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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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    Candid political opinions thread. One per like. Limit 100.

    6:57 PM - 12 Dec 2019
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        The entire case for socialism in 2019 rests on AOC dance video

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        UBI is a bad idea

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        The case for urban densification is much weaker than proponents think

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Warren will beat Sanders and Biden and then Trump will beat Warren

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Green New Deal is a total train wreck that does not deserve to be entertained as a serious proposal

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Greta Thurnberg is actually interesting

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Citizens of China are complicit in the actions of the CPP despite it not being a democracy

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Bougainville island deserves independence from Papua New Guinea because they wear great hats

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      10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        The Citizenship Amendment Bill in India is the most cynical political act of 2019

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      11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        China’s presence in Africa is not colonialism, and African nations know what they are doing in participating

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      12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        One Belt, One Road is a fragile initiative and will fail to meet Chinese objectives

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      13. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        Gonna start numbering. 12. Aung San Suu Kyi’s career is proof that the Nobel Peace Prize is purely expedient virtue signaling by the West to bolster legitimacy of its shaky claim to global moral leadership. It should be shut down, and endowment returned as a dividend to Swedes.

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      14. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        13. The correct response to all things GOP and Trump is “ok boomer”, obstruction, and running out their clock. They are beyond redemption.

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      15. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        14. Flight 93/Michael Anton justification for supporting Trump is stupid and people who bought it were and are delusional

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      16. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        15. Climate change is real

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        16. Vaccines are good

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      18. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        17. Identity tribes are not meaningful units of natural selection and people who believe they are are dumb

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      19. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        18. Gangsterism is a better basis for politics than purist ideology

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      20. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        19. “People of color” is a terrible term and I refuse to use it

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      21. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        20. The internet has been healthier for politics than TV and radio

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      22. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        21. San Francisco is not worth fixing and should be allowed to suffer the consequences of being itself by being systematically abandoned

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      23. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        22. High inequality is not a cosmically righteous outcome of enlightened market economics and innovation-fueled growth and people who believe that merely lack the theological imagination to worship something more interesting than financial wealth

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      24. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        23. Everybody should give me money

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      25. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        24. Seattle is the best-run major US city

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      26. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        25. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should be easy and legal

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      27. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        26. The Great Awokening has turned cancerous and should be abandoned

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      28. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        27. Classical liberalism is a clueless position and people espousing it should be ignored and kept away from anything important

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      29. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        28. The Electoral College is not a fundamental problem. Just a delaying ofvthe inevitable.

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      30. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        29. Plastic is good

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      31. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Dec 2019
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        30. Cat people make for better political leaders but dog people are more electable

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