ok I read the scott piece holy shithttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Without even reading it - it's from Scott so it'll be full of "stop opposing the good progressivism that I like and get in line behind Bolshevism" with a dose of reality reversal to make progressives look good. ... and a quick skim, yep, confirmed on the reality reversalpic.twitter.com/4ulSu6LyrD
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @eigenrobot
My first guess was inaccurate - instead he proposes a bunch of "solutions" to building a political coalition that could never work because the current system will simply ignore that coalition even going to the extent of openly faking election results.
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Ok well besides democratizing, we don’t have a whole lot of options.
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Pretending that options exist when they don't is a strategy if you want to delay or lull people into complacency. "Well have you even *tried* the Scott Alexander approach?"
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