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Thanatosian posted:Look, dude generally makes good videos; I'm definitely not endorsing everything he says (I don't buy a lot of what he has to say about holding and keeping power), but this video, his Brexit videos, and the several he did about electoral systems are all solid. He just kinda sorta regurgitated “the Logic of political survival”/“dictators handbook” which is an actual academic theory that came from using game theory to make predictions about politics. It’s called selectorate theory. Logic of Political survival is basically a giant math-y book that really lays it out while dictators handbook is a very easy to read summary of it but they cover the same concept and have the same authors. I think it’s actually extremely important to understand because it directly undermines every authoritarian ideology and fascism in particular and explains exactly why they’re so bad. It’s a purely structural approach to political theory, which explains exactly why that (usually right wing but not always) dangerous belief that “if we just took power our character and morals are just so much better we’d fix all the problems.” And basically, the logical conclusion of the theory is that if you want a prosperous and just society you need to decentralize and break up power and wealth whenever possible and ensure as many people as possible are as fully enfranchised as possible. It also explains why the US is rapidly moving in the direction of for the average citizen becoming the shittiest of nations that can be considered actual democracies because of wealth inequality, voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering, and how disconnected voter preferences are from voter outcomes. It’s a lot more nuanced than previous theories that basically boiled down to democracy good dictatorship bad , because unlike previous binary ideas the logic applies equally, granularly and without having and arbitrary cutoff where the rules all change. It also explains why revolutionaries behavior prior to taking power often has little to do with how they behave once they’re there. Butter Activities has issued a correction as of 05:01 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 04:49
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purple death ray posted:You can tell because mickey has a 5 o clock shadow and is constantly smoking a big rear end joint Oh, that's a different Mickey  Underground comix artists looooved trolling the poo poo out of Disney
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May 28, 2020 10:16
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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:He just kinda sorta regurgitated “the Logic of political survival”/“dictators handbook” which is an actual academic theory that came from using game theory to make predictions about politics. It’s called selectorate theory. so its Machiavellis The Prince, but with math?
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May 28, 2020 15:07
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Rutibex posted:so its Machiavellis The Prince, but with math? Mathiavelli was right there
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May 28, 2020 22:25
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https://twitter.com/post_hog/status/1266093109164859392?s=21
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May 28, 2020 22:31
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Thats a photoshop right? Right? 
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May 28, 2020 23:06
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Rutibex posted:so its Machiavellis The Prince, but with math? the idea is that in an organization where a lot of people have influence on who is in charge, the ruler has to uphold the common good to stay in power whereas if only a few people have that influence, the ruler has to spend his resources buying them off, which means making GBS threads on everyone else it's a more technical, developed theory though in that the character of a regime depends on the relative sizes of three groups: the people who can vote, the people who's vote actually matters, and the people who actually keep the regime in power
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May 28, 2020 23:36
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The Dictator's Handbook is pretty good if your like me and can't Maths.
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May 29, 2020 00:02
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https://twitter.com/LilyCardis/status/1266217997766504448
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May 29, 2020 05:18
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i am not 100% sure this is real since i can't find it anywhere their ceo is a complete idiot and suspected chud but still
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May 29, 2020 06:23
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cash crab posted:i am not 100% sure this is real since i can't find it anywhere All CEO's are chuds. Some use leftish rhetoric to sell poo poo and others are more honest about how hosed up they are.
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May 29, 2020 08:33
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May 29, 2020 13:02
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Pictured, a Firewall, per my yearly training due to boomers being unable to understand basic computer security:
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May 29, 2020 13:31
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Well why did the CNN news team antagonize the cops by... *hacky checks notes gag* Reporting accurately on their actions?
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May 29, 2020 13:48
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https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1266335781775380480?s=19
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May 29, 2020 13:53
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Lmfao we're all fuckin doomed
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May 29, 2020 14:00
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Lmao ok I'm out
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May 29, 2020 14:00
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Cool this actually is the 28 Days Later timeline
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May 29, 2020 16:05
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Shrecknet posted:Well why did the CNN news team antagonize the cops by... you'd think, but they let a white reporter alone after he said he was a reporter so no, these dumb shits who probably still haven't thought to turn the camera off yet literally arrested him for being black
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May 29, 2020 16:09
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i think i saw this one- 28 days later, right? good movie, so glad we aren't in a bad film.
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May 29, 2020 16:11
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Hodgepodge posted:i think i saw this one- 28 days later, right? good movie, so glad we aren't in a bad film. I mean we have already kind of seen the rage zombies out with the chud rallys and what not.
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May 29, 2020 16:12
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Nature got a taste of just how much better things are when we stay indoors and these monkeys are the first wave of its insurgent force.
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May 29, 2020 16:13
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In 28 days later the activists catch the virus from the monkeys... The monkeys catching it from us is exactly what I'd expect from this timeline.
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May 29, 2020 16:58
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The cops who arrested the reporter even talked about destroying the tape in the camera live on CNN.
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May 29, 2020 20:07
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https://twitter.com/oliviasolon/status/1266419003087618048
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May 29, 2020 20:09
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vampires could simply buy blood from blood brokers
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May 29, 2020 20:12
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That's a million bucks per liter and would make me a bit nervous if I was a covid survivor
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May 29, 2020 20:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNOzVkvRU1w
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May 29, 2020 20:40
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Welp CNN reporter gets arrested on live TV made me crack ping.
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May 29, 2020 20:56
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I'm guessing the cops singled out CNN because they see them as "that hippie left wing news outlet" and thought they were putting smug liberals in their place. They don't even realize they were loving with someone on their team.
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May 29, 2020 21:07
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Every week, planes drop 14.7 million sterilized screwworms over the rainforest that divides [Panama and Colombia]
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May 29, 2020 21:34
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Koishi Komeiji posted:I'm guessing the cops singled out CNN because they see them as "that hippie left wing news outlet" and thought they were putting smug liberals in their place. They don't even realize they were loving with someone on their team. Didn't ask who they were. They got the only black and hispanic people there. Left the white reporters alone.
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May 29, 2020 22:29
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aphid_licker posted:That's a million bucks per liter and would make me a bit nervous if I was a covid survivor It’s a figure that means that the average person is worth more dead than alive. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 02:28 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 02:15
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Tulip posted:Every week, planes drop 14.7 million sterilized screwworms over the rainforest that divides [Panama and Colombia] I'm dumb how does dropping sterilized ones help? The other ones waste time mating with them?
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May 30, 2020 02:19
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Platystemon posted:It’s a figure that means that the average person worth more dead than alive. FEMA places the average human life at $1.74 million, and and adult has somewhere between 4.5-5.5 liters of blood in them So worth a whole lot more dead.
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May 30, 2020 02:20
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Cuntellectual posted:I'm dumb how does dropping sterilized ones help? The other ones waste time mating with them? Yeah. They have evolved to mate once, then die. A true self-own.
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May 30, 2020 02:24
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Cuntellectual posted:I'm dumb how does dropping sterilized ones help? The other ones waste time mating with them? Not just time - screwworm females can only mate once, so they produce 0 fertile offspring from 400ish eggs if they mate with a sterile male. efb Tulip has issued a correction as of 02:33 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 02:28
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withak posted:Yeah. They have evolved to mate once, then die. A true self-own. I'm going to live forever
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May 30, 2020 02:29
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quote:He and his colleagues hiked up and down mountains, sometimes in pouring rain, to check traps baited with a chemical attractant called Swormlure. “Swormlure” is a good name for a low fantasy setting.
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May 30, 2020 02:34
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You know, this is really starting to feel like the cyberpunk dystopia I was promised. Not enough neon though
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