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A guy called me an imbecile on Twitter. This guy is apparently a noted and respected economist. It was a one-word tweet in reply to me questioning whether a guy who's been on TV with Ron Paul can really be called "non-political."
The same guy is responsible for the diagram below. It is probably deeply profound if you have drunk the financier kool-aid, but I'm still giggling over it. It looks just like the webpage of every frantic webkook who's ever tried to persuade me I'm an idiot for not believing Space Reptiles control the US government.
(I know space reptiles and they've all got better things to do.)
FAT TONYISM?!?
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@zebratron2084 I have read character relationship diagrams about Rumiko Takahashi romance manga that were both more readable and less confusing than this diagram. Where do Little Endians and Big Endians fit in, I wonder?
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@hystericempress The desire to break out some mindmapping software--or MS Paint--and toss off a parody of it is just overwhelming tbh...
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@zebratron2084 this looks like a wiki walk from hell that is absolutely not worth verifying any of.
could've written any ol' people's names into those ovals and nobody would dare actually try to read them
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@KitRedgrave I like how it doesnt so much convey any specific ideas, so much as convey knowing a lot of other people have had ideas, and how impressed you should be.
There is a nonzero chance this guys ideas are also valuable, but (a) this chart does nothing to establish that and (b) all the years i spent as a transcriptionist for the boston financial sector do NOTHING to persuade me that a compleye crackpot couldnt establish a very strong reputation in that world.
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@zebratron2084 I feel like this this hitting near the same levels as Timecube or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.
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@zebratron2084 this reads as an attempt to snow the reader such that they’ll concede to the presenter’s intellectual superiority. To be fair I’m biased by this economist’s reaction to you, but all this reads as “someone with pet theories which so happen to coincide with making them *awesome*.” My impression of economics is that it’s way more flexible - and profitable - for such than the sciences.
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Oooh, Simpsons references taken far too seriously! That's where you're a Viking!
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@zebratron2084 i can't decide whether Genealogy of the Incerto would be better as a band name or an album title, but i really want to use it somewhere