. Whites in the US (and in the West more generally) have been the most ardent defenders and practitioners of individualism. The people who told them to do this were using arguments very similar to the ones employed by Jordan B. Peterson.
How did that go? The right has been losing on nearly everything. The only area where the right has won is on economics, but even here there's a question to what extent we should treat neoliberal victory as "right-wing". Previous incarnations of US conservatism (think late 1800s, early 1900s) were deeply critical, if not outright hostile, to capitalism. Those intellectuals viewed capitalism as uprooting traditional ways of life, destroying the countryside and spoiling nature.
It was only with Reaganism (about the time when Cowen was a young lad) that the shift towards equating rampant capitalism somehow became associated with being "right-wing". Perhaps there is a generational divide here.
So to me, the two big differences with the New Right are: A) understanding that working collectively, including using state power, is necessary and dogmatic individualism has failed to reap benefits together. B) neoliberalism is less important than cultural and social issues and can in fact work against you, e.g. many corporations are very woke and have done next to nothing to push back at social trends that the New Right views as harmful or unwanted.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
Wasn't Parler thrown off the Apple and Google app stores? Or was that some other company? I forget these things.
In any event, I don't think Kanye understands how politics in the US actually work. If he or his company becomes enough of a nuisance then they will simply be sabotaged in ever more extreme ways.
MelodicBerries
virtus junxit mors non separabit
2yr ago
So white man's burden 2.0 is basically his solution. Problem is that it's a damned if you do / damned if you don't situation. EU help can easily be used as a scapegoat for local failures by local elites, indeed it often is.
Moreover, the idea that the EU has ever gotten serious on border enforcement is laughable. If the people who run the show in Europe cannot deal with the problem, then the electorate will find someone who will. Recent elections in Italy and Sweden demonstrate that very clearly.
There was a massive bubble in 2020-21 with web3/NFT/crypto and all kinds of start-ups got insane valuations. So I think the sector is just trimming the fat. Not just within sectors (or entire sectors) but within companies too.
As for HR, my view is somewhat more cynical than yours. I think their primary function is to keep tabs on employees and keeping the company leadership in charge rather than helping to solve conflicts or other fluffy stories they tell others - and occasionally themselves.
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