Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor

Fighting for critical thinking — always

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

I keep trying to explain to non economists that Marx is only relevant as a historical artefact — knowledge has moved on, except in the grievance studies world. He’s irrelevant in terms of actual economic work.

[Stéphane Surprenant @S_Surprenant]

Teaching Marxist analysis in a social science department is like teaching astrology in the astrophysics department.

He's nowhere to be found in serious economics department -- and for good reason. And, unlike some other fields, my field only mildly leans left in academia. We do science here. Go do your tarot card reading where people are gullible enough to believe in it.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

If you cannot get the data or facts right, your morality is highly suspect.

Replacing accurate accounting for “feels” is exactly why we are so fucked.

This is the overt feminisation of political reason and debate.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right,” @AOC says in response to criticism that she’s made factual errors. https://t.co/sKf3sHl9F6

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@PhilipProudfoot Now do Pakistan. You’re a fucking idiot.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@zarahsultana You’re a disgusting human being.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@AnaKasparian You live in fantasy land. Completely divorced from reality.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@Tyler_A_Harper That’s what a secular religion / value system is. The key understanding is that it replaces religion as a provider of moral identity.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@mboudry @ugent This is terrible. I don’t see how it’s possible

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@DalrympleWill @nytimes @lpolgreen Disgusting lies.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@Dylanszn01 “Poverty is a social construct”. Where do we even find idiots like you?

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@TomLondon6 @Freedland @guardian You’re a mentally ill person.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

It is not the role of the state to provide dignity. We need to focus on realistic first principles. Go back to reading Plato and shit. This level of discourse is totally retarded.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Für alle die sich hier darüber aufregen, dass ich sage der Staat sollte den Grundbedürfnissen und der Würde der Menschen dienen, was wollt ihr dann denn eigentlich!?

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@ZackPolanski @MothinAli @rachelmillward You’re insane

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@JacobL1994_ I think this is correct

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

The party of true mental illness.

[Peter Tatchell @PeterTatchell]

.@TheGreenParty conference motion demands Israel is replaced by a single Palestinian state

This is NOT the policy of Palestinian leaders such as Marwan Barghouti. They support a two-state solution. Greens should not tell Palestinians what to do! Amend the motion!
@ZackPolanski

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@DerekPederson3 That’s exactly right.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@ZackPolanski Rent controls are uniformly condemned as bar policy by virtually every serious economist in the world.

You’re a complete moron.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

Truth.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“The single most serious mistake made by modern democracies is to imagine that criminality can be contained or discouraged by being more considerate to criminals.”

Peter Hitchens

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

Chesterton’s Fence in action.

Not everything socially constructed should be deconstructed.

“Hookup culture” has been a disaster for men and women alike.

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Isn't it interesting? Perhaps the irony is that sexual monogamy was supposed to be one of the constraints from which modernity would liberate us, yet it increasingly looks less like an arbitrary religious prohibition & more like a remarkably sophisticated piece of civilisational wisdom.

The sexual revolution promised freedom through the dismantling of boundaries, but many of the resulting problems, fractured families, commodified intimacy, loneliness, pornography, collapsing fertility and profound confusion about the meaning of sex itself, raise an awkward question: what if those boundaries were not designed to frustrate human flourishing, but to protect it? Christian sexual ethics begins to look very different when the alternatives are subjected to their own stress tests.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

@mattyglesias Virtue and shame are important concepts that have been neglected. Nietzsche had this nailed 100 years ago.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

The Hamas / Israel thing is such a clear litmus test of critical thinking.
The Hamas apologists immediately exposed themselves for who they are.

[Danny Orbach @Mujakura]

The Hamas-controlled Gazan Health Ministry (GMOH) finally published his mortality data for 2025. To make a long story short - there was almost no excess non-traumatic mortality in Gaza that year, neither from famine nor from disease. There was no famine in Gaza, neither in 2025 nor beforehand. Multiple "experts", activists, journalists, UN commissions, governments, entire journals and institutions, and other high-ups became personally invested in the myth of the famine in Gaza, but the facts finally knock on the door. Their reputation is now going to the bottom of the sea, along with the stories they told.

[Dostoyevsky’s Financial Advisor @socrates1848]

The thing about critical theory is that it’s a simple toolkit for midwit academics to churn out grievance. That’s what makes it completely predictable, uncreative and easy to mock.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Get ready for the awesome wave of left wing theory texts in response to this new Dubai-Tel Aviv hijacking. Brooklyn bookstores are going to cook with this.

“Decolonising the Flight Deck: Cockpit Doors as Settler-Carceral Architecture.”

“Scrambled Identities: Emergency Landings and the Islamic Queering of Flight Destinations.”

“Altitude As Social Construct: Descent, Disorientation and Western Myths of 'Losing Control.”

“The Passenger as Coloniser: the Carceral Logic of 'Subduing’ a ‘Hijacker’”

“Abolishing Destinations: Reimagining Unscheduled Route Redistribution as Anti-Colonial Praxis.”