@curtosis no offense to @mattyglesias, but there's some noise in the linked post, adjudication of hobbyhorses about neoliberalism and its definitions and discontents, cross-currents that distract from, and i think perhaps substitute for, the kind of practical discussion you are asking for.
what would it mean to treat electoral outcomes as much stronger mandate to act? in a 50%+ε (at best) democracy, would it become license to screw and oppress 50%-ε? what electoral changes might mitigate this?
"For [DOJ antitrust head] Kanter, mixing advocacy with expertise doesn't create expert advocacy – it obliterates expertise, as least when it comes to making good policy. This mixing has created a 'crisis of expertise…a pervasive breakdown in the distinction between expertise and advocacy in competition policy.'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/#incentives-matter
cf me "Authority minimization" https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/09/authority-minimization/index.html
@curtosis @mattyglesias it's not clear that the alternative of veto points through litigation is more democratic or legitimate, though. i agree that improvements to deeply imperfect US democracy are perhaps the highest priority issue. yet, even in the meantime, things do need to get done, and what the imperfect state does remains much more public spirited than what plutocrats bribe past chokepoints.
"'Dead Internet' is not an inevitable outcome of the various technologies in question--generative A.I. among them--but a condition brought about by the particular arrangement of money and business models." #MaxRead https://maxread.substack.com/p/were-in-our-slop-era
"What we need is a vigorous public sector reform campaign to increase the likelihood that, when elected officials want the government to do X, X occurs in a reasonably timely and cost-effective manner. And the question of whether X is bad is fought out in electoral politics." @mattyglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/shackling-the-state
@marick some gift. i subscribed on a teaser discount because i needed access to some of their (very pretty!) multimedia pieces as part of a correspondence. at cost of a bit of annoyance, their firewall is circumventable for ordinary text. i look forward to not renewing.
It is very hard to affect that Israeli government actions over the past year have been conditioned by any intention to ever find peaceful means of cohabitation with the Palestinian population that currently resides on the territory it controls. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/west-bank-raids.html
“As Milanovic dismissively concludes, neoclassical models of distribution related ‘to life on Earth about as much as the theories that astrobiologists have developed about life on Mars.’” @storracinta reviews #BrankoMilanovic https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/inequality-without-class/
@LesterB99 i see you are part of the conspiracy!
has the Netanyahu government timed its escalation-to-deescalate with Hezbollah in order to deliver an October surprise that might benefit Trump?
“focus on communities, not individuals, as the unit of change.” ~Raj Chetty https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/opinion/kamala-harris-opportunity-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&ngrp=mnp&cbgrp=p&pvid=1C2437CB-C684-49E9-8335-137AF37EC420
i was more proud of the United States back when we had already won the Civil War.
“But as Keynesian economists have long understood, the most important factor in trade flows is changes in incomes, not prices. Far from being fixed, demand is the most dynamic element in the system.” @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/at-dissent-industrial-policy-without-nationalism/
do the people of missouri just not gaf?
famous people love having selfies with famous people so for a whole menagerie of famous people there’s a photograph with whatever famous sociopath is pathing the socios today.
it was just a snapshot, they say. we barely met.
our supreme court are just horrible people.
you see, it’s not that they want to execute a man who may well be entirely innocent.
it’s about states’ rights.
A storm surge warning, a tropical storm warning, and a hurricane watch walk into a sandbar.
Julius Caesar was done with politics.
