Some try to dress it up in something more high-minded, some try to claim that I'm hiding secret political motivations, but the simple truth is that liberals are mad that I even *mentioned* it. You're not supposed to talk about it *at all* except to say how obviously good it is and how stupid and evil people used to be.

You realize this if you move around a little bit as an adult between low tax states and high tax states. If you’re a typical middle class American you’ll struggle to see any relationship between what you’re paying and what you’re getting.

This view is definitely not “crazy.” They do not appear to me to think or understand. In fact, their behavior seems totally consistent with what I understand about their construction. I understand that a lot of people disagree with this view, but that doesn’t make it “crazy.”

LLMs really are pretty good at summarizing text. The average person I interact with summarizes my tweets in all kinds of bizarre, misleading ways (and then gaslights me about how that's my fault) but look at how Grok here successfully gets the two key pieces of the argument. LLMs are either far more honest or far more capable summarizers than the average X user.

There are no adults to be found. I’m sorry to tell you this. I know you thought it would be different. But running from Trump doesn’t land you in the arms of sane, honest, elite human capital. It makes you subservient to this.

It's outrageous that this is even a debate. It's one thing to argue about whether to intrude on land not yet developed, but where people and houses already exist we should obviously allow homeowners to defend what they have.

@JamesSurowiecki Now that the ethnic conflict that we were warned about but ignored for decades has become impossible to miss, it's more important than ever to affirm the value of immigration and call people who disagree racist and dismiss their complaints as invalid

Reducing or eliminating consequences for irresponsible behavior punishes responsible people the same way that inflation punishes savers. It’s like a natural law. You need to understand it as intrinsic to the project.

I don’t want non-citizens working on American political campaigns. Ideally, they’d be so embarrassed by this that you’d never have to worry about it. But apparently they’re proud of it, so you definitely have to deport them.

My biggest problem with most forms of modern liberalism is that I reject that we’ve made substantial moral progress over the last few hundred years. You are not the moral superiors of your ancestors. I think, in fact, you’re just lucky to be alive in a time where it’s possible to express alternative moral positions, because of technological progress and improved material conditions. I think that you’d behave exactly as your ancestors did, given the same information and constraints under which they labored. And I think, further, the outrageous narcissism and arrogance that results from believing that all human beings up until about five minutes ago were racist and sexist pieces of shit is really deranging people’s sense of society and of their place in it. And this, ultimately, makes them their ancestors’ moral inferiors in most ways that matter.