Jason Briggeman

Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:29 UTC

I would say that creating legitimacy is the point of instituting a democracy but the point of an election is to choose the winners, and I intended with the word "elections" to indicate the plural form of election as opposed to indicating the institutional form of democracy

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:01 UTC

This is taking "practical" out of context. I would have used the word "instrumental" if I was writing an academic article extending the literature. Elections serve a practical/instrumental role, as in the point is to choose the winners, and there's no other point to them, they are not held for kicks

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

Hey now, @dps952.bsky.social merely did what it took to win and proceeded to student-govern in a reliable and responsible manner, as knowledgeable voters would have expected him to based upon his track record

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

LOL I was thinking of this same quote 15 minutes ago

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

I guess those don't seem too different to me. I mean, of course they aren't, since they are describing the same thing, so maybe I'm missing the point. But the first one just seems to want to deny leadership exists and the second one just seems to want to deny that...followership? fellowship? exists

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

Sure. And that's likely what NYT guy is doing. I did not and would not publish my appeal in Conservative Currents

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

The people voting for the other candidate are taking part in a different collective action problem. Further down the ballot some of them might take part in a collective action problem that you are also taking part in. Two collective action problems per race and half of them fail to succeed

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:51 UTC

"I was there when Biden rolled up 420 electoral votes"

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

There are many justifiable reasons for voting, and I also don't think that those examples are completely opposite of appealing to expected value, which is sort of a fancy way of saying that it's an ordinary collective action problem, i.e., that if we do all pull together then it will all be worth it

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

"Voting is, strictly speaking, pointless," Walther wrote.

I once wrote a little parody of a philosopher who used his valuable time to assert repeatedly on Facebook that voting is not a valuable use of your time. Didn't land that one in the NYT unfortunately sweettalkconversation.com/2016/03/08/t...

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

"Why does anyone vote?" Matthew Walther asked himself in the New York Times. "The answer cannot be that we believe that by doing so, we will influence the outcome of an election." Oh, my sweet summer contributing writer. That is exactly why we should vote. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

Definitely want to be in a forum that is not excluding or stifling people who are unable or unwilling to pay

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:42 UTC

Facebook and X, perhaps, stumbled into that model. But surely these days there are entrepreneurs consciously launching apps with that as the long-term plan. We might be on such an app right now!

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

"Let's foster a free-flowing conversation and then slowly, slowly replace people's friends' posts with paid content" is a fair retrospective description of the Facebook and X business model

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:37 UTC

There's a half-century of receipts that the 'voting is irrational' people are abjectly wrong, if anyone needs more than my say-so. Some of those receipts even appeared in their own journals. But of course nothing compels them to admit it. bsky.app/profile/jbri...

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

Casting a single vote for the better major candidate has a large positive net expected value for society, and you can very often tell who's a better candidate (especially this year!). Voting is humble, unselfish, and rational—a little chore that you should do. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Everyone who pointedly states that G. Brennan & Lomasky, Caplan, and Jason Brennan are wrong is ignored and has been ignored in anti-democratic libertarian circles for 50 years, whether they skeet, tweet, blog, publish in mainstream journals, or publish in flagship libertarian journal 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦.

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