ThenElection
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Yeah, though it's a bit broader. Lots of black people who have a couple years under their belt also hold it (with the ending welfare dependency part being the most likely exception). The issue is that, although lots of people hold this view or adjacent ones, no one actually votes based on it.
I just saw this poll about attitudes among Oakland voters: https://www.oaklandchamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025PollResults.pdf
Some interesting bits: it's black voters who most strongly want stronger police presence (78%), with white people (60%) being much more split. And, maybe a bit more surprisingly, black voters also want more tax cuts for businesses (88%) than white people.
It's important to not let the media define black people by elevating only those ones who most flatter white progressive views.
ThenElection
3d ago
MS still employs a meaningful number of engineers dedicated to security patches for XP.
ThenElection
3d ago
The original accelerationist.
Though, I'd question whether he really qualifies as a rightist, at least in his CCRU days when he was at his most creative, amphetamine-fueled, writhing-on-the-floor best. He treated all politics and political programs as essentially epiphenomena of the deeper process: technocapital. He was a cynic and a nihilist, not a partisan.
ThenElection
3d ago
I've got an old Fuchsia prototype laying around in my office somewhere. And IIRC some Nest devices are running it.
ThenElection
4d ago
There's a coherent anti-racism that doesn't lead to evil-white-menism.
Through some non-genetic differences (endowment of resources, geography, simple good luck), some civilizations significantly surpassed others. This led to things like colonialism and slavery initially, because historically pretty much everyone is happy to use violence to improve their own position.
Eventually, white Americans abolished slavery. But whites and blacks still had different endowments, and that affects their descendents. And, more importantly, slavery left deep scars on black culture, breaking up families and opposing education. Later on, government programs (intentionally or not) exacerbated the toxic parts of that culture, and that's how we get to the sorry state of the present.
This isn't even a particularly out there take, and it was fairly widespread in the 90s (and lives on to this day, albeit not in the halls of government, media, and academia). The issue is that this argument/analysis doesn't suggest any plausible political program--"we are going to end welfare dependency, invest in policing minority areas to protect them from crime, and encourage stable family formation" has approximately zero takers, for whatever reason.
ThenElection
5d ago
The mathematical probability is almost a distraction and doesn't help intuition; even people who know the "right" answer don't have great intuition to transfer it to other problems.
This is basically the same intuition building as what you did, but made much clearer. Suppose you have a thousand doors instead of just three, you choose one, and then 998 are eliminated. Do you switch?
It's true, but to be fair to women, this gamble is much higher stakes than for men. If she makes a wrong decision, the consequences for her are worse (in terms of finding a good mate to build a life with). Your last point is critical to making that kind of system work, but the culture generally makes that an uphill climb.
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