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republic of virtue enjoyer. prospective PPE student. humanity fan

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

@Motorfwoosh I’m siding with the supermarkets

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Also I'm sorry this does not sound like a "terrorism sympathizing Jew hater"

This is basically a moderate opinion among young Democrats lmao

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

In 1995, more Democrats self-identified as conservatives than as liberals

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇮🇱 Unfavorable Views of Israel (Ages 18-34)

🇦🇺 Australia: 87%
🇬🇧 UK: 78%
🇨🇦 Canada: 76%
🇬🇷 Greece: 76%
🇫🇷 France: 74%
🇺🇸 United States: 74%
🇭🇺 Hungary: 72%
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka: 46%

Source: Pew Research Center, Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

You can plausibly write this off as some incoherent pseudo-communist drivel but it is a position I've seen aped by very smart progressive people, who also talk about how it would be great if deflation, overcapacity and depressed profit margins persist because that's good for everyone because 'cheap stuff!' and that any dissent is just a sign of resentment and hypocrisy and that if you can't compete it's on you, without realising how this is a a deeply parochial Western viewpoint, but above all a view of the global economy that is zero-sum to the point of nihilism and that profoundly anti-progressive.

It also happens to be inconsistent with what Chinese officials themselves think, given what they are trying to do.

All of this is part third worldist kitsch and part the kind of motivated reasoning that comes with negative partisanship effects (one is giving ammunition to the hawks and the imperialists and the racists etc).

[🇨🇱 🌹 @Iovesnakee]

@FormDeterminer @Someone1599376 😭😭😭😭😭 omg

[joseph francis @joefrancis505]

And I will insist that Piketty et al.'s critics are trying to fight on the wrong ground. We shouldn't be trying to estimate the top 1% share at all. The Gini coefficient is still the more important metric.

[joseph francis @joefrancis505]

I have looked at this and there seem to be no good answers to a lot of the questions asked by Piketty et al.'s critiques. It's not really possible to solve many of the methodological issues, so both sides end up justifying their choices based on vibes.

[🇨🇱 🌹 @Iovesnakee]

@MattPolProf CoPR? That influential?

[🇨🇱 🌹 @Iovesnakee]

Could easily be a case of survivorship bias but I doubt that’s all there is to it

[🇨🇱 🌹 @Iovesnakee]

Perhaps my Israeli followers can help me out here: why does it feel like studying at TAU / HUJ is basically a free ticket into an elite PhD program? It genuinely feels like any Israeli who wants to go to ivies can just do it after studying at these schools

[Peter Harrell @petereharrell]

The two best statistics in the WSJ’s genuinely great article on North Korea’s economic boom:

Pyongyang built more housing last year than LA. (Says something about CA housing dysfunction).

North Korea assembled more cellphones than the USA.

(Assuming the #s are true!)

[Curt Mills @CurtMills]

[Narrator]: Ronald Reagan cut off aid to Begin’s government and Begin ultimately caved to Reagan’s commands

[Jake Landau (He/Him) 🇨🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪🇺🇦 @JakeLandauTO]

In Israel, the Minister of Police poses with a freshly dead corpse to record political ads

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

We should more seriously consider the merits of a progressive consumption tax

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Top five Philosophers who are Reddit:

• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Karl Marx
• Bertrand Russell
• Ayn Rand
• Slavoj Žižek

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

High modernism was good actually and “the state having a plan” is the foundation of industrial society, that doesn’t change no matter how much you cherry pick. Someone should write an updated, withering review entitled “Reading James Scott in Beijing” or sth.

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

Quite the combination of headlines on the New York Times website tonight: