Hunter Ash
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Long-Term AI Alignment is Impossible (and that's a good thing). AI alignment refers to our ability to design AI systems that do what we intended for them to do when designing them. The hope is that we can hardcode our values and desires into them, so that even as they become.
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“Actually, the 13 year old consented to sex with four old Pakistani men at the same time” is… a bold argument.
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“Reporting on Pakistani pedophile mass rapes has inflamed domestic tensions.”. I rather think the rapes did that.
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“We have to cover up mass child rape to prevent racism”. If I have to pick between the two, I’m 100% going with racism because I’m not insane.
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Yeah because Ozempic is often given to diabetics, and one effect of diabetes is vision loss. People desperately want these drugs to be bad for some reason, but they seem to be modern miracles.
*OZEMPIC STUDY FOUND SMALL NUMBER OF PATIENTS WITH VISION LOSS.
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If you’re a billionaire, please just leave your money to your kids. 99% of the charities you could donate it to actively make the world worse.
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“Europe has to tolerate grooming gangs for the economic benefits”. The economic “benefits”:
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> Epic poetry is right wing.> Lord of the Rings is right wing.> Keeping children safe is right wing.> Keeping women safe is right wing.> Borders are right wing.> Fitness is right wing.> Families are right wing. Are leftists trying to make us look good on purpose?
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No single paper did more to change my worldview than “The Case for Colonialism”. Growing up, I believed the West’s wealth was the result of plunder. Gilley convincingly argues that colonialism was actually far more beneficial to the colonized than to the colonizers. Link below
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Most complaints about capitalism are actually complaints about the nature of physical reality.
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I am 100% sure I will never rob a liquor store at gunpoint, commit rape, or commit murder. So it’s very easy for me to condemn those who do to death. I find it odd when liberals imply they would do all these things if they missed a few paychecks.
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“White girls matter the least” is official UK court precedent.
While these scandals were unfolding, judges were handing out harsher sentences to paedophiles who chose non-white victims because they would feel greater 'shame'.
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I don’t care that J. D. Vance’s wife is Indian.
I enjoyed Vance’s book, his story is classic Americana rags to riches, and when he talks and tweets, overall he seems to say the right things, but this picture just confronts you with the messy realities of globalism. It makes you feel like you are getting hoodwinked yet again.
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Luigi got a successful back surgery that solved his pain and which was covered by insurance, then killed the CEO of a different insurance company. I really think he just lost his mind.
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Nassim Taleb used to love calling Saudis low-IQ until someone pointed out that Lebanon’s average IQ is lower than Saudi Arabia’s, at which point he went on a crusade against the concept of IQ.
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Anyone who talks like this should be treated as an enemy combatant.
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People will confidently say things like “gender is a social construct” as if this had been proven in a lab somewhere. In reality, it’s just something that some feminist writers said. It has as much scientific weight as a poem.
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We could reduce violent crime by 80% with a one-strike law, 50% with a three-strikes law, and 20% with a ten-strike law.
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We pay for Europe’s defense, and they reward us by trying to impose their Orwellian speech codes on the entire world and looting our tech companies when they refuse. Enough. Vassal states shouldn’t be uppity.
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If White people are attacked as a group, you can’t complain when they organize as a group to protect their interests. “Everyone gets to be tribal except Whites” is not sustainable.
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Ironically, the fact that society is so stratified by IQ makes people IQ deniers, because everyone around them is of similar intelligence, and other factors like effort, personality, and luck determine their relative outcomes.
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IQ correlates with job performance at ~0.5 across a wide range of jobs. This is stronger than any other predictor. Current civil rights law says that any tests which don’t produce equal results for all racial groups are not allowed unless they directly relate to job performance.
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Hot take: ethnic coalitions are bad for America, especially when they’re allowed for every ethnicity but one.
When I was first sworn in twelve years ago, I was the sole Indian American Member of Congress and only the third in U.S. history. Now, our coalition is six strong!. I am excited to welcome even more Indian Americans to the halls of Congress in the years to come!
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Knowing the profit margins of most major companies is enough to shut down 95% of economic populism.
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I don’t get this. If the offers are bad, homeowners can reject them. How does banning the offers help anyone at all?.
Today, I signed an executive order prohibiting greedy land developers from ripping off LA wildfire victims with unsolicited, undervalued offers to buy their destroyed property. Make no mistake — this is a prosecutable crime.
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If you don’t feel boiling crusader blood-rage at what happened in Rotherham and across the UK, you are almost as defective as the men who did this.
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Germany needs mass deportations. Anything less is suicidal madness.
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@ellebeecher I really really think this is a terrible idea. Those instincts are there to protect you, and you don’t owe anyone physical touch. Don’t buy into their horrible entitled arguments.
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“Oopsie, their profits are only 5% of their revenue. I only exaggerated by a factor of 20. My bad.”
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Some women on this website seem to believe that male sexuality was invented by porn.
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@razibkhan That’s true, and might be a good thing. The outcomes from sports betting, legalized weed, and student loans have pushed on my libertarianism. Society should probably not be full of pit traps for low-IQ citizens.
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I told you. The reason the smell PhD is not just silly but evil is because it leads directly to policy proposals that require us all to tolerate stink. “Your discomfort only counts if I decide it’s legitimate”
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It is not anti-intellectual to disparage stuff like this. Her thesis is essentially about how “stinky” is an oft-used negative descriptor in literature, and it also has some associations with race, class, etc. Everyone already knows that! There is nothing deep here! Who cares??
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People who back into parking spaces so they don’t have to back out later seem to be exhibiting negative time preference.
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Brian Thompson was CEO of UHC for 3 years. There are about 3 million total US deaths per year. This implies he was responsible for 4.4% of US all-cause mortality during that time. Only 14.4% of Americans are insured by UHC. Completely absurd. Leftists just make stuff up.
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I drove for uber when I was trans. Only two white male passengers ever hit on me, and one did so very tastefully. About one third of black men hit on me, often aggressively. One reported me to the app when I politely turned him down. Asking women to ignore statistical realities.
This is insane. This woman actually got fired for saying she prefers not to have South Asian male Uber drivers.
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The stat she’s citing includes underaged people sexting each other, which makes up something like 35% of cases in this dataset. And we know that the government systematically refused to prosecute Muslims. This is deliberate dishonesty @CommunityNotes.
WHITE MEN ACCOUNT FOR 87% OF CHILD SEX OFFENCES. THIS SHOULD BOTHER YOU TOO. BE CONSISTENT.
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You can predict derek’s outfit takes without even seeing the picture. All that matters is the political alignment of the subject.
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Kareem can’t dispute the numbers, so he says they exhibit a “white nationalist framing”. What framing? It’s a list of numbers.
It feels racist because it’s a white nationalist framing of these data. This is a textbook example of how to lie with statistics.
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“Women rarely approach… rarely initiate (anything), rarely plan first dates, rarely pay for first dates, rarely make the first move, etc etc etc.”. Yeah those things are men’s role. Men compete, women select. You are literally complaining about being a man.
Complaints about men’s lack of effort is cute when 99% of women put in ZERO effort themselves. Women rarely approach, rarely get rejected, rarely carry initial convos, rarely initiate (anything), rarely plan first dates, rarely pay for first dates, rarely make the first move, etc
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Some things gender dysphoric males should consider before transitioning:. 1. Just because someone referred to you with she/her doesn’t mean you passed to them. 2. A very small percentage of males have the capacity to ever pass, and even for most of these it will require surgery.
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I care more about the productive citizens who are frightened, beaten, and killed by crazy hobos than I do about crazy hobos.
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Leftists seem to think all goods and services come out of a magic portal, and evil rich people camp the portal to control the supply.
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Some things I learned when I was trans:. > being the target of male sexual attention is often unnerving and scary. I have a lot more sympathy for women’s defensiveness and instinctive mistrust of strange men. > your brain is very good at identifying which men are more or less.
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The concept of asylum should be entirely scrapped. No nation has a duty to foreigners. Most “asylum seekers” are just economic migrants, but even if their claims were legitimate, there is no reason for our governments to care. Governments exist to serve their people.
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This is so deeply dishonest. Can we please stop pretending Brianna is a reasonable centrist?
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Vivek has this issue exactly wrong. American individualism and non-conformity are exactly why we invent new things. The robotic striver virtues he describes are great for climbing up existing hierarchies but not for innovating.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if.
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Nothing does more to normalize fascism than leftists saying that basic normie desires like safe and clean public spaces are “fascism”.
Crazy that I’ve received the most “Hitler” responses I’ve ever gotten for simply saying “Public transit will fail if women and children do not feel safe on it”.
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Personally I have never thought about the earwax of the Vice President’s children, but that’s just me.
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The hereditarianism debate is one issue that I think genuinely fits the midwit meme.
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One primary reason I’m against striver culture is because I’m a hereditarian. Pushing your kids into an extreme grind lifestyle doesn’t actually make them any smarter, it’s just a lose-lose arms race. Achievement is good, but making status your whole life is very bad.
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If you are bitter towards women, they can tell. It’s not enough to avoid explicitly talking about it. You have to actually stop being bitter or you’ll never have a chance. Every redpill meme you have swimming around your brain makes you more repulsive to women.
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Criminals are the root cause of crime. Crime is correlated with poverty not because poverty causes crime, but because the same psychological traits (low intelligence and low self-control) cause both poverty and crime.
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I love to conclood things from very little data, then be open to correction. I’m usually right though.
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“Sure, if you’re a degenerate loser you can work a mere 40 hours at a dead-end job, but I expect my top people to work every waking hour of their lives.”. “Why are birth rates negatively correlated with IQ? This is a disaster!”.
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Hot take: the better way to avoid your son becoming trans is to tell him boys can have pink backpacks too.
This dad just avoided his son becoming “trans”. It’s that easy. Be the leader .
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Taking evolution seriously is right-coded because evolution is fundamentally driven by inequality, and because it disproves blank slatism.
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@bonesandbugs We know the propensity to commit violent crime is largely heritable. This is a fact. Moralizing about facts doesn’t make them false.
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Trans activism is in retreat. Never forget how they behaved when they thought they were winning.
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The more you’re willing to confidently state your views in public and accept criticism, the faster your worldview converges on the truth. Knowledge is evolutionary.
always tell the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it might be. if you're right, you might help someone grow. if you're wrong, you’ll grow instead. either way, honesty wins.
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Leftists often use the term “empathy” to mean assuming everyone is exactly like you, except for their circumstances. But this attitude makes you terrible at actually modeling other people’s minds. Unless you accept that people are different, your predictions will suck.
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Guys, prestige is zero-sum. There is no possible political system that will make all young white men prestigious. Even if you lived in your dream protectionist ethnostate where women are property, most of you would by definition be mediocre, and you’d still complain about it.
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“Parents aren’t qualified to homeschool their kids”. Education is one of the lowest-IQ majors. Any reasonably bright parent can give their kid a better education than most public schools.
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People who say “we just need to treat mental illness” drastically overestimate how treatable most mental illnesses are.
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“You see a woman just going about her business, wearing normal clothes, and think about having sex with her??” Yes, as men have done for all of human history.
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A progressive is someone who thinks a racist is worse than a rapist.
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1. No it’s not.2. Our politics are no longer defined by self-flagellation over WWII. Get new material.
Here is Elon Musk performing, what appears to be, a Nazi salut at the Capitol one Arena.
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@JoshEakle You act like they are entitled to come here and we are making it unfairly difficult. They have no right to be here. The opportunity to become an American is a privilege. We can make it as difficult as we want. That is our right.
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Sorry guys, I can't get over this "firefighter who looks like me" thing. I did the math. Assume your population consists of groups A and B. The proportion of the population that is A is x. The proportion that is B is 1-x. The proportion of the fire department that is A is y. The
Every time a non-German firefighter shows up to save me from burning to death, I think “this guy doesn’t even know I eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s. He can’t understand my cultural context.”
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“Crazy violent bums just need free housing, a cash allowance, 24/7 nursing support, psychiatrists, therapists, and maids to clean up their messes.”. That’s 100s of 1000’s of dollars a year, each. I don’t make that much. And what is the benefit to the rest of us of providing it?.
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Leftists talk a lot about systems, but don’t actually think systematically. They have no understanding of incentives or emergent processes. Everything is a story to them.
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I have never seen the vibe shift so fast and in such a positive direction in my life.
Deport, lifetime ban, cut off right hand.
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It’s an indictment of modern politics that I’m a “conservative”. I’m a non-Christian, abortion-supporting, broadly tolerant cosmopolitan nerd. I should be in the bag for the left wing of my time. But they’re death-worshipping communists, so…
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My mission is to help people realize how good we have it compared to all other times in history so they’ll stop tearing down the systems that made it so good out of a misplaced, envious, utopian belief that society can be perfected.
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Fact: almost all men are stronger than almost all women. John Oliver: there’s no evidence boys have an advantage over girls. This is significantly crazier than evolution denial, because we can all see the facts today, with our eyes.
John Oliver maniacally defends boys competing against girls in sport. He says Kamala just did a poor job of explaining that boys have no advantage over girls. Serious question: Is he on drugs?.
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@IterIntellectus Americans anti-care what Europeans think of us: we delight in upsetting them, being different from them.
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It would be utterly baffling if men and women had the same evolved psychologies, given the drastic difference in reproductive burden. The idea that the sexes had identical minds until society invented sex roles is facially absurd.
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@animewife4life What @elonmusk calls “shallow empathy”: people feel “empathy” for criminals (they don’t actually model their minds accurately, it’s a narcissistic kind of empathy) but don’t feel the same compassion for their victims.
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@siriuscattitude I generally believe any private citizen or private business should be able to discriminate on whatever criteria they want.
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There are no words that can adequately express the hatred I feel for this worthless sack of meat.
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Why is all coffee burnt? An explanation from a former barista. The flavor profile of coffee is largely determined by the roast. There is a “sweet spot” of just roasted enough, but not burnt. However, the flavor is changing the fastest around this sweet spot, so it’s extremely.
the coffee is disgusting at like 90% of coffee shops now and the people don't notice. it's burnt. they're burning the coffee. .
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I’m a simple man. I like beautiful women, safe streets, and prosperity. I want things to be good, rather than bad. I would rather not sacrifice all of that for the sake of the most dysfunctional people in society.
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Martin Luther King Jr. laughed as he watched one of his friends rape a woman. Nelson Mandela was a terrorist who killed civilians. It’s all a lie. The entire civil rights religion is a lie. These weren’t good men who did bad things. These were evil men.
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A 132-to-1 ratio of Democrat vs Republican professors cannot be explained by the 2-point average IQ gap between white liberals and white conservatives. Ratios this extreme obviously reflect an ideological filtering process.
For every Republican on the faculty at the top-ranked liberal arts college in America (Williams) there are 132 Democrats. The faculty ratio at other schools in the USNWR top five varies from as low as 34:1 to as high as 136:1 in favor of Democrats.
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Pro tip for whites: non-Whites find it weird and gross when we tear ourselves down, because they correctly recognize it as a posture of condescending charity, not a recognition of an equal.
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I was progressive largely because I love women and saw it as the pro-woman team. But it’s not. They’re pro-crime, pro-mass migration, and pro-men in women’s spaces. Progressives sacrifice women’s bodies and lives for their agenda. I want to build a world in which women are safe.
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“Social construct” is the ultimate motte and bailey. Motte: “social construct” just refers to the fact that all categories are invented by humans. It doesn’t mean “not real”. Bailey: anything socially constructed can be magically remade by changing our language and beliefs.
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“I don’t have a girlfriend because I have high standards and women today are awful”.- the copiest coper to ever live.
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This is exactly what everyone criticizing her thesis thought it was about. We understand her argument perfectly, you pompous midwit.
Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity. Already has 85M+ views on X/Twitter. Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all. I have a PhD in
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If you’ve never been poor or lived among poor people, it’s easy to make up fairy tales about them. I’m not saying they’re all bad people, not in the least. But they’re usually in the situations they’re in because they make bad choices.
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No one is genuinely “food insecure” in the West. Obesity is MORE common in lower income brackets. Stop pretending there is some invisible legion of emaciated Dickensian orphans in America.
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@esjesjesj 2 point IQ gap between liberals and conservatives: “this is why there are zero conservative anthropologists”. 15 point IQ gap between whites and blacks: “blacks being underrepresented is because of systemic injustice”.
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Soros has been quietly buying elections and changing policy for decades. Elon does all his advocacy in the open. The fact that the former earns a medal of freedom and the latter is “election interference” tells you all you need to know about the left.
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Progressives were angry because we fixed the water in Flint without instituting communism.
"We fixed the problem" can be a taboo phrase in progressive circles.
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Demanding that your elite human capital works 80 hour weeks is how you get dysgenic fertility and population collapse. No, we should not demand that our best people give their entire life to their employer or risk replacement by someone who will.
i cant believe there is a birth rate crisis when our jobs are outsourced if we dont want to work 80-100 hours a week for technocratic overlords.
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If I could kill one thing in our politics, it would be arguments based on identity. “As a disabled black trans woman” shut the fuck up and make your point on its merits.
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