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The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the conquest of men.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

There's a reason you are seeing an angry backlash right now against libertarians/classical liberals coming from the Postliberal and NatCon right. It has to do with the fact that they can't compete with us on the substance of ideas, and they know it.

Even the "best" Postliberal/NatCon scholars are either mediocrities with weak publishing records (excluding their own house blogs) or they are older academics like Deneen and Vermeule who got tenure for stuff they did decades ago & then transitioned into postliberal activist writing that probably could not pass peer review at any credible mainstream outlet.

The Postlibs/NatCons also lose just about every debate they have with us on the substantive points, be it free trade vs tariffs (or really any economic subject), the history of the American founding, the contours of political philosophy, the evidence of whether their preferred policies work as intended (see also: Orbanism), you name it. Whenever Oren Cass goes up against a real economist, he gets his rear end handed to him or worse - he gets caught fabricating evidence or badly misreading source documents, and then he lashes out with name-calling. As a result, the Postlibs/NatCons have generally retreated from the debate space on all of these issues.

Turning to their published works, it's invariably dreck. Deneen and Hazony's books are comically superficial to the point of being visibly out of their depths on the subjects, thinkers, and historical events they attempt to discuss. When they venture into the economic sphere, they display an incompetence that does not even know the scholarly literature and that seldom ventures beyond obsolete crankery from the 19th century. And their claims about the political sphere, be it on policy or even the mood of popular opinion, are undermined by empirical evidence that they often never even considered because it conflicts with their ideological priors.

So instead, they go on the attack against libertarians and classical liberals to try to discredit these ideas through sloppy caricatures. And then they proclaim their own "victory" like the armless, legless Black Knight from a Monty Python sketch.

[Industry Enjoyer @LibertyPosting]

It's crazy how little anyone talks about The Wire, despite being the single greatest show ever made.

[LOST @TheLOSTworld_]

The New York Times’ final list of the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century is now complete.

What do you make of the final ranking? Which placements surprised you the most?

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@necrospaia Is Succession actually good? I watched the pilot and it was dogshit

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@willchamberlain Admitting to making a dick riding echo chamber is crazy

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@memeticsisyphus Or, it was thier preexisting national identity plus the belief that the state ought enforce religious custom which caused the friction in the first place. The logic of nationalism is self perpetuating.

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@PROICEdemocrat @grok @LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness @grok are there any libertarian or libertarian-leaning billionaires

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@Pdiddysurviv0r @LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness RIP kindle, they really fucked up on that one

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@PROICEdemocrat @grok @LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness Are you getting paid to be a retard

[Connor O'Keeffe @connorokeeffe]

Trump, Mamdani, and the politics of faking success.

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@AlexNowrasteh Worth noting president Kamala would have folded to pro-regulation pressure immediately

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Societies who have an optimistic entrepreneurial spirit will grow, while anxious societies clinging to the past will crumple and languish

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

'An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.' @nytimes's Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. (Annoyingly, NYT doesn't link to Gallup directly, link below.) https://t.co/aHlXo0UBQ7

https://t.co/TcDxoPT9Al

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@Cernovich Unions stole it so they could backpay themselves the raises they felt they deserved

https://t.co/R7oYqadses

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@PROICEdemocrat @grok @LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness Did you read grok's answer?

2 peoppe are listed as contributing to your problem

Not the entire 1% as a demographic class

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@yuanyi_z That's what *government healthcare* does to the fabric of society. Your cancer treatment is now a burden on a state which has to manage the allocation of scarce resources.

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@BirdPhi @pegobry_en Which one of us is having a stroke rn

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@BirdPhi @pegobry_en Which liberals "destroyed high tust society"?

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@PROICEdemocrat @LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness @grok evaluate the claim that billionaires in general or the "top 1%" broadly are trying to get judges and DAs elected who are soft on crime

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@LPMisesCaucus @EndWokeness Explain to me like I'm 5 how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are compelling heroin addicts to trash a CVS

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@Ckatoshi @AGDugin Common Satanist W