I can’t remember where I heard it or the exact wording. But something like: “when they lie, they aren’t saying what they believe to be true. They are saying what would NEED to be true to justify what they intend to do.”
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Even if you somehow managed to find a winning coalition in a gerrymandered district, they will just change the district again so your coalition doesn’t work anymore.
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But nobody will be honest about this. Middle class people who are upset that delivery food is more expensive cannot admit that they prefer a poor underclass. So they pretend the higher wages that annoy them are somehow bad for the poor.
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A real change is that rising wages for the poor have some negative impacts on the middle class.
In developing countries middle class people all have live in nannys for $500 a month. That’s a nice perk. But it isn’t because the economy is good. It is because it is bad.
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The male version would be “She’s never going to be into you: How the people you already hate are responsible for ruining your sex life and why you should give up on pleasing women and become a violent reactionary.”
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And what about the guard’s jobs? How are they supposed to make a honest living imprisoning you if you “non violently” escape. Pretty selfish.
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Of course, they know this. And the students probably know it too.
But putting up a billboard that said: “Reminder: In a pickle, use chatGpt to cheat on your assignments.” Would be gauche.
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Even if it is true that this is a farce, you can’t just demand people look away.
You have to engage with the story or supplant it with something interesting.
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It’s bad for the incumbent when Taco Bell ends an introductory offer. We can model this.
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You can’t stop the outrage by “giving them what they want.” Because what they want is the outrage.