Now that the results are out what are your greatest hopes and fears \ stacker news ~Politics_And

Now that the results are out what are your greatest hopes and fears

262 sats \ 20 comments \ @unkempt 7 Nov Politics_And_Law

26 sats \ 13 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Nov

This (#754653): that it doesn't crush or reverse wokeism and climate paranoia and other unimpressive left-wing obsessions but actually fuels them.

That the media and academia insiders keep doubling down and refuse to learn/broaden their minds

0 sats \ 12 replies \ @oliverweiss 7 Nov

Who should academia insiders learn from, please? Graduates of the high school of life? Trumpists? You? Share some wisdom with us…

21 sats \ 11 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Nov

There's plenty, in case one lifts one's gaze from the ivory tower navel-gazing or the NYT's race obsession.

I have a library of relevant things (Weinstein+Heying, Bjorn Lomborg, Jonathan Haidt, Schellenberger, Douglas Murray, Peter Attia) in case you wish to spend some time in my living room. The Free Press is a pretty good current affairs outlet, too. (Bari Weiss keeps impressing me.)

Find a sane Substack in your field of interest and keep reading it.

Ditch legacy media. Academia, too, is broken: I wouldn't touch a university with a ten-foot pole.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 7 Nov

I wouldn't touch a university with a ten-foot pole.

That’s must be obvious to everyone by now.

Just checked some names you listed, most of them academia insiders. Funny.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Nov

really not sure what "insiders" are doing in that sentence.

"Heretics," "skeptics," "defectors" perhaps

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @random_ 7 Nov

Top 3 resources/books?

100 sats \ 7 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Nov

gosh, hard pick.

For understanding our world/changing pov? A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century The War on the West Superabundance

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @random_ 7 Nov

lets make it an even 5

10 sats \ 5 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Nov

well OKA, I'll ignore the money stuff (Goetzmann, Sumner, Selgin, Parker Lewis, Lyn Alden, and other stuff like that I assume you'd be at least a little familiar with).

Hard.

I'll pick Vaclav Smil's Grand Transitions and Caplan's The Case Against Education

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 7 Nov

Vaclav Smil and Bryan Caplan are two of my most favorite authors, both university professors. How come we read and understand them clearly so differently?

Btw, if you read these guys, you “touch a university”, don’t you?

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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @random_ 7 Nov

Thanks!

Interesting that they are all 2021-22 books except the last one (2018).

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38 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 7 Nov

I'm cautiously skeptical. I don't trust him and I think a lot of bitcoiners might start getting content and let their guards down.

Price draws everyone in. Its hard not to. I just hope the people that need Bitcoin the most start understanding how to hold and use it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 7 Nov

let their guards down

Exactly this, this is why he specifically was necessary... needed someone to wake people up by shaking things up... now if he creates too good of times the cycle restarts.

12 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 7 Nov

Hope: Smart people have control of him

Fear: They don't.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 7 Nov

He's where he is, and you are where you are, because he's the moron without a clue of what's actually going on... checks out.

62 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 7 Nov

My concern is MSM is right and he's a monster. My favorite thing about his last term was that he had no institutional support so was hamstrung attempting to get anything done. That's how achieving consensus should be.

Now he leads the party and the party is in control of the house and the senate. If he was honest when he was campaigning, it could be a good thing. If was being dishonest, we're in trouble.

I'm also concerned that he'll be assassinated if he manages to get us out of our wars. While I like JD Vance on the surface, and feel a kinship to a self-made millennial with addict parents, his laugh and speech cadence are too guarded for me to feel confident in my opinion of him.

If he isn't assasinated, I'm concerned our intelligence agencies will find creative ways to keep him in our wars.

I'm hopeful RFK will rid us of the corruption in our health agencies. I'm hopeful the bureaucracy will be reduced and we'll all be a little more free.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 7 Nov

Fear: the deep state fights back, hard

Hope: the deep state fights back, hard