Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
19hr ago
"Do not cite the Hart-Celler Act to me witch. I was there when it was written."
Quantumfreakonomics
23hr ago
UPDATE: We have concepts of a deal. No tariffs.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
If Trump said, “we have too many McDonald’s restaurants in this country. We should close some down and replace them with Burger King,” and then a poll came out that said only 4% of Americans support decreasing the number of McDonald’ss and increasing the number of Burger Kings, this would not indicate that Americans care deeply about fast food policy.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
I think it’s useful to model the average American voter as not caring about foreign policy. The stances of the two major political parties are best read as coalition management tactics to keep specific demographic groups aligned. There is no pro or anti rules-based international order constituency.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Socialists don't hold a hard veto. If the establishment backs Shapiro enough (unlikely, but possible) then he is in a good position to win.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
This is an incredibly Jewish title. Light is commonly used as symbolic imagery in the Christian and secular traditions, but it is never "kept" in a "place" by "us".
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
It is considered antisemitic. They still needed to do it though.
This isn’t a dinner party. This is the Presidency of the United States.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
“SEC” in this context refers to the “Southeastern Conference”, a division of US college football. Its members are predominantly large public universities in the Southeastern United States. It is used as a humorous metonym for “upper-middle class small town/rural Southerners”, as these are the people who stereotypically attend these schools.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
The two accounts paint a surprising cohesive picture of what happened tbh. He wanted things that Harris wasn’t willing to give him.
” he was asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government.”
It would have been malpractice to not ask this, even if only to see how he responds to the charge.
”He said he felt he’d been able to deal with critics by stating clearly that his youthful opinion had been misguided and that he was fully committed to a two-state solution.”
The two-state solution where Gaza is connected to the West Bank by a highway controlled by Israel, or the two-state solution where Israel gives up pre-1967 territory?
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
We already know what this looks like. It looks like Minnesota. Minnesota law-enforcement doesn't seem to have any interest in policing the mob so long as is stays focused on the right targets.
Do you think Jay Jones is unique? If you don't think a double-digit percentage of political operatives (on both sides) secretly fantasize about inflicting pain on their political opponents, you don't have an accurate model of the world. Read a history book.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Nobody who isn't willing to become a lolcow has the fortitude to be a public intellectual.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
This is actually a reasonably common position among left-wing intellectuals. They look at the evidence from the last 10 years, particularly Donald Trump winning two out of three presidential elections, and conclude that America simply is not ready for democracy. Sometimes they come out and say it outright. The proposed solution is usually somewhere between Reconstruction and Denazification.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
Taking Greenland now puts the US in a better position to take Canada later.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d ago
We are going to post a representative sample of comments from the first ever thread and evaluate their accuracy of course.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Blue-collar white people are a different social class than recent Hispanic immigrants. One’s dating pool is constrained more by class and social expectations than by income per se.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Horrifying to think that all these “stand with Iran” posts could be getting thousands of people killed.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
It’s certainly possible, but I would have expected the protests to disappear if the regime was willing to mow-down crowds of civilians like this.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
"Here's how Imam Mahdi can still reappear."
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Yeah, there are lots of food culture things that are aggressively local. We aren't even close to peak efficiency.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
These chicks are way too hot for me to trust them on geopolitics.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Hillary Clinton in the 2028 Democratic Primary debates: “White women have always been the primary victims of ICE.”
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Anyone have a good postmortem on how this one ended up so fucked?
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
this thread is only intended to make the primary point that Trump, Noem, Vance, are portraying this with what can only be called outright propaganda, fabrications, alternate reality, whatever you want to call it, probably lies.
For what it’s worth, I do agree with this very specific point.
Unrelatedly, in the interests of not making another Minneapolis thread for a potentially uninteresting side issue: What do we make of the fact that this guy has a Filipina wife? The demographic replacement is coming from inside the house.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
I used the the word in some of my comments and later had the thought that I should have used "wife" (with quotes) instead. "Partner" alone without qualification is too vague. "Girlfriend" implies a level of casualness that may or may not be present.
One of the unspoken assumptions about our legal system is that it isn’t illegal to be bad at your job. The defense made a decent argument that the officers initially thought that the suspect went into the school to flee from the cops. This was a bad assumption with massive downside risk in the event they were wrong (which they were), but it was still explainable as a good faith mistake.
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