I agree. The term racist is thrown around so much now that it has lost meaning. The term racist,sexist, and their other buzz words are just code for "people who don't agree with the left".
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One of my favorite authors, even as conceded as he reportedly is. Was instrumental in me dodging the 2008 crash. He's also a power lifter..
Nassim Taleb Explains Who Just Got Buried
Tyler Durden
Nov 9, 2016 4:00 AM
The world's "intellectual yet idiot" class just took another blow to the chin, but who really got buried? Nassim 'black swan' Taleb explains...
Simply put, as Taleb recently explained via Medium.com, The "Intellectual Yet Idiot" class...
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They cant tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
The Intellectual Yet Idiotis a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local supremum today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life. Why? Simply, in many countries, the government’s role is ten times what it was a century ago (expressed in percentage of GDP). The IYI seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and rarely seen outside specialized outlets, social media, and universities?—?most people have proper jobs and there are not many opening for the IYI.
Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When Plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools, and PhDs as these are needed in the club.
More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver. Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair. The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only will he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some other such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill.
The IYI has a copy of the first hardback edition of The Black Swan on his shelves, but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. He believes that GMOs are “science”, that the “technology” is not different from conventional breeding as a result of his readiness to confuse science with scientism.
Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. In the comfort of his suburban home with 2-car garage, he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results).
The IYI is member of a club to get traveling privileges; if social scientist he uses statistics without knowing how they are derived (like Steven Pinker and psycholophasters in general); when in the UK, he goes to literary festivals; he drinks red wine with steak (never white); he used to believe that fat was harmful and has now completely reversed; he takes statins because his doctor told him so; he fails to understand ergodicity and when explained to him, he forgets about it soon later; he doesn’t use Yiddish words even when talking business; he studies grammar before speaking a language; he has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen; he has never read Frederic Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshot, John Gray, Amianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadiah Gaon, or Joseph De Maistre; he has never gotten drunk with Russians; he never drank to the point when one starts breaking glasses (or, preferably, chairs); he doesn’t know the difference between Hecate and Hecuba; he doesn’t know that there is no difference between “pseudointellectual” and “intellectual” in the absence of skin in the game; has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years in conversations that had nothing to do with physics; he knows at any point in time what his words or actions are doing to his reputation.
But a much easier marker: he doesn’t deadlift.
Not a IYI
(flenser note: I think we might have 1 or 2 IYIs here that do deadlift).
Nassim Taleb Explains Who Just Got Buried
Tyler Durden
Nov 9, 2016 4:00 AM
The world's "intellectual yet idiot" class just took another blow to the chin, but who really got buried? Nassim 'black swan' Taleb explains...
Simply put, as Taleb recently explained via Medium.com, The "Intellectual Yet Idiot" class...
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them. With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They cant tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.) They are prone to mistake the ensemble for the linear aggregation of its components as we saw in the chapter extending the minority rule.
The Intellectual Yet Idiotis a production of modernity hence has been accelerating since the mid twentieth century, to reach its local supremum today, along with the broad category of people without skin-in-the-game who have been invading many walks of life. Why? Simply, in many countries, the government’s role is ten times what it was a century ago (expressed in percentage of GDP). The IYI seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and rarely seen outside specialized outlets, social media, and universities?—?most people have proper jobs and there are not many opening for the IYI.
Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite.
The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When Plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences. While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools, and PhDs as these are needed in the club.
More socially, the IYI subscribes to The New Yorker. He never curses on twitter. He speaks of “equality of races” and “economic equality” but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver. Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair. The modern IYI has attended more than one TEDx talks in person or watched more than two TED talks on Youtube. Not only will he vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable and some other such circular reasoning, but holds that anyone who doesn’t do so is mentally ill.
The IYI has a copy of the first hardback edition of The Black Swan on his shelves, but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence. He believes that GMOs are “science”, that the “technology” is not different from conventional breeding as a result of his readiness to confuse science with scientism.
Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. In the comfort of his suburban home with 2-car garage, he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results).
The IYI is member of a club to get traveling privileges; if social scientist he uses statistics without knowing how they are derived (like Steven Pinker and psycholophasters in general); when in the UK, he goes to literary festivals; he drinks red wine with steak (never white); he used to believe that fat was harmful and has now completely reversed; he takes statins because his doctor told him so; he fails to understand ergodicity and when explained to him, he forgets about it soon later; he doesn’t use Yiddish words even when talking business; he studies grammar before speaking a language; he has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen; he has never read Frederic Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshot, John Gray, Amianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadiah Gaon, or Joseph De Maistre; he has never gotten drunk with Russians; he never drank to the point when one starts breaking glasses (or, preferably, chairs); he doesn’t know the difference between Hecate and Hecuba; he doesn’t know that there is no difference between “pseudointellectual” and “intellectual” in the absence of skin in the game; has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years in conversations that had nothing to do with physics; he knows at any point in time what his words or actions are doing to his reputation.
But a much easier marker: he doesn’t deadlift.
Not a IYI
(flenser note: I think we might have 1 or 2 IYIs here that do deadlift).
Jeremiahflex
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It is definitely over used I agree, but c'mon man, Walmart, amazon sears and other establishments have stopped selling confederate flags as of the middle of 2015 but some how people are getting engraved Confederate flags with Trump 2016 on it. People are coming out of the wood works with flags held high. That's gotta mean something.
Yes, it means there are racists n the world. it doesn't mean the world is racist.
You don't brand all people racist because a small minority choose to be. The left will say "Not all Muslims are terrorists" but on the other hand will imply all trump supporters are. That is the hypocrisy of the left. Being called a racist actually meant something when it wasn't being used because someone didn't agree with your views or hurt your feelings.
Jeremiahflex
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Honestly never gave a crap about most of this stuff since I'm anti-social, but now that I have a mix race child I'm worried how to deal with some of this stuff. Still a lot of hate to go around even if it's not everybody.
Jeremiahflex
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People that call others racist all the time usually have an agenda. Emotions run high and people say wild stuff
I feel sort of bad for lacking sympathy, but I would probably just hate her more if she ended up with some cushy high paid Wall Street position.
"Lock Her Up": NYSE Floor Traders Boo, Shout During Hillary Concession Speech
by Tyler Durden
Nov 9, 2016 2:15 PM
If Hillary hopes to make the metamorphosis from public to private sector with some new function on Wall Street, she may encounter stiff resistance from the locals.
During her one-day delayed concession speech to Donald Trump, the New York Stock Exchange floor was rocked by loud booing as traders expressed their true feelings for the former presidential candidate.
According to CNN, NYSE floor traders began chanting "lock her up!," as Clinton appeared on television screens around 11:35 am, when she urged her millions of disappointed supporters to accept her stunning defeat.
"Ding-dong, the witch is dead," shouted another floor trader.
full article
"Lock Her Up": NYSE Floor Traders Boo, Shout During Hillary Concession Speech
by Tyler Durden
Nov 9, 2016 2:15 PM
If Hillary hopes to make the metamorphosis from public to private sector with some new function on Wall Street, she may encounter stiff resistance from the locals.
During her one-day delayed concession speech to Donald Trump, the New York Stock Exchange floor was rocked by loud booing as traders expressed their true feelings for the former presidential candidate.
According to CNN, NYSE floor traders began chanting "lock her up!," as Clinton appeared on television screens around 11:35 am, when she urged her millions of disappointed supporters to accept her stunning defeat.
"Ding-dong, the witch is dead," shouted another floor trader.
full article
master.on
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Is she finally going to jail?
Presidential pardon? Hmmm
Presidential pardon? Hmmm
^^ You can add inciting riots to that, but no she's not going to jail. It's not even a remote possibility. I doubt Obama will pardon her, since Trump would be shooting himself in the foot to go after her, and everyone knows it. They're going to dangle her in front of him hoping he does, let her cause trouble all over the country. She's the Globalist's purple mascot, and she does bite.
I'm just wondering what will happen when less, err, democratic countries ask for their money back...
Norway Slashes Clinton Foundation Donations By 87% As Political Clout Dries Up
If the Clinton Foundation isn't just a massive, corrupt, "pay-for-play" organization, then perhaps the Clintons can explain why Norway, one of their largest foreign contributors just behind Saudi Arabia, has decided to slash their donations by 87% just after Hillary's stunning loss.
Norway Slashes Clinton Foundation Donations By 87% As Political Clout Dries Up
If the Clinton Foundation isn't just a massive, corrupt, "pay-for-play" organization, then perhaps the Clintons can explain why Norway, one of their largest foreign contributors just behind Saudi Arabia, has decided to slash their donations by 87% just after Hillary's stunning loss.
Wondering what you meant by this?
Why would he be shooting himself in the foot?
Having one's political opponents arrested is generally considered the act of a tyrant. (Lincoln gets a pass... because slavery.) It would give his opponents (both democrat and republican) all the excuse they need to oppose everything he tries to do.
[url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-22/trump-wont-pursue-charges-against-hillary-shes-been-through-enough]Trump Won't Pursue Charges Against Hillary: "She's Been Through Enough"[/URL]
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation. Trump reportedly feels that Clinton has "been through enough."
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation. Trump reportedly feels that Clinton has "been through enough."
The fix is onTrump Won't Pursue Charges Against Hillary: "She's Been Through Enough"
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation. Trump reportedly feels that Clinton has "been through enough."
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Trump Won't Pursue Charges Against Hillary: "She's Been Through Enough"
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server or her family’s charity foundation. Trump reportedly feels that Clinton has "been through enough."
Politically it's a smart decision to make that statement but in reality the President doesn't decide what to investigate or who to prosecute. Trump shouldn't interfere one way or the other.
The decision to prosecute mainly rests with the Justice Department and FBI, but it will be hard to prosecute if the FBI has all but closed its investigation.
And the push to get the Electoral College to overturn their votes might not even be any good as because should she get the electoral votes flipped in her favor Trump will fight it tooth and nail...shades of 2000 all over again.
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