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The root of my frustration with radical politics is that it's not radical at all. There is no contemplation of what real change would require or look like, or they would all concede that voting and harm reduction are perhaps the most effective tools at their disposal, and should at least be utilized as part of a larger plan, simply because voting in a democracy like America is typically simple. Then we would be in much better circumstances, and many more people would have the license to actually cooperate with visionaries without paying a political price. But instead, the supposed "radicals" have aligned with the premise of doing nothing, and being extremely annoying while also doing that. This makes them nihilists at worst and extremely stupid and lazy at best. But the point remains that they are hardly the demographic you'd associate with getting anything done, or even proposing anything interesting to be done. So you have a situation where the "radicals" are actually just moral scolds that do nothing except annoy people, and that means those that are capable of innovative thoughts or getting anything done will tend to avoid them as a matter of principle. Ironically, this creates a world where we're all very stuck on a path of slow decline, which is not exactly consistent with change or revolution. But then again, explaining to a "radical" the concept of revealed preferences is likely to have you be called incomprehensible psuedo-academic names, so I understand why nobody really bothers.

🚨Ronan Farrow on people in Sam Altman's orbit describing him as a "pathological liar." "We interviewed more than 100 people... a majority of those people really did say some variation on the theme of: he's a pathological liar." "multiple people... used the term 'sociopath.'" "[Altman] was fired by board members and executives who simply felt he was lying too much." "Altman appears to have been doing it [lying] so much that it was all almost anyone could talk about after dealing with him." "[The lies also] included... very minor things... at one early startup he was claiming to everyone he was a champion ping-pong player. And then they played ping-pong in the office, and he was one of the worst players in the office."

You’ll never sell me on the idea that Ds would have been any better off with a primary in 2024. From Oct 2023, Gaza would have taken center stage and the candidate would have had to be a Hamas apologist to avoid having the crowd chant “genocider!” at them.

Keep your hands off of our kids.