you know, sometimes i feel like a right illiterate rube on this website watching people go off on long threads about shit I have honestly no idea about
But man am I glad to not have whatever this guy has instead of a brain
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I do wish I had this much confidence to broadcast my stupidity to the world
Posting on an electric mineral about how useless minerals are
amazingly even the vuvuzela but you have an iphone argument is projection
An example that the first step to understanding centrists is you have to assume the mindset of being really really fucking stupid.
Ugh lemme guess, he thinks wealth comes from “Innovation” or some similar fairy tale.
I'm certain he thinks that.
Imagine somebody replied to him with this link to a Wikipedia section and they gave him a ~200 word baby brain summary so he doesn't have to strain his baby noggin with big words and context and too much information.
United Fruit Company lobbying
He couldn't understand. There's no way to get him to understand.
How can a fruit company be powerful? They just sell fruit!
He can't fathom that countries like the US historically and still routinely bully weaker countries and powerful entities allied with US interests benefit greatly. Sometimes it's fruit and other times it might even literally be "digging up minerals".
actually sweaty bananas aren't a mineral so i'm right 
Back to the banana mines with you
Drat. It's too late now but I all I need to do was mention two words "conflict minerals".
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Libs, 15 years ago - "Yeah, neo-colonialism is bad. But hey, what can you do? Vote with your wallet."
Libs today - "Neo-Colonialism is based actually."
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Liberals literally have no conception of the material world and its interconnections and frankly that's hilarious, guarantees they're gonna blow it up
To them the world is made out of vibes and secret race blood quanta
I guess all those gold crucifixes in European churches just appeared out of thin air
Everything in the British Museum was bought and paid for in a totally consensual and mutually beneficial exchange
America became the richest country in human history because of the Protestant work ethic
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checkmark of the beast 
they hath signed their name upon the devils blockchain
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this man could read if he chose British liberal texts from 200 years ago that say "we have enriched ourselves by stealing all of the colonies stuff" at no point was this a secret
Macron: without Africa, there would be no France
Noah Bilitytoselfcrit: no, actually, I think France would do just fine since Africa's all the way over there anyway. It would cost more to boat rocks here than the rocks would be worth, I'm pretty sure.
I want to know where he thinks the wealth of nations comes from and how it doesn’t involve extraction of minerals and other resources.
“Innovation”? A vast majority of innovations use metal in some form. Modern innovations are mostly digital, and computers use many metals.
A bigger army? That’s a lot of metal needed for those guns.
From their banking system? Money isn’t real, the only reason it works is because it’s backed with power. See above.
Trade? Trade of what, Noah, fucking aqua?
His take actually helps me understand why libs keep screeching for decoupling with China as if it wouldn't crash the entire world economy. They don't think that things are made out of raw materials and labor.
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wealth comes from the service industry duh
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I have never seen this guy say anything that was not monumentally stupid and very easily disproven
His take on how to bring peace to Gaza was amazing. I assume he said to himself "I'll figure out this Gaza thing. I don't know anything about it but what's to know! I'll google and then write a few thousand words." And he did. I only scanned it very quickly but his take was that after the war Gaza would be able to rebuild itself via tourism. I don't think he googled very hard.
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Shit. Neither archive.today nor achive.org have a full copy. That's a shame. I, myself, should have put it into archive.today when I had the chance. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
It's behind a paywall - Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith
does this guy think we're paying a fair price for resources and labor?
Um akshully sweety a "fair" price is just what the Invisible Hand of the Free Market (Low Interest Rates Be Upon Him) sets as a price.
Paying the market rate for comprador bureacrats and politicians.
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Libs really do only have one functioning neuron
Yea and they have to share it between all of them
Except the market decides who gets the neuron.
and it's a merit-based sharing system, not equal turns, but they need the neuron to decide who deserves the neuron
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How do metaphors work
I'm convinced that most libs just look at political cartoons and go "so true!" Without understanding the content. Their biggest fear is being perceived as anything but the adult in the room so they'll just pretend that they understand or that the topic is so complex nobody can understand.
Therefore, there's probably also a really big hidden market for a lib Ben Garrison that just spells shit out with labels.
Complete mystification of the economy. Wealth comes from trading a briefcase back and forth.
My brain made a few quick thoughts here and my conclusion is that this is the sort of person who would say "ah, but have you considered that people = money?"
Me scrolling Hexbear late at night: I should be more mindful about exposing myself to bad takes, its not good for my mental health.
Me seeing your title: Real shit???
Sorry.
Both minerals and the people immigrating are both economically advantageous to larger more powerful countries. The connotation difference is rooted in racism.
this obtuse asshole should be beaten to death with a crowbar
Do they think the creator of the cartoon genuinely thinks South/Central America and Africa are sunken into the ground? The digging is a metaphor for all extraction of resources/wealth and the person who replied LITERALLY EXPLAINS THIS IN THE FIRST COMMENT.
I do not think the wealth of nations, generally speaking, comes mainly from digging up minerals
And I do not think I can live any longer.
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I'm glad that I'm so high I won't remember seeing this when I wake up
He's quite the bad take machine. More..
Thats ok political science isn't for everyone
He must have thought that was a clever retort but he doesn't actually understand the sarcasm - he only thinks that he does. Newman wrote that song about people like him.
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Oh, you silly goose, don't you know that water flows downhill? If this was based in reality all of Africa and South America would be flooded, because they're in the ocean and you can't just dig a hole into the ocean. I'll have you know there are actual mountains in South America and Africa. They stick up ABOVE sea level. So that's pretty much the opposite of what you are suggesting here. You tankies really need some STEM education.
Does anyone have the lore around why this person is popular
because he always has the most dogshit lib takes that are so mind bendingly reactionary they have to be reposted as cringe in the dunk tank. Every one of his tweets is a work of art in how wrong it manages to be.
It's honestly pretty impressive how he manages to piss off every flavor of leftist without going into explicit Nazi 1488 shit.
Okay cool, now I want the artist to include Asia on the world map
Wish I could make a career out of having takes. Some of them would even be good!
Smith charges $10 a month for this takes.
I really wonder who pays out of their own pocket to read clowns like Noah Smith, Matt Yglesias, whoever the third guy who is just like them who I can't remember right now, etc. I wish a major newspaper would interview people with subscriptions and not orgs or think tankers who pay without thinking.
Who are the subscribers?
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