19. “People of color” is a terrible term and I refuse to use it
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30. Cat people make for better political leaders but dog people are more electable
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31. Singapore is a fun place to visit but a terrible model polity no matter what your ideology
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32. Political Islam is an overblown threat because it does 2x damage to itself in its territorial dar-al-islam core for every 1x damage it attempts to inflict on dar-al-harb, making it a self-limiting problem that will decline with the oil economy
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34. Anyone pretending to have more than 3 real political opinions is making shit up for lulz or delusionally self-important because politics is too hard to develop more than 3 real opinions in a lifetime
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37. China under the CPP is not a credible ideological competitor to the West outside of China and will never enjoy the kind of soft power the US-led West once did, or even the level that South Korea enjoys today
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38. Russia is not a coherent political actor but a geopolitical shitposter
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39. Being basic and being based are actually the same thing if you squint a bit
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40. The Nehru-Gandhi family should be ashamed of itself, take partial responsibility for turning the BJP into an unchecked force, and withdraw from public life.
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41. The EU was a good idea and an important and brave experiment, whatever its ultimate fate
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42. Georgism is a good idea that Homo sapiens is not an enlightened enough species to put into practice
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43. Politics is essentially a digital computer (as in support for people or policies is fundamentally 0/1), public political debate is meaningless, nuance kills agency, and the only way to influence it is to prepare new 0/1 options in private settings
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45. If, after thoughtful consideration, you still think a nation can be meaningfully analogized to a household, you're an authoritarian
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46. All interesting politics now takes place in groups <30 in size. Above that scale is all zombie egregores.
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48. States/provinces are the worst political unit, worse than both cities and nations
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49. All ideologies are the products of people resentful about either being unable to get into, or out of, dying cushy institutions, not values or ideals
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50. Politics in the EU is more primitive than in the US or Asia
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51. Climate change is not solvable through politics and will fall to industry
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52. There will be both left and right Neo-Puritanism on the national stage by 2035 and it will be tedious and awful
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53. All humor is reactionary and if you want to retain the right to laugh, the best thing you can do is pick the best era to be reactionary about, which is the 1980s
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54. Individualism is a cancer in the social organism that deserves to win
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55. Solidarity is a stupid tactic in a social media era because it makes you a dumber actor than algorithms acting on high-visibility social graph
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56. All good politics today starts with breaking ranks and being a scab
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58. Everybody should be able to vote in every election anywhere in the world, with their vote weighted in inverse proportion to their distance from the jurisdiction of the political office in question
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