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[Anon @Anonydu]

1. They hate conservatives. But open conservatives have been pushed out of every aspect of their lives. So, moderates are the conservatives.

2. They’ve also been surrounded by people who won’t tell them they might be wrong about anything. So, if they’re right, the only reasons for not doing what they want to do must be cowardice or malevolence.

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@SteveNdukwu So…the Judge in Blood Meridian?

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@bronzebust And the nobility were exempt from the bulk of taxes. Hence Talleyrand: “Whoever did not live in the eighteenth century before the Revolution does not know the sweetness of life…”

Of course, Talleyrand seemed to have zero self-awareness there.

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@EsotericCD Honest to god, it never occurred to me Simmons was playing J. Jonah Jameson until you just mentioned it.

I don’t whether it was the demeanor, the mustache/haircut, me being oblivious, or if he’s just that good of an actor.

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@awstar11 I mean, I often agree with that, but it’s kind of funny to call someone else transactional based on his comments about Ken Paxton.

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@JC_ParetsX At this point, I’m convinced I could double my income by just repeatedly asking this on Twitter.

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Face it. The problem is the local voters. These ideas aren’t attractive in most of the rest of the country.

They’re continuously attractive there, despite their firsthand experience. The point of democracy isn’t just good government. It’s to provide a feedback mechanism for officials *and* voters. I think the best thing to do at this point is to let it work.

In the meantime, the people who don’t like it will leave. And the political and economic influence of a bunch of people with bad ideas will wane.

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@ForagingForever @mnolangray I guarantee you those people spend much of their summers outside.

They’re in water half the time, but they are outside.

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@rkylesmith The problem with rising up is anybody with the initiative and desire to do that simply leaves Russia.

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@benwehrman Yeah, that’s nice. So, um, do you want to explain what you think happened to all non-German women in America in this alternate history?

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@HighyieldHarry It’s definitely insane. But if you look up his bio, Scott Galloway is a lot richer than I thought he was.

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I’m not impressed with him at all on the stump—but from what I’ve heard, he’s good on a personal level, in organizing and giving the people at the bottom of his movement the impression he cares about their personal success.

Sorta like Charlie Kirk—except that Kirk became very, very good on the stump.

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@DC_Draino Even Alabama will go Democrat if the Rep candidate is bad enough. The Republican Party chose a poor slate of candidates. It’s not the only state it’s done that in.

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The thing is I don’t feel bad for anybody still taking these tests, because (at this point) they were okay with a lot of other people being targeted as long as they were protected.

Also, purity = assuming you’re right. Part of the reason they assume that is they’re surrounded by people who don’t challenge them (the people still taking these tests).

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@ChampangeChuck @TheMiddleborne I hate the idea of being fired two days into filming. But if that’s true, c’mon.

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@thesamparr TIL Scott Galloway had a long career in tech and finance before becoming an academic (probably should have known that). So, that explains some of it.

But, Jesus, 400k a month?

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@neontaster It may be tailored for a niche audience, but that niche is definitely me.

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@octal Not sure if this is bait, but the pay is higher in the US vs. JP & Korea, a lot higher than China.

You can say/do more than in China without big brother.

Because of the focus on testing—your life is also determined at 18 in a way it’s not in the US.

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“Want to make $300k? You can grind until your late 30s / early 40s at a Fortune 500 company in the midwest. Or you can start making that at 25 by working in investment banking or tech sales in New York.”

I agree it’s good to go to NYC for that, but there’s a hell of a lot of gate-keeping that goes into getting that sort of job.

$351k is a top 10% household in NYC. The threshold’s lower for individual income.

It’s just that if you travel in certain circles, it feels like it’s everyone.

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@janecoaston 1. If I was in Maine, I’d still have an air conditioner.

2. Because of the jet stream (it turns North), the temperatures in Europe are higher than they’d look like from just comparing them to the U.S. latitudes.