The Matt Bruenig "It's a turn-based game" thing is totally indefensible if only because four years is a really long "turn" and none of us is smart enough to predict everything that could happen in that timehttps://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/1237446906831388673 …
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Not only that, it's a bad take that somebody gets around to making EVERY SINGLE TIME. "Worse is better" is the ur-clickbait from at least a century before there were clicks.
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Yeah, in 2016 it was Zizek. I am not predicting biden is gonna move any more than an inch to improve the financial divide, but there is a lot of other important ways that hurting oneself... you know, hurts, and it isn't altruistic and egalitarian pain.
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And the only reason the let-em-score strategy comes into play is if the clock is under 2 minutes . . . Surely [we hope] those proposing election as a game don't actually want to add the doomsday / hard time limit aspect to their theory.
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Yeah if you want to extend this analogy too far then letting them score in the last minutes of the game is left accelerationism "Global warming is about to destroy all life on Earth and the only way to stop it is to let the Republicans fuck up so much we get a revolution"
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It's also the thesis behind Walker Bragman's obscene 'the liberal case for trump' article.
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