Amanda retweeted
Imagine if serving in government was as prestigious as landing a job at Google.
In Finland and Singapore, it basically is. Public service is seen as a privilege, a place where the most ambitious people go to solve the biggest problems.
That’s the culture we should be striving for.
Amanda retweeted
Rutger Bregman's Reith Lectures are terrific, a must-listen.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002n0…
Amanda retweeted
The first Reith lecture was delivered by Bertrand Russell. Rutger Bregman is a worthy successor. This is worth listening to if you want to think about ideas more basic than our day to day lives.
youtu.be/tAhJkMi_V2Y?si=V_uy…
Amanda retweeted
I'm 22-years-old, the same age as Tyler Robinson... and I believe we have a bigger problem here. Young men are being radicalized by the internet at an unprecedented rate, which was only accelerated by COVID's isolation + foreign actors trying to incentive this type of radicalization.
I've seen it happen to many of my friends - young men spending their formative years clawing back from COVID isolation, usually spending too much time deep in algorithms.
Now, people are debating whether Tyler Robinson was a far leftist or a groyper (all indicators point to him being a far leftist who was Republican just 2-3 years back) but here's the reality: IT DOES NOT MATTER. Another young white male who looks eerily similar shot up a high school at the SAME TIME Kirk was shot.
It does not matter that he was a leftist - he was only at the whims of the algorithm that was radicalizing him, that algorithm could have just as easily introduced him to Nick Fuentes. Half of his bullets had MEMES on them, this was not some ideologue was confident in his views.
