TL;DR: area opinion-have and noted Balaji-friend think Trump v. U.S. isn’t such a big deal, Trump’s inevitable victory won’t have much impact on domestic politics, and it’s just a bunch of leftist fear-mongering.
Thank you for the expert insights, sir.
A great book could be written Outside Your Lane about social media personalities that say the dumbest shit about things that they have no knowledge of.
i guess i have this question: did something about media/columns/blogging between, say, 2001-2014 create a tendency for this kind of take? like, people had to have a contrarian take so there was a discourse and the link economy (esp. of bloggers) could work?
omg, new levels of uninformed take -- just every law professor screaming and he goes "no." i can't imagine my mind working like that, even though i'm plenty ignorant and stubborn about a lot of things.
I would mock you but I've done enough hate-reading in the last month that I would be mocking from a big ol' glass house. I don't know why hate-reading is a thing but we all have our weaknesses.
One of the few people who blocked me on Twitter. I never replied or QTed him but I did once reference him in a tweet with a typo that called him twee that I then jokingly referenced. He must have searched his name and decided my typo was blockworthy.
Smith is good on economics. He does the reading, and is good at analyzing strengths and weaknesses, and also summarizing for a non-technical readership.
Unfortunately, the pressures of the pundit lifestyle incentive him to go beyond his domain of competence.
Yep 👆. It's why I'm letting my subscription lapse after only having it a year. Pity... not quite as painful as watching what 9/11 did to some folks, but in the same league.
perhaps you have a deep, yawning hole inside of yourself and it helps distract you for a moment from that fact?
that's why i still read comment sections
