Twitter doesn’t lend itself to nuanced arguments. But here are a few arguments that don’t require nuance, because one side is so obviously right.
- The best beer in the world comes from Belgium.
- But Italy is the best country in Europe, by any definition.
- The average European is more racist than the average American, and by a lot.
- The main, often only, reason some European countries seem better-run than the US is that they are small and no one cares about what’s going on there.
- There is no good use case for cryptocurrencies, and bitcoin is Amway for men.
- Silicon Valley won’t “solve” healthcare, it will at best make it bad in a different way.
- The original Iron Man is still the best Marvel movie.
- Gravity Falls is the best general-audience cartoon series ever made.
- Christopher Nolan made some good Batman movies but ruined the DC franchise.
- Hans Zimmer is to movie soundtracks what Johny Ive is to industrial design: too much of a thing that is not even that good.
- You don’t need to have made a movie to know whether one is well-made.
- You don’t need to have designed a clinical trial to know whether one is well-designed.
- Having said that, nobody likes a self-appointed critic, unless they are also self-effacing.
- Randomized controlled trials are the best — and often only — way to find out whether a medical intervention works.
- It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair)