@nickcoccoma.bsky.social
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Just turned them on and ran it--came out at 32.4.
06.02.2026 03:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Models were off.
06.02.2026 03:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Huh. When I ran it last night, came out at 44% and I freaked.
05.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Depraved.
28.01.2026 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Damnit, John, just as I was resolved to high tail it for Canada, this thing is saying don’t freak out. But does it factor in a mad king who could escalate to a catastrophe every other week and now has his own SA?
28.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So the lower the number, the better (for democracy)? Sorry, I stupid.
28.01.2026 14:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pointed to Paxton's hypothesis myself 3 years ago: open.substack.com/pub/nickcocc...
27.01.2026 03:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see our friend Terry Bouricius make the case for sortition in Jacobin.
#sortition #democracy
jacobin.com/2025/12/sort...
ProtonMail?
15.11.2025 22:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a grotesque insult to the Union dead who lie in a cemetery right on the battlefield. So much for not dying in vain.
15.11.2025 21:22 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0If you ever wondered what you would do in 1930s Germany, you have your answer. This is a spiritual emergency and we have to summon all our courage. We know what happens inside #Broadview is torture. For me it’s simple - I wouldn’t stay silent if they locked Jesus up there, and I won’t be silent now
15.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 394 🔁 182 💬 10 📌 3
Best profile of Buttigieg and the danger he represents is @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social’s piece from 2019:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/03...
Buttigieg will do the same if he’s the nominee in ‘28, and, like Harris, he will lose. Or at best barely win and be another Biden (who considered Buttigieg his surrogate son.)
15.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Key to this is making it sound like the Dems ran on identity politics in 2024 and that’s what caused their loss. When it fact Harris lost because she ran precisely as another neoliberal in the Clinton mild. She couldn’t speak to the material conditions off voters in the most basic sense.
15.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You have to understand, Buttigieg is a creature of neoliberalism, a Manchurian candidate for capital. He worked for McKinsey for God’s sake. His job is to seduce liberals away from the Sanders wing with his smooth talk and “intelligence.”
15.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Constitution is very anti-democratic, as it uses elections—which all political philosophers have called an aristocratic practice
Democracy uses sortition, or lottery. Trump is being stopped by juries, which use sortition. Trial by jury is the only true democratic piece of the constitution
What? It’s one of the great political satires of our time. And the ending is fine.
05.11.2025 21:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our very own @nickcoccoma.bsky.social joined The Democratic Constitution Blog to ask a basic question: what is democracy? (Hint: It's not elections, parties, or parliament.)
#democracy #citizensassembly #sortition #constitution
assemblingamerica.substack.com/cp/173659014
And it might occur to Lofgren to consider that perhaps it’s the very antidemocratic nature of our political and economic system that contributed to so many people opting for a strongman who promised to make them rich and powerful.
24.08.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Didn’t say it’s not hugely concerning that he has so much support. Just that it’s wrong to blame democracy for his ascent to power.
24.08.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0THAT’S what liberal commentators have huge difficulty admitting: that the constitution gave us Trump, precisely because of its antidemocratic design. If you picked 600 Americans by lot and brought them together to deliberate, with expert information at their hands, we’d not be in this situation.
24.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s the precisely the anti-democratic features of our system and constitution that allowed this: the Electoral College; the Senate, the Supreme Court; narcissistic elitist politicians; the party system; and elections themselves—which are and always have been aristocratic devices.
24.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually this is lazy and confused. How can you blame democracy for Trump when he lost the popular vote in 2016 by tens of millions of votes? And when a majority today is opposed to him and his policies?
24.08.2025 15:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0www.assembleamerica.org
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