Mutual A

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dgnCab...

the number of people in each ideology bucket isn't uniform – very lib is 15%, lib is 19% and moderate is 32% of the 3113 people surveyed – nonetheless

this was the conclusion that analytic marxists like adam przeworksi came to – democracy is a system in which parties lose at elections – roughly around the time he stopped being a marxist IIRC

Woozle effect The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility

I had to look this up

polymarket has not put up "will X figure die by Y date", however they do have "will X official be out of office by Y date"

oh boy i love living in a world where the geopolitical equivalent of assassination markets exist

have you read Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders?

the people who do the logistics work to organize rallies get to set the tone of them because they control who gets to speak, the order, etc

i dunno they might be too dumb to implement the temporary labor system that dubai has

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

??? what if the century started a quarter in??

"this machine kills fascists"

so you want to emulate a slave/petro state... without slaves or petroleum

Markets in the Name of Socialism | Stanford University Press The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Fri...

you gotta read www.sup.org/books/title?... sometime

"missile defense is american"

next installment of the terminator series is a dark workplace comedy

engels, of course, would have been an unapologetic simp for various sex workers on the platform

if marx was on twitter or tumblr prior to 2016, he would have 100% have had a greek or roman statue avatar at some point that he would have changed

cut the necessary cheques to make sure that call of duty and madden games drop around election day every four years

on one hand dipshit mccarthyism is bad, on the other, amazing marketing opportunity for @rechelon.bsky.social 's book

it would help people be Less Wrong about the right

damn you should write a sequence on that idea

was reading kropotkin yesterday and

wrote something on this last year wedontagree.net/technically-...

the thing is that in the immediate wake of it he *still* didn't grasp what motivates the right or how it works

see this essay in which he tries to "well-askually" american white nationalists who claim caring about other people is soy yet also fostered outrage about grooming gangs in britian

nathan robinson's where he pointed out that alexander doesnt actually engage with POC or women social justice writers and that he only sincerely engaged with robinson, an educated white dude, was spot on
www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/03...

its ecomodernism you wouldn't get it

alexander wrote a (paywalled) mea cupla after trump won in which he whined about annoying it was that the social justice types were completely right about trump (he *severely* downplayed the threat back in the day)

yeah he personally sucks but its (unfortunately) good writing