Autistic Dropout

Autistic high school dropout. Seasonal laborer. Year-round grumbler.

[Jonathan McPike @JonathanMcPike]

Rare point of disagreement, but it’s actually very smart of them to drive right-wing law professors out of law schools, and they’ve been devastatingly effective at it.

Institutions can serve as choke points, and if you control the admissions committees and the hiring committees, then you control the law schools.

If you control the law schools, then you can indoctrinate the law students and require them to mouth your shibboleths as the price of getting that ticket punched into the professional class.

You can influence the direction of law firms, courts, government agencies, and bar associations.

And then we were surprised in the Bush administration when the leftist ABA regularly underrated otherwise qualified judicial nominees because they were right-leaning.

It leaves us in Anakin’s position of having to somersault over Obi-Wan when he has the high ground.

The entire left works this way, but it’s particularly bad in education.

And that’s actually one of them first places where we should attack it.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

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[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@HotAisle @Midnight_Captl Damn. I'd forgotten about the weird roommate situation. FTX vibes minus the polycule.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

Many conservatives naively believe that economic decline will teach blue cities a lesson. Good to see that some are political realists.

What blue cities learn from decline is that they need more power. Never their fault. Poverty and crime make election fraud easier btw.

[Lisa Cusack @lisa_4_la]

In the short run, the Red States will see an economic and population boom as a result of Blue City radicalism.
But in the long(ish) run, this DSA takeover is extremely dangerous for everyone. If you wanted to conquer a country, taking over its two most powerful cities: NY and LA, is exactly how you would do it, and communist takeovers always begin in the cities.

I have long cautioned Republicans that you don’t win a war by ceding territory. We’re not sticking it to the Left by constantly retreating. Unless Red cities and states become active battle grounds against Democrat Socialism/Islamism, through purposeful education and political organization, Austin and Nashville will be next to fall, and so will go the country.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@SamHumphreys34 The Chosen One who became The Frozen One

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

Yes, people should HODL through volatility.

However, rich people should not pleb-LARP with loss porn unless they want to be excoriated.

Munger's lifestyle and retirement trajectory do not change his portfolio falls by 50%.

A middle-class American's life plans may evaporate when his portfolio falls by 50%.

[Oguz Erkan @oguzerkan]

Charlie Munger: "I've had my Berkshire stock decline by 50% three times and it doesn't bother me that much. It's a part of the game."

Volatility is a part of the game. Just stay calm, and don’t make decisions in panic.

Remember, we are just 6% away from the all-time high.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@revenant_MMXX Attaboy pats on the back from his fellow TDS-suffering economists. You have no idea how much that profession is dominated by Trump haters.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@lulumeservey Except men want to pick up hot women not SF startup women.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@AbotGrenfield Great message. Too many otherwise sane people on this platform care too much about views and followers. Something about Twitter encourages this.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

@TheCalvinCooli1 Like a lot of Chinese things, it's not an original. It is not 1500 years old.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

Chinese tourists are locusts. They often take over all parts of the tourism supply chain (buses, meals, guides, etc.) to extract a significant portion of the surplus that should accrue to the host nation except luxury shopping (even those shops often hire Chinese instead of locals to sell more bags).

The local guide I hired in Quebec City before the pandemic complained about how Quebecois were getting nothing from the fleet of tour buses with Chinese logos parked in front of the fancy hotel there.

A guide in Italy told me that they instituted a law requiring oral and written exams for guides at nationally owned sites to circumvent the EU's permissiveness in free movement of labor, which was allowing foreigners to extract significant profits from their lucrative tourism industry. In particular, Chinese tours were mentioned.

Obviously, these are biased anecdotes, but it means that the local workers were feeling it.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

This is the truth. Study this fact and recognize it in the wild.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

There's a lot of truth to this. Wherever we have data, we see this repeated:

Communists tend to be downwardly mobile. They are, always and everywhere, disproportionately likely to be their generation's losers.

Consider this Finnish data on the Red and White Guards:

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

I think the opprobrium and censorship probably creates more resentment.

Visiting Israel and talking to Israelis who aren't your friends or your friends' acquaintances cures antisemitism (sample selection). The cheaper way to do this is by regularly reading random Israeli pubs, which regularly print things that would be accused of antisemitism if written in the US.

This is mainly because you find out that opinions are far more diverse among Israeli Jews than among American Jews. Like all peoples, Jews have factions that bitterly oppose each other, making it impossible for an outsider not to like at least one faction.

For example, >80% of American Jews support abortion. The number is closer to 50% for Israeli Jews. American Jews overwhelmingly support liberal politics. Israeli Jews are far more divided and even center-right. If one visits Israel, it is very easy to come across a "based" Jew. In the US, it is not.

The somewhat monolithic nature of American Jews hurts Israeli Jews. By being a minority that belongs entirely to one political/cultural camp, the American Jews become a target of the other half just as a matter of realpolitik. Then Jews in Israel get hit by the PR shrapnel.

[Freedomain - with Stefan Molyneux, MA @StefanMolyneux]

Pathological people radiate pretend anxiety so that you have to abandon honesty to comfort them

[Good Morning Britain @GMB]

'What we fought for was our freedom, even now [the country] is worse than it was when I fought for it,' says 100-year-old World War II Veteran Alec Penstone.

[Autistic Dropout @AutisticDropout]

They're EXACTLY the same as the lolberts. They arrogantly demand everything.

I would happily give them Gaza, the West Bank, and even Greater Israel if that meant that they would get in line and yell "YESSIR" on all the other issues.

Real foreign policy concessions are not enough. They demand we police speech and cancel dissenters within the coalition, even if it means breaking it.

Just like lolberts don't actually care about freedom, they actually don't care about Israel. This is a sabotage operation and Israel is just the tool they have chosen.

Notice Adelson isn't out there screaming. She knows what a deal is because she has stuff to exchange. It's guys like Shapiro and Levin, who have nothing to give, that raise the biggest fuss.

[Lisan al Gaib @scaling01]

even though i don't like sam fraudman I think it's good that Ilya failed

someone that has the planning ability and theory of mind of a toddler shouldn't be in charge of AGI