Once upon a time I used to get into arguments with people on the comments section of Paul Krugman’s articles, or with my Econ professor about how Iceland’s response to the 08 financial crash (jail all the corrupt bankers) did not infact destroy their entire economy and thus austerity is not actually mandatory.
But alas, those arguments are over and we now just live in the dullest corporate cyberpunk dystopia, without all the edgy style or superhuman abilities of the genre.
I… I remember when idiocracy came out, and the general response to it was that the future of utter morons it depicted was far, far too implausible, that it was just a goofy, half baked ‘dude bro’ comedy. Many more popular sci fi had done far more interesting and cerebral conceptions of possible futures.
But now, people look at idiocracy as… still flawed in many ways, but shockingly accurate in terms of the just total anti intellectualism, recourse to superstition and slogans, hypercharging of corporate control over everything and its rhetoric and slogans entirely being culture.
My big frustration is that the media (including this article) tries to read more into what he says. It’s always just an incoherent word salad, and then reporters rewrite it into something that’s semi coherent which they then try to analyse.
Demand that he write down his plans so they can be properly costed and judged, and if he says something in a rally, just say it didn’t make sense.
His team wrote down his plans as project 2025, so report on just that.
Same with the Democrats BTW, Harris just gets to give vague speeches, but people have real questions about what she’ll do about Gaza, if she’s going to stay the course at the FTC, CFPB, NLRB, etc. I’m sure they’re working on concrete plans, but I don’t hear anyone asking her about those things directly.
I feel like nobody called out his complete ignorance of how tariffs work. Like it’s just 100% wrong.
Once upon a time I used to get into arguments with people on the comments section of Paul Krugman’s articles, or with my Econ professor about how Iceland’s response to the 08 financial crash (jail all the corrupt bankers) did not infact destroy their entire economy and thus austerity is not actually mandatory.
But alas, those arguments are over and we now just live in the dullest corporate cyberpunk dystopia, without all the edgy style or superhuman abilities of the genre.
I… I remember when idiocracy came out, and the general response to it was that the future of utter morons it depicted was far, far too implausible, that it was just a goofy, half baked ‘dude bro’ comedy. Many more popular sci fi had done far more interesting and cerebral conceptions of possible futures.
But now, people look at idiocracy as… still flawed in many ways, but shockingly accurate in terms of the just total anti intellectualism, recourse to superstition and slogans, hypercharging of corporate control over everything and its rhetoric and slogans entirely being culture.
My big frustration is that the media (including this article) tries to read more into what he says. It’s always just an incoherent word salad, and then reporters rewrite it into something that’s semi coherent which they then try to analyse.
Demand that he write down his plans so they can be properly costed and judged, and if he says something in a rally, just say it didn’t make sense.
His team wrote down his plans as project 2025, so report on just that.
Same with the Democrats BTW, Harris just gets to give vague speeches, but people have real questions about what she’ll do about Gaza, if she’s going to stay the course at the FTC, CFPB, NLRB, etc. I’m sure they’re working on concrete plans, but I don’t hear anyone asking her about those things directly.