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it’s particularly tedious because I do not operate a surveillance state, and the only reason that I know you did this thing (not voting or whatever) is because *you fucking told me*, it’s absurd to volunteer this information than get huffy and wounded because provokes a reaction you don’t like.

I'm sorry but the idea that any Democrat, Gavin Newsom included, would conduct Operation Metro Surge is completely deranged. It feels like you're trying to gaslight us or something.

I don't feel like editing the meme, but

Never. We don't talk about those freaks

Yeah, it's all irrelevant

So is being willing to throw an election in the face of literal concentration camps

It's the context of the original post

Weirdly, he never made that case so explicitly, though I'm guessing he might admit it in private

It is where you arrive if you really and truly believe in the welfare theorems, I think. But the flip side that you also necessarily arrive at if you buy that argument is that people who cannot work "efficiently" enough to sustain themselves for whatever reason should just die

If you're interested, his claim was that rich people have extremely valuable time, more money means they can outsource more of their day-to-day life stuff and focus on the things they get that big bucks for, and doing so is maximally efficient for everyone

No argument there

Hayek explicitly argued against the idea that money can have declining marginal utility

Depends on the era of Hayek. 1944 Hayek would. 1988 Hayek probably wouldn't. At best, he would concede the point in theory but argue that it's an impossible outcome of a "true" free market economy

Anything to give Sulzberger a stroke

I'd support her on that basis alone.

AOC leading in the polls in a primary will cause a level of elite lib derangement which will make the response to mamdani seem mild mannered and good natured

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

You don't hate the New York Times enough

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Yes, the reason I do not like Gavin Newsom is that I'm not convinced he'll go ham on prosecuting every member of the current administration along with a huge chunk of ICE

Like I agree with you on the trans sports rules! But if my only options are bad trans sports rules that we'll have to work to overturn or *fucking concentration camps*, that's the easiest choice of my life. If it isn't the easiest choice of your life, there's something wrong with you.

I'm really sick of getting scolded by people who think they hold the moral high ground that, actually, trans sports rules (or whatever) is more important than a literal secret police whisking tens of thousands of people away to concentration camps and then deporting them to torture and death

I don't know how to explain to people that elections have consequences beyond their specific pet issue, and that not caring about those consequences is actually pretty shitty.

... then I really don't think you hold the moral high ground that you think you do.

The Democratic party has an extremely good track record of sticking up for trans people's rights.

Not that it matters that much, because if your view is that tens of thousands of immigrants languishing in concentration camps is less important than trans participation in sports...

I think Gavin Newsom is kind of a shitty choice for a number of reasons, but he actually has a legislative record you could look at if you want to know what he would do as an executive

Socialists are not more honest and morally pure liberals. A lot of them are actually real sickos

I wish our idiots were more useful.

If you would vote 3rd party in this situation, you are a really sick person

Yeah, there's essentially nothing that can be done about their existence (and I don't think we'd want to) but I do think there should be very stringent laws about using them for deception