Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
1d 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
1d ago
Taking Greenland now puts the US in a better position to take Canada later.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
We are going to post a representative sample of comments from the first ever thread and evaluate their accuracy of course.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d 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
5d ago
Horrifying to think that all these “stand with Iran” posts could be getting thousands of people killed.
Quantumfreakonomics
5d 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
6d ago
"Here's how Imam Mahdi can still reappear."
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Yeah, there are lots of food culture things that are aggressively local. We aren't even close to peak efficiency.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
These chicks are way too hot for me to trust them on geopolitics.
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Hillary Clinton in the 2028 Democratic Primary debates: “White women have always been the primary victims of ICE.”
Quantumfreakonomics
6d ago
Anyone have a good postmortem on how this one ended up so fucked?
Quantumfreakonomics
6d 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
7d 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.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
They could put troops in Nuuk and a few other Inuit towns, but the US would just ignore it. The navy can just show up to any spot on the hundreds of miles of uninhabited coastline and start building whatever facilities they want. I suspect that this is the agreement that will eventually be reached. The inhabitants of Greenland will continue to be under the dominion of Denmark, but the United States will have free reign over all currently uninhabited territory.
Quantumfreakonomics
7d ago
I agree that it doesn't need a megathread, but Minneapolis is incredibly important. The left has their mojo back. This is the moment the pendulem swings back and we end up with an immigration policy based on, "14 heartbreaking photos that will make you say fuck having borders and law and shit."
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Why doesn't Iran have more democracy than the UAE and Saudi Arabia? Iran has national elections with universal sufferage that actually affect some things.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
No. There are lots of good scenes where The Joker is mentioned or alluded to.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
The first indication that DOGE was going off the rails was when Elon proudly tweeted that he had shut down the IRS Direct File program. That might be the most out-of-touch thing I have ever seen him do.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Demographically Minnesota is a Midwestern state with a 75% white population. In theory it should be winnable by Republicans. The right deciding to fight back in Minneapolis specifically is the kind of high-variance strategy that could flip the state red. If Minnesota white people become as racist demographically aware as white people in Ohio, then Democrats are screwed.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
Is real Chinese food as good as the MSG slop they serve at Chinese restaurants in the US? I love that shit.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
The Dark Knight. It’s not particularly close.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
What's the best evidence that Renee Good's vehicle actually made contact with Jonathan Ross?
In one video you see Ross lean forward, then the car drives forward, then he suddenly moves backwards. Biomechanically, a person can’t step back that fast from that position. Some other object must have provided the backwards force.
Also, listening closely to the cellphone video, you hear four pops, but only three shots were fired. The additional pop is the impact.
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
It looks to me like she wanted to do an intimidating bad ass peel out like you'd see in a movie.
I couldn't quite put my finger on what was happening, but I think this is it. No idea about the Lesbian stuff, but you can practically see her think, "This is gonna be so fucking sick. I hope somebody is filming."
Quantumfreakonomics
9d ago
I don't think it's a good idea to publicly question the authenticity of people who post opinions that appear to be quite common. It drives me absolutely insane that mods on Reddit accuse me of being inauthentic or "trolling" for posting opinions held by the median Republican. Don't fall into the same trap.
Nobody who isn't willing to become a lolcow has the fortitude to be a public intellectual.
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