The old conservative/liberal debates seem so pointless now. There's no ideology that tells you to do tariffs like this. Same thing with anti-vaxx, which is also part of MAGA. Smart/stupid is the most important political divide of our time, not right/left.
“Being right wing or left wing are just two among those infinite ways a man can chose to be an imbecile. It’s a form of moral hemiplegia”
Ortega y Gasset vindicated
Just had lunch at the Panda Inn in Pasadena, which was the original Panda Express restaurant.
It was a classy, family friendly dining experience. The portions were healthy yet the prices were similar to a normal Panda Express. I had orange chicken and walnut shrimp. One of the employees came and boxed up the leftovers without even asking.
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Musk and Trump are such extreme liars, as are many others in the right-wing ecosystem, that we must rethink everything we once thought was wrong about the establishment and even misinformation experts. There’s simply no comparison to Musk/Trump, it’s not a quantitive difference in the sense they tell more lies, their contempt for the truth is something qualitatively different.
Your declaration seems itself to be a form or extremist exaggeration. What is your objective liar measurement system? Comparisons with specific others in your scale? What is a right-wing ecosystem? I’m a little disappointed that a normally careful thinker like Dan Williams gave his blessing to this sort of talk.
you’re simply not a credible person if you think there is anyone else in public life who is even in the same ballpark of dishonesty as Trump and Musk. If you have any doubt about this that is your problem, not his