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Alright, Let's Debate the Ideas Then

Default Wisdom • 299 implied HN points • 13 Mar 26
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Media Politics
  1. Some women who helped build or promote the New Right are leaving because the movement now openly treats them as inferior and has dropped the protection or respect it once promised.
  2. Calls to “debate the ideas” are often bad faith gatekeeping: criticism from women is discounted as proof of their unfitness or irrationality, so their objections don’t count on their merits.
  3. Even serious sex-realist arguments can misdescribe institutions by calling interpretation and discretion a new “feminine corruption,” but interpretive judgment has always been central to legal and institutional practice.

Mr. President, Don’t Mock the Dead

Common Sense with Bari Weiss • 5105 implied HN points • 15 Dec 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Media Politics
  1. President Trump posted a mocking response to the horrifying death of a film icon on Truth Social, and that choice was an unthinking cruelty that a national leader shouldn’t show.
  2. Americans have grown numb to his social media taunts, yet he still finds ways to shock with especially callous comments.
  3. Some Republican lawmakers may distance themselves by claiming they didn’t see the post, and the editorial demands accountability instead of avoidance.

American Capernaum

Justin E. H. Smith's Hinternet • 950 implied HN points • 11 Jan 26
🎭️ Culture Media Politics
  1. A president’s ties to post‑Soviet celebrity culture are read as evidence that his persona and politics clash with traditional American norms.
  2. The essay argues that concentrated bad taste and flashy cultural displays can damage the republic and threaten American values just like a political ideology might.
  3. Even while criticizing excesses of Russiagate, it suggests those controversies revealed real cultural and elite ties to foreign power that weakened American public life.

Humilitism

In My Tribe • 1184 implied HN points • 15 Dec 25
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Media Politics
  1. Humilitism is the view that no one can have a highly accurate understanding of complex social systems, so people should be humble about their political knowledge and judgments.
  2. It rejects confident technocratic elites and crisis-driven politics, preferring to treat social issues as problems with trade-offs rather than urgent calls for sweeping solutions.
  3. Humilitism is distinct from labels like conservative, libertarian, or populist — you can hold strong opinions yet still accept fallibility and worry about the fragility of social order.

We Are Done With This

Charles Eisenstein • 15 implied HN points • 06 Mar 26
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Media Politics
  1. Government messaging and top officials are treating war like a video game or a joke, which dehumanizes victims and glamorizes violence.
  2. That dehumanization is widespread and fuels imperialist wars. We need a broad social movement that goes beyond opposing one leader and works to remove warmongers from power.
  3. True patriotism means recognizing the inherent dignity of every person and redirecting resources toward healing people and the planet instead of maintaining a trillion-dollar military.
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