So did I, in January 2020, but the reception was more hostile.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
it was pretty trivial to manage this pandemic with very few casualties. Singapore, taiwan, korea, even japan all did it. China did it. NZ did it to some extent. The West didn't due to lack of social capital and state capacity. Plus insanity.
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There's tons of room to move toward efficient frontier of fighting pandemic AND being more open. Sharp initial restrictions, contact tracing, rapid crash course vaccine development with human challenge trials, vaccinate all elderly. None of this was hard.
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Instead fat elderly rightwingers dying to troll the libs, and libs yelling to put masks on babies on flights.
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(people sometimes have this notion that if we faced a SERIOUS crisis the SERIOUS people would emerge and face it. No. there are no serious people, and to extent there are theyre nowhere near power. We'd all just die, while yelling at each other)
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Replying to @Magus_Janus @RokoMijic
We're nearing the point where every problem is a coup-complete problem.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Magus_Janus
Not sure that would help because a coup selects for dumb people who like violence. See: The January LARP
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon
it's less about the people in charge and more about the concentration of real power. A coup might put better or worse people in charge, but theyd be IN CHARGE. able to do stuff, smart or dumb. Unlike the current chaotic system that can't do almost anything.
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there's SO Much obvious low hanging fruit I suspect a coup that puts even nominally ok people in charge would have positive yield for quite some time. And the logistical/organizational challenge of mounting a coup is sufficient to (usually) weed out those who cant rule.
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Replying to @Magus_Janus @CovfefeAnon
> the logistical/organizational challenge of mounting a coup is sufficient to (usually) weed out those who cant rule. Maybe, though the historical track record on this isn't great. Military coups select for violence, craziness, evil, etc.
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Not really. They're just heavily propagandized against. Franco and Salazar both produced high quality governance. Third world coups don't look as bad if you compare them to what third world "independence" looks like.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Magus_Janus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_miracle … Seems like Franco did a reasonably good job but ultimately failed to secure his succession.
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