In 1986, Ronald Reagan allowed ~1.4m illegal immigrants in California to become citizens 1988 was the last time California voted Republican, ever. Elon's caution about opening borders and creating voting pathways is *the literal playbook* and has already been done once If politicians can win elections by altering demographics (including by importing or creating more voters for their party) the entire premise of the American system is permanently broken This is a far more important issue than any individual issue on the ballot

Most peoples’ theory of mind for evil is under-developed Someone who is willing to steal is willing to lie about why they are stealing They have no compunction for exploiting the weak mental model of the society they are destroying The entire “compassion for criminals and fraudsters” psyop has done more damage to the west than you can possibly imagine We should be far, far more harsh to fraudsters and theives

It’s kinda crazy to me that we melt sand down, clean it to 99.99999% purity, literal wizards have to draw it slowly into an ingot, we cut it, inscribe a hundred billion little on/off switches on it, and when you run electric current through it you can do basic arithmetic, which when you do enough of it can do any math on the planet, and which describes reality well enough that we can teach it the ontological meaning of words and their distance from each other on a high-dimensional space, and if you ask, it can tell you what word comes next and that apparently is powerful enough that if you do it a hundred billion times it’s the smartest thing to ever exist oh yeah and we use this primarily for email

In 1945, philosopher Karl Popper described a problem every free society eventually runs into: the paradox of tolerance In The Open Society and Its Enemies, he wrote: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance" His reasoning was simple. If a society tolerates everything, including people who reject tolerance itself, those intolerant groups can use that freedom to gain power and eventually take away everyone else's freedom The tolerant end up defeated, and tolerance disappears with them Popper wasn't suggesting that every intolerant opinion should be simply silenced...he was careful here too Popper said that intolerance should first be met with rational debate, and only suppressed when groups abandon reason for violence ("fists or pistols") The danger comes when groups reject rational debate, forbid their followers from listening to opposing views, and respond to disagreement with their fists or pistols At that point, an open society has the right to protect itself His point was that tolerance is not weakness. But for tolerance to survive, an open society must be willing to defend the very freedoms that make it possible