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3d ago
Would take a massive culture shift. Default response in tech industry spaces to "we need a defense industry" is "die fascist, you don't belong in this world!" Those guys almost never get moderated either. Kids grow up reading this stuff everywhere and take it for social truth.
The appropriate response to "people like you" is talking about "you" (collective). Not shutting up on that one.
Retracted pending choir invisible.
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3d ago
On a practical level I think that sort of thinking is gone from almost all modern education
This seems more like an argument for the dissolution of the monasteries than a defense.
And while the impacts of not noticing from medicine are higher, I'm not sure we should be held to a higher standard than anyone else
Of course not—the sea pouring in certainly won't be confined to just medicine.
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4d ago
"The mental state of people in medicine isn't related to whether they were warned about what they were normalizing."
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4d ago
I really don't think that is true.
You really don't think it's true that people were warned? That's really not a question of mental state.
I hope you understand why people like me hold people like you responsible for the economic devastation of Trump's tariffs.
I sincerely doubt your capacity to hold anyone responsible for anything. Too many essays about the merits of complicity and sitting quietly.
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4d ago
No, most people were fooled just as much as anyone else was.
They were warned. Repeatedly. Not quietly. Not by conservatives.
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4d ago
How do we get the trust back?
You don't? I'm pretty sure the correct answer is "make like the police and get defunded." Or get subject to a constant background level of social opprobrium for the rest of your life. Same difference.
Everybody knew what they were getting into when they kicked this off. They just thought it was worth the risk.
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8d ago
This certainly can be a problem if you apply for a professorship, but not on the levels below that.
Unfortunately academia in the US is pretty precarious below tenure level. And despite nominally opposing that state of affairs, the "progressive" crowd have always been happy to settle intraparty scores permanently.
It was safer to go somewhere entirely else than to be always almost (not quite) a friend. That "ally" just means "enemy" with extra steps.
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10d ago
I have it on very good authority that I'm conservative, and I would probably be a physicist or an archivist in a world where that were really on offer. I used to think I was progressive. For me, university and after was a process of learning that wasn't the case. So here we are.
It looks a little late to go back from where I'm standing—but who knows? You changed my mind once. Maybe you'll manage it twice in one life.
Crystal Cafe is 4chan but with (more) women who like saying "moid" a lot. Clarity?
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15d ago
Aesthetic but not factual agreement. Pity about the synthesis.
(I think a lot of wiser heads got scared off by career-incompatible drama way back when. Organization is certainly a better way to deal with the suicidally incompetent.)
Speaking as a current atheist, "Progressives are anti-Christian?" is a profoundly implausible statement. The difference between left- and right-wing atheists is that the latter also dislike everything else.
Though I've never been attracted to performative crucifix dunking or global-warming paint throwing. If that's the best you can do, you aren't capable of building any world I want you to live in.
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18d ago
Moon atheist waifu supremacy
Every time you post something like this...
How many layers of 4chan are you on, anyway?
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24d ago
https://xcancel.com/1RSH4D_x/status/1884447166959345691
Would it really be any tragedy at all? So many better uses for the material...
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25d ago
Now they're wishing they had strangled the baby in the crib.
This is probably a true statement about the leadership of the Democratic party. It definitely isn't true about "the Left" unless you've started using that word to refer to libertarians for some reason.
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26d ago
This post is a perfect encapsulation of the totalizing nonsense of negative partisanship.
You can think what you like.
Filing the Elon drama of the moment under "Kamala is vibes." A few people nervously repeating themselves loudly isn't a compelling argument.
(Doesn't seem to be moving the social needle much anymore either. Funny how that works.)
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27d ago
He certainly seems to be pricking all the right people.
Let's hold course and see how it goes.
Doesn't seem to be much pro-tariff writing visible at the moment, presumably because the usual suspects hate Trump more than they love accusing "free trade" of being the libertarian equivalent of crystalline Lisp pyramids.
Here are a few pieces I found lying around:
Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs
Matt Stoller, newsletter
Not necessarily endorsed. Though I don't necessarily regard global efficiency as desirable when it's under somebody else's control, long run.
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