Military dictators ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
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Franco ruled until 1975. Spain’s real per cap GDP growth rate was over 2X in 1951-1974 what it was 1975-2007, & since then it’s collapsed. The homicide rate was about 5X lower under Franco.
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1965: anti-social revolution (eg relations between the sexes & races & orders all sharply trend-break in very bad ways); 1971: anti-energy revolution
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This is what happens when hormones change too much (fat, weak, medicated…): ordinarily men woo & women choose;
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Great paper from @nick_reynolds88 showing that males born after 1947 trend-broke toward less edu, lower wages, & deaths of despair, while females
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@nick_reynolds88 It’s worth understanding how & why Bill Clinton was able to turn the Dems toward reasonable Republican policies for 8 years
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@nick_reynolds88 Yes: the “right” is really just anti-left, bc we’re into freedom—which means we contain multitudes (“incoherent”) & legalize growth instead of “standing for” abstractions.
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@nick_reynolds88 Everything the govt does is done through administrative agencies:
Let’s look at how they lean politically—brief
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Let’s look at how they lean politically—brief
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@nick_reynolds88 ~$10 million per year in funding for the Federalist Society created the whole right wing legal movement, bc the 1980s version of DoGE
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@nick_reynolds88 The Puritans were comic book heroes.
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@nick_reynolds88 China isn’t special, it’s just big & new. Mongolia, Thailand, & Japan also grew their price-adjusted GDP per capita by 15x from 1950 to 2016;
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@nick_reynolds88 There is actually a lot of truth to this. Universities clamped down on their data, but back in the 2010s researchers found that whites were the only racial group where odds of admission *went down* with income
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@nick_reynolds88 In addition to this, being part of a "conservative" or "rural" coded organization like Future Farmers of America would decrease your odds of admission.
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@nick_reynolds88 keep in mind that these results were pre-woke, I can't imagine how bad it is now
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@nick_reynolds88 Contrary to some interpretations, white SJWs appear to be numb to the consequences of their policies (rising crime & bloodshed)
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@nick_reynolds88 The last time that leftists were upset at the owner of the LA Times for being insufficiently left-wing, they subsequently committed the deadliest act of mass murder in California history:
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@nick_reynolds88 The fact that California (and other like-minded states) decided to cultivate permanent populations of street junkies
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@nick_reynolds88 In America homelessness is almost entirely a blue state problem.
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@nick_reynolds88 Pertinent analysis on states' net losses & gains in tax bases from domestic migration
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@nick_reynolds88 Nah, 2010s feminism was 100% homegrown and every bit as vicious and destructive as what goes around today. Ezra Klein
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