Maybe a good lesson from the Indians, find a way to use as much as possible from your prey
Maybe a good lesson from the Indians, find a way to use as much as possible from your prey
Lol, there’s no way in hell your decision on how to vote was ever going to be swayed by the civility of Lemmy comments
Oh no, this’ll definitely get me killed
Damn, made this joke too late
Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome priest vice president
Because it’s made of people
No, see, he has a bunch of kids, so maybe he’s proposing she adopt one of them.
That’s better, right???
The search term? What is it?
Who says it’s unauthorized? I set the pressure
I occasionally have copy/paste issues, but it’s most often with electron apps as well.
Before killing yourself, it’s your responsibility to kill your children
Ostensibly his supporters do
“It’s just a fact of life” he says in only country where this happens regularly
Something that i think is important to understand about this, and while Grey does mention it, its brief and towards the end, is that this framework isn’t unique to governments. These patterns show up in human organization at basically every level.
So I’m going to push back on the idea that
this is horrible and this system should be abolished
Depending on what “this system” means to you.
I think it’s much more useful to understand the incentives at play and build systems that minimize the damage consolidated power can do, and limit the ability for power to accumulate. That is… very much easier said than done, but I think it’s needed effort.
That’s right.
While the video is a good summary of the framing of the book (the selectorate theory of politics), I still recommend reading the book if you find the topic interesting. They go into a bunch of case studies on how you can apply the framing in wildly different circumstances, and make a very compelling case for how increasing the numbers of participants in a system improves the outcomes for everyone involved.
This video, and the book it’s based on, unironically started my transition from neoliberal to democratic socialist.
Which I think is funny, because I don’t think the authors, Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alistair Smith, are particularly leftist.
Pretty sure it’s a hip bone X-ray of someone without a spine
Now he is behind Trump
Always has been
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