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Very interesting. His comment about the world somehow being worse and hence liberals have more reason to be sad is truly telling about his ability to think clearly. Amazing but this is their narrative.

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The only problem I have with this is the language used. Most people equate "woke", "liberal" and "leftist" identifications when the latter doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the former two. I understand they all frequently get blended together in casual speak though which is pretty careless because it invalidates non-cultural leftism.

Discrediting woke types shouldn't discredit socialism, Marxism, MMT, anti-war and other non-cultural beliefs of the left which have much more practical use and successful track records. The "woke" cultural left unfortunately gives the real left a bad name.

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Perhaps you could clarify your views on climate change. You made a tweet denying the negative impact of global warming for Denmark/Nordic countries and suggested global warming is a good thing. This is a form of climate change denial. This is likely the tweet Lonnqvist read.

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It sounds like the journalist and her publication were reasonably fair to you. Maybe you should pitch some additional clickbaity ideas to her, where she can put you against this Finish researcher. Whenever a publication platforms you, you should take advantage of it.

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Are they looking for a new editor, or will MQ be shutting down?

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It seems unlikely that the counter hypothesis would explain all of the differences between whites and non-whites on the item asking if a health care provider has ever stated one possessed a mental illness. What other mechanisms do you think might be posited as having some explanatory contribution?

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I doubt the world is becoming more leftist. Developments of the last 50 years can be used to suggest the opposite. There was an Islamic revolution in Iran. Soviet Union collapsed and Russia has a traditionalist government in nowadays.Taliban took over Afghanistan. In many countries (India, Hungary, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, etc.) the ruling party is conservative. AFD is growing in Germany. In America, majority of white men (most successful group) are conservative. This has economic and social impacts. For example 70 percent of America’s top executives are affiliated with the Republican Party.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/08/top-business-execs-more-polarized-than-nation-as-whole/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/506765/social-conservatism-highest-decade.aspx

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Hi, is it significant that in the last chart, mental health improves (for European-descent) down to conservative and then rises again for very conservative?

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