The Politics Megathread

[M0NST3R]

@Mielly Are you French? Obviously you don't have to respond but you just strike me as French.

Also @bigtiddyoneesan I have some of the Book reviews for Mielly's book if you are interested in checking them out. They tend to be less than 5-15 pages mostly.

Nothing against you Mielly on doing that, I just like to dig.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@M0NST3R
Yeah bro you can link them here. I won't use them as substitutes for the book or anything ofc, but they're still informative.

 

[M0NST3R]

Most of these should be public access if you follow directly to the journal, unless you still have access to a college library.
https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/115/507/F419/5086037
https://www.jstor.org/stable/419429...de5b0bed449d&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/422788...efault:a31abc1599c73f0cb4eaa1e4e983ed61&seq=1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00213624.2003.11506571
https://www.jstor.org/stable/275159...a1e4e983ed61&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents

 

[Mielly]

@bigtiddyoneesan @M0NST3R
I am indeed French. I'd like to know your reasoning, as I'd hate to have misused some words or made grammar mistakes.
>I just like to dig
Glad to see some skeptical minds here. My goal isn't to make "cultists" or convince people, but to dispel the factual falsehoods that idiot blindly spouted earlier. Keen is my personal favorite, but the only important criteria is scientific soundness. If a scientific theory cannot model accurately the behavior of its subject, it's bunk. If someone gets paid fat fees for pushing statements that are contrary to scientific consensus that's a spokesperson not a scientist. If they haven't published in peer-reviewed journals for ages and are well known by complete outsiders of the science, it's fishy. In the case of economics, having been able to accurately predict the 2008 crisis is a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

[BestBoy]

@bigtiddyoneesan Literally everything y'all talked about regarding the Texas energy crisis was wrong. It'd take pages to explain it to y'all and I don't want to because I'm not y'all's professor, but I'll give you a morsel to whet your appetite so you can go learn about it yourself. Blaming everything on ERCOT isn't accurate, as it's also the Texas Railroad Commission who is at fault. They "regulate" the oil and gas industry here including wells and pipelines (which is where we had breakdowns). It also wasn't some unprecedented winter disaster. We had a very similar crisis 10 years ago.

@Mielly In retrospect, it revealed how gullible some of the folks are here. As for how we're recovering, it's slow. A lot of people had broken water pipes. A lot of businesses had broken water pipes. There were water shortages (wells running low into contaminated water), and now there's material shortages for plumbers. I didn't have water for about a week. Got water back after installing new pipe that bypasses about 50-60 feet of broken pipe.

 

[Kaldrak]

@wowfucktron I feel like I should give you an "Enlightened Centrist" banner.

 

[wowfucktron]

@kaldrak
Might as well @wowfucktron with pic related every time I post while you’re at it.

 

[Kaldrak]

@wowfucktron Wait, you want me to link that pic to you every time you post? I aint gonna get into your masochism roleplay.

 

[M0NST3R]

@Mielly To be honest, and this isn't an insult, there are two countries in Europe who have the tone that conveys they think they are better than Americans and the British are 'polite' about it so... French.

 

[wowfucktron]

@kaldrak

Oh no...someone’s being schrodingers asshole and hiding behind irony!

 

[Kaldrak]

@wowfucktron I think I touched a nerve with that, lol.

Seriously though, 2/3rds of the posts I've seen from you have been this, pretty much:

 

[Teddy]

Why does this thread keep spiralling into attacking the players rather than their moves

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

@M0NST3R
After skimming through the ones I didn't have to sell my soul to read, it does seem like Keen has some pretty radical ideas. Can't do justice without seeing the actual graphs tho. Maybe I'll become a Keynesianbro more easily due to the fact that I'm unentrenched in the fine details Neoclassicalbros know to begin with.

@Mielly

I'd hate to have misused some words or made grammar mistakes.

Based on your posts until now, I'd be none the wiser if you told me English was your first language. If I were trying to nitpick though, adding a space between the end of a sentence and a punctuation mark (like you do with question marks) would get called out if it was done in an academic setting.

@BestBoy
Thanks. Tbh, you had me at "y'a'll'd've'st."

 

[EzWeeb]

@Teddy Anger is funny, it's all a game to see who gets the angriest.

@BestBoy I'm sorry I know "ya'll" is a southern thing, but I just can't help but imagine some 17 year old virtue signaling white girl whenever I see it.

 

[Kaldrak]

@EzWeeb I feel like you're the only one who's actually any fun around here, tbh.

 

[M0NST3R]

@Kaldrak Fun is for people who don't have a stick up their ass.

 

[BestBoy]

@bigtiddyoneesan Contractions are the best part of the English language hands down.

@EzWeeb That's fine with me.

 

[Kaldrak]

@M0NST3R I mean...I wasn't gonna say that about the rest of them, but if you want to, go right ahead, I guess.

 

[EzWeeb]

@BestBoy It shouldn't be. Take back what's rightfully yours.

 

[Mielly]

@M0NST3R

To be honest, and this isn't an insult, there are two countries in Europe who have the tone that conveys they think they are better than Americans and the British are 'polite' about it so... French.

You absolutely nailed it. Honestly that was some flawless logic and I can only plead guilty. Though there are some exceptions: Macron loves the US so much he even made sure General Electric's takeover of Alstom (frnehc manufacturer of nuclear turbines) would go through.
@bigtiddyoneesan

Based on your posts until now, I'd be none the wiser if you told me English was your first language

Thanks mate. Regarding the spaces, it's a french thing. It's called "espace fine insécable" (thin un-cuttable space), there's isn't even an english wikipedia page https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_fine_ins%C3%A9cable.

Maybe I'll become a Keynesianbro more easily due to the fact that I'm unentrenched in the fine details Neoclassicalbros know to begin with.

It's 2021 mate, you could even go funkier: evolutionary economics, physics-economics, follow your dreams.