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@DivinelyDesined Bro can look at something and “just tell” it’s designed -> concludes that everything must be designed -> your ability to “tell” if something is designed is impossible then

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@RameseSanders *makes up strawman* “You can’t make this stuff up!”

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@johnkonrad @ZohranKMamdani Having a belief is different from being associated with a party. By your logic, your xenophobic nationalist beliefs make you associated with the Nazi Party.

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@ferald_gord The whole ideal of “originalism” is just cowardice, hiding your own opinions behind those who came before. No one actually believes it.

[kicole nidman @ferald_gord]

setting aside whether this is true or not, this is living constitutionalism.

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@shaahin_a “Rational expectations” is rightly harped on for being an unrealistic assumption. But the Rational Expectations Equilibrium is just a reference point that can be reached through other less restrictive assumptions (learning or even sometimes incomplete information)

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@twittwoods @shaahin_a What do you mean by this? I’m incredibly curious.

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@sigmahamster2 If asked “do you think lower taxes for the wealthy help those with lower incomes?” many (including Sowell) would agree. They oppose the framing of “trickle-down” because it’s moronic and empirically false, but they actively believe in the concept.

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@anup_malani In the New Keynesian model (which is much more common than the basic RBC) monetary policy does cause recessions. Idk what sort of 1st year Ph.D. Student strawman you imagine debating, but it’s ridiculous

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@DivinelyDesined If the theory of evolution is true then we’ve evolved so that the chemical signals our brain perceives help us survive. We trust what we think because those who didn’t trust their signals, or perceived them in an unhelpful way, died or survived another way.

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Huge cultural win for the woke left that even one of the most homophobic former Presidential candidates comes out to defend them against members of his party

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Senator Ted Cruz responds to Rep. Andy Ogles’ anti-gay tweet, “Homosexuality has no place in America”:

“For all of recorded history homosexuals have been part of humanity, and I got to say, I’m quite libertarian by nature. I think the behavior of consenting adults is their business.”

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@bryan_caplan “Why won’t the people who fight for worker ownership of the means of production accept that Nazi Germany (a country where that didn’t happen) is exactly what they want?!”

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@jbsteinberg It’s still research. “The results made my tummy upset :(” isn’t academic criticism. Ironically, it’s activism.
I’m not defending their methods, I’m attacking this anti-intellectual position that “research that doesn’t agree with my priors is activism.”

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@yah5us *SOME* of the assumptions for the simplified model don’t need to hold for *SOME* of the conclusions to be the same.

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@ndvoskin This stuff is easily covered in intermediate macro, some money & banking courses, or upper division undergrad monetary classes. Maybe it would be on the first day of a masters advanced macro course, not the “master class” special lecture they want you to think it is

[Nicolás Dvoskin @ndvoskin]

Si me guío por los pizarrones, explicó el mercado de trabajo neoclásico estándar y la tasa natural de desempleo. Son contenidos de macro 1. Los conocimientos de macroeconomía de Milei no llegan mucho más lejos que eso. No le da para una clase de macro avanzada como esta.

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@wendelltalks Twitter on planets that don’t have a magnetic field protecting life:

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@HuntersOfNazis Bro would rather say “Nazis know their history” than “Israel is committing a genocide” 💀

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@No5mallf3at He’s doing this intellectual posturing without a hint of irony