“i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” i think to myself, man, y’all really dodged a bullet.

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are you a warrior for free speech, patriot?

that’s a plan, but it’s been a plan for a long time, and best case scenario if somehow you improve it and continually maintain that even in ways that impair the interests of the ruling political party is a decade of lead time. it’s worth doing, on its own terms! but i think we need other ideas too.

what have we got to lose?

meritocracy failed, so we're trying meretrocracy.

may be right, but not very useful. the electorate is what it is. it's what we have to work with. when people look for "reasons" beyond characteristics of the electorate, we are not overcomplicating. we are looking for ideas that might guide useful action.

wait, i don’t get it. who’s today’s main character?

i think the public remains broadly in denial about how dangerous John Roberts’ decision in Trump v United States is.

the mighty fuck around, the meek find out.

funny how the people who claim it’s “the groups” that make it so democrats don’t win somehow seem less exercised by the people who make it possible for them to do all the good and ill they do. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/07/26/i...

even while he is standing for reelection, he is still the sitting president.

Lina would’ve won.

(I think "underconsumption" is a strategic choice. They want a hungry, directable population, not a secure, entitled one. That might be defensible on national capability grounds, but there are real tensions with social welfare that can result in political / legitimacy crises.)

much of my project is how to reconcile what seems to me a plainly successful economic model with implementation in a liberal democracy.

well, Made in China 2025. but China is the emperor of brutal competition. have you read my six-part series? drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/i...

i definitely can’t handle the terms and conditions.