Richard Hanania
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He can't even say what he wants done to you for having to make him see a Yemeni cab driver!
Do you believe a person can be this deranged about immigration and not have any ill will toward the migrants themselves?
Why even pretend at this point?
I like the fig leaf of wokeness combined with the genocidal frothing at the mouth.
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Montana ranks 49th of 50 states in percentage of immigrants— so in my daily life I’m not confronted with The Great Replacement when I’m not traveling.
Just returning from a trip
To the northeast where I had Yemeni Uber drivers and Congolese hotel front desk clerks.
Americans do these jobs in Montana.
I don’t hate these people— if I were born in Yemen, I’d want to come here too.
But as for the people who actively allowed them to come here— the people who created the policies that brought them here:
I can’t say what I think should happen to them, because if I did, i’d be banned from this site.
It’s a total betrayal of our country.
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Rob Sand is doing “culture war stuff” because he hired a gay man.
A few Republicans are like this, but as long as liberals don’t go woke again they will remain a small and isolated minority.
It did not take long for @RobSandIA to betray his campaign promise that he won’t do culture war stuff. This is his new chief of staff.
There was only one time someone who I really respected as an intellectual blocked me on this website. Care to guess who? If someone gets it right I will tell you who it is.
"A great artist, like a great intellectual, must at some level hate his audience."
Why The Sopranos was so much better than Boardwalk Empire.
David Chase's contempt for his audience was legendary, and that's why he created such high quality art.
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The Utah attorney general going after Kalshi has gotten money from casinos and DraftKings.
It's insane that betting on politics and news events, which produces useful knowledge, is more controversial than betting on poker or sports, which doesn't.
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A really cool project for those interested in prediction markets. It helps make the case that these aren't simply a source of entertainment, but a mechanism for increasing human knowledge.
We are launching a $1 million grant program for up to 50 research projects on midterm prediction markets.
Bring your best ideas. We’ll provide any publicly available Kalshi data you need.
To enter, quote tweet this post with your research idea and apply on the website.
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"Haiti's 1805 constitution explicitly recognized exceptions for naturalized Germans, Poles, and white women."
I had been going back and forth on the ultimate impacts of AI.
But when in doubt, listen to the market.
And here the message is unambiguous.
AI looks like a normal technology.
Those with short time lines need to explain why the market is wrong.
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Right-wing intellectual Nick Land is retweeting election denial stuff.
I told you, “right wing reaction” is pure brain rot.
There are actually appealing things about the philosophy (Lee Kuan Yew and Bukele), but they’ve somehow ended up as mental slaves of fat boomers falling for AI memes.
Just fascinating to me how you believe in genetics, IQ, and all that and then throw in with MAGA. Not from the perspective of “these idiots are useful,” but actually believing in their conspiracy theories yourself.
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We're learning a lot very fast.
Actually reading the news before commenting on it is underrated.
Nobody can explain why Jensen Huang sleeping with a Chinese woman endangers U.S. national security because it doesn't. It's a lurid story meant as a personal attack on an influential person who does not share the "RSI to AGI to ASI in 36 months" view of AI development.
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Nativists’ favorite reporter has no idea what he’s talking about.
And by legalize I mean green card/permanent residency. Not citizenship.
Deporting their relatives and people in their community is a pretty big economic issue.
Hispanic voters are primarily driven by economic issues (45%) rather than immigration (15%).
That led to a big Latino swing toward Trump in 2024, and a swing back to Democrats in 2026.
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It led to a controversy over whether the girl he was masturbating with was white.
“Christopher Cantwell, the so-called ‘Crying Nazi’ from the Charlottesville march, was charged with trafficking methamphetamines, and somewhat inexplicably released recordings of himself having gay sex last year.”
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A neo-Nazi influencer accidentally livestreamed himself having cyber-sex, horrifying his stunned fans. Now his movement is in chaos.
My latest False Flag newsletter for @BulwarkOnline:
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Oh my God they’re actually going to try to make DeSantis a thing again.
“In one recent case, Takashi Kato, the founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley artificial-intelligence startup, sued the Palo Alto Unified School District in federal court after AI-detection software flagged an essay his son turned in as ‘76% AI.’”
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MAGAs should start their own colleges where the entire stats sequence would be constantly looking at these same graphs over and over again with their mouths open.
The Democrats tried too hard this time around...
The cheat is obvious.
My God this man is so disgusting
Trump on BAAJA: "The permitting bill is a great bill…We are behind it 100%."
Reporter: "And you're going to approve wind turbines in the future?"
Trump: "No, I will not approve wind turbines."
Reporter: "That's part of this deal."
Trump: "I know, but I won't approve it."
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I know of at least two pairs of brothers. One is like let’s do permitting reform and improve the world, and the other is like I hate humanity, my only purpose in life is to minimize the number of dark people allowed in America. What makes people take one path or the other?
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AI is unlikely to transform the economy for the same reason Khan Academy and AI haven't already destroyed college.
The economy is already largely fake and based on human tastes. Objective productivity gains therefore don't change as much as you'd expect.
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Charlie Kirk pled the Fifth before the January 6 committee. He probably didn't technically commit any crimes, but he lied in order to try to overturn a free and fair democratic election.
George Floyd never did anything that bad.
Also, while Floyd's death led to riots, Kirk's death was used by authoritarians to push for more restrictions on speech, in addition to propping up an administration that cares nothing for the rule of law.
It's true that Kirk was killed for his political views, while Floyd wasn't.
Regardless, the two deaths and their role in political debates aren't as different as this argues.
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George Floyd was a drug addled violent criminal hobo who died of a drug overdose and then was venerated as a literal saint while leftists burned down entire city blocks in revenge. Charlie Kirk was a political commentator who never committed any crimes and was gunned down on camera while speaking peacefully in front of an audience, and nobody responded by rioting or committing any acts of violence or reprisals anywhere at all. So, no, joking about George Floyd is not the same as joking about Charlie Kirk. The two men, and the circumstances around their deaths, and the subsequent reactions, have no resemblance at all. There is no comparison except that they both died, and that's it. Anyone trying to draw this moral equivalency is lying or stupid or both. And any conservative claiming that we have to tolerate the Charlie jokes because we criticized George Floyd is a submissive cucked shill and should be disregarded on this issue and every other.
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