John Brown stan account
Radical liberal. Aspiring re-education camp counselor.
Look down the game tree. What's at the end of all those off-equilibrium paths?
- "We just need to triangulate harder" is a maddening position to read when Republicans are consistently rewarded for doing things that would have been considered career-ending even 10 years ago.
- Reposted by John Brown stan accountRealizing it's been 8 years since I posted this and crumbling into dust
- I voted for John Ewing before it was cool (in the 2012 NE-2 race)
- I think the main takeaway here is that almost every tech CEO is a self-important little pervert who should not be allowed to make business decisions.
- It seems that, conservatively, 98% of people cannot separate "I don't like that person" from "I disagree with that person's claim".
- Reconstruction southerners be like "I hate these Yankees, coming down here, helping black people vote and building an economy not based chattel slavery"
- I really hate the idea of a "carpetbagger" in politics. Two reasons: 1) Nothing wrong with being a transplant! 2) The carpetbaggers were the good guys in the Reconstruction south.
- Not to beat a dead horse, but "It's not corruption unless there's an explicit quid pro quo" should tell you everything you need to know about the state of the New York Times
- One of the key insights of economics is that if your extrapolation from existing trends involves total economic collapse, it probably won't happen
