If you want to fight to save our species, stop insisting everything is wonderful , that ignorance, misery and despair are illusions, and that life's little troubles, such as climate change and gross economic inequality, will take care of themselves.
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Ignorance and misery are lower than ever. Income inequality it's not a problem, the problem it's poverty and now it's in its lower historic level. Climate change it's a real thing, but it's consequences, even when real, are exaggerated.
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Ah, a Pinker acolyte. Consider: Just nine individuals (9!) have a share of the world's wealth equal to the world's poorest 4 BILLION. Not a problem for those nine in any case.
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That number is totally fake.
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Here are their names: Jeff Bezos Bill Gates Warren Buffet Bernard Arnault Mark Zuckerberg Amancio Ortega Carlos Slim Charles Koch David Koch You can look up their approximate net worth yourself.
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The number comes from an organization called Oxfam and it's fake. They take the whole assets of their businesses and puts it in their pockets. For example, if Microsoft is worth 50 billions, it says Bill Gates has 50 billions in his pocket, and that's fake.
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Okay. So 9 CONTROL the wealth share equal to rhe poorest half of humanity.
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Fake numbers too. The 9 biggest business in the world don't control the 50% of the wealth of the planet. That's ridiculous if you think about it. So, how Oxfam get this numbers? I'll explain:
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If you want to fight 'populism' stop forcing mass immigration on populations.
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@Steve_Sailer’s blog reminded me of this comment of mine from a couple of years ago re: this http://www.unz.com/isteve/olympic-war-games-past-when-putin-and-bush-negotiated-war-or-peace-in-beijing/#comment-1520401 …pic.twitter.com/GDR1UOz9GY
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I'd argue that to fight populist thinking is to not be so all or nothing. It's worse in some ways, better in others, incredibly complicated, multilayered, dynamic... Complex, critical, informed, and evolving with feedback is the counter to simplistic thinking.
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Well, yes. Of course. Life may in fact be worse for them, you don’t notice, the populists do. Please, go out into the field. Talk to people about how their lives have changed over specifically the last twenty years. One on one. See if you still believe they’re unreasonable.
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Environmentally, it is, and economically for us little people, it mostly is. Cost of living not keeping pace with wages. Populists aren’t the only ones saying such things about these times, they’re just too quick to settle on simplistic answers to troubling questions.
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The Bernie Sanders phenomenon spoke of another flavour of change that was less angry and hateful.
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"...life is worse today than it was 50 years ago." Dr. Pinker, would you allow your students to use this variety of amorphous, ambiguous terminology in a dissertation?
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Maybe he would if dissertations were limited to 280 characters
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Why do you add the word authoritarian to populism? Most populists I know are die hard individual freedom promoters. Not an authoritarian bone in their bodies
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Could you name those populists? I only come up with wannabe dictators: Orban, Duturte, Erdogan, Trump, Maduro...
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Trump is an authoritarian? You obviously have no idea what the word means. Therefore you’re a waste of my time. Bye bye
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Twitter is full of these idiots with 20 followers and no cluepic.twitter.com/JNavREL8OM
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Trump is on record wanting to "strengthen libel laws", making them more like the UK's, thereby kneecapping our 1st amendment. He calls the press "the enemy of the people." Get a fucking clue, Will.
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