@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org the US has no interest in, a contrary interest to, participating in a military operation most of the world considers sheer atrocity. Israel misperceives its own interest in considering its conduct of this war advisable. this catastrophe has been in no party’s interest, other than the most amoral sort of Palestinian nationalist who sees mass “martydom” as “worth it” if it advances their cause, which this war certainly has.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org there are questions of deeper interests than a party recognizes of itself. in that sense the US may have been less devoted as an ally. we’ve abetted Israel as it destroys its own project, as well as thousands of innocent lives, simply by giving them what they’ve asked for. absent some sharp change in how they conduct themselves, a decade from now there will be few people left who wish Israel well.
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org being concerned about and supporting the interests of the other.
what if Biden trolled everybody and declared March 31 as the furry day of visibility too and dressed up as the Easter Bunny and bounced around the South Lawn while photo-op kids hunt for colored eggs?
@dpp it’d be quite the dramatization if your device becomes vulnerable and gets pwned while netflix app is streaming the show!
q: why do your focus your criticism on the anti-cthulhu movement, rather than on people working to bring cthulhu upon us?
a: well, look. just about everyone in establishment authority is anti-cthulhu. that kind of monoculture of power is dangerous, while the cthuhists are mostly oddballs and weirdos without access to the levers of the state. therefore it follows that it’s the anti-cthulhists who must be taken down. fight the power.
prediction: a dramatization of the xz backdoor story will be streaming to netflix shortly.
@travisfw great answer.
A fascinating essay by #TannerGreer on Wang Huning as a kind of Chinese Tocqueville of the late 20th Century. Long but worth it. https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/american-nightmares ht #TylerCowen
(fixed broken link, thanks @marick)
Compare with #NSLyons, who frequently offers a much darker take on the views and role of Wang Huning, e.g. https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/10/11/the-triumph-and-terror-of-wang-huning/
to whom have you cozied up?
captchas are ripe for automation. https://gleasonator.com/objects/f2763f22-676e-49e1-b35b-4e30adad65fc
@anneroth under the standard logic of capitalism, high quality parenting needs to become a specialist occupation. it is too demanding for a hobby. it interferes too much with participation in the steep tournaments for wealth and status that now shape our lives.
there's no question that the United States has been a very devoted ally to Israel.
has Israel been a devoted ally to the United States?
it turns out i’m a git simpleton, but so many tips and tricks in this thread. https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112178825295176036
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some senators are attempting to make the patent grift more grifty.
see #AlexMoss #TimiIwayemi https://prospect.org/power/2024-03-29-senators-latest-attempt-enrich-big-pharma/
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@travisfw for a variety of reasons, I don’t think ranked-choice / instant-runoff voting is a great system. i prefer it to the horrible status quo of plurality voting, of course, but i think it has a lot of problems. it’ll take a separate post to explain why. 1/
@travisfw but the thing that maintains the two-party system isn’t the “binary” lack of gradations of approval, but the spoiler effect. approval voting eliminates that. there is never a penalty for expressing your support of the party you most support, in addition (if necessary) to your “approval” of a party you support less, but do not wish to spoil. 2/
@travisfw in all deterministic voting systems, there is some benefit to strategic voting. in approval voting, you still have to think about who you don’t want to spoil. in RCV, you have to think strategically when your first and second choices have similar levels of support. (you can always opt out of thinking strategically, but then your vote may have undesirable effects.) 3/
@travisfw approval voting is a simpler and more predictable game, from a voter’s perspective, and strategic voting never requires you to misstate your preferences (since you cannot rank, you are never compelled to rank an option you like less over an option you like more to avoid a bad outcome). /fin