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ted whalen
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certainly the best band to appear on the Karate Kid soundtrack
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ted whalen
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certainly the best band to appear on the Karate Kid soundtrack
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ted whalen
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Gang of Four: underrated band, or MOST underrated band?
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ted whalen
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i dunno, i've spent my entire adult life in Chicago, and I can probably count on one hand the number of races in which my vote could possibly have mattered, and yet somehow me and a million other people keep showing up
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ted whalen
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people go to the polls in vast numbers to vote in elections whose outcomes were never in question with no illusion that their vote will be difference-making
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ted whalen
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i'd defer to some sort of study, but i'd guess that most people's primary self-reported motivation and experience of voting (historically at least) is primarily related to a legitimation function (I'm exercising citizenship / I'm participating / It's my duty) and isn't related to outcome or result
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ted whalen
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I still don't think that's quite right - we can imagine democracies using much more representative and efficient winner-choosing methods than elections, so there must be other criteria at play
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ted whalen
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i'd be able to talk about it more sensibly if i could remember anything from grad school
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ted whalen
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i completely disagree - the point of voting, whether on a committee or in an election, is to create legitimacy, even (or especially) when the outcome isn't in doubt
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ted whalen
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"democracy leads to socialism" is an article of faith on both the Right and the Left
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ted whalen
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also it seems to me that in general, an "elections are practical" argument depends on elections also being competitive, which seems to sort of depend on Hotelling's law being true, which also sort of implies that it actually doesn't matter much who wins
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ted whalen
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ted whalen
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we're not theoretically well equipped to deal with a series of elections with increasingly cartoonish versions of Evil Dave Sheldon on the ballot, making each one not just a choice between options but a plebiscite on the continuation of the system
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ted whalen
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"Governor, you have the vote of every thinking person!" / "That's not enough, madam; we need a majority!"
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ted whalen
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like, it's not _my_ job to win the election for Joe by being the marginal vote, it's _Joe's_ job to win the election by mobilizing enough voters
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ted whalen
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i can't quite express it but i don't think "I and other like-minded fellow voters are engaged in a collective project" isn't how voting has usually been theorized? isn't it more "candidate X or party Y is engaged in the project of convincing at least N+1 individuals to vote in their favor"?
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ted whalen
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game theory suggests that i should lie about whether i vote or not and also publish op-eds discouraging voting
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ted whalen
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I also don't think voting is a true collective action problem. the fewer people vote, the more my vote counts. the best strategy for me is to continue voting while also trying to suppress other voters.
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ted whalen
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i'm still all little fuzzy on the ethics when it's not just "if we do all pull together" but "if (and only if) we do all pull together"
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ted whalen
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getting to say "I was in the stands the night Jordan put up 69 points" for the rest of your life, as though you had anything more to do with it than someone who watched on TV
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ted whalen
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i'm on the completely opposite side - voting is an imaginative act comparable to cheering on a sports team in person or buying a lottery ticket: the true value isn't in the "expected value" or actual impact on events
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DataMade is a great place for beginning or early developers to learn and grow (and stay).
We work on really good, really interesting projects.
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ted whalen
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the menswear guy on twitter says we can wear shorts again
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ted whalen
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isn't some of this is still on the table, though, with no party having an absolute majority? i could imagine Macron's party refusing to take a junior position in any coalition led by the Left, preferring instead to temporarily prop up a very weak Left government that can't achieve any policy aims
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ted whalen
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every time i hear this song i have the urge to google "spike lee paintings"
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ted whalen
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25+ years later I still feel like he should have gone with "shoot" instead of "paint"
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Levi Stahl
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Diving right into vacation with a backyard viewing of Hail, Caesar! in @introvert.net’s backyard. The love that suffuses that movie is Dickensian.
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ted whalen
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“We need to be compltely nihilistic about everything except winning” is the move, but you don’t come out and attempt to _prove_ your approach will win, instead you accuse your opponent of potentially having a principle
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ted whalen
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My favorite election discourse this week has been people on both sides of the Biden replacement argument trying to deploy “your approach is stupidly based on ideals but mine is cynical and focused narrowly on victory”
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ted whalen
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for instance, I don't think there's a law on the books that requires American soldiers to report their superior officer to authorities if they issue an illegal order
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ted whalen
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i'm making a more technical point that i've seen no evidence that american soliders have a positive duty to refuse an illegal order. illegal orders create a defense to a charge of failing to obey an order, and negate a defense to a criminal charge, but don't create an independent duty, as far I know
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ted whalen
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his defense of "i was following an order i reasonably believed to be legal" didn't succeed, but the underlying crime was doing murders, not following orders
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ted whalen
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I don't think that's true - Lt. Calley was convicted of personally murdering 22 civilians, not "failure to refuse an illegal order"
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ted whalen
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that is to say, I don't think they're "required not to follow illegal orders", I think they're "not required to follow illegal orders"
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ted whalen
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I'm not convinced that there's actually a written rule that applies to the US Military that states that officers or enlisted are "supposed to refuse illegal orders". I think instead that "the order was unlawful" is established as a defense in a court martial for refusing to obey an order.
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Adam Kotsko
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"Beethoven?! Fuck that shit! John! Philip! Sousa!"
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ted whalen
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Seems to me it’s the people who retweet something you’ve already seen twice that need to be blocked
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ted whalen
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Hot take: he shouldn’t vote and he should encourage people who share his beliefs to also not vote
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ted whalen
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also bribing (or attempting to bribe) the president is still illegal, so now when you bribe him he also gets to blackmail you over it
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ted whalen
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i'm a little fuzzy on what immunity means in this context, i.e. whether the president is exempted from the law entirely, or whether the activity is still "unlawful" but just not prosecutable when the president does it
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ted whalen
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i'm sort of at the point where it looks to me that liberal refusal to recognize and act upon a state of exception has them casting about for something they can do "within the rules" that'll get things back to normal
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ted whalen
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betting that there's right-wing legal historians now arguing that the (temporary) setbacks of the Warren and Burger courts were "worth it" as an energizing influence for the right and an enervating and ultimately debilitating long-term influence on the left
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Tobias Harris
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Honestly, one thing that the elite-focused accounts of the American Revolution and its aftermath obscure is the extent to which ordinary people were *pissed off* and took matters into their own hands.
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Sharon Kuruvilla
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in retrospect, i think this country was probably doomed to go off the rails after the GOP enacted a torture program during the 2000s and no one was held accountable
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Benjamin Harnett
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I think we can all agree the most pressing issue facing this country continues to be entitlement reform.
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ted whalen
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let's be real: there's actually nothing an incumbent Democratic politician could personally say or do or be that would cause you to vote for their GOP opponent.
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ted whalen
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[consults actuarial table] A vote for Biden has always been at least 25% of a vote for Harris
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Tom McAllister
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers
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BLINDSIGHT Speedrun Crucifix Glitchless Any%
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Trying to think of the last time I saw someone commenting on a Presidential debate with what it meant to *them* (i.e., "my mind was changed last night") instead of what it meant to a nebulous, hypothetical voter cloud. We're all amateur pundits now and it's sickening.
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ted whalen
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Not worrying about politics. Everyone involved seems pretty smart and I’m sure they mean well, so it’ll all get sorted out
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Ripperoni
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I think about this constantly
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