am i wrong that the best outcome *politically* (not ethically) for dems is they blink, cave, but only after loudly, persistently, demanding the ACA premium subsidy extension, so that when premia skyrocket it’s salient even to low-ish information voters what happened and who the villain was?
wow.
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listening to a person of such experience, at that age, there's something charming just in the fact and the manner of it.
they took something beautiful, something amazing, and they destroyed it. those of us who know it could rebuild it, but we are only around for so long. via @tylercowen.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida
Link Preview: Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida: Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.
from @xntl.bsky.social, on "the Coase theorem" mchugh-russell.ca/2018/06/07/o...
Text: Let me say all this again: Coase developed a world-changing idea in 1937, simply by trying to think through gaps between the idealizations of economic theory and the realities of business practice; he did not publish an articulation of that idea that ‘took’ until he was 50 years old; the articulation that brought his ideas to fame was only published because a group of well-resourced academics were so convinced he was wrong; for another 30 years, his ideas were put to uses almost completely contrary to those he had intended. It is only now, 15 years after his death, over 50 years since Social Cost, and 80 years after he first developed his original insight, that we can fairly say that his ideas are being put to use in earnest.
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i must be some kind of latte-sipping elite because it is my inclination to be disdainful of any form of appliance politics.
lying about this gives them room to concede with a claim they are not conceding, because they’ve insured that not one penny will go to “illegals”. they can pretend it is they who negotiated a concession from “far-left Democrats” and their Great Replacement army.
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“I want people to understand, agree or disagree with the decisions that the court reaches, that we are engaged in a legal enterprise,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett www.courthousenews.com/barrett-spur...
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if Republicans have any sense, they’ll concede quickly and make a big show about how they, unlike “far-left radical democrats”, value compromise and order and making things work even while they make the budget deficit an albatross around Democrats’ neck. but no one very often accuses them of sense.
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adulthood is diaspora.
Text: To face this successfully may take a fundamental rethinking of the American-style political party, and a move away from a model of political consumerism - in which parties attract voters with minor message tweaks and appeals to identity and self-expression — and toward one of association, where the party is a participatory organization with purpose and structure beyond electing a handful of ambitious people to office.
i wonder if this is the end of history because from now on historians won’t be able to distinguish real from fake sources.
AGI: println(“Cleared of all charges. Have fun out there!”)
wait, so is this the purge?
“Remember, you’re not just performing an idea, it’s your life. It’s who you are.”
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Was Trump I a RINO?
not about this, as far as i can recall.
i still lurk there, and my twitter "For You" feed is now full of stuff related to a thing i've never discussed publicly, but have Googled, Clauded, and ChatGPTed about. so fucking creepy.
(i've perpexitied too, just to be fair.)
violence perpetrated by the state is not “political violence” bc the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence, violence of the state is presumptively legitimate. when it no longer is presumptively legitimate, one no longer has a state, just multiple deployers of violence contending for legitimacy
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