it's a combination of a couple different things: -social science data gen. processes genuinely are noisy and messy in ways that physical sciences aren't -the actual problem is very hard -lots of research is done by people from research is not their real vocation -many incentives to be dishonest

yeah basically this. there's a difference between the sincere eugenicists and the people using the graphs and charts as ammunition to say people they've always hated are inferior. Hanania is a sincere eugenicist. It's not *good*, but it is *different* than the people who just hate non-whites.

watching hanania despair about the reality of modern right wing politics is kinda funny

Garden-variety conservative: wokeness is the new racism (disapprovingly) Hanania: wokeness is the new racism (approvingly)

Not really the same level of highbrow, but until a few days ago I thought Kim Karadashian was famous from being a Fallout:New Vegas voice actress (she did a promotional event for the game) and being Kanye’s wife.

on the one hand this is extremely tragic, because it means people don't remember how much we've lost. on the other hand, it does mean that someone like Mamdani who can break through and have both a positive message, and a chew with their mouth closed and actually be professional and adult stuns them

lmao WHAT I had no idea about this. are there like 20 people that people in the Clinton-world orbit are allowed to date or something?

national review has a Bluesky account?

Haven't visited, but evidently there's a road into Maine with a sign somewhere near the border saying "Welcome to Maine! Spend your money and leave."

yes. click through data should be fuzzed somehow. it turns out that having super accurate real-time data on what activates the hindbrain destroys society.

This is abhorrent and repugnant. It’s further evidence of the vile and pernicious nature of these awful platforms. It makes me furious, incendiary with rage. Causes me to fall into deep sadness, melancholy and depression.

everything else aside, this is kind of a stupid boast if she's *still alive*

yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.

People online will say this for opinions like “it’s ok that video games cost money” so it’s funny to see it used somewhere where it’s actually totally true.

you all talk the walkable urbanism talk, but when someone ACTUALLY TRIES, it’s all “this is an obviously insane idea”

Kevin Kiley basically overnight rediscovering that he is actually a Reasonable Bipartisan after being a gleeful MAGA shithead, now that he’s on the firing line, shows that one of the benefits of actually retaliating is that you create incentives for norms to hold. Norms are detente.

This is wild to me. Mexico is a relatively violent country! Politicians do get killed there. Not the president sure, but still.

How did the guy who grabbed Sheinbaum’s boobs not get lit the fuck yo by her bodyguards? Let alone that close in the first place.

the one thing that I will say in defense of Eric Adams is that it's sort of absurd how poorly elected officials are treated in terms of creature comforts and salary and it does create lots of incentives for corruption. it's fine, actually for the public to spring for first class and stuff like that.

Bro you can’t be seeing that girl, she does The Rituals.

no longer supporting Zohran after learning disturbing things about his past. we can't have one of them in office (irony rappers)

Alex Soros has gotta stop fucking posting those pictures with left wing political figures publicly, I totally get you’re psyched to hang out with them after you cut a check but come on bro, we do gotta peel off a few of podcast morons and you’re not helping.

hot take is that a lot of Bill Ackman types really are just stupid and petty and it might be worth Zohran briefly meeting with a few of them, and essentially saying “I’m not gonna fucking guillotine you, relax” so that they stop being maximally alarmist to other business guys

one thing I was wrong about Trump on was that he does actually have an apparently genuine non-egotropic belief, one that he is willing so sacrifice his own political and personal fortunes for. dude just fucking loves tariffs. can't get enough of them.

thought I was going to do some clever little arbitrage with the immigration system by applying in person for something at a point of entry rather than applying from within Canada and have to wait forever, like go to Vermont for a day then come back. Evidently there is a law specifically against this

Media elites despise communities like mine: urban, educated, professional class wage earners. But here in real America, all the volunteers at the bike co-op I work at were excited about Mamdani. The American press is out of touch with people like us and it shows.

I feel like "approves of Batman" would be bipartisan in the 90s, leaning right in the 00s, right wing in the 10s, and extremely right wing in the 2020s until now. Lately Trump has been losing the Batman vote though, and a lot of them voted for democrats last night.

It is sort of incredible that the mob tried to kill Sliwa twice. I can’t imagine him mattering at all to any actual serious organized crime. Evidently it was over an insult on a radio show. I guess the Hollywood version of them as sophisticated businessmen is deceiving. Just violent dumb goons.

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

catwoman didn't vote (felon); joker didn't vote; poison ivy and bane voted mamdani (left-wing); mr. freeze, scarecrow, and harley quinn voted for mamdani (edpol); killer croc, two-face, and clayface voted for cuomo. penguin voted for adams (also on the turkish payroll).

So much D over-claiming about last night. Bingo card: -"This proves we have to {do what I wanted to do anyway}" -"{A winning D} supported {position on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter" -"{A losing R} used {issue/tactic on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter"

This is actually good advice, luckily the probably won’t follow it.

tellingly they are unable to debate The Moloch Initiative on the policy merits

hey I wonder if we'll get more California republicans on here as they desperately try and moderate posture lol.

Mother Bear has spoken. CalSec rendition and burying of Easters in The Glass begins now.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit

oh my god the prop. 50 results...fuck...and tonight was going so well...

his mind is gone enough that he can't really get them to do it, but he still has above average political instincts for republicans because he has no ideological and doesn't give a shit about anything but himself (and tariffs, apparently), so he knows this is fucking them.

I wanna give a big thanks to the boys and girls on the ritual team. I'm not gonna lie that I was curious about the sacrifice source, but you guys clearly know what you're doing.

when they go low, we whip out our dicks and piss on 'em

they got everything they want, in a way. they're definitely the new counter-culture now. all the barely engaged too cool for school dipshits are republican now. and the lame normie conscientious squares who would crawl over broken glass to vote?

At this rate the 2026 Dem meta will be running dead-eyed CIA officers whose campaign ads are just them graphically describing what war crimes they will do to Republicans

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

This is something of a bipartisan moment, as it shows increasing democratic base support for the second amendment.

VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL - PROJECTION - ☑️ 🔵 Jay Jones (D) - 830,000 (52.2%) - 🔴 Jason Miyares (R) - 752,976 (47.4%) We project that Jay Jones will become the next Attorney General of Virginia. 🔵 DEM FLIP

the median voter learns, but in the way a newborn does. don't like orange man, but happy with orange man, maybe orange man why happy? give back orange man! hmmm. ok, orange man not why happy.

Woke 2: From policing microagressions to committing macroagressions

Theis: The Party Antithesis: The Company Synthesis:

jay jones has a winning message for 2026: [REMOVED FOR VIOLATION OF TOS]

more seriously jones is like a comically bad candidate in terms of scandals, if he pulls it out definitely a "we're back" moment