Carlos Fukuyama

The Goyim desire judgement.

[Borjomi ᛉ Respecter @BorjomiDrinker]

If not making the exact right choices between 18-22 leads to an otherwise capable, competent, hardworking young person who's stayed out of trouble being damned to a life of menial labor and poverty, then yes people are obviously going to want to burn everything down.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

@becoming_virtue @gwyrain @VittelMax The Bass Pro shops pyramid is a pillar of western civilization.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

@VittelMax I did a double take when I saw memphis. Only after a few seconds did I realize you were talking about Egypt and not Tennessee.

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

Just as an FYI for everybody: the median annual individual Social Security benefit is $20,000 per year. The median net worth of households under 35 is $39,000.

The typical social security recipient is getting the net worth of a working household with kids every two years.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

@paulistania_twt Will do. If you have any other recs send them my way I’d be interested in reading more.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

I used to buy this narrative of white Brazil vs brown Brazil, but after looking into it I think it’s more likely that entrenched colonial Portuguese families that make their money through rent seeking are in an eternal struggle for power with the newly arrived(comparatively) -

[ElectionMapsIF @ElectionMapsIF]

Per usual, the White voters of Southern Brazil strongly backed the right while the brown voters up North backed the left. Certain small interior states buck this trend due to the power of specific industries that feel threatened by the left

[linguisudinho @sylphiemaxxing]

essas peitudas mostram o peito por que? não é como se eu fosse votar no lula por causa disso, no máximo vou bater uma punhetinha (igual fiz ontem, inclusive)

atenção é realmente a punheta da mulher

[wanye @xwanyex]

If one of my kids works really hard and accomplishes something, but another one of my kids is lazy and expects the same rewards, then I appeal to meritocracy.

If a total stranger knocks on my door and claims that they should have my kids’ birthright because they work harder than any of them, then I slam the door in their face.

This is not even remotely difficult to understand.

[oecolamp @oecolamp]

I always feel reluctant to think about something once I've written an essay or tweet about it. Like the act of writing it down discharged the pleasure of contemplation. This is why it's important to write it well, so that your loss is balanced with others' gain.

[datero 🇻🇪 @quierodatos]

"Es básicamente imposible que Lula gane. Perdimos Brasil y veo más cercana la caída de Cuba, se vienen tiempos de barbarie"

[Lizardi @chicodelbajio]

"Perdimos a Brasil. El Escudo de las Américas ganó y veo más cercana la caída de Cuba"

[pnorm @randy_mossad]

you would be surprised how many people keep that party going well into their 30s

If you have rich parents you can live in a fancy apartment for grad school then move straight into a downtown apartment in a city with a big young professional population

[wanye @xwanyex]

Blocked or not, this is a gem

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

@apokolokyntosis North is comprised of the old Colonial elite and the South is comprised of the newly arrived industrialists.

[Ulrich @UlrichFY]

Au Vietnam, pays officiellement communiste, le poids de l’État dans l’économie représente environ 19% du PIB.

En France, pays prétendument libre, le poids de l’État est de 57% du PIB.

Voilà.

[Morgan @RafaelMorgan]

A esquerda Chinesa, a mais bem sucedida, percebeu há décadas que não é possível ter o apoio do povo e, ao mesmo tempo, ser leniente com a criminalidade, relativizar a corrupção e promover o assistencialismo. Enquanto isso, a esquerda Brasileira, continua comendo mosca.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

All of this to say that the behavior of the elite has more explanatory power than the behavior of the masses.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

European immigrants that make their money through value creation. Of course there is both rent seeking and value creation on each side, but I’m focusing in on the majority of the way the elite in each faction make their money.

[_horror🎃👻 @__0xhorror__]

@blancmontagnard I mean landism proper is just the realization, that is in fact the default trajectory EVEN if people fight against it. The entire tendline is for capitalism to route around agency.

[Carlos Fukuyama @LazyNoumena]

The Communists were right.