People seem so far to have relied on a nebulous idea of "public opinion" or "popular resistance" without specifying who or how
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That old teenage thought experiment: what could someone do if they actually didn't give a shit about anything but being physically stopped
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In (ha ha) game theory terms: All equilibria for the iterated prisoner's dilemma fail for a prisoner's dilemma with a finite number of turns
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A finitely iterated prisoner's dilemma collapses trivially into the single-move prisoner's dilemma, with the dilemma fully intact
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In layman's terms, the whole "Be a nice person so people will be nice to you" thing collapses when you know you're gonna die
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For Trump the game is almost over in any case. He's not long for this world. What the fuck does he care about consequences, or the future
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In the LONG RUN a sufficiently horrible regime will discredit and destroy its party for generations but Trump doesn't care about the GOP
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All the theories about "mutually assured destruction" assumed the "rational actors" were nation-states that could live forever
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But nation-states are run by people, who most certainly can't live forever
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I think a lot about how in his dying days Mao ranted in his journal about how he felt communism in China had failed to live up to his dreams
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And only a massive nuclear war would cement his legacy, win or lose
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