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feet of clay. Daniel 2:33
Sic semper tyrannis
- KBJ continues to be one of the most incisive justices.
- This is exactly the kind of thing a consultant tells them to do. It comes with an expensive payment (to the plane rental company) so they can get 20% of a large payment as a fee. And it’s the kind of thing they would see in a New Yorker cartoon and maybe momentarily chuckle, so it’s “clever”.
- A plane banner is a couple thousand bucks. No political consultant is scrounging around for a few hundred dollars. This isn't a TV ad.
- Dear neuroscientists, The brain cannot generate information about the world de novo, it's impossible. All the brain can do is: 1. Selectively remove info that is irrelevant. 2. Re-emit info previously absorbed via evolution or memory. Our brain never "creates" information. Never. 🧠📈 🧪
- I'm having trouble grasping this. For instance, is the name of the 267th pope information about the world?
- This is why I get so skeeved out by people saying we need a Dem tea party, we need a Dem contract with America, we need Dems to do what has worked for republicans. Selecting for those things you *like* that republicans do (which, lol) likely selects for a bunch of other shit you don’t.
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View full threadbut primarying democrats IS democracy. These are the tools that the constitution has laid out for us when a party no longer listens to their constituents.
- One critical point, primaries and political parties are not mentioned in the Constitution. Freedom of assembly gives political parties the right to organize themselves however they wish, even undemocratically, free of government interference.
- i kind of don’t see when Tim Onion and Kat Abu had a window where it wouldn’t have seemed really awkward to disclose their relationship most obvious point was when she declared she was running and that would have stepped on the announcement I think
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- Herd behavior suggests clique rather than considered support. But even given that Collins went over the top in his cheerleading.
- The relationship explains his weirdly strident support of her campaign. Speaking up for your partner makes a lot more sense.
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- Are you referring to Snyder vs US? That restricted the term "bribe" under 18 U.S.C. § 666, not the term "corruption." Terms matter.
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- No, that is not the heart of the matter. We label the major organ of a circulatory system the "heart."
- "Essence" and "function of" suggest eidos, the ancient Greek theory of ideal forms. The theory is not compatible with science and modern reason. The world of forms is not the actual world outside of us, it's an imaginary world we construct.
- Please listen to political scientists & David Brooks, President Biden. Here's Brooks: "You know, I think he's empirically wrong [that he would have won the election]. @kamalaharris.com ran about as good a campaign as she could. She was saddled with the Biden legacy, an unpopular presidency."
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View full threadShe significantly improved both turnout and support vs where Biden was at.
- Harris is a great candidate with a different coalition than Biden. With more time she could have expanded her coalition and won. Her results don't tell us much about Biden's chances.
