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All either party needs to do is become the reasonably sane party.

-Jettison wokeness and DEI

-Stop being antivax

-Be pro abortion

-Fix healthcare (for real)

-Solve the problem of homelessness and drug addiction (bring back insane asylums, put drug addicts in rehab or jail, take back our streets, stop the cartels and chinese manufacturers at the source)

-Stop crime (longer sentences, laws are enforced and enforced equally)

-Stop immigration of low human-capital immigrants

-Put a stop to our incredibly litigious culture (put caps on # of lawyers)

-Ensure reasonable monetary policy

-Ensure reasonable housing policy (if crime is controlled we can live in cities again and support mixed zoning that allows for decreased cost of living in major cities and more livable cities)

Huge amounts of low hanging fruit that would vastly improve the standard of living for the average person. We need to tell the craziest 10% of the population on either side to go to hell, and if they don't like it, put them in jail, because the normies deserve a society that functions. Aren't people tired of being held hostage by all of these fools?

The tell that investment advice is bs:

Is this person rich and successful solely or in large part just from their investments?

Where's the proof?

Very few people are billionaires from investing. If Nassim Nicholas Taleb is such a great investor, where is his hedge fund? He's a writer who sells compelling books, nothing more!

As Paul Graham states, billionaires build.

Warren Buffett is the exception that proves the rule, and even he says "Just toss your money into an index fund."

If the richest (and therefore wisest) investor in the world is humble enough to admit that it's a (nearly) impossible game to win at, then who is Jim Cramer?

Hedge Funds delenda est.

Found the bike thief!

Best way to learn a language is to watch tv and movies.

Just high enough to be a total bullsh*t scam, just low enough that it'd be easier and cheaper to pay them instead of sue.

Easier said then done, but if you choose to sue them over this you have my respect.

We NEED laws against dirty dark pattern business practices like this.

The definition of "conspiracy theorist" in practice is just someone the listicle writer or tweet author doesn't like.

Don't worry, I'm sure we can find a solution through a combination of massive population replacement and putting you in jail for thoughtcrime on twitter.

An under-rated bonus of driving stick ... you are practically invulnerable to car theft.

This essay reminds me of Stein's Law:

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Stein#Stein's_Law

It will impact all of us if a china-taiwan/us war breaks out and we lose the majority of the worlds' semiconductor supply, access to manufactured goods, and face the real possibility of nuclear war.

Yes.

Without the one child policy, there would be an additional 300 million people to feed. The policy is looking a lot more farsighted now.

The philosophy of infinite growth is now being tested.

There is this idea that we can just innovate our way out of every problem, but we forget, whatever problem we have is multiplied by 8 billion. That is a very challenging constraint.

Feminism as tool to enlarge the labor force and depress wages is the greatest propaganda victory in human history.

No. It says that smartphones interfere with adult-child relationships.

Smartphones are great when used for direction finding or ordering food or something, totally negative when used to scroll endlessly through tik tok or instagram.

Many people are in total denial that social media have basically turned them into drug addict zombies.

On the upside, tik tok, like video games, is probably great at reducing street crime by keeping teens and young adults plugged into the matrix.