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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/769407347869396996

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As Hillary is not listening, it's understandable many of you will vote Trump. I see his risk as existential. Please respect me as I do you.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/769405251736567808

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I just want to be clear about something: @realDonaldTrump is an *unacceptable* risk to take for merely breaking an evil SJW Overton window.

|timestamp=5:24 AM · Aug 27, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/795435266823421952

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I cannot seem to convey to fellow @HillaryClinton voters that  painting all Trump voters as racist misogynistic idiots is offensive & wrong.

|timestamp=1:18 AM · Nov 7, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796258169471180800

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Here's the silver lining. The same dumb analysis that told you Hillary was going to win is what told you Trump-nation is neo-nazi skinheads.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796247565733797888

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I assume journalism was once a thing that was crowded out by the thing now confusingly called journalism.  

It's time for us to reinvent it.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796253319874252800

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don't think this is a massive shock to people who were thinking for themselves. It's a shock to anyone who outsourced to CNN/FOX/NYT/NPR.

|timestamp=7:29 AM · Nov 9, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796255943004540928

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@christinelu I'm feeling some pain & fear too. But many of my friends didn't take this seriously ... b/c they demonized those who disagreed.

|timestamp=7:39 AM · Nov 9, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/796256475819540480

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@cosmos4u I think a lot of folks lied to themselves. Many got to the polling station thinking they would vote for HRC.... until in private.

|timestamp=7:41 AM · Nov 9, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/822464069315608576

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=36 years of variation on a theme by Ronald W Reagan. Today, at 51, I'll go back to beginners' mind. History is restarting.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/822466693775532032

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As of today, my stance readjusts. Put simply:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/822480192769662976

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@wobbles That I had no idea what the DJT payload would be b/c the campaign was a kayfabe work & trolling of PC. Now we're playing for keeps.

|timestamp=4:25 PM · Jan 20, 2017

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/822535314153570308

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=2nd Tweet of the Trump era:

We the technical classes must not begin lying to the new masters of our institutions to flatter their populism.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/822534279821463555

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=1st Tweet of the Trump era:

It's time for we the technical classes (e.g. PhDs) to stop lying for our former institutional masters on policy.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/841690071858204673

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=At some point, Pres. Trump will have to choose between high ability, totally loyalty & full staffing of our government. He can pick any two.

|timestamp=4:38 PM · Mar 14, 2017

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1057712702607388672

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Trump’s style of metahonesty is however very dangerous. I wrote about this in a 2011 essay I frequently reference on the theory of [[Kayfabe]] which I anticipated would take over as boomers were forced to deal w/ the cognitive aftermath of the Great Recession: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11783

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1057711339538341888

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=When I saw this sign in SF’s Castro district, I thought of my friend @SamHarrisOrg and my struggle to explain to him in early 2017 why people trust @realDonaldTrump when he is not truthful.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1059868048218193920

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So go vote America. All I ask, is that when given any opportunity to do so, use it to reject Utopianism on Right or Left. What we were given as custodians is so much better than moronic utopian experiments that always end in dystopia. Let's not mess this up. #lovethisgreatcountry

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1059867613096947712

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content="There shall be open borders." -WSJ</br>

"There shall be open borders." -SJW

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1061670448201555968

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@Ramsey_Payne I don’t think he loves the tragedy. I think he loves the fact that *if* there is a tragedy, *then* he can exploit it. He does this by telling a mixture of simplistic lies and truths together, and sticking it to his adversaries who don’t expect it because it’s such a dick move.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1061469372261195776

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You just love this, don’t you? People are dead. Homes torched. The state is on fire. The air here is choked with smoke.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1061510385780502530

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@SquawkieEagle Thx. This president says many things that *do* need to be said, but in ways that are opportunistic, simplistic, cruel, distorted, insensitive, incendiary and hyperbolic. Some are angry that he’s a bad liar, but I often think he’s really at his absolute worst as a truth teller.

|timestamp=6:46 AM · Nov 11, 2018

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110156006003101697

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So please remember that many people on the Left did *not* ever sign up for this idee fixe of the Mueller report as answer to the Trump phenomena. We‘ve not called his presidency illegitimate. And we don’t think his supporters are all nuts. This is a democracy, betrayed by elites.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110153543913299969

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I think I avoided all pressure to find Trump guilty of collusion w Russia. And it was a considerable cost on my life. The typical conversation went: “Oh c’mon Eric. He’s clearly guilty. Why make excuses? When the report comes you‘ll have to look in the mirror.”

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110153545263677440

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It wasn’t (and still isn’t) that I knew. I had no idea. But I also had no idea how everyone else just somehow knew what was actually true. Did everyone have a dossier that I did not? How does this pressure to *infer* unknown things become a Left-of-center mind virus?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110156003834683392

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And one last thing: I’m still of the opinion that Trump is a grave problem &amp; that the people who voted him in deserve a responsible Left of center expression for their real frustrations on Trade, Immigration, Terror and elite betrayal to replace Trump w something more wholesome.

|timestamp=12:26 PM · Mar 25, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169627129270554625

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’d say that old tweet wasn’t too far off after all. We just had it dribbled in increment by increment with changes in “Terms of Service” &amp; the slow crushing push to numb our outrage from our institutional class, article by article, until we welcomed our own censorship w/ thanks.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169624032867540992

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after [[Donald Trump|Trump’s win]] shocked our institutional elite. “Fake news” was its placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to “authoritative sources.”

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/803453460154699776

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.

|timestamp=4:20 AM · Nov 29, 2016

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1169624032867540992

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Since then we have learned about “The Good Censor” and “ML Fairness” at google, “Deboosting” at Facebook, “down ranking” at Twitter, “authoritative sources” at YouTube, the “Alternative Influencer Network” theory at

@datasociety, & the IDW as a gateway to white supremacists. Ha.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1181238041672683525

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The president’s tweets are there to be reverse engineered. They’re all method. When Democrats call him an ‘idiot’ w/o building an Eliza program to simulate what is beating them, it‘s painful to watch.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1181238039390982145

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Trump Tweeting algorithm:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1195118296267395077

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=@AlexRussek It’s more confusing than that. I can’t fully figure out how they rationalize Trump. They often have the idea that Trump’s methods are wrong but that they think be does the right thing in the end. I honestly don’t get it. I think that it’s rationalizing lesser evil as they see it.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1195115870793715713

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Invited on a conservative podcast today. We celebrated punk rock as I politilely told them Trump was obviously manifestly unfit for office &amp; I view their parent org as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party. They couldn’t have been more decent to me.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1195115874182545408

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My eyes are open. This isn’t my team. But when normal souls who think normal thoughts have to go over to their competitor’s house to have civil constructive discussion, because their own home often hurls poop at any who won’t tow an incoherent party line, loss has to be budgeted.

|timestamp=11:06 PM · Nov 14, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1195115876741238784

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Don’t get sold the narrative that Trump now owns ALL US Conservatism. He does own a good chunk of it. But there‘s also a new strain of tolerant conservatism that‘s very liberal: relentlessly civil, anti-inequality, pro-logic, pro-gay, pro-weed, pro-free speech &amp; multicultural.

|timestamp=11:06 PM · Nov 14, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1195115879882727424

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What is causing this? I don’t know.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197210053989695489

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If you think I’m wrong, I’m open to your arguments. But let’s check in with each other after any counter-narrative emerges.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197208794851237888

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As someone who both has been vocal that Trump is unfit for office but who also gets on well with many Trump supporters, I’m not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197208795715231750

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To my Trump supporting friends, many of you have been correct about myriad problems of the Democratic Party &amp; its affiliated media. Let that not blind you to what is happening. This man was simply not the solution to our corrupt system. Love you. But look again with fresh eyes.🙏

|timestamp=5:43 PM · Nov 20, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555823691481089

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My point in criticizing my party is to find a way out of the Trump v Biden/Warren version of non-stop boomer on boomer action. Trump is an enormous problem. If you think he‘s radiation therapy for your Democratic corruption cancer, don’t fall in love with your radiation levels.🙏

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555752837103616

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To be honest, I should have been clearer. Let me say a few words.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555814401077248

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Next, I was careful not to opine on legality or impeachment. The way I’m viewing these hearings is that they are giving us a look into our foreign policy. Legality is about what we can prove, but judgement is about what we must glean. I wish we could avoid inference but we can’t.

|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555816208822272

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What I glean about the Trump, Clinton and Biden groups is that they pursue the personal intertwined w/ our national issues at an unacceptable level. I can’t prove that about any of them yet. But Carter, Eisenhower, Reagan or Sanders they are not. So I should have clarified.

|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555817291010048

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If you want a perspective that is not so far off of mine but from a conservative perspective, @benshapiro made a lot of my points in detail. It’s not “quid pro quo or no” but which one, and the fact that Biden may be the point of investigation or a positive political externality.

|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555820885504000

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But my issue stands. We’re now being injured as a nation by Trump’s judgment, tactics and quirks. If we are reduced to “That’s perfectly legal” arguments rather than, “we have China, Climate and Russia emergencies” by Trump and Democratic dissembling we are screwed.

|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197555822529613824

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Our eye is off the ball &amp; Trump does not become the goddamned messiah b/c he sticks it to corrupt Democratic players. It’s like watching two street gangs fight. Fair-minded Trump supporters should be leaving the absolutist “Trump does nothing wrong” camp now. This is awful.

|timestamp=4:42 PM · Nov 21, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947538138992640

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=End/ So I have the group I look down on (Systemic corruption of the party regulars) different from the group to be feared (advocates of abandonment of the corrupt system to restart history).

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947514386649088

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=1/ Too Many Different Stories.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947528420835328

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=2/ The parties &amp; Trump represented systemic &amp; idiosyncratic corruption respectively. Systemic had Rep &amp; Dem flavors. The tattered Int’l order is serviced (barely) by the systemically corrupt but repudiated by the idiosyncratic. The new GOP is moving towards the Idiosyncratic.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947530819977217

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=3/ We are divided by the following. Some party players benefit from the systemic corruption but are loyal to the two party flavors. Remaining party players want to end the corruption. But they agree on the need to service the Int’l order because of dangers of restarting history.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947531835015168

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=4/ The Idiosyncratic players want to use Trump to end systemic corruption (drain the swamp). Some want it so badly that they’ll defend nearly all idiosyncratic corruption. Others admit to idiosyncratic failings but point to the fact that only Trump broke through our MSM defenses.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947533122658304

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=5/ The idiosyncratic players (The “Trump Train”) are further divided as to whether the Int’l order is too corrupt &amp; expensive to service or too essential to abandon. The former are divided into isolationists vs those who wish to project new power. The latter subvert withdrawal.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947534129254400

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=6/ Why the crisis in communal sense making? We are now micro-divided by pro vs anti systemic rent-seekers with 2 flavors. Anti is further split by pro vs anti willingness to admit to the idiosyncratic corruption. We are divided by isolationists vs maintainers of the order. Etc...

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947535043596288

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=7/ Where I am: I see 2 party flavors of systemic corruption. And the new idiosyncratic. I see corrupt expensive  foreign entanglements but also no ability to retreat. I also believe great nations are based on communal *fictions* which are being destroyed by our extractive actors.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1197947537010749440

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=8/ This is where we are to my understanding. I *only* really look down on *pro*-corruption folks. I do fear the isolationists have no idea what they’re signing us up for on a thermonuclear planet, but I just see them as confused by BAD foreign adventures &amp; betting the 🌍 on luck.

|timestamp=6:38 PM · Nov 22, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1199788396224208896

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[My point about the different faces of Trump portrayed by the Press was real, but I think the article was a gag if I recall correctly. I’d read it for yourself...]

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1199786494908493825

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Thirty four years ago, the liberal paper of the University of Pennsylvania was celebrating “the largest single gift ever received by an undergraduate school” in a banner headline..which I discovered going through boxes after a move.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1199786497731219456

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We can barely remember how many different people Donald Trump has been to our press in their portrayals: Winner. Star. Loser. Nazi. Greedy pig. Casanova. Generous benefactor. Predator. Symbol of wealthy. Purveyor of tackiness. Promoter of women. Madman. Genius. Debtor. Builder.

|timestamp=8:26 PM · Nov 27, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922341334159365

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Q: Why are we not talking about bringing back mandatory retirement for academicians who have prevented two generations from taking their seats and talking about legal action against corporate media like @MSNBC who distort the news of our non boomer candidates gaining traction?🙏

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922330353528837

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=My following is mostly [[Millennial Generation|millennial]]. I have a lot of contact w/ them.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922336238104576

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The oldest of these [[Millennial Generation|Millennials]] are now almost 40. In my original area of academe and science, it is time for  [[GenX]] &amp; [[Millennial Generation|Millennials]] to stop running out of fuel in infinite holding patterns. We should start ignoring air traffic control &amp; land the planes. Crash landing if necessary.

|timestamp=5:53 PM · Dec 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922337076989952

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Here’s the problem. It‘s time for [[Millennial Generation|Millenials]] to start becoming univ. presidents. Yet only a tiny number of research universities even have any [[GenX]] heads! Likewise, notice that [[Millennial Generation|Millenial]] @TulsiGabbard &amp; Xer AndrewYang surge, but are dropped from corporate media promoting Boomers.

|timestamp=5:53 PM · Dec 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922338121338880

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Q: Should we start talking about bringing back Mandatory Retirement to stop involuntary inter-generational wealth transfer? Consider that we will have spent 20 Yrs exploring US presidents born in the summer of the 1st year of the baby boom. 24 if Trump (b. 1946) is re-elected.

|timestamp=5:53 PM · Dec 3, 2019

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922339094417408

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Since Trump, Clinton &amp; Bush were at the beginning of the Baby Boom, It is theoretically possible (though it won’t happen this way) that if we continued this pattern, it could be 2044 before we were ready to elect a [[GenX]] or [[Millennial Generation|Millenial]] or [[GenZ]] POTUS.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1201922340457598976

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I think since @AndrewYang got deliberately and repeatedly dropped from media graphics and since @HillaryClinton started targeting @TulsiGabbard I’ve been radicalized.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1222230039321669632

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=“Flyover country” doesn’t exist.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1222230026738794497

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=There is no path to voting Trump out of office that passes through a contempt for working Americans.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1233481021791670274

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This is everywhere. The DNC is like an incompetent retiring substitute civics teacher who long ago mentally checked out, but still condescendingly lectures the smartest kids on wrong facts. Trump, the 3rd grade teacher next door passing out Jell-O shots calling them “study aids.”

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1241417818794389509

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I can assure you I have been ringing this bell at great cost since China started to supply research labor to our US labs in the 1980s. The national concern with Chinese threats has nothing to do with Trump. Stop focusing on that guy.

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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1241416577741815808

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Rule Change: Everyone who was saying “Wake up! Your supposed elites are almost all in thrall to China. This is not safe.” since the 1980s-90s gets to say whatever the hell they want about the problems posed by the PRC without having to hear about anyone named Trump.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1241418502017126401

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You cannot get to smart by simply putting a minus sign in front of everything Donald Trump says.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1246591640573100032

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But, yes, he should resign. I thought that would go without saying. And no, he didn’t do everything wrong. Neither did Pelosi. Nor the Mayor of NYC. But the whole lot of them need to leave. It is now a different era.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1246591634814337024

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=People don’t understand my position on Trump. Here it is:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1246591638090076162

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This way:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1246591639205711872

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=But this confuses people: “why don’t you denounce everything he says and does wrong every day?”

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1249467127242747904

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I have to try not to comment on Trump. This tweet is an example of why.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1255180803866148864

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Protest political people with dazzling agency, beauty, technical rigor and grace. That class can’t do these things.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1255179784532881408

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m for additive civil disobedience. By that, I mean do something disobedient to protest the abject incompetence of our leadership that is beautiful &amp; inspiring. I’ve mentioned Projection Mapping spectacular graffiti onto large buildings and videoing it, leaving no trace of harm.

https://x.com/Crypto__naire/status/1255177207984447488

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1255179788827803650

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If it’s worth destroying the word economy over, we should have an OFFICIAL Manhattan project for Covid. Everyone I know who should be on that hasn’t been called up or pressed into service. Instead we have Scientists like Kudlow and Mnuchin on the task force. Protest that.

|timestamp=4:59 PM · Apr 28, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1255179790711054336

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You will also notice that constant partisan Trump bashing and that impeachment attempt made it very difficult to protest his mishandling of this crisis. The wrong way to protest Trump is to go along with Democrats. The right way is to protest the incompetence of our leadership.

|timestamp=4:59 PM · Apr 28, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098880146432000

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We are not finished by a long shot. What the Intellectual Dark Web tried to do MUST now be given an institutional home.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098863419584513

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Bari Weiss has now resigned from the @nytimes. And that is not even “The Story”. I‘ve just spoken to Bari &amp; learned that I‘m finally free to tweet.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098866787598336

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=On 6/1/17 Ms Weiss was the only journalist covering “The News”.  

Only she was doing it from the opinion section because the NYT refused to find interesting that there was a racist Maoist insurrection at a public college where police would be stood down:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098867592880128

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=At that moment Bari Weiss became all that was left of the “Paper of Record.” Why? Because the existence of Black Racists with the power to hunt professors with Baseball Bats and even redefine the word ‘racism’ to make their story impossible to cover ran totally counter-narrative.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098868331114496

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=At some point after 2011, the NYT gradually stopped covering the News and became the News instead. And Bari has been fighting internally from the opinion section to re-establish Journalism inside tbe the NYT. A total reversal of the Chinese Wall that separates news from opinion.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098872680603648

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This is the paper in 2016 that couldnt  be interested in the story that millions of Americans were likely lying to pollsters about [[Donald Trump]].

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098873997623298

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I have had the honor of trying to support both @bariweiss at the New York Times and @BretWeinstein in their battles simply to stand alone against the internal mob mentality. It is THE story all over the country. Our courageous individuals are being hunted at work for dissenting.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098874681323526

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Before Bari resigned, I did a podcast with her. It was chilling. I‘d make an innocuous statement of simple fact and ask her about it. She‘d reply “That is obviously true but I’m sorry we can’t say that here. It will get me strung up.” That‘s when I stopped telling her to hang on.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098875343978497

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So what just happened? Let me put it bluntly: What was left of the New York Times just resigned from the New York Times. The Times canceled itself. As a separate Hong Kong exists in name only, the New New York Times and affiliated “news” is now the chief threat to our democracy.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098876015046656

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This is the moment when the passengers who have been becoming increasingly alarmed, start to entertain a new idea: what if the people now in the cockpit are not airline pilots? Well the Twitter Activists at the @nytimes and elsewhere are not journalists.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098876660989952

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content='''What if those calling for empathy have a specific deadness of empathy?'''

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098878024151040

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Bari and I agree on a lot but also disagree fiercely. And so I have learned that she is tougher than tough. But these university and journalistic workplaces are now unworkable. They are the antithesis off what they were built to stand for. It is astounding how long she held out.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098878795898881

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Read her letter. I have asked her to do a make-up podcast &amp; she has agreed. Stay tuned If you don’t want to be surprised again by what‘s coming understand this: just as there has been no functioning president, there‘s now no journalism. We‘re moving towards a 🌎 of pure activism.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1283098879492161536

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Prepare to lose your ability to call the police &amp; for more autonomous zones where kids die so that Govenors &amp; Mayors can LARP as Kayfabe revolutionaries. Disagree with Ms Weiss all you want as she isn’t perfect. But Bari is a true patriot who tried to stand alone. Glad she’s out.

|timestamp=5:59 PM · Jul 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1285251851240173572

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Anyone else seeing this? It’s two different reactions. Both of them indicating that there is something catastrophicly wrong with this process. All of them previously *bitterly* opposed to Trump, and many even to the Republican Party.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1285251849436532736

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=A surprising number of Left-leaning people are confiding to me that they are planning to vote for Trump for two different stated leading reasons:  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301235388132913152

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>other’s

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301235286928576512

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Perhaps this isn’t clear to my followers: my belief is that each party is electing the others’ candidate.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576557408841728

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We the Left are not our Democratic Party leadership. And we never signed up with a blood oath to gaslight our Republican rivals for two reasons:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576547703300097

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Do you remember 10K accounts swarming over this tweet telling me I was lying?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1285251849436532736

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=A surprising number of Left-leaning people are confiding to me that they are planning to vote for Trump for two different stated leading reasons:  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576550945488896

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Well, that lead in the polls narrowed. And I believe a lot of it is this forced thinking that is being pushed on folks.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576552212127744

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let me try again. We the Democrats are correct that Trump is a bullshitter. But here is what we don’t get: Bullshitting doesn’t automatically lose if you choose Gaslighting as a strategy.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576553562685440

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=What this is shaping up as is a bizarre “Choose your own apocalypse!” Vote.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576554800013312

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Trump is a self serving bullshitter bull in a China shop. His lies aren’t even intended to fool you. He doesn’t think he owes the press the truth. Life is what you can negotiate to him.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1301576555982852098

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Can one even ask the questions:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1303651728017911808

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You don’t have to love him. You just have to realize you got played for promoting the pseudo-scholarship of hatred.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1303650238956072960

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Master-stroke. Anyone who had to go through training designed to cure them of their pathological racism, sexism, Islamophobia, transphobia, misogyny and ableist bigotry (which is also incurable btw) is going to be tempted. Duh.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316460008003919872

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=This isn't targeted harrassment of an individual. This is a political race for president of the united states.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316460005927743488

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Blacklists Matter.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316460007022419968

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I want my crazy pro-trump friends &amp; family to be able to say their crazy stupid ass Trump-Train Bullshit. In fact, it is essential to me. I want to be able to rebut it. I don't want to be protected against "potentially harmful" articles by a Publisher pretending to be a platform.

|timestamp=7:24 PM · Oct 14, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316903785587945474

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Extra-judicial killings are beyond the pale. Obama joked about them with drones. After his killing Anwar al-Awlaki, I spoke against Obama’s horrid attitude. Well, I condemn this Trump talk inducing law officers toward extrajudicial killing. WTF?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316903781771206656

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=You cannot board the Trump Train. No matter how many times he sticks it to your tormentors. I know it’s tempting when you can’t stand the DNC.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316903783365005314

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don’t mean I can’t understand voting for him. I could also make an argument for voting either way.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1316903784451330048

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I approve of taking action against CRT. Against [[H-1B Visa|H1b]]. Of moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Of making peace in the Middle East. Of no new wars. Of sticking it to the WOKE bigots on their rampage through our institutions. Etc.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1317122553748488192

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Over and over the coin flip lands on its side. At some point you realize this isn’t an accident and the man didn’t get where he is by being an idiot.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1317122552225951744

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Folks don’t get my model of Trump’s odd utterances &amp; how people interpret them.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1318597257386545153

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>phenomenon  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1318595998571065345

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Remember: legacy media can’t discuss the existence of Never-Trump Trump Voters. So there‘s no record that the phenomena even exists. If you‘re the rare [[Involuntary Conservative (InCon)|“Involuntary Conservative”]] who is OPEN about voting Trump as a previous Never-Trumper, please answer questions on this thread?🙏

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1321990123865567232

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I will be very surprised if there isn’t a *much* stronger than expected surge for Trump. The Left and Right have both jumped the shark in my opinion. So please don’t tell me what anyone has to do with his or her vote. We all watched this “election” happen &amp; failed to prevent it.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1321983501034381312

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I respect Dave’s decision. Part of being an American is loving people you disagree with and NOT trying to shame or control them. Also allowing that they change their minds, evolve &amp; may see more/less clearly than we can.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1321990117200850944

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I also think a lot of people are going to vote for @realDonaldTrump over:  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1321990120052940800

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Continued.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1321990121831370755

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=In short, the Left used the last 4yrs to shoot itself in the foot. I couldn’t vote DJT because of the daily negative effect he has on our national culture. But, unlike 4 years ago, it’s no mystery why folks switch to him.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323713580865220608

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=P.S. If you care to, give your own rank ordering of the four names and a few words as to what it tells you about your reasoning? 🙏

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323711648557797381

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Of the four names on the major tickets, I guess I might have rank ordered them:

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323711651296628736

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Trump is far more gifted than any of the others &amp; has done many good things. And many many bad things. Both of which I predicted given his outsider status.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323711652865339392

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=With that said, I could vote for neither Biden/Harris nor Trump/Pence in good conscience given the luxury of living in a Blue State. So I voted to communicate my non acceptance of this choice. In a swing state I’d have voted Biden.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323711654127792128

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: However you voted, I have no right to judge you on your vote.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323076754655752193

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We just don’t end up in the same place. That’s not how life works. Literally, “differential success” is one of the cornerstones of our scientific understanding of nature itself due to Darwin and Wallace.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323075493847998464

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Less than 100 hours before the end of voting in the US election, and I am watching @KamalaHarris trying desperately to elect Donald J Trump to the presidency of the United States.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323530131705532416

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The Left needs to appeal to folks who want to get rich, not be taxed into oblivion, get laid and who LOVE their flawed country, their guns &amp; those in uniform. We have to stop appealing *only* to self-hating monks, the hyper-manipulative &amp; the dumb. We were about something before.

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323517311668506624

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Vice Signaling: nobody sane wants to listen to politicians, professors, movie stars, rappers, tech billionaires &amp; journalists testify to their own moral superiority over the rest of us mortals who appear to be FAR more self-aware of our human failings.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323519623707291648

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Almost no good parent wants a level playing field for their own children. Have you ever seen a bear that is just as concerned about another bear’s cubs?

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323521582908649473

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Let’s be honest: virtue signaling in the Democratic Party is also about figuring out how to cryptically serve our donors. Kamala is not going to race to apply “Equity” in her new black Vernacular speech to her hedge fund friends in the Hamptons.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323523065897119744

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So every time Democrats testify to their own goodness, I assume they are preparing to throw us overboard to serve 9, 10, 11 and now 12 figure families. It’s Pavlovian or Skinnerian conditioning. Since Clinton, just before we get economically raped, we hear a lecture about virtue.

|timestamp=7:11 AM · Nov 3, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323530111484719105

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=“No Person is Illegal!” means push out the labor supply curve for employers.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323530115045756928

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=“No islamophobia!” may mean ignore jihadism so long as Saudi Arabia is making me rich.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323530126001233920

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I don’t ever...and I mean ever...want to listen to the Davos scolds on any subject.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323530129428017153

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Most normal citizens want the US to have borders. We care more about our fellow countrymen than we do equally deserving foreigners. We want the BEST for our own kids. We aren’t excited about paying reparations for 1619. And Trump is telling us “Same here.” So: What are we saying?

|timestamp=7:39 AM · Nov 3, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1323756892825423872

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=In Trump you are looking at the only modern POTUS to have figured out how to run this gauntlet from an outsider’s perspective with neither political nor even military experience.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324102786636779521

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=When Trump flips the coin, it always lands on its side. The odds of that happening by accident...aren’t worth worrying about.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324127150635581440

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Don't fall for this when someone like Trump celebrates victory prematurely. This is a well known technique that preys on people not wanting to go backwards and have to undo things. Like Maradona, Trump may see it as just part of the game working on very agreeable people...

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324127145593958406

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=If you want to understand Trump declaring victory, it's important to understand this was pioneered in 1986 by Diego Maradona.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324127147435323392

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Like Trump, Maradona was extremely gifted and with very 'flexible' ethics. He learned this as a kid &amp; saw what he did as cunning, not cheating. In other words: if you can get referees to cover for you, it's part of the 'meta-game' to manipulate the refs.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324131018152947712

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As I hope you appreciate I believe that I am calling it as both Trump and the news media distorting the status of our election results...only in opposite directions.

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1324570844639633409

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=The media music is now starting up &amp; Trump is being played off.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1326218275877867525

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=And yet I know what I am really calculating. I am calculating that someone is giving me what I want: an end to this divisive presidency. All I have to do is to join the chorus.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1326218273898160129

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=As I said 4 years ago, Donald Trump represents an existential risk to the fabric of American Society; I believe we are polarizing and unraveling as a dominant military power.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1326218274909028353

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=We all know this. So...Why not say them? In my case, I‘ve been interrogating my own mind. Trump’s presidency turned my personal life into a daily shit show. And now? The grownups are playing him off! I SO want to be rid of him and the risks/costs he inflicts on my life. And yet..

|timestamp=5:40 PM · Nov 10, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329208867968847875

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Trump didn’t build-the-wall &amp; get Mexico to Pay for it as he said he would.  

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502093363744768

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I may choose to record something at length to dig into this.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502080344547328

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Sam: Relax. We are programmed to receive.

https://x.com/samharrisorg/status/1329204761283837952

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502085344239616

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Everyone else: have a listen! I have a slightly different take, but I agree w Sam that almost everyone in our space is failing to thread this needle given the dangers. I think we disagree principally on the relative weight of systemic vs idiosyncratic corruption of reality.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Nov 19, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502086535340033

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I believe for The US and coalition to have entered Iraq claiming WMD as casus belli required systemic corruption of standards: Data. Intelligence. PR. Briefings. Procedures..

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502087772717059

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So...yes Trump has inured us to bullshit, braggadocio and flouting of our norms. He was after all hired as *poison* to kill the swamp creatures.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329502088993226752

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=So I agree with Sam that Trump is  extremely reckless and dangerous to us all here. But the danger of “The Grownups” coming back to us to *lie* about everything in a methodically focus-grouped &amp; A/B tested manner with coiffed presentation &amp; slick sloganeering strikes me as grave.

|timestamp=7:09 PM · Nov 19, 2020

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329855308059930624

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=Lastly, for those who will leave as followers from this thread: Thanks for hanging in there w/ me. It’s been tough, but I really appreciate the kindness &amp; decency most of you have shown me. I hope I reciprocated that by being your '''loyal opposition'''. So thanks for hearing me out.🙏

|thread=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329855263717822464

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=There is now zero adult supervision.

|quote=

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329855270386688000

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=To my Trump Supporting Followers: I‘ve always treated you with respect despite our disagreement over the idea that Trump represented an existential risk to our democracy and, by extension, the world.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329855275138834432

|name=Eric Weinstein

|content=I’m prepared to lose you today. But I need you to hear this from someone who disagreed with you respectfully, but saw where you were coming from.

|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1329855278464999426

|name=Eric Weinstein