if you find a rip in your jeans, just put a tariff on it and it will be fine.

Committed R voters yes. They know they benefit from all the flaws in the system, and will try to keep it. But everyone else — including independents who strongly lean R when they have to choose between D and R — hates this system. And committed R voters aren’t numerous enough to preserve it.

That’s why its up to democrats to blow the electoral system up. They could make themselves very popular, capture even deep-R leaning independents, if they promise electoral + other reforms that would enable free entry of new parties, fair competition in single-winner elections, PR for legislatures.

i don’t really sleep anymore, but it’s okay now that our diffusion models can do our dreaming for us.

so corrupt. he has a tremendous personal interest in the domestic vanity industry. arguably he is the largest domestic producer.

racism is really boring.

“is not!”

tbf perhaps i’m credulous or overly generous, but i’ll choose to believe without evidence that he learned something, that for some decades now he’d have understood that direction was a mistake.

i'd be glad to get together with people to talk about it.

sure!

i guess its very common in conversations about electoral systems and comparative politics. most of the parliaments of Europe use some form of proportional representation, for example.

it's not a thing they're making up, it's a term in common usage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proport...

[new draft post] A pocketbook history of postwar US macro regimes https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/25/a-pocketbook-history-of-postwar-us-macro-regimes/index.html

the new york times will ask, how ever did they come to believe such things?

There are not, meaningfully. There are two. Yes there are minor parties, but structurally the American system elevates two parties and punishes anyone who deviates from supporting the closest of those two to their values. And that is a catastrophe for democracy. bsky.app/profile/inte...

do you feel like you are thriving? do you know or encounter people who are thriving?

he solved autism! what more do you want?!?

i guess i don’t think we’d want to include the agents’ welfare in our social welfare function. of course, a social welfare function is an expression of values, so YMMV!