The point is to reveal the different frames of analysis people use to make the decision.

This thought process, “The decision’s already been made, either way it’s always a free $1000,” is one way of looking at it. But another way of looking at it is, “Those who choose one box tend to walk away with more money, so the evidence shows that taking one box is the better approach.” These approaches sort of “talk past each other,” because they’re looking at completely different parts of the problem in order to draw their conclusions, and those different parts indicate very opposing conclusions.

Some version of it could exist. Not with the big numbers and not with the high degree of certainty in the problem, but you could have, say, somebody who’s on average 70% accurate at reading people and the boxes are $1 and $10.

It is somewhat idealist in that it’s a contrived scenario, but it’s really just idle curiosity on my part. Maybe it could reflect something about people’s thought processes, or maybe it’s just people interpreting the question differently.

> Fires the guy whose job was assassinating heads of state

> Gets assassinated

> Guy who got fired gets on the investigative comittee which fucks up the investigation

Who could it be 🤔

Because The Atlantic cannot publish a single article without including a brain-meltingly awful take in it.

McCarthyism to the tenth power

The main job of a conservative influencer is to come up with new ways of saying, “I think we should do the Holocaust” that are palatable to suburbanites.

What a shit take. That’s like saying, “I don’t know how the Church thinks the Inquisition will go when they’ve deviated so far from Jesus’ teachings themselves,” or “I don’t know how Hitler thinks gassing the Jews will work when he has Jewish ancestors himself.”

It doesn’t fucking matter. They can pick whatever label they like, communist, heretic, immigrant, Jew, whatever, and apply it to whoever they feel like and not apply it to whoever they don’t feel like. You are an absolute rube if you think this sort of “gotcha” will slow them down in any way, you’re literally accepting their framing by doing that.

US Stages Fake Coup to Wipe Out National Debt - The Onion

Trying to fund the entire military complex through tariff revenues would mean cutting 3/4ths of military spending, or 5/6th of Trump’s proposed spending.

Maybe they should revisit some old projects, like that time they made plans to blow up the moon but never got around to it.

It turns out that this model of voter behavior where everyone always falls in line behind the “lesser evil” and therefore the best strategy is to take the left for granted while bending over backwards for the centrists, is complete bullshit.

Back in the day (90’s-early 2000’s) it was hard to see how the right would ever really appeal to the younger generation (people were less politically engaged in general). There was no "alt-"right, just the traditionalists and Christian fundamentalists screaming about how Dungeons and Dragons is Satanic and shit like that. Those guys were incredibly lame, and very out of line with the sentiment of young people at that time, which was generally a kind of “free speech absolutism,” brought on by being the first generation with access to the internet. Shock images/videos were common and being able to handle that sort of thing was a point of pride. Pretenses of respect and decorum were stripped away in favor of the raw and unfiltered.

Gamergate was the moment when this energy really began directing itself against left/liberal/minority figures, and took on a more explicitly political character. Because sometimes those people would critique video games and commit the cardinal sin of caring about things, while also sometimes disparaging things that people liked. Certain women became targets of hate in certain communities, and it wasn’t long before rumors started circulating that a female game developer (who was frequent target of hate) got favorable reviews because she was sleeping with the reviewers. Thus the famous line, “It’s not about misogyny, it’s about ethics in games journalism.”

As liberals and leftists were not really on board with all the harassment campaigns and violent threats, and they faced more and more criticism from that direction, and they eventually formed into (or at least formed a key component of) this “alt-right” movement that rejected the pearl-clutching and feigned piety of the traditionalist right, while still hating minorities and progressives and all that.

We also have Latinos for Trump

This is a good point. The Democrats also abandoned the idea that immigration was a moral issue or that building the wall was based on racism, and instead tried to run on, “We’re the real border hawks” and it won over approximately zero moderate conservatives while alienating Latinos.

the Right Wing Podcast pipeline,

Another good point. Right wing podcasters and streamers are often promoted by the GOP, their politicians will go on their shows, even if they aren’t 100% aligned. The good news is, there is one leftist streamer who has a big audience, on a similar level to some of the big rightist streamers, who could have been used to level the playing field at least a bit. The bad news is, because he supports Palestine, the Democrats wanted nothing to do with him, and completely failed to make use of him or even appeal to him.

That sounds nice, but I’d rather place my hopes on a more realistic solution, such as mole people coming up and saving us.

Do you think that supporting the interests of Western Europe is going to result in the US adopting a Western European style constitution? How do you envision this playing out, exactly?

But why should US politics be oriented towards helping people who are already wealthy and secure instead of people who are poor and vulnerable, especially when their situation is our fault?

Why Western Europe’s interests as opposed to the world’s interests? Western Europe is doing relatively fine, it seems to me that I have a greater responsibility to look out for the global poor, especially those who are suffering due to US intervention.

Libs would rather try to get millions of ordinary people to give up their most fundamental moral principles than ask one powerful person to exhibit basic human decency. They essentially treat politicians like gods, to be followed unconditionally. No form of democracy could ever work with such a submissive populace.

That’s if you take what they say at face value, anyway. The reality is a lot of them don’t want to pressure politicians about things like the genocide of foreigners because they don’t genuinely care. They just have to pretend to for rhetorical reasons to appease leftists. If a politician disagrees with them on something they actually care about, they may suddenly find their misplaced spines. Hard to say how many are like that, as opposed to the ones who are genuinely spineless.

No, they appreciate yours.

Anyone who was so deeply involved in the wars in orchestrating the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should be tried as a war criminal. Bush, Cheney, Obama, Biden, Trump, they were all responsible for mass murder and should each receive whatever punishment is deemed appropriate for hundreds of thousands of murder charges.