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[Sethy (Digger Pilled) @Brizksie]

why don't we just keep making original movies all together.....the simple answer is..... BECAUSE YOU DONT WANT ME TO. DEEP DOWN INSIDE YOU WANT ME POUNDING OUT SEQUEL. AND YOU WANT ME TO KEEP PRODUCING REMAKES!!

[Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @TheOmniLiberal]

More dodging. Stop responding to me, these deflections are as predictable as they are pathetic. You cannot engage at this level because you have reduced yourself to a simpleminded activist without the capacity for critical thought, accept it and just move on.

And stop pretending that this was your excuse to cower from a challenging conversation, you've been dodging me from far before I've raised these specific criticisms towards you (attached video 1).

1. It beggars belief that you think it unfair for me to accuse you of being a "mask-on radical Islamist" when you are giving a free pass to a man who mask-off defends radical Islamists.

You have accused people of Islamophobia for far, far less than what people have accused Hasan of anti-Semitism.

Not every accusation of you supporting terrorism has to come from a place of bigotry, especially when you refuse to call out people who you are promoting on your own programs who openly support terrorist attacks against the West. You have remained silent on this claim, you refuse to engage with it. People see that, and it's fair for them to draw assumptions about you when you allow these types of narratives to pass by you without criticism or mention.

2. It's funny that you claim I had my ass "handed to me" by Norman Finkelstein, then back that up by linking to a video of him...calling me silly names. You realize he later admitted to Briahna Joy Gray (attached video 2) and Marc Lamont Hill (attached video 3) that he had no intention of ever approaching that debate in good faith, yes? His whole idea was to just go in and act like a baffoon the entire time because he thought it would be funny.

It speaks highly to your intellectual honesty that you consider it to be an impressive performance when he himself admits to acting like a clown; I suppose it's emblematic of how much of a joke you are when it comes to taking the Israel/Palestine conflict seriously, though.

Funnily enough, there's actually only a few major factual disagreements we had, since Finkelstein spent the majority of the time screaming at me and calling me names. One of them had to do with the "plausibility standard" that the ICJ uses to initially hear a case brought before the court. (attached video 4)

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: HOW THE 2020s BROKE OUR BRAINS

It's the Tragic Twenties, and Americans can't stop feeling like hot garbage.

- The UMich consumer sentiment survey is now at its lowest rate on record
- The Fed's job satisfaction survey is at its lowest rate on record
- Both the General Social Survey and the World Happiness Survey have found that happiness in the US plunged in 2020 and has since been mired at levels significantly below previous decades

You shouldn't assume that your favorite pet issue is the main culprit here. Conservatives might point to cultural changes, like the decline of marriage and religiosity, but those have been going on for decades. The left might reach for wage inequality, but that has actually narrowed in the last six years. This can't even primarily be about phones, since what's most clear in the data set is something that changed this decade, not last decade.

I spent a long time reading, talking to people, and doing my own research, and I think the most parsimonious explanation I can provide is this:

The Pandemic Never Ended.

This thesis has three parts.

TPNE 1: The biological antagonist of COVID gave way to the economic antagonist of inflation, and after decades of coming to rely on lowflation and meager wage growth for low-income workers, price levels have increased 3x faster this decade than in the previous 40 years, and economists simply have to accept that inflation makes people angrier than it used to. This isn't even a strictly American phenomenon. Around the world, incumbents have lost power faster than any post-WWII period, as affordability concerns bludgeon their electorate. The few countries where happiness levels have increased in the western world in the last 6 years have had some of the lowest levels of inflation.

TPNE 2: Institutions down, individualism up: The 2020s have seen trust plummet for practically every institution, along with growing distrust in strangers, and rising alone time and at-home time. At best, community offers a buffer in times of crisis. But today, the absence of community—and the triumph of a tech-enabled, hyper-introverted atomism—makes every crisis feel more existential and unsolvable. And that's a problem bc...

TPNE 3: The 2020s have been the permacrisis crisis decade. It's really been one fucking thing after another, hasn't it? Pandemic, inflation, interest rates, Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, AI. Meanwhile, phones give us constant contact with both the scary news cycle and the panic-inducing fears and anxieties of the commentariat.

Inflation makes today's life feel harder to live. The news cycle makes tomorrow's world scarier to live through. And the post-pandemic decline of institutions and acceleration of toxic individualism weakens our socio-emotional immune system to deal with all of it.

TLDR: The pandemic never ended, and it's left us with the Tragic Twenties.

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

While social media is polarising, evidence suggests AI may nudge people towards the centre.

This holds true of all studied models. Grok is more right-leaning than other models, but also has depolarising effects.

By @jburnmurdoch.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Скоро будет 24 февраля — 4 года полномасштабного вторжения в Украину.

Я считаю, что лучше оставить тот день для полной поддержки украинцев. Украине нужно много помощи — чтобы продолжать защищаться и чтобы минимизировать человеческие страдания от атак на жилые дома, энергосистему и т. д. Сегодня выскажу своё мнение с точки зрения будущего России.

Я смотрю на эту ситуацию частично с внутренней и частично с внешней перспективы. Я родился в России, моя семья вся русская, но вырос я в Канаде. Политическую ситуацию я всё время наблюдал. В 2017 году даже послал Навальному один биткоин, но сильно вовлечён не был. Я слежу за ситуацией через интернет, как все. И у меня есть свои политические инстинкты после 15 лет в крипте и всякой борьбы в Твиттере (Иксе?). У каждого есть право меня слушать или не слушать — как хотите.

Здесь напишу две части:

1. Почему я поддерживаю Украину и говорю, что эта война — преступная агрессия, а не «сложная ситуация, где обе стороны вели себя грязно», как говорят некоторые?
2. Про будущее: сегодняшний «тупик», идея «мира с народом России», и на основе каких идей может быть создано более положительное будущее России, и правильная роль идей «децентрализации», «цифровой демократии» и.т.д.

[Seva @SevaUT]

“I never thought the anarchic multipolar world would eat MY face” sobs Russian president who voted for the Multipolar World Eating People’s Faces Party

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Trying to do some synthesis on the perpetually ongoing EU-US growth discourse here:
1) Undeniable at this point that the US economy has grown faster than the EU as a whole over the last 6 years. The US has grown ~5% more on a per-capita basis since pre-COVID. But importantly, this is mostly a recent phenomenon; pre-COVID growth was basically even between the US & EU
2) When Americans talk about "the EU" in practice they're often only thinking of major Western European countries like France, Germany, and Italy, which have had some of the lowest growth on the continent, and are ignoring the rest of the EU, which have had better growth numbers.
3) Some of the fastest-growing major EU members (like Poland) even rival some of the faster-growing US states (like North Carolina). But no majors in the EU have grown as fast as Texas, Florida, Arizona, Washington, etc. The only places in the EU that rival the growth of the fastest-growing parts of the US are small countries like Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Croatia, etc where growth is mostly driven by tourism or tax shifting

4) This is extra bad because most EU countries are not as rich as the US. The bar for a country like Italy should not just be to *match* US growth, it should be to exceed it and then eventually catch up to US GDP/capita.
5) It's true that if you adjust for working hours, European countries are much closer in productivity to the US & some of America's recent growth advantage is mitigated. But the post-COVID growth gap is not closed by *that* much—the US having fewer vacations and longer working hours is a phenomenon that has predated the recent growth disparity. I also wouldn't put *too* much faith in these numbers just because measuring working hours is difficult (especially post-COVID) & methodologies vary a ton by country

6) Europeans still perform much better on social indicators like life expectancy (this is one area where the post-COVID gap has opened up in the opposite direction, with the US falling behind). They tend to have lower inequality and higher employment rates, so that the median American has closer living standards to the median EU citizen than would be suggested by looking just at GDP/capita. But post-COVID median income growth has also been weak in the EU.

So I think 1) There's an undeniable gap in US-EU growth 2) People underrate how recent a phenomenon this is 3) Americans tend to overstate the size of this gap by focusing on the EU countries that have the worst recent growth 4) Adjusting for working hours & the EU's larger social safety net closes some of the recent gap in incomes 5) even after adjusting, there's a significant US-EU growth gap

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

A new meta analysis of millions of online posters finds that moral-emotional language is perhaps the number 1 rocket-booster for traffic.

Most ppl who spend time building an audience by posting online about politics (or anything) come to the same realization: high dudgeon outrage and out-group condemnation are easy tickets to going viral.

We're not ourselves here. The physical-world upholds a principle of kindly reciprocity (If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you) and negative punishment (Removing ourselves from ppl and places that are mean to us). Social media, for a variety of reasons, inverts this principle and encourages ppl to actively seek and fixate on out-groups who can serve as fuel for outrage, condemnation, and other moral-emotional communication. I think this is somewhat obvious, and I have no plan to fix it, but sometimes it's just worth pointing out the obvious.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

This morning, MAGA is trying to rewrite history—claiming Reagan was anti-immigrant and pro-protectionism.

But the truth is, Reagan stood for almost everything Trump opposes.

It’d be a real shame if this went viral.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Must read if you are a person with a lot of exposure to right wing sources of news and buy into any of the false narratives around speech restrictions. I think unquestionably there was private censorship, I was in fact a victim of it. But practically no evidence has emerged that government was involved to any significant degree, despite Republicans desperately looking. And certainly not at the level that the current administration attacks free speech. There’s no equivalency when it comes to violations of the First Amendment.

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@RichardHanania Algorithms reward outright lies and destroy the minds of people around the world. Lying should be disincentivized. 1A does not guarantee you money for spreading nonsense on the Internet.

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@Acyn

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@hutchinson The fact that social media rewards outright lies is destroying the minds of people all over the world. Lying should be disincentivized. 1A doesn't guarantee you money for spreading BS online.

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@BoxLoner Banger

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@paq_nv @SurlyWanderer @BoxLoner He points out that he's just a guy online, not a high-profile politician and he's being hold to a higher standard than a fucking president. Do you condemn Trump for his rhetoric? Do you condemn Jan6ers? Do you condemn Mike Lee for his jokes about murdered Democrats?

[RussianLib 🇺🇦 @RussianLib]

@MapleDOGEh @trackingdonald @BreitbartNews https://t.co/pqjGOuC2wh

[UltraLib @Ultralisk223]

@lilbabygandhi He did condemn it.