#Statist

Berny Belvedere

bernybelvedere

So, I find this interesting.@zackbeauchamp's new Vox piece argues that the "cancel culture" debate is not really about free speech. Beauchamp contends the dispute is over where to draw the

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Another reminder that what we are witnessing and have been witnessing over the last 5 years is an attempted creation of a new national mythology saying America was founded in

Tristam Pratorius the Social Democrat🌹

TristamPratori1

1/9 Speaking of models, the most famous market socialist model (wage-earner funds) was proposed by the Swedish labor movement.Simply having a welfare state and a statist economic regime isn't social

joeldavis

Dick71224996

[Thread time]The biggest whitepill I know is the ontological antagonism between the internal strategic logics of Capital and Geopolitics. Units of Capitalist power accumulation are parasitically abstracted from Statist geometry,

John Hayward

Doc_0

When people voted to drain the swamp, they knew the alligators - the high-profile D.C. power players, special interests, and safe seat senators-for-life - would be a problem. They underestimated

Taylor Owen

taylor_owen

If you are lucky in life, you get to meet someone as powerful, smart, generous and urgently important as @mariaressa. In a new ep. of the #BigTechPodcast @dskok spoke to

John Hayward

Doc_0

"Woke" ideology, in all its toxic forms, is a machine designed to make law-abiding people feel like criminals so they will accept the expansion of the punitive State. That's why

Chris Wymant

ChrisWymant

UK headlines on Friday reported that only 20% of #COVID19 cases have any symptoms at all, quoting the Health Secretary quoting the Office of National Statistics.This number is very wrong.A

Neha

Neh_hope_faith

Thread: Who runs & funds Hinduphobic, Bharat-bashing media like ‘The Wire’? Founded in 2015 by editors:Siddharth Varadarajan-An American citizen of Indian descent, was earlier editor of The Hindu newspaper, a

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

The best analysis of the C19 pandemic mass hysteria."[H]ow different political institutions and the state affect the development and extension of mass hysteria[?]""the size of the state exacerbates the negative

John Hayward

Doc_0

The U.S. central government grew relentlessly larger, richer, and more powerful during the decades that every problem faced by Americans got worse. Why does anyone think making the government even

John Hayward

Doc_0

The worldwide movement toward "limited authoritarianism," already well under way but dramatically accelerated by the coronavirus, is driven by the elite consensus that ordinary people cannot be trusted with so

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

Thanks to everyone who read & responded thoughtfully to this. It's a (very rough & condensed) summary of a chapter in a book I'm working on, so it leaves out

your infernal jøker

GhostsSeeHumans

So, I want to do a historical analysis on this article, and what I think it gets wrong. To start, however, I’d like to say that Murray Bookchin is a

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

Here’s an uncomfortable fact: public schooling, state social work, public hygiene, the welfare state, bureaucratic regulation arriving at the same time as the progressive era, prohibition, drug lAws, neoclassical econ

Clément Canonne

ccanonne_

Answers and discussion for yesterday's quiz on CLTs, Gaussians, and a bit of Invariance Principle.Let's start: Q1 on the Central Limit Theorem was a trap ! 1/16https://twitter.com/ccanonne_/status/1296331541614755840 Technically, th

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