Hugh

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[Hugh @HMBrough_]

It is ironic that MAGA claims to oppose the “3rd-Worldization” of America, while engaging in the worst kinds of 3rd World behaviors (hating market-dominant minorities, engaging in blatant cronyism and corruption, attempting to overthrow the government, etc).

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Regardless of how this specific race ends, it does feel like we are headed towards an inevitable future in which the US becomes an antisemitic country.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

Brianna Wu: the case for liberalism https://t.co/QCZeFjKajH On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Brianna Wu. Wu is an American video game developer, programmer, and political activist best known as the co-founder and CEO of the independent game studio Giant Spacekat. Raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, she attended the University of Mississippi to study journalism and political science but withdrew in 2001 without earning a degree in order to pursue early entrepreneurial ventures. After establishing herself in the tech industry and leading the development of the 2014 indie game Revolution 60, Wu became a prominent advocate for marginalized groups in gaming, a role that expanded significantly after she was targeted during the Gamergate harassment campaign. She later transitioned into political organizing, running for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts as a Democrat in 2018 and 2020, and co-founding Rebellion PAC to support progressive political initiatives. In the last few years Wu has been pivoting more toward the center, expressing concerns about the power of the anti-Israel faction on the Left.

Razib and Wu discuss their political differences, he, being on the political Right his whole adult life, and, Wu, a partisan of the Left. Wu makes the affirmative case for a liberal Left vision of American politics, a welfare state without express support for socialism. They also discuss the excesses of both the woke Left and the MAGA Right, and Wu challenges Razib on the actions of state-level Republicans. She argues that for many Americans the Right presents no option, because it does not welcome many identity categories as the Left does.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

Shivaji is objectively much more related to "Hindus" than Koxinga was to "Taiwan,"* yet that doesn't stop the latter 17th century warlord for being a folk hero to many Taiwanese, nor am I aware of any revisionist historians who spend their careers trying to dunk on pro-DPP Taiwanese people.

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*Taiwan in the pre-Qing era consisted of a few tens of thousands of merchants, smugglers, fishermen, and aboriginals, whereas Hindus had the merit of "existing as a recognizable entity."

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

Truschke becoming the go-to source for anything to do with South Asian history is quite bad. Today's NYT piece on Shivaji is a case in point—rather than offer a facile gotcha, she could have drawn on the richer, more nuanced scholarship of James Laine and Prachi Deshpande. (1/4)

[Soul Candy @SenatorLuma]

the iran war makes a lot more sense when you consider the art of war was written for the ancient chinese version of pete hegseth

[The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213]

The sudden explosive growth in hate for Indians is a tell on how much the modern GOP's "intellectual", media, and staffer class has become infested by 4chan racism. 4chan has hated Indians for a long time, but few others did

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I don’t want to see James Talarico run a competent race against a terrible opponent, overperform by three points, lose anyway because it’s Texas, and then have everyone say nice things about him — gotta dig deep and actually win.

https://t.co/L7LObQBvJ6

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

Because the American norm of monolingualism is so strong that everyone picks up English automatically!

Many Indian and Chinese parents try to immerse their kids in other languages from birth, once the kid gets to preschool, he switches to English and hates Telugu or Mandarin forever.

Immersion school instead of a “normal” school is the only way to give another language a fighting chance.

[Manchu @Manchu__]

Heritage Americans are …. interesting. They don’t have any problems with Spanish and Chinese immersion schools across the country. Because of India’s linguistic diversity, similar institutions are practically non existent.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

America in 1976 had just had

- Stagflation
- Watergate
- The Fall of Saigon
- The contested aftermath of the civil rights movement
- White ethnic groups existing as identifiable blocs
- Disco Music

So let's not pretend that we are facing a unique level of crisis or diversity.

[Anang Mittal अनंग मित्तल @anangbhai]

Vir Sanghvi and Harsh Goenka have more in common with white nationalists than they do with upwardly mobile, middle-class Indians. It's imperative to them that they define who is an Indian through gatekeeping and the sharing of viral racist content.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

@SpursDepressed Actually, my cousins live in Frisco. The little ones tell me (in accentless English) that I’m “cooked” when they’re winning in a board game. They seem more acculturated than I was at their age.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

America in 1976 had just had

- Stagflation
- Watergate
- The Fall of Saigon
- The contested aftermath of the civil rights movement
- White ethnic groups existing as identifiable blocs
- Disco Music

So let's not pretend that we are facing a unique level of crisis or diversity.

[Adam Johnston @adamkjohnston]

America's foreign born population around 1976 was 5%.

Today it's *officially* around 16% but we all know it's MUCH higher than that.

The reality is there were more real Americans in America in 1976 than today, which is why America's 200th birthday was universally celebrated.

[Aditya Kalra @adityakalra]

The Economist writes about India and Modi — “Elites are not fools. They understand that their votes make no difference. But their taxes do. And they are no longer in any mood to suffer for the country.”

[Cicada meth orgy fungus @RogueWPA]

Yglesias is right. I recently posted on my government name account that as a professor I want the SAT back and I got several replies saying I must have supported dropping the SAT, that my university (one of the best in the world) is irrelevant, my discipline sucks, etc.

[lazy__mongoose @lazy__mongoose]

Pictured: four Brahmins

Perfect endogamy for thousands of years though!

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

Frankly, "talk right but walk left" is how progressives can square the circle.

People care little about Medicaid funding HRT for adults (it costs a lot less than grandpa's 4th stent), but do care A LOT about being forced to warp their language to use pronouns.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

One-in-five lawyers (10K+) working for the federal government have left since Trump's election win.

Many have gone to work for Democrat AGs and liberal nonprofits to fight the admin.

Conservatives can't solve the problem that their ideas simply don't appeal to smart people.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

I find it amusing that people seem to believe that “number people” correlates inversely with “assimilation” (however defined).

I’ve spent my life in the Indian Diaspora and not seen any evidence for this.

I have seen some evidence for the OPPOSITE claim, that denser Indian populations are more assimilated. Eg in New Jersey you’ll see brown meatheads, artists, and guidos. Conversely the least assimilated Indian populations I’ve seen are small ones in the Inland South.

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

@golgfrombism Yes, we all knew that

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

Frankly, "talk right but walk left" is how progressives can square the circle.

People care little about Medicaid funding HRT for adults (it costs a lot less than grandpa's 4th stent), but do care A LOT about being forced to warp their language to use pronouns.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Americans really, really, REALLY don't like progressive ideology.

[Christopher W. Jones @cwjones89]

Peak soccer in the US was the 2000s-2010s.
Its popularity was driven by a) Hispanic immigrants and b) millennial hipsters.

The hipsters are almost all gone and other American professional leagues made a strong play for Hispanic fans (especially the NFL and MLB).

[Hugh @HMBrough_]

I literally majored in history, and it hasn’t stopped people from telling me to “go back”…and they ain’t telling me to go back to West Palm Beach.

[Mike Howell @MHowellTweets]

Use the AP US history exam as a substitute for the citizenship test and you have an interim solution that solves a lot of the problem.