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    1. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @HMBrough_ @sgodofsk and

      A large fraction of the deficit in trustworthiness and competence is that they chose ineffective or less effective and widely painful strategies while avoided highly effective strategies like centralized quarantine and travel bans.

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    2. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @HMBrough_ and

      right conditional on, it's March 2020 and we are going to have some kind of non-pharmaceutical intervention because lol no we're not just going to take the logan's run option and let all the olds die, lyman's idea (which is what vietnam did) is way less disruptive

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    3. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Aug 9
      Replying to @sgodofsk @AlexGodofsky and

      and IDK about other states, but in Virginia it's also way more clearly within the governor's remit under the constitution and applicable statutes. Quarantine is one of the most ancient powers of government, literally dating back millenia, it's not at all unprecedented.

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    4. Steven Godofsky‏ @sgodofsk Aug 9
      Replying to @sgodofsk @AlexGodofsky and

      but I sense the objection is not to how mean it is to put a lien on someone's house, but to making any lifestyle adjustments whatsoever to a pandemic

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    5. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @sgodofsk @HMBrough_ and

      eh a lot of people are understandably very mad at the smug way lyman emphasized that the state can impose extremely coercive measures on them without inviting the risk of violent reprisal but well that is the world we live in and he was correct about the facts

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @sgodofsk and

      im not sure that he is

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    7. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk and

      Speaking to the specific context here - that the state can impose ruinous consequences against you, consequences that will coerce compliance out of a large and sufficient fraction of the population, simply through the financial system, is correct, and that you have no recourse.

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    8. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

      That is correct. The things preventing the state from doing that are *not* your ability to individually resist, but democratic forces.

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    9. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

      I am not particularly gleeful about this state of affairs but I think it is an effective refutation to the "you can't enforce compliance" arguments against centralized quarantine.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

      And, I do believe that a better expert class, the expert class we claim to want, would have implemented policies like this, and it would have been effective and saved both lives and liberty. They probably would not have needed to go Full Lyman in terms of enforcement mechanisms.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 9
      Replying to @AlexGodofsky @sgodofsk and

      i dont think state capacity of this sort actually exists in the united states, and anyone who tried to use this sort of coercion would quickly discover this and you should probably hope im right

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        2. Alex Godofsky‏ @AlexGodofsky Aug 9
          Replying to @eigenrobot @sgodofsk and

          I think the "lack of state capacity" and the complaints we have about the "elites" are, in this circumstance, the same thing.

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        3. Squirrels in space‏ @squirrelspcsuit Aug 9
          Replying to @AlexGodofsky @eigenrobot and

          "Is the state capable of overwhelming resistance to do this" + "is there a sufficient level of trust in the ruling class to think this is tractable" ?

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        1. Ourania, top retard² PhD‏ @ouranometrian Aug 9
          Replying to @eigenrobot @AlexGodofsky and

          Given the last year it appears one half of the US population is okie dokie with authoritarian coercion. The other half are not. It also appears to have nothing to do with left vs right.

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Aug 9
          Replying to @HMBrough_ @AlexGodofsky and

          I dont even think its a matter of fairness, i dont think they could do it at all

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        1. ؜‏ @nicholatian Aug 9
          Replying to @eigenrobot @AlexGodofsky and

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          supporting 100% tax so people can learn how little the government accomplishes with the money it has supporting a 0% tax so people can learn how unimaginative and out of touch most billionaires and all corporations are
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