I think these tweets are really silly at this point. These are obviously political appointments, no one cares about their qualifications. I'm sad Gorsuch is on the court. But it's about the same as if Kidd Rock was on the court, the vote would be no different.

I get what the QT post is saying but it's really antiquated that we don't have more objective standards for evaluating students to begin with in higher ed. Give them exams and have an AI tool evaluate their writing. Profs mostly hate grading anyways.

This is largely true, though I sometimes wonder if people who say this are a little harsh on Michael. I think he may still crack the top 20. But magic, Bird, Barkley, John Stockton. Yeah they would be absolutely underwhelming. Jerry West meanwhile probably couldn't play for Tel Aviv Macabees.

Ok.... I vaguely sort of know who some of these people are. But who's upper left? And the center center And the bottom center. The woman center right looks very mean spirited. So I think it's Kesha? Or is it just someone who's also really mean spirited.

We don't need voters who read books. This discussion should just be dead in the water as pointless status signalling.

The artificial womb could be the game changer to raise the birthrates in secular societies. Even if only 20% of babies were grown this way, that could bring us to sustainable levels. www.femtechworld.co.uk/news/scienti...

I’m not a big fan of the environmental movement but I’d love to live long enough to where you only saw electric vehicles in nyc. Think of how much quieter and cleaner it would seem.

NYC has too many cars. It sucks that mamdani is a pro terrorist guy but this is a solid step. Keep on the path of Michael Bloomberg and I'll dislike you less when this is all over.

I would love to see a balls out "confrontation with Putin" type emerge as President in 2028 but I just don't see it. President John Bolton (D). Sure. Whoever the Democrats elect will be better than orangeman. But let's say it's Gavin. Umm...still a let down. He'll more just gell with euros.

Iraq was a mistake. Afghanistan was not. Like if a terrorist group that was sheltered by the Houthis did a 9/11 style attack we'd absolutely go in the same way today in Yemen. Someone who puts Afghanistan up there on a list of failures is just going to be in head scratch territory for me.

The low economic growth in Canada is due to poor choices they made on economic policies. The USA has plenty of boomers but we don't have the same problem, our balance sheet is fine. Perhaps our boomers are just better than yours.

obviously low fertility rates do create a lot of cross generational tension because it isn't just about "my lazy grandkids" but "someone else lazy grandkids." immigration etc, they're from another a country. But the obsession with housing as the only type of asset becomes old.

The fix for social security will be: raise the retirement age. The fix for Medicare will be: a bare bones "canadian style" system for the poor with waiting lists. Combined with some kind of high premium/large copayments for the 70% of seniors who are not really poor.

If you asked me to name the greatest box office flop (high qualify, lost money) I'd go with Scorsese's Hugo. (2011) It's a children's film that many enjoyed and no one recommended to their friends. A bit too bbc vibes. But you know, exactly what you'd expect Scorsese to do with a kids film.

Plano boomer would totally go for Texas independence. Except the inconvenience of getting a passport for his summer trips to Winstar makes it not quite worth it.

The Right has mostly given up for making excuses for W Bush and Iraq. But the Left is still trying to rehabilitate LBJ. You don’t get to hand waive away a disastrous and poorly planned war.

The most cringe response from leftists over whether the USA should remove maduro from power in Venezuela is “would you like Canada to remove Trump from power?”. Repeat after me: “America is a special country”. I need you to accept this.

Everyone I know who comes back from Paris says everyone hated macron. Deeply skeptical. Yes everyone haters him but they have no agreement on who to replace him with. That’s how being a centrist work.

If your social security taxes went directly and solely to your parents, would that make you happy or even more resentful.

TIL there are more people living in Queens, NY born in China than from any Latin American country. Now I'm not sure if PR was a country, if that would be higher than China so idk.

I actually think it's fair to say that the very first colonists at Plymouth were simply colonists. Not immigrants. Immigration means going to a civil society that already exists. But ofc I don't see "colonialism" as inherently evil anyways, so it's not a weighty distinction.

Sorry but if you're a white supremacist libertarian your only take on Hindu Americans from India should be that they learned the rules of American capitalism and played the game better than almost all of us.

David Shor has been beating the Tik Tok drum for a while. This isn't really related to AI created content, not yet. But has more to do with the fact that you don't have to be a dedicated artiste to make viral TT content. So it's turning into a big vector for right-wing outreach.

Forget about Friendsgiving. What about Spousegiving? We can order a pizza, go into our separate rooms and ignore each other just like every day.

This gets into the heart of the matter perhaps. AI will not really eliminate employment by the "creatives". But it will probably replace liberal content creators with conservatives, as is already being done with podcasts.

I think part of this is that the trad subculture doesn't even see "high value" man as that related to income. They don't admire wimpy computer programmers living in big houses at the suburbs of Boston who will happily will do housework for the wife.

I hate the constant bombardment of bait on twitter so much. Yes, a lot of men would have sex with any woman regardless of how hot or ugly she was. And no, that's not new and it does not really condemn you to celibacy.

I would support lowering the drinking age to 18, especially for simple beer, if it was coupled with "and we expect a lot of bad behavior so a lot of people are going to be thrown in jail for fights and DWIs".

The "Left" as in liberals and non white Democrats does not believe this. The "Left" as in the far left types who had Mamdanigasms though, are close to thinking this way.

Religious people are happier and they reproduce more but there's just not a lot of evidence religion is needed for a moral society. Sweden is extremely secular and moral because people aren't stupid and they realize that even the best prison is kind of uncomfortable.

My understanding is that men trading in their wives when they get rich is rare, and especially if you exclude niche groups like rockstars and actors. It's much more common the other way around.

I think the confusion on boomers is that basically X/Y/Z/A are just extending the prosperity narcissism that boomers created. That is people born after 1964 are simply boomers with more boom. It's just that bc boomers were such a clean break from the greatest they seem more exceptional.

Seven reforms I would like at universities: 1. Class rank/SAT requirements to get student loans. 2. Standardized test style exit exams for every type of major, preferably created by the feds but possibly by states.

Someone was saying that basically what we call antifa is largely the organizational descendants of the 1980s anti racist skinhead movement.

I do not see comprehensive gun control happening in the next 50 years. I hope it happens one day. But I will not be around to see it. Mass incarceration is the best bipartisan route to mitigate gun violence. We need more violent people in prison.

The reason I find this kind of rhetoric cringe (though it may be politically useful idk) is that focusing on what poor people own is just missing the point. For poor people consumption(including social welfare services like healthcare) matters Owning stuff doesn't matter very much.

If you have college educated boomer parents who are no longer with us please honor them by watching that Joni Mitchell biopic that will be released in early 2027.

I have no idea what the hell the male loneliness problem even is. I get that self identifying as lonely generally means you hate your life. Just not seeing how it's a particularly male problem. Unlike say using meth. Which is a very male problem.

Even the highbrow republicans have to speak in conspiratorial terms. A secular society just sees kids as an expensive hobby. No ideological group is telling women to view it this way, that's just how a narcissistic society works.

If the USA adopted the UK's political system with Trump as king Democrats would probably be better off if we could go back to their 2008 system with no supreme court and if we could have a house of lords that was more ideologically balanced than the 6-3 GOP court we have.

I wouldn't say I support an invasion of Venezuala. But I am open minded.

The core underlying belief of all modern left-wing thought is that comfortable masculinity shouldn't be allowed in center left parties.

It's actually interesting that one of the goals right now for the ADL is to get wikipedia articles on Israel related issues downgraded in search results, and that would definitely be clutch. nypost.com/2025/03/18/b...

My favorite right wing boomer trope is still when Scott Walker tried to say that the Left wanted to erase Iron Maiden’s legacy bc the Left is afraid of music that was fun, dumb and masculine. I wish that had caught on and become a central tenant of the conservative movement for a few decades.

When I see Zuck speak in interviews where he's calm he seems very normal and not even close to the the tail end of high functioning autism. He was talking about his friendship with rapper Jack Harlow other day.

So...how is twitter showing where people are from going to fix anything? They can just get VPNs to impersonate americans right?

Am I a fan of Elon? No. But considering hamas and co have taken over wikipedia, grokopedia could hardly be worse.

My view is we should move away from the zoning aspects of yimbyism and more towards supply side innovation. Could we make prefab houses catch on etc? Smaller elevators in apartments?

Kind of shocked they’re rolling with this. So Biden enriched the boomers? I like him more than before I guess.

Are you cool with Japan having nukes?