Politics

Politics and governance: elections, policy, culture war, war and geopolitics

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 20,046 posts.

Trusted voices in Politics

Ordered by the trust Politics's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. eigenrobot — trusted by 186 posters here
  2. nosilverv — trusted by 163 posters here
  3. PrinceVogel — trusted by 149 posters here
  4. visakanv — trusted by 163 posters here
  5. myhandle — trusted by 139 posters here
  6. eshear — trusted by 158 posters here
  7. goblinodds — trusted by 124 posters here
  8. AskYatharth — trusted by 130 posters here
  9. vividvoid — trusted by 138 posters here
  10. patio11 — trusted by 118 posters here
  11. DanielleFong — trusted by 129 posters here
  12. RichDecibels — trusted by 131 posters here

Top posts in Politics

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  1. @vkhosla @technology He posted UNFILTERED THOUGHTS about SEXUALITY??? (michaelcurzi) — 41 likes
  2. Mission: help as many people as possible move to the right https://t.co/WDuma0Ztvu (uberstuber) — 40 likes
  3. How are yall not ashamed of the world you’re propagating? I keep seeing this video QTed by people going “ofc, work’s miserable, we all waste our days & none of us have the energy to take care of… (the_wilderless) — 33 likes
  4. "left" is not your enemy "right" is not your enemy this shit. this shit right here is your enemy https://t.co/HTCQENMH0U https://t.co/DxLPmQ2i1L (eigenrobot) — 32 likes
  5. If you see someone grieving that the world is set up to make the majority of people exhausted, unhealthy, unfulfilled, stressed, and neglecting what matters most & your response is “haha welcome… (the_wilderless) — 32 likes
  6. Here's what I see being communicated to people's hind-brain. There is no spare housing in my village. There is no doctor in my village. The food in my village is making people visibly sick. Everyone… (RomeoStevens76) — 31 likes
  7. as a teenager you look at your parents world like, "you guys are idiots. the government is dumb. the economy is dumb. jobs are so dumb" as an adult you learn that teenage impulse was mostly true,… (RichDecibels) — 30 likes
  8. FYI the culture war is over. only zombies left fighting. playing field is wide open for new narratives (RichDecibels) — 30 likes
  9. If you're not against "if you're not with us you're against us", you're against us. (Malcolm_Ocean) — 28 likes
  10. culture war shows up in local community groups as a strategy game. there are two end states: Fundamentalism (the group can only tolerate one perspective) and Pluralism (the group won't tolerate… (RichDecibels) — 27 likes
  11. actually maybe the tpot dating problem is: straight women are attracted to masculine virtues tpot women dont want to date right-wingers the left spent a decade convincing their men that masculine… (goblinodds) — 26 likes
  12. I've been using the metaphor of demon possession lately to describe culture war dynamics I'll try to explain... (RichDecibels) — 25 likes
  13. unironically tho [norman_rockwell_painting.jpg] i think governments should take care of national monuments https://t.co/TDcuHPZstv (mechanical_monk) — 25 likes
  14. I'm not holding my breath but if that near-death experience leads Trump to transcend his ego and become a great unifying statesman it would be the absolute wildest plot twist (vividvoid) — 25 likes
  15. I hereby call for a ceasefire in Gaza https://t.co/NFtURj8iyc (visakanv) — 24 likes
  16. My mental barriers for this political shit aren’t strong enough — watching people I otherwise respect have their brains melted and start spouting total nonsense is just kind of sad and painful. Time… (eshear) — 23 likes
  17. conservativism, properly held, has a very humble tone: "we actually don't quite know why what's working is working, so let's be careful as we change it. it's very precious and our wisdom may not be… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 22 likes
  18. jesus are we really gonna do trump vs biden again i woke up and realized yeah thats how its gonna be and i just felt tired surely the greatest nation in history can do better than not one but TWO… (eigenrobot) — 22 likes
  19. okay but in all seriousness can we collectively give @eigenrobot some kind of medal b/c his geopolitics threads are legitimately an incredible public service. valuable combination of epistemic… (QiaochuYuan) — 22 likes
  20. Ngl after the 2020 riots & Covid insanity I got on this website kind of open minded to right wing ideas, but after some time I just had to accept how stupid these morons are. Turns out great… (michaelcurzi) — 22 likes
  21. if your take goes "the people in charge should..." you're not in a community this is the mindset of employees, customers, and children (yoltartar) — 22 likes
  22. The replies to this thread blow my mind. People legit believe the state needs to protect them from bad haircuts by ensuring hair stylists meet training standards. I’ve never seen the nanny-state… (eshear) — 22 likes
  23. i'd vaguely heard about the US election in 2000 actually being "stolen" and i looked it up and it seems consensus is - the entire US election came down to florida - the difference in votes was… (AskYatharth) — 22 likes
  24. @AskYatharth quiet is cheaper than justice and schools don’t have the budget for the latter https://t.co/XSlcfR7nYo (visakanv) — 21 likes
  25. Most tech people have no working model of politics at all, and it shows. I love you, but "the system is inefficient because something something incentives and something something bureaucracy and… (__drewface) — 21 likes
  26. Everyone asks Why do you care so much about America. My brother in Christ because hyperreality allows propaganda to scale - we all live in America now, just with varying degrees of lateness (nosilverv) — 21 likes
  27. everything that a mainstream ideology lies about / refuses to see / keeps in its shadow is a weapon that it hands to any fringe ideology that is willing to step up and claim it, and the internet… (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  28. if you want the fundamentalists not to take over, you have to oppose their advance. but fundamentalism is fueled by direct opposition. anti-fundamentalism is a fundamentalist position. attack… (RichDecibels) — 20 likes
  29. if you want your values to win simply use them to create a society so pleasant everyone abandons their old ways to adopt yours (eigenrobot) — 20 likes
  30. the same cowardice animates the refusal of american cities to punish crime "if I do not punish this man for his violations of the law, surely I cannot be held in the wrong" no, actually, you can be… (eigenrobot) — 20 likes
  31. I feel like everyone is close to giving up the ghost on late stage capitalism. People just… don’t want to work anymore. Not the bullshit stuff anyway. In an age of impending bio collapse everyone’s… (frideswyth) — 20 likes
  32. You punch fascists to try and shut them up I viscerally repulse them by having fun and being in touch with my feelings We are not the same (vividvoid) — 20 likes
  33. in both cases your brain gets gentrified unless you take very deliberate action to resist it https://t.co/SeRPwfbJOX (visakanv) — 20 likes
  34. I cannot possibly underline this paragraph enough. https://t.co/qL1oiRgvxO (patio11) — 20 likes
  35. people want to critique power more than they want to have power https://t.co/VJ80huRHNf https://t.co/4e13oI8ltt (AskYatharth) — 20 likes
  36. it would be cool if, as a species, we learned not to do this, because it teaches the next shooter that if their life feels meaningless etc then at least they can get a profile on their way out. I’m… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  37. There is something specially cursed about having one’s conversation about running vaccination infrastructure blocked out of concerns for misinformation, with a banner telling the user to go to the… (patio11) — 20 likes
  38. It's probably obvious, but when Q talks about a "cabal of pedophile elites" it's not literal. They're talking about structures of power and oppression that "fuck over" the young generation. They're… (myhandle) — 19 likes
  39. feel like I shd say something about all the European folks who are basically saying “oh yea we’ll take Ukrainian refugees easily for sure I mean they’re not brown lol” but I don’t have the energy to… (visakanv) — 19 likes
  40. kinda awkward that so many ppl missed the point of the occupy movement: innovating on democratic processes can unlock extraordinary superhuman collective intelligence oops oh well (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  41. When we see images of bloodshed and atrocity, it's deeply human for our passions to stir. I know this intimately: 9/11 and the War on Terror were two of the primary reasons I joined the Marines as a… (vividvoid) — 19 likes
  42. every american citizen should get like 3-5 guest passes for their friends to be able to move to the country (dschorno) — 19 likes
  43. the first nonsense dewokeification change that's actually good (xsphi) — 19 likes
  44. "One of the defining aspects of colonialism as contrasted with traditional custodial culture is - the rush. The hurry. In his book Wisdom Sits In Places, Keith Basso shares how his Apache guides… (relic_radiation) — 18 likes
  45. capitalism is not in a late stage. the old system is not dying. a new world is not struggling to be born. (RichDecibels) — 18 likes
  46. someone needs to invent a drug that turns you into a good housewife. you would think it either adderall or estrogen would do the trick, but both of those just turn you into a software engineer (xsphi) — 18 likes
  47. It's the cultural elite's job to renew these forms, but the "woke" revival is unacceptable to too many. The idea that cultural change is sustainable w/o men's consent is the great delusion of the… (vividvoid) — 18 likes
  48. interesting experience listening to europeans criticize america and simultaneously being like "i don't disagree tbh it's kinda dystopian around here" and also like "AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN… (QiaochuYuan) — 18 likes
  49. No one is talking about country age gaps like how it's impossible for Nigeria (median age 18.3 years) to meaningfully consent to a trade agreement with France (median age 41.7 years) and how creepy… (BLUNDERBUSSTED) — 18 likes
  50. after reading this, a theory from @selentelechia is that @sama's ouster was engineered by @sama himself to discredit the philanthropic model of control of OpenAI and remove board members and rivals… (eigenrobot) — 18 likes

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