Sean Last
@Sean__Last
So, he literally said that in his proposed Catholic autocracy the ruler killing him wouldn't be a problem because he wouldn't be among the people to be killed. He went on to say that this was explained by the friend/enemy distinction as explained by Carl Schmitt, a literal Nazi.…
Horrible news, @FeelsGuy2003 (Pinesap) says he feels ‘destroyed’ after losing his well-paying job following the release of a Jubilee debate where he expressed his political views. You can disagree with his political philosophy, but Pinesap is one of the nicest people I have ever…
I mostly agree with this, and more generally have also become a lot less radical, and even just more liberal, in my politics over time, despite retaining hereditarianism. Hispanics moving Republican was recently surprising to me, but in fairness, it was a change in a real trend…
- diversity doesn't lower social trust; the effect is all on income/education. Diverse, educated blue pockets are high trust while homogeneous poor red areas are not neighborly. - affirmative action or DEI are not a big force keeping white men out of college or good jobs (with…
Well, you should oppose immigration if you expect it to have negative effects. If you think "employer abuse" makes it have negative effects (e.g. unfair low pay causes native wage decline) you should oppose immigration until you fix the "employer abuse" problem. (Also, I don't…
Just a reminder that abuse of immigrants isn’t an argument against immigration, it’s against employer abuse.
"you say that China saw decades of double-digit growth not thanks to the CCP, but because of the hard work and entrepreneurialism of the Chinese people. But India also has lots of hard working entrepreneurial people" It seems generally true that if a population with high human…
One thing I tried to push Stephen Kotkin on: Okay, you say that China saw decades of double-digit growth not thanks to the CCP, but because of the hard work and entrepreneurialism of the Chinese people. But India also has lots of hard working entrepreneurial people. Why does…
This seems cartoonishly stupid of the Trump admin. cnbc.com/2025/07/18/tru…
I agree that the probability of Trump coming up with that line is tiny. However, the probability of the WSJ just making it up is also small. Maybe Trump had someone else write it, but why would someone else write this content? No obvious explanation seems to fit well.
Going on record: Donald Trump has never said or written “enigmas never age”. Come on man.
In general, I think this is wrong. The "great authors" of the past are very hit or miss. Even when very smart, the amount they did not know is huge, both in terms of simple facts and in terms of how to reason well. In a sense, they are just people who became popular. Today we…
This is a general point a great deal of ppl nowadays would be wise to keep in mind when discussing great authors, even potentially old and outdated ones. Gibbon, Jung, Montaigne, Voltaire, Aquinas, Aristotle - these men might be wrong, but they were much smarter than you are.
This is funny, an article from as far back as 1992 writes of Epstein "one outrageous story links him to the CIA and Mossad". Didn't explain why anyone at that time thought that. mintpressnews.com/wp-content/upl…