@realcaseyrollins Nondemocracies often are governed by minorities who do not forge consensus or make reciprocal compromises with opposing factions. Nondemocracies often do not tolerate political movements to exist, let alone win.
@lori you get to vote for cutting medicaid because that’s what your party wants to do but you evade the criticism that the effect will be to close hospitals that even some of your better-off / better enfranchised constituents rely upon.
the cost of stabilization fund is probably smaller than the medicaid cuts, so you can still claim net “savings” (although the costs in health will dwarf any financial savings, and the financial savings might be eaten by expensive mandatory ER care).
@isomorphismes not my self-conception, among that “we”!
a democracy progresses less by factions winning fights than by forging agreements encompassing mixes of consensus and reciprocal compromise.
i know that’s hard to imagine now that we’ve bifurcated into mirror image caricatures of ourselves.
maybe the reason for that spat with Trump is he was off his meds at the time.
X should brand its stablecoin, all of its financial products, “Starship”.
suppose you cut medicaid, but create a “stabilization fund” to hold hospitals harmless, prevent rural hospitals from shuttering.
all you’ve done is created income for hospitals without requiring—or even allowing—them to actually do the work of helping those who would have been medicaid recipients.
there is so much to be done that has to be done by people, and so many people doing little or doing a lot of little real value.
large language models have not changed this basic situation. we miss this because our current economy, lethargic with incrementalism, has a lot of people doing automatable work less valuable than less automatable work they might be doing.
now it’s based to be cringe and cringe to be based.
it will be a real escalation of the troll wars when Iran issues an evacuation warning for NYC.
English the language seems still on the rise despite the collapse of the anglosphere as aspirational.
in practice isn’t the “appeal to heaven” usually an appeal to hell?
@light Please refer to our terms of service.
@artcollisions if they do, you can have another free post. i'm not a monster.
You'd think the big, America First interest in an Israel-Iran War would be its containment, ensuring it does not expand to become a resource-draining commitment or a larger conflagration that threatens American lives and property.
This is your last free post.
they called it the web without ever saying who's the spider, who's the fly.
they called it reels, but who's the fish, who's the worm, who's the man with the big long barbed rod?
this post is an evacuation order for planet earth. if you choose to disregard this warning, well, that’s on you.
we’re flying and i just had to reassure my kid it’ll be an airbus. not from me, from news or youtubes or whatever he’s become fearful of boeings.
@beadsland make’s sense.