High Trust Greggy
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Positive sum mindset
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"the problem with the creedal understanding of American citizenship for Vance is that it includes the brown hordes and rejects the white supremacists" www.unpopularfront.news/p/jd-vances-...
J.D. Vance's Anti-Declaration
Truths Self-Evident No More
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July 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"the problem with the creedal understanding of American citizenship for Vance is that it includes the brown hordes and rejects the white supremacists" www.unpopularfront.news/p/jd-vances-...
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Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
June 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
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This is definitely my skeleton key to understanding post-Obama politics worldwide. Low social trust people were always a silent majority whose low social trust provided a significant barrier to organizing into a coherent political movement until we got recommender algorithms
One of the things about mass media, particularly social media, is that I think that it solves coordination problems for low social trust people, something they would otherwise struggle with more than higher trust people.
Low social trust people paradoxically trust other low social trust people the most, hence why they’re so easily scammed. Trump is extremely low social trust and therefore the majority of Americans who are low social trust think he’s secretly on their side
May 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This is definitely my skeleton key to understanding post-Obama politics worldwide. Low social trust people were always a silent majority whose low social trust provided a significant barrier to organizing into a coherent political movement until we got recommender algorithms
The latest Andor arc made the stormtroopers scary. We knew them as cannon fodder from the original trilogy but here they are in their native habitat: standing inhumanly still while mowing down civilians
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The latest Andor arc made the stormtroopers scary. We knew them as cannon fodder from the original trilogy but here they are in their native habitat: standing inhumanly still while mowing down civilians
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Right, but it's a question of the causal arrow. Did people vote for him because they thought he was moderate? Or did they label him moderate because they voted for him?
In the consumer theory framework, only the first version makes any sense.
In the consumer theory framework, only the first version makes any sense.
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Right, but it's a question of the causal arrow. Did people vote for him because they thought he was moderate? Or did they label him moderate because they voted for him?
In the consumer theory framework, only the first version makes any sense.
In the consumer theory framework, only the first version makes any sense.
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the trick is that you can't actually believe in nothing, it's just not possible
when you start getting irony-poisoned all it means is you shed higher layers of thought and revert to base instincts
and there's no baser instinct than "i don't like people who don't look like me"
when you start getting irony-poisoned all it means is you shed higher layers of thought and revert to base instincts
and there's no baser instinct than "i don't like people who don't look like me"
January 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
the trick is that you can't actually believe in nothing, it's just not possible
when you start getting irony-poisoned all it means is you shed higher layers of thought and revert to base instincts
and there's no baser instinct than "i don't like people who don't look like me"
when you start getting irony-poisoned all it means is you shed higher layers of thought and revert to base instincts
and there's no baser instinct than "i don't like people who don't look like me"
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From a more theoretical perspective I think TikTok and the broader advances in recommendation systems that allow networks to de-deemphasize follower graphs is breaking the cartel that writers have had on discourse for centuries.
I’m not super optimistic about how that will shake out.
I’m not super optimistic about how that will shake out.
January 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
From a more theoretical perspective I think TikTok and the broader advances in recommendation systems that allow networks to de-deemphasize follower graphs is breaking the cartel that writers have had on discourse for centuries.
I’m not super optimistic about how that will shake out.
I’m not super optimistic about how that will shake out.
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Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
November 19, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Every time I see someone post this image it goes viral
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Low social trust people paradoxically trust other low social trust people the most, hence why they’re so easily scammed. Trump is extremely low social trust and therefore the majority of Americans who are low social trust think he’s secretly on their side
Trump's super power is getting his audience to believe only those things that they want to believe and disregarding whatever they don't want to believe. He accomplishes this by speaking gibberish and taking contradictory positions.
November 11, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Low social trust people paradoxically trust other low social trust people the most, hence why they’re so easily scammed. Trump is extremely low social trust and therefore the majority of Americans who are low social trust think he’s secretly on their side
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it's low-trust vs. high trust, it's education polarization, it's insitutionalists vs. populists, it's all the same divide and people are increasingly going to become sorted along it before anything else.
Cenk fantasizing that Elon Musk’s two second reply means that he is going to hold some important influence in Trump’s gov is a confirmation of my new theory that most political pundits really just wanna be told they’re important and cute
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
it's low-trust vs. high trust, it's education polarization, it's insitutionalists vs. populists, it's all the same divide and people are increasingly going to become sorted along it before anything else.
Have we just stumbled into a hyper specific set of circumstances never before encountered that makes us miserable?
- inflation
- high housing costs
- depressed white collar prospects
- social media
- material needs mostly met
- inflation
- high housing costs
- depressed white collar prospects
- social media
- material needs mostly met
We keep seeing this in survey after survey. Like the sentiment gap, material suffering cannot explain this. And it can't explain why people believe objectively false things about the economy.
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November 19, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Have we just stumbled into a hyper specific set of circumstances never before encountered that makes us miserable?
- inflation
- high housing costs
- depressed white collar prospects
- social media
- material needs mostly met
- inflation
- high housing costs
- depressed white collar prospects
- social media
- material needs mostly met
Ok what the hell happened with CA Prop 6?
Who's the constituency for this? Are opinions locked in? I saw no discourse around it
Who's the constituency for this? Are opinions locked in? I saw no discourse around it
November 16, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Ok what the hell happened with CA Prop 6?
Who's the constituency for this? Are opinions locked in? I saw no discourse around it
Who's the constituency for this? Are opinions locked in? I saw no discourse around it
Didn't movies in general look sweatier and dirtier in the 70's - 90's? Aragorn looks dirty (and LotR looks timeless) in part because it doesn't adopt the gloss and beauty standards of today's movies
He’s so sexy and so so so dirty
Aragorn pushing the doors of the Hornburg open: the hottest a man has ever looked in a film while smelling like a wet dog.
November 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Didn't movies in general look sweatier and dirtier in the 70's - 90's? Aragorn looks dirty (and LotR looks timeless) in part because it doesn't adopt the gloss and beauty standards of today's movies
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