The reason Sacha Baron Cohen became irrelevant is that the people we all want to see parodied are billionaires but they do it themselves better than he could

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Though, thinking about it more, I guess this may also be downstream of people's frustrating attachment to deontology. If thing X is simply against The Rules (e.g., telling a white lie, not supporting a union) then I suppose it doesn't matter what the consequences are.

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I think the tide is turning once again, but it's still very hard to express a difference of opinion about empirical reality without half of this website accusing you of having horrific values.

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One of the big problems of the long 90s was the tendency of liberals to assume that differences in values were actually just different interpretations of data. The great post-2016 revelation was people realizing "No, they're just evil." But after 21, the revolution started eating its own children

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Having spent a lot of time this last week going on about the major Left anti-imperial blind spot - Russian imperialism - let's balance the scales with some Liberal self-reflection. The EU & Anglophone wealthy countries quickly sanctioned Russia but have been foot dragging about Israel for decades

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