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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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @eigenrobot
Is he trying to pretend that Trump wasn't effectively an old school populist coalition?
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Replying to @The_WGD @eigenrobot
Of course. "Populism has some great critiques, have they ever tried doing exactly what they're doing but not getting the message filtered through a hostile press or maybe accepting expert pandemic guidance like 'quarantines and travel restrictions don't work'?"
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Replying to @HbdNrx @CovfefeAnon and
Reading it made me mad because of various bad faith characterizations but after calming down I think in 10 years we’ll see it like the NRx-in-a-nutshell
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @HbdNrx and
TBF, prediction markets would have also fixed the epidemiologists-being-institutionally-in-hock-to-being-opposed-to-closing-borders problem.
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"Hey, the markets are predicting that if we don't drop our objection to effective tests to screen entrants and cut off international travel immediately then there'll be a plague - better conduct some market interventions" The system being wrong isn't an accident.
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