I don’t think Muller understands that if he managed to somehow use art and artifice to entrap the president, that the hard right will burn DC to the ground, salting the political earth, and then keep on going – and he will launch the bloodiest civil war in human history. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 15:52:14 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994606045413756928
People vote POWER given the CONDITIONS of competition. That’s why Democracy works for selecting priorities in a homogenous polity but not choosing differences in a heterogeneous polity, and why there is so much friction between American ‘tribes’.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 14:27:54 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994584823061721089
Reply addressees: @KennethBuff @sapinker
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994577431225921536
IN REPLY TO:
@KennethBuff
@curtdoolittle @sapinker How does your statement cancel out Pinker’s?
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994577431225921536
Not true. People vote their tribes if tribes are competing, and people vote classes if classes are competing. In an homogenous polity people vote class/economically (Power), and in a heterogeneous polity they vote tribally (Power). Or for Signals (Power). They just vote power.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 13:23:33 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994568628325535744
Reply addressees: @sapinker
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994566852302004225
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@sapinker
Political affiliation is a matter of identity and self-expression, not economic self-interest (particularly among the well educated). https://t.co/SR0Nb9IYun
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/994566852302004225
Um. Let me help you understand. 1) Texas Has Its Own Power Grid. 2) Texas Has Its Own Ports 3) Texas Has Its Own Oil 4) Texas’ Economy is the same size as Russia and Italy. 5) Texas is almost as big as Western Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, northwest italy, and a good part of former west germany. Texas can create a currency overnight. Everything is possible.
Um. Let me help you understand. 1) Texas Has Its Own Power Grid. 2) Texas Has Its Own Ports 3) Texas Has Its Own Oil 4) Texas’ Economy is the same size as Russia and Italy. 5) Texas is almost as big as Western Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, northwest italy, and a good part of former west germany. Texas can create a currency overnight. Everything is possible.
@KennethBuff @sapinker People vote POWER given the CONDITIONS of competition. That’s why Democracy works for selecting priorities in a homogenous polity but not choosing differences in a heterogeneous polity, and why there is so much friction between American ‘tribes’. Any time we state an incomplete premise we feed discord by supplying bias confirmation by doing the cherry picking for them. He (Steve) stated an incomplete premise in order to feed the confirmation bias of a majority faction – not the Truth. (Hence the legal requirement for “The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth”) What the NYT article referred to conveys is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of. (Theft by Fraud) Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals, in order to obtain political power. If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then either you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you are engaged in selection bias, or worse, deception. Hence the rise of “Economic Imperialism” in the Academy as a counter to social pseudoscience.
@KennethBuff @sapinker People vote POWER given the CONDITIONS of competition. That’s why Democracy works for selecting priorities in a homogenous polity but not choosing differences in a heterogeneous polity, and why there is so much friction between American ‘tribes’. Any time we state an incomplete premise we feed discord by supplying bias confirmation by doing the cherry picking for them. He (Steve) stated an incomplete premise in order to feed the confirmation bias of a majority faction – not the Truth. (Hence the legal requirement for “The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth”) What the NYT article referred to conveys is that virtue signaling is a form of conspicuous consumption that one forces others to pay the indirect cost of. (Theft by Fraud) Or stated directly: we are burning the most valuable form of capital in the world (homogeneity and high trust) for virtue signals, in order to obtain political power. If you cannot make a statement in social science using economic terms, then either you don’t know what you’re talking about, or you are engaged in selection bias, or worse, deception. Hence the rise of “Economic Imperialism” in the Academy as a counter to social pseudoscience.
We have seen Baltimore and LA, but nothing will compare to empty ATM’s, Empty Stores, no EBT’s, and hordes of the unwashed in the streets terrorizing the middle classes, and laying waste to the upper middle and upper. #Trump If we have a civil war the disaster will make history.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 11:58:00 UTC
A civil war looks very much like (a) systematically down data/power lines and transformers, (b) systematically break water mains and hydrants, (c) systematically set fires to every structure, (d) systematically empty petrol stations, (e) systematically hoard food. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 11:55:00 UTC
I don’t think Muller understands that if he managed to somehow use art and artifice to entrap the president, that the hard right will burn DC to the ground, salting the political earth, and then keep on going – and he will launch the bloodiest civil war in human history. #Trump
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-10 11:52:00 UTC