In any serious, competitive field, a man this consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything would’ve been out of a job long ago, and never allowed near the industry ever again.
@v_burns@zarathustra5150@Chris_arnade I love getting rich from stupid and malicious takes but that's not why I do it. Im motivated by grudges and spite, and like my globe emoji pundit peers I take real pleasure in lying and evading responsibility
Pop nativism is going around, you can see it online here, but the actual question is what immigration policy should be and what its future is.
The simple fact is even the dumbest drooling GOP staffer shitposting garbage did a better job predicting Biden's presidency than this:
Remembering that time Noah Smith decided that BLM protests were worthwhile despite his own estimate that they would kill 6,000 people.
For bonus points he also predicted murder rates would drop as a result.
It's not ideological drift. It is expedience. Sorry, Will, but I was never a true believer in Woke like you are. I needed it to help neolib Dems defeat left populism. But now that that threat is eliminated (and Woke is unpopular) I'm free to be my true self
To give you a sense about the ideological drift on this site, here's Noah Smith talking in 2021 about the account that would become "i/o" and "avidseries." And then here's a screenshot from today, where Noah Smith has constant friendly interactions with him.