understanding the left
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understanding the left
So when their chosen heroes — the freedom fighters in whom they invested so much moral cachet — showed up at a concert and started beheading raver kids and Asian workers and abducting grandmas and God knows what else, what were Western leftists supposed to do? In situations like that there are really only two things you can do, without switching yo... See more
Noah Smith • Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
The "Left" is really "BOTTOM" vs TOP, underdog vs incumbent
support + sympathies of the Left go to any group (identity: sexuality, skin color, gender, ethnicity, resources) that has LESS perceived power or leverage over dominant power on TOP
True historically in US of
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No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
trying to understand what ihappened to the left
If you rule out all dissent on the basis that it's hate speech and misinformation, you will detach entirely from reality.
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸x.comWhile Jews are a small population, they are 10% of billionaires, and 25% of democratic party donor capital, so they materially influence leftist institutions.
Hipster skepticism won’t help us understand AI’s potential or its risk
Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more
Coming from the left, the mood affiliation usually takes the form: “Tech bros think AI is cool, and tech bros are bad — therefore, AI is overhyped.” AI is often compared to crypto, a technology that’s least an order of magnitude less important. And in their hipster-esque dismiss... See more
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
my grand theory of politics is that leftists are those who care about justice, and rightists are those who care about order. If you care equally about both, you're a moderate. If you care about one to the exclusion of the other, then you're likely a radical.
Amjad Masadx.comIf you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you b... See more
J.K. Rowlingx.com