@kentwillard i think there’s some possibility of his doing the right thing after exhausting every other alternative. China’s leadership has a foolish aversion to “welfarism”, but the solution to China’s current downturn is just a few checks away, in the form of endowing greater demand by the general public.
“if China’s central government has fiscal space—and it uses that space in way that gives households the confidence to spend more—China might be able to recover from its property downturn on its own, without relying even more on exports.” #BradSetser https://www.cfr.org/blog/beijing-still-has-fiscal-space
Leaves most of the country well above sea level. https://xkcd.com/2992/
@kentwillard right. i think you just want to give the local newspeople an excuse, that local hook, and then give them a real interview. it'll be the biggest moment of their career. absent overtly political pushback from Sinclair or something, it will get aired.
@kentwillard It’s the interviews, though, that get most of the reach from people not already so much your base, no? Would local media refuse the interviews, even if they weren’t attached to local rallies? Just visit the local hot dog shop as their hook? You could fit a lot more shop visits and short interviews than a rally that occupies at least half a day, with all the logistics.
MEMORANDUM
To: Trump/Vance Campaign HQ, Walz Oppo
Re: Closeted Furry?
does Israel attack Iran directly (perhaps strikes on facilities related to their nuclear program) before November 5?
are campaign rallies an effective form of campaigning?
i feel like Israel’s strategy at this point is to try to mow a really, really big lawn.
if Gavin Newsom is ever in a Democratic primary contest, just haul out a list of all the bills he’s vetoed as governor.
sometimes i confuse lambent and limpid.
when you’re young, you want to thrill yourself. when you’re old, you want to calm yourself.
@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer you really need to start a mutual fund.
a short conversation with claude.ai, reproduced in full.
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@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer i don’t know that they will ever come to eat anything more than a good meal, though.
a contemporary variant of “drown the truth in a sea of lies” is “cry wolf so loud and often that when the wolf arrives no one will listen”
[new draft post] Industrial policy without national champions https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/27/industrial-policy-without-national-champions/index.html
“There are many traditions of democratic thought, but any compelling account of democracy today, we think, will describe it as having at least two important requirements. One is the polity’s collective capacity—for example, in the form of public administration—to achieve common goals. The other is a measure of material equality that enables citizens to make credible claims about what those goals ought to be.” #AmyKapczymski https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/industrial-policy-as-democratic-practice/
it’s not the quantity of news that overwhelms me, but the direction.
“The Supreme Court made matters worse by further expanding the interpretation of “confidential business information” in a controversial 2019 ruling. Justice Department guidance now gives federal agencies permission to call almost anything they receive from private industry confidential, as long as the government does not explicitly say it will publish the information when it receives it.” #LaurenHarper https://freedom.press/news/government-hides-its-best-hurricane-predictions/