Paul Krugman

Catseye3 · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 21:58

I'm not seeing it, either.

jon-nyc · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 21:58

I see it fine.

Renauda · 30 Jun 2020, 23:01

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

Catseye3 · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 22:08

Okay, that's it. Ima do some painting on my street in big yellow letters:

TNCR Lives Matter

jon-nyc · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 22:09

Horace · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 22:16

Yeah but what about all those conservative scientists and academics saying crazy racist murderous things on twitter? Why only cherry pick one progressive Nobel prize winner who says crazy racist murderous things?

jon-nyc · 30 Jun 2020, 23:21

The more I think about it the more I realize it’s a specific reference to the guy from the Villages video (that Trump retweeted) who yelled ‘white power’ repeatedly.

Doctor Phibes · 30 Jun 2020, 23:00

Yeah, it's clearly a reference to the 'white-power' guy, but it's still in very poor taste.

Personally, I feel the world would be a better place without Twitter. It brings out the absolute worst in people.

Catseye3 · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 23:00

@Doctor-Phibes said in Paul Krugman:

Personally, I feel the world would be a better place without Twitter. It brings out the absolute worst in people.

[Nodding.] It cultivates the stupid.

What's disturbing is that even if you could do away with social media in one fell swoop tomorrow, you won't do away with their effects for a very long time, if ever. The alterations will have sunk in too deep to be gotten rid of in less than a generation, at least.

jon-nyc · 30 Jun 2020, 23:19

@Renauda said in Paul Krugman:

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

I posted it as a screen capture image but if you still can’t see it, Krugman tweeted out an article from Bloomberg about Florida seeing an uptick in cases in the 75+ crowd.

But he prefaced it with the comment “Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts”

Loki · 30 Jun 2020, 23:09

Nobel Prize winner reduced to Twitter rants. Hahahahaha

Catseye3 · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 23:05

Maybe the Nobel Prize is like the Oscars; you can have a whole raft of lousy candidates and the least lousy is the winner, and Krugman was the least lousy that year.

Horace · L Loki 30 Jun 2020, 23:02

@Loki said in Paul Krugman:

Nobel Prize winner reduced to Twitter rants. Hahahahaha

He's been maximizing his pop culture fame and approval for quite a while now. It's perfectly reasonable in his own emotional economy.

Renauda · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 23:19

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:

@Renauda said in Paul Krugman:

I see nothing as well. Can someone provide a precis? Jon perhaps?

I posted it as a screen capture image but if you still can’t see it, Krugman tweeted out an article from Bloomberg about Florida seeing an uptick in cases in the 75+ crowd.

But he prefaced it with the comment “Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts”

Yes, I see it now. Thanks.

LuFins Dad · 30 Jun 2020, 23:24

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:

The more I think about it the more I realize it’s a specific reference to the guy from the Villages video (that Trump retweeted) who yelled ‘white power’ repeatedly.

I think the “white power” guy is getting a bad rap. It looked like the other guys were calling them racist and he was kind of mocking it.

jon-nyc · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 23:24

@LuFins-Dad said in Paul Krugman:

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:
I think the “white power” guy is getting a bad rap. It looked like the other guys were calling them racist and he was kind of mocking it.

Well, I didn’t accept that as an excuse with Sarah Jeong, I won’t do it with this guy either.

LuFins Dad · wrote on 30 Jun 2020, 23:40

Sarah Jeong had a history of repeated tweets and quotes. With this guy you have 3 seconds of video with no context before or after.

In college, we had to attend something called Freshman Lab, where there would be a lecture and discussion period about relevant social issues that can affect college students. During the date rape lab, we had this feminazi come in and start the lab stating “Look around this room. There are eight men in here. One of them will rape somebody in college and 4 of the others will want to, but not have the balls to do it” then she went off into a litany of false claims and ridiculous stereotypes. (For context, this was a women’s college at the time. The only men allowed were fine arts majors. 4500 women, 43 men on campus...).

Well, this pissed off the guys as you can imagine, so we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening running around campus yelling things like “Oooh, she’s wearing pants! She’s asking for it!” and similar stupid crap. I could definitely see something like that in this case.

89th · 1 Jul 2020, 16:05

@LuFins-Dad said in Paul Krugman:

@jon-nyc said in Paul Krugman:

The more I think about it the more I realize it’s a specific reference to the guy from the Villages video (that Trump retweeted) who yelled ‘white power’ repeatedly.

I think the “white power” guy is getting a bad rap. It looked like the other guys were calling them racist and he was kind of mocking it.

When I first watched that video, that's exactly how I saw it, too.

Rainman · wrote on 1 Jul 2020, 06:04

Klaus, Jon's posting did work. Please have Jon review all of your posts before you attempt to do so. Bitte

FYI - I'm using Windows 10 and Chrome. As far as I can tell, everything else on the forum works fine. I could try another browser, but that would require me to actually do something useful. Sorry, don't want to go there.
Vielen Dank. Zie zind ausgetseichnet, aber ich can't spell worth a damn in any language. Fabelhaft. Ich bin auslander, so give me a break. Later, dude.

Axtremus · 7 Jan 2020, 11:28

@Doctor-Phibes said in Paul Krugman:

Personally, I feel the world would be a better place without Twitter. It brings out the absolute worst in people.

It first happened with the printing press. It used to be that not only an author had to take a lot time to write out his thoughts, it also took a lot of time to make a copy. So every time a copy was to be made, some one had to think through whether it’s worth the effort to actually do it. A lot of thought was given at the initial creation of a piece of writing, a lot of thought was given at every reproduction of that piece of writing.

Then came the printing press. A lot of thought is given at the ignition creation of a piece of writing, but then only a small number of people give a lot of thought to decide whether to create many copies. Call them the editors and the publishers. It is no longer the case that thought is given to evaluate whether each copy is worth making.

Then came the blogs and electronic bulletin boards. Much less thought goes into the initial creation of a piece of writing, no thinking needed to reproduce copies of that writing — the machines do all the copying. But at least there is still space for careful thought to be expressed in blog posts and electronic bulletin boards.

Now we have Twitter, Facebook walls, and microblogs. Limited by space and convention, even less thought can be captured in each piece of writing in these media. Machines do all the replications instantly at global scale. Whatever filters that exist are limited by “artificial intelligence”, may be AI filters out a few vulgar words and some gruesome pictures, but AI cannot (yet) evaluate the intellectual rigor or the nobility of intention behind a piece of writing, not like the human editors/publishers can anyway.

Still, books continue to exist, new pieces of thoughtful and carefully researched long form writing continue to be created and published, online and in print. We just happen to choose to talk about a much less thoughtful tweet in this instance.

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Paul Krugman