Umang Malik 🇺🇦
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my correct view is that LA is not the second most important american city because LA is not a real city at all. It’s a bunch of really big highway rest stops that calls itself a city. You can’t be a city when there’s parts of your urban region with 1 hour bus headways.
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
my correct view is that LA is not the second most important american city because LA is not a real city at all. It’s a bunch of really big highway rest stops that calls itself a city. You can’t be a city when there’s parts of your urban region with 1 hour bus headways.
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May 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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No we are not going back down this road. Trump is the enemy. Talk about him. Make him poison, and everything he's ever done poison, and everyone who ever supported him poison. They wrecked America, pile the debris on their heads until they're crushed.
April 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
No we are not going back down this road. Trump is the enemy. Talk about him. Make him poison, and everything he's ever done poison, and everyone who ever supported him poison. They wrecked America, pile the debris on their heads until they're crushed.
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In 2025, "When they go low, we go high!" is the equivalent of taking a big swig of whiskey to "get rid" of the flu. It's no longer relevant.
Different time. Different strategy. We adapt to the time or perish, holding on to nostalgia.
Different time. Different strategy. We adapt to the time or perish, holding on to nostalgia.
April 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In 2025, "When they go low, we go high!" is the equivalent of taking a big swig of whiskey to "get rid" of the flu. It's no longer relevant.
Different time. Different strategy. We adapt to the time or perish, holding on to nostalgia.
Different time. Different strategy. We adapt to the time or perish, holding on to nostalgia.
you can survive getting rabies guys just lift weights and eat meat
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
you can survive getting rabies guys just lift weights and eat meat
nintendo bringing back streetpass and putting it on phones would solve the loneliness crisis. you heard it here first
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
nintendo bringing back streetpass and putting it on phones would solve the loneliness crisis. you heard it here first
>entire democratic world horrified by Trump, views as cautionary tale
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
February 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
>entire democratic world horrified by Trump, views as cautionary tale
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
>liberals act decisively to counter far-right
>populist parties decline globally due to Trumpian association
>global democratic resurgence
Joe Biden was right: not by the example of our power, but by the power of our example
every tech ceo from musk to zuck has just been trying to rip off Steve Jobs. The entire culture of Silicon Valley is just a bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes. But none of them can really match up. Mostly for lack of sex appeal.
February 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
every tech ceo from musk to zuck has just been trying to rip off Steve Jobs. The entire culture of Silicon Valley is just a bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes. But none of them can really match up. Mostly for lack of sex appeal.
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i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
February 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
New substack post. This one’s about why we’re all so stuck in the face of Trump’s onslaught.
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
February 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New substack post. This one’s about why we’re all so stuck in the face of Trump’s onslaught.
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
https://open.substack.com/pub/umangmalik/p/populist-realism?r=46cp0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Free trade is good. Lower prices are good. Abundance is good. Tariffs and higher prices are bad. It’s not patriotic to shoot your economy in the foot because you’re mad that some jobs are going to other countries (esp when we have such low unemployment). Trump’s tariffs will make America poorer.
February 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Free trade is good. Lower prices are good. Abundance is good. Tariffs and higher prices are bad. It’s not patriotic to shoot your economy in the foot because you’re mad that some jobs are going to other countries (esp when we have such low unemployment). Trump’s tariffs will make America poorer.
Ethan Klein gives the lie to all the right-wing grifters who “left the left” and ostensibly got radicalized cause of cancel culture or whatever.
Bro was gaslit by the world’s most insincere and hateful communist for a year, yet still never abandoned his progressive values.
youtu.be/ZSUDHx-1_ww?...
Bro was gaslit by the world’s most insincere and hateful communist for a year, yet still never abandoned his progressive values.
youtu.be/ZSUDHx-1_ww?...
Content Nuke - Hasan Piker
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February 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Ethan Klein gives the lie to all the right-wing grifters who “left the left” and ostensibly got radicalized cause of cancel culture or whatever.
Bro was gaslit by the world’s most insincere and hateful communist for a year, yet still never abandoned his progressive values.
youtu.be/ZSUDHx-1_ww?...
Bro was gaslit by the world’s most insincere and hateful communist for a year, yet still never abandoned his progressive values.
youtu.be/ZSUDHx-1_ww?...
It’s a valid criticism that Democratic messaging is unacceptably weak right now. But if I look at your post history and all I see six+ months before the election is about how you voted Jill Stein because Biden is an evil genocidaire, stfu. You people can teach us nothing about effective messaging.
January 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It’s a valid criticism that Democratic messaging is unacceptably weak right now. But if I look at your post history and all I see six+ months before the election is about how you voted Jill Stein because Biden is an evil genocidaire, stfu. You people can teach us nothing about effective messaging.
it’s me, i’m the genius who will synthesize Yglesias Thought and Stancil Thought
January 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
it’s me, i’m the genius who will synthesize Yglesias Thought and Stancil Thought
One reason Trump is popular rn is because he's so careless with words that you can just project whatever beliefs onto him that are most convenient for you.
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
January 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
One reason Trump is popular rn is because he's so careless with words that you can just project whatever beliefs onto him that are most convenient for you.
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
Want to pretend that Harris was to the right of Trump on immigration? It’s so easy to just ignore everything he actually said. (thread)
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She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.
January 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.
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Current internal battle: Should I be terrified of Trump on main, or should I recognize that pretending like he has powers he does not have helps to grant him those powers.
January 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Current internal battle: Should I be terrified of Trump on main, or should I recognize that pretending like he has powers he does not have helps to grant him those powers.
i still think joe biden did a pretty great job
January 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i still think joe biden did a pretty great job
the only AI thing that i’m absolutely and unreservedly in favor of is auto translation. I feel like there’s entire worlds of opportunity for cross-cultural communication being unlocked there. Everything else it does is just mild annoyances made slightly easier at best.
January 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
the only AI thing that i’m absolutely and unreservedly in favor of is auto translation. I feel like there’s entire worlds of opportunity for cross-cultural communication being unlocked there. Everything else it does is just mild annoyances made slightly easier at best.
> America bans TikTok
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
January 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
> America bans TikTok
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
> Contrarian zoomers move to actual Chinese social apps (like Xiaohongshu)
> liberal values gradually communicated to Chinese user base through cultural osmosis, even if explicit politics banned
> Young Chinese elite open minds to liberal democracy
> Clintonian vision realized
hasan piker is a misogynistic, misinformative american diabolist. “The joe rogan of the left,” only in the worst possible way. But as disappointed as I am that my senator is speaking with him, I am more disappointed in liberals’ inability to build a new media apparatus as an alternative to him.
January 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
hasan piker is a misogynistic, misinformative american diabolist. “The joe rogan of the left,” only in the worst possible way. But as disappointed as I am that my senator is speaking with him, I am more disappointed in liberals’ inability to build a new media apparatus as an alternative to him.
China doesn't want to keep TikTok because of the user data— it has plenty of other ways to get that. It doesn't want to sell TikTok because of the influence it gets from controlling one of the most powerful content delivery algorithms in the world. This is obvious, I fear. (Thread 1/6)
January 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
China doesn't want to keep TikTok because of the user data— it has plenty of other ways to get that. It doesn't want to sell TikTok because of the influence it gets from controlling one of the most powerful content delivery algorithms in the world. This is obvious, I fear. (Thread 1/6)
communists have the music, fascists have the outfits, neocons have film, neoliberals have architecture, libertarians have abstract expressionism
listen i hate their guts but the communists really do be having the music. gotta give em that
January 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
communists have the music, fascists have the outfits, neocons have film, neoliberals have architecture, libertarians have abstract expressionism
listen i hate their guts but the communists really do be having the music. gotta give em that
January 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
listen i hate their guts but the communists really do be having the music. gotta give em that
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We have Id democracy, but people clearly actually want superego democracy! They hate populism even as they vote for it. Take their expressed preferences seriously, don’t just go by revealed preferences!
Someone we talked to recently voted for Trump in part because Harris' campaign, with all the high-profile celebrities, seemed un-serious to her.
We can have all the judgments we want about how anyone could look at those two candidates and say Harris was less serious, but I think there's more there.
We can have all the judgments we want about how anyone could look at those two candidates and say Harris was less serious, but I think there's more there.
December 29, 2024 at 10:53 PM
We have Id democracy, but people clearly actually want superego democracy! They hate populism even as they vote for it. Take their expressed preferences seriously, don’t just go by revealed preferences!