I’ve been following Vaush for the past month or so, and have watched a few of his debates as well.

Overall, I find that I largely agree with him on issues like market socialism and on general liberalism (i.e. stuff like “the one good idea liberals have is individual rights”).

I feel he maybe overuses accusations of fascism, but I can’t really point to any particular case and stay no, it was wrong to identify this as fascist. I just might not be as willing as he is to accept that fascism is the second most widely held political ideology.

I also like that he’s willing to go back to first principles and defend his ideology while accepting that it’s a bit arbitrary, and he genuinely doesn’t come across to me as patronizing about it.

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Step 1: invest a large fortune into social media

Maybe a good lesson from the Indians, find a way to use as much as possible from your prey

Lol, there’s no way in hell your decision on how to vote was ever going to be swayed by the civility of Lemmy comments

Gratz

Damn, made this joke too late

Won’t someone rid us of this meddlesome priest vice president

Because it’s made of people

No, see, he has a bunch of kids, so maybe he’s proposing she adopt one of them.

That’s better, right???

The search term? What is it?

Who says it’s unauthorized? I set the pressure

I occasionally have copy/paste issues, but it’s most often with electron apps as well.

Before killing yourself, it’s your responsibility to kill your children

Ostensibly his supporters do

“It’s just a fact of life” he says in only country where this happens regularly

Something that i think is important to understand about this, and while Grey does mention it, its brief and towards the end, is that this framework isn’t unique to governments. These patterns show up in human organization at basically every level.

So I’m going to push back on the idea that

this is horrible and this system should be abolished

Depending on what “this system” means to you.

I think it’s much more useful to understand the incentives at play and build systems that minimize the damage consolidated power can do, and limit the ability for power to accumulate. That is… very much easier said than done, but I think it’s needed effort.

That’s right.

While the video is a good summary of the framing of the book (the selectorate theory of politics), I still recommend reading the book if you find the topic interesting. They go into a bunch of case studies on how you can apply the framing in wildly different circumstances, and make a very compelling case for how increasing the numbers of participants in a system improves the outcomes for everyone involved.

This video, and the book it’s based on, unironically started my transition from neoliberal to democratic socialist.

Which I think is funny, because I don’t think the authors, Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alistair Smith, are particularly leftist.

Pretty sure it’s a hip bone X-ray of someone without a spine

Now he is behind Trump

Always has been