>Who is deeming it unacceptable?
The Anointed Ones. Your personal betters. Your minders. Your racial superiors. The elites. The morally sound. The pure. The pious. The Intellectuals. Every single person that deems to be better than you in some way, and has the ability to use enough force to do it. The narcissists. The sociopaths.
Heard an interview with Michael Lewis, author of the Big Short and MoneyBall on Preet's podcast. His newest book, The Fifth Risk, is about the Trump administrations incompetence. In the interview he mentioned the process of transition with teams of people from the Obama administration that they could catch them up on logistics and such. The day they were supposed to come no one showed up. This administration will be the poster child of how not to run government, and how an unethical, incurious, eglomanic leader attracts sycophants that share the bad traits. While Mueller's team is the opposite: loyal out of duty and respect, which allow them to have a well oiled leakproof machine.
But of course, it is part of the SJW ethos that the think they are smarter and morally superior to you. Their entire world view depends on this. They are the Anointed, you are the masses, and if you do not accept the pronouncements the Anointed make, this makes you evil by definition.
Thomas Sowell lays it all out in his book Visions of the Anointed. This really should be required reading for anyone who opposes SJW idiocy, because it makes it so clear why SJWs do what they do.
They want him to plead guilty to a felony drug charge? What in the fuck?! If your brother-in-law hasn't already done so, he needs to talk to a lawyer. They are very clearly trying to railroad him into a decision that is detrimental to his future and it seems likely they'll keep the pressure on him until he either has proper legal representation or pleads guilty to a felony drug charge that he is not guilty of. In John Pfaff's book, "Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform" he states that "Nearly 95 percent of the cases that prosecutors decide to prosecute end up with the defendant pleading guilty".
Hate him or love him, you should check out this video from John Oliver, who talks about prosecutors and the insane game they play with people's liberty and rights.
It's a paragraph from The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. He's the same author who wrote The Big Short, Moneyball, Liars Poker, The Blind Side and more. I've read most of his books and enjoyed all of them so far.
That quote is from The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. It's a book specifically about the Trump transition team and the people he put in charge, or didn't bother putting in charge of different government agencies.
The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
>The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Thomas Sowell sees what has happened not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a vision whose defects have led to disasters in education, crime, family disintegration, and other social pathology. In this book, "politically correct" theory is repeatedly confronted with facts -- and sharp contradictions between the two are explained in terms of a whole set of self-congratulatory assumptions held by political and intellectual elites. These elites -- the anointed -- often consider themselves "thinking people," but much of what they call thinking turns out, on examination, to be rhetorical assertion, followed by evasions of mounting evidence against those assertions.
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That's not how causality works.
Causal modelling is a whole rabbit hole. Check out this book for an intro: Judea Pearl - The Book of Why
Die richtigen Leute wählen. Diese Bewegungen bringen zehntausende auf die Straße, schaffen es aber nicht, Leute dazu zu bringen, sich zu Wählergruppen zu organisieren und strategisch Wahlbezirke zu erobern bzw. gute Kandidaten Sitze zu verschaffen? In den USA geht man von Tür zu Tür und spricht Leute an. Das nennt sich "Canvassing". Ich finde das der beste Weg durch das politische System verläuft. "Politics is for power".
Yes but we also don't know how many people are in on only drug charges because those have stiff sentences and are easy to prove. We have no idea how many people in prison on drug charges were convinced to plea on drug charges only while the prosecutor dropped any other charges. I picked that up from Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform and it explains that we have no idea what the full picture of who is in prison and what they did is. The data simply does not exist anywhere. So any attempt to claim that X number of people are in prison for X only is absolutely misleading and just an attempt to push an agenda.
I first learned about Mike Ruppert from the very first episode of this great conspiracy-related show, Guns and Butter, that aired a month after 9/11/01. Ruppert was discussing insider trading and prior knowledge of the event by the CIA. https://m.soundcloud.com/guns-and-butter-1/we-remember-mike-ruppert-john-judge-300
He also wrote a great book, Crossing The Rubicon. It deals a lot with 9/11, the deep state Bush/Saudi/Israeli actors and their histories/connections. https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
> but power over the lives of the poor through disproportionate control over political policy, infrastructure, media, ect.
I used to believe this until I read Politics is for Power. It's just not born out in reality that these billionaires have anywhere near the power people think they do. Money doesn't buy votes. We saw that in the 2020 democratic primaries.
In the same way there is a diminishing returns for each movie ticket bought by an individual (I assume you've heard this classic analogy), the same is true for money and power. It's why I'm okay with progressive tax policies. That extra 1 million dollars after the first million is not as impactful as a million dollars for a poor person.
We as individuals could become more powerful than any multimillionaire in our local politics if we were willing to dedicate our time over decades. A couple dozen of us could become more powerful than any billionaire. It's really a dedication thing to move away from political hobbyism and instead towards boring but effective actions.
But who knows, maybe you have something to back up your position that money does buy power and doesn't have a significant diminishing returns. I'd love to read about it.
It works as a long-term strategy. See [Politics is for Power[(Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982116781/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_i_VRW5TJRH7S5ZB0K59X1J) by Eitan Hersh
For individual elections, simply getting your established voter base to the polls is vastly more effective.
The best thing to do is a mix of both. Door-knock year-round, get out your base at election time.
The Book of Why
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect/dp/046509760X
Statistical Rethinking
https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Rethinking-Bayesian-Examples-Chapman/dp/1482253445
You're absolutely correct. It was quite literally a shitshow, perfect example of a kakistocracy. I had read this book earlier in 2019, about what happens when the people in charge don't know/care how systems are supposed to work.
It was bad enough with idiots and grifters at the helm, then they politicized it.
the only ones I remember are "politics is for power" and "How to win friends and influence people"
I just read The Man Who Killed Kennedy:The Case Against LBJ and it's a pretty decent book. Had no idea LBJ was such a drinking, smoking, power-hungry poon hound.
It's not a matter of computing power necessarily. We miss a piece of the theoretical puzzle here.
Check out this book if you're interested in where the biggest innovations still have to be made in computer science:
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Why-Science-Cause-Effect/dp/046509760X
Eitan Hirsh is cited in this article. He wrote the book that inspired Destiny to be political IRL.
Here's Destiny's interview with Eitan: https://youtu.be/erDf13Y2n08
>Because you are washing away the suffering of billions with the world "Generally". That's just inherently wrong and can always be called out in a just world.
https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/ so where are the billions of people suffering because of this generalization? This score is aggregating together education, health and standard of living. Things are getting better across the board. I don't understand the "billions of people are suffering." What matters is "we had 5 billions suffering 30 years ago, but now we only have 1 billion suffering." This is how you have to think about things. If there is a particular area you are passionate about improving, then go do it and improve it. If you want to argue that we could accelerate this improvement of humanity, I love that! I'm all ears. However we have to understand that we are experiencing unprecedented levels of societal improvement everywhere in all classes of people decade over decade.
> Poor people, as the population expands, have less individual power to influence politics in no small part because the cost of entry to standard media channels precludes many normal citizens as you now have more channels of media to cover and more people in general to influence.
I highly recommend the book Politics is for power. If you really cared enough and put the work in, you could be a major player in your city's politics. This seems like something you value heavily.
"Vaccines work!"
COVID vaccine didn't work
"It could have been worse without it!"
Thomas Sowell has a great book about this phenomenon. We can't beat them if we don't know their track record.
Man, I used to say stuff like this before I read politics is for power. One of Democracy's problems is it actually works. American people just don't care about foreign policy. We don't care about conflict after 2 weeks and we only got a couple years in us to care about a war.
>The news decides what you want to see not the other way around.
This one is a weird cycle. A lot of news agencies are for profit and even with their political bias, they want viewers. So if they try to put some narrative out and it doesn't stick, they'll drop it and try something else.
This is a great comment. The average person has very little understanding of all the things government does. Many get executed so well people take them for granted.
The premise of this book
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/1324002646
Is that people can only think of 4 disasters off the top of thrir head before they need to start really thinking about it and is why government is so important in considering other things that may take place 30 years down the line.
As an example there was a nuclear storage site leaking waste into the ground water and slowly working it's way to a major river. The clean up came in like 15 years ahead of schedule and hundreds of millions under budget and hardly anyone heard a thing about it.
It's great to see this. Deep learning models currently rule the world, but they are based entirely upon statistical correlation, and don't have representations of objects or classes and the causal relationships between them. In the meantime, the science of causal reasoning has been making serious progress in the past decade or two. They will need to be combined in order to create grounded models that can generalize.
For those of you who have not been following causal reasoning, I'd recommend the following books:
For a more popular and historical account, you can read:
I believe you are talking about this: Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
You should realize the problem pretty much goes all the way to the top.
https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Risk-Michael-Lewis/dp/1324002646/ref=nodl_
This lack of ability to handle the pandemic is well characterized as the fifth risk. Local governments are not as capable of pandemic responses and we neutered ourselves a few years ago by cutting the pandemic response team. We did this to ourselves by choosing a poor president whose initiative was to allow government to rust.
>By all means, let the harmful disinformation continue to poison intelligent discourse! My liberties!!!
Ah, the cry of the Anointed.
Try reading the book I linked, he's talking about you.
Here is the book he wrote in 1995 about the deep state, but he uses the term anointed to describe them... 25 years later, this rings extremely true and has come to fruition, the deep state has been plotting this moment for a very long time it seems.
https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X
Sowell covers the "legacy of slavery" (higher poverty and single family household rates for blacks were not caused by such a thing), the need for sex education in schools (which actually encouraged more teens to "experiment"), and how certain people are used as mascots by the anointed (such as violent criminals and the homeless, who need to be coddled by society because "we" somehow "failed them"), among many other examples ranging from economic to medical to the social.