Fair enough, this does make me move a bit further in the âoverall a jokeâ direction. But I still think the names basically match his ideological leanings.
Do you mean Bernie Sanders, Peter Thiel, or âAnonymous Mugwumpâ? I canât think of an ideological leaning these three have in common, but I donât know much about Mugwump
Thiel and Sanders donât have much in common, but Scott has stuff in common with Thiel and Sanders. (I.e. he shares broadly pro-market views and skepticism of social justice and feminism with Thiel, and possibly pro HBD views, although I donât know what Thiel thinks about HBD, plus an interest in futurism and progress, and he shares redistributive and anti-blaming the poor for being poor economic views with Sanders.)
My reading of the post (which is contestable) is that he chose the people as a sort of joke about âhere is a controversial or absurdly in-group person I like on this issueâ. I canât prove that reading is correct, but I donât really see another that makes sense of the post. Some of the people are just too boring choices-Yglesias, for the joke to just be that the list is absurd.
Fair enough, this does make me move a bit further in the âoverall a jokeâ direction. But I still think the names basically match his ideological leanings.
Do you mean Bernie Sanders, Peter Thiel, or âAnonymous Mugwumpâ? I canât think of an ideological leaning these three have in common, but I donât know much about Mugwump
Thiel and Sanders donât have much in common, but Scott has stuff in common with Thiel and Sanders. (I.e. he shares broadly pro-market views and skepticism of social justice and feminism with Thiel, and possibly pro HBD views, although I donât know what Thiel thinks about HBD, plus an interest in futurism and progress, and he shares redistributive and anti-blaming the poor for being poor economic views with Sanders.)
Then Iâm sure he has stuff in common with Mugwump as well (and with you, me, and Thorstad)
My reading of the post (which is contestable) is that he chose the people as a sort of joke about âhere is a controversial or absurdly in-group person I like on this issueâ. I canât prove that reading is correct, but I donât really see another that makes sense of the post. Some of the people are just too boring choices-Yglesias, for the joke to just be that the list is absurd.