Danny Deck

The only Democratic politician I follow is Jeff Jackson from NC, and I don't think this can actually be applied to him.

One thing I think we should think critically about is if accounts like End Wokeness exist solely to keep you angry and coming back for more. Here is a list of stations being bought by George Soros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_owned_by_Audacy,_Inc.# Unsurprisingly, the talk radio stations appear to mostly be conservative (even a Spanish language conservative talk radio station in Miami). I doubt even these see a change because liberal talk radio has failed every time it has been tried. The George Soros haters should be happy he's putting his money in a dying medium.

I think this is more of human psychology story than one about the media or how well a poll was weighted based on respondents. People have decided they're supporting Harris and are working backwards from that to say she's better on these issues than the person they aren't voting for.

It appears the author of this is a clown. I assume that's why we only got a screen shot of a headline. It's as useful as news as an Onion or Babylon Bee headline.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

I'm not sure what the Goldilocks rate is, but ZIRP isn't the ideal policy either.

"At least three news outlets — Politico, The New York Times and The Washington Post — were leaked confidential material from inside the Trump campaign. So far, each has refused to reveal any details about what it received." I find it interesting everyone is choosing to not report on the contents of what they were sent. I think the rumor is it's the vetting material for everyone they looked at for VP.

As a general rule, we do not want the economic conditions that lead to deflation.

I've really liked all of their seasonings.

This article is kind of funny. The Polish PM doesn't want Germany to enact stricter border controls, presumably so Polish workers can earn better wages in Germany and send money back home, but instead wants Germany to protect Poland's border. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polands-tusk-criticises-german-decision-tighten-border-controls-2024-09-10/

It looks like NYC at least is starting to come into compliance with the new FBI system. Here's an article comparing what the FBI reported for the first quarter of 2024 vs the dashboards for the local cities. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/06/27/trump-and-biden-spar-over-crime-rates-ahead-of-their-debate-what-do-we-really-know

Are they advantageously distributed electorally or no?

Which questions do you think couldn't have been anticipated by either campaign? Scanning them, I don't see any that I wouldn't think a competent campaign wouldn't have prepared for even without having the questions provided. He lists them all here: https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trumps-biggest-problem-at-the-debate-was-trump/

The inverse relationship with GDP is strong and exists in countries where women have significantly fewer rights in the Middle East as well. Maybe we should try being poorer as a country.

I think the processing part is the biggest thing that needs to be moved forward. Once you have them all ready to feed into the counting machine, it can't take that long. Washington does allow them to process them upon reciept, but not count until election day. Washington only requires mail in ballots to be post marked by election day, which would way slow down the count. I think that's for sure a thing that would be good to tighten up too, should really be what's in hand on election day.

It has had some marginal results, but not enough. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-populist-right-want-you-make-more-babies-viktor-orban/

Among other things states could do to increase faith in the vote, updating their laws regarding when they can start counting mail in votes would help a lot. I have a strong preference for all states adopting Florida's rules. Processing and counting begins up to 25 days before election day. PA and Wisconsin cannot begin processing until 7 am election day, so we will be waiting a long time again for both to certify their results. You would think the legislatures would want to fix this, but I guess not.

Not much of a policy prescription. Granted I haven't seen any country successfully bring themselves back over the replacement rate no matter what they try.

What do you believe South Korea should do about this?

Darryl Cooper who has the Martyr Made podcast when he was a guest on Tucker's podcast.

It isn't hard to find someone of any political stripe saying stupid things. Just this week someone on the right said Churchill was the main villain of WW2. Which is more timely, and someone with a much larger platform than whoever this professor is.

Things must be pretty good if you have to go back into the archives to gin up outrage about someone random person saying something stupid!

Just realized this article is 9 years old.

From a more in depth article, I find this interesting if not altogether surprising: ‘The evidence shows that the difference between those who get bedtime stories and those who don’t—the difference in their life chances—is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those that don’t,’ he says. I have friends who have custody of their nephew now, and his academic improvement in the year he has been with them is remarkable. They do read to him at night, and I think it's a signal that there are lots of other good habits they have when it comes to raising him.

Toxic femininity does exist. Often the cruelest people to women about their appearance are other women. They are enforcing a very strict and limiting view of being a woman on other women. It is toxic. I've thought about in relation to men in bad relationships are often described as controlling. Women are often accused of being psycho (or other words that won't get past the filter). To me these really come down to the same behavior, where one party is trying to control the others behavior. Neither physical or emotional abuse is good. Each sex just uses the weapons they have at hand to enforce the behavior they want. It is toxic no matter where it comes from. I don't think "just being a man is somehow toxic." I think the "inside you are two wolves" meme is true for everyone and in men it presents in certain ways and in women others. Above someone said that if toxic masculinity were real all of these people growing up without fathers would be better. And I think just the opposite. When you don't have a role model of positive masculinity, you will go looking for any role model. Unfortunately, at first the people like Andrew Tate selling toxic masculinity look more fun and it can take a long time for someone to turn away from the image of masculinity when they realize how hollow it is. All over you can find people commenting on stuff "dudes rock" and that, to me, is an acknowledgment that this is something only men would do and it's fun and fine and not toxic.