zeke5123a
11mo ago
I think one interesting thing Trump could do is say you were against XYZ and now allegedly coming to my position. The position you labeled deplorable. The position you labeled anti American. Maybe if voters want that position, vote for the guy who didn’t try everything else until they were forced to at the last moment.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Yeah. The Chris Christie approach re Rubio. Basically “you had that one canned just like you did for Pence—do you have anything to say that isn’t preprogrammed and focus grouped? Do you have something genuine to tell the American people?”
zeke5123a
11mo ago
It doesn’t really work as a political ploy the way it does with Joe. Trump still seems to have some vitality. See his golf outing with the PGA star.
I do think it is fair to ask “what about in three years”
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I know that’s the general consensus. But it seems to me it misses the huge point that technological change likely changes economic systems. If you move to what seems like a post scarcity, then you likely abandon capitalism. But that doesn’t mean you abandon capitalism before you move to a post scarcity economy. That is, ST’s (incoherent) communism doesn’t address today.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Have you watched SNW? Disco I stopped watching after a few episodes. Picard was garbage for 2/3 seasons. But SNW was decent.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
They didnt let mysteries simmer which was nice. Bev made dumb decisions
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Picard S3 abandoned most of this and wasn’t bad. SNW is also not bad (there are some work themes but focus is generally on the characters and not the message).
zeke5123a
11mo ago
She showed up to support the campus protests. Many people think those protests are per se antisemitic. Her actions speak louder than words.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Just to address the fudge factor, I think economists overstate the utility enhancements of new products. For example, the phone I am using is much more technically competent compared to what I used ten years ago. But I’m not sure it brings me any more utility. Arguably it brings me less utility!
But those are hard claims to value.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
CPI has fudge factors. Larry Summers reconstructed the CPI used in the late 70s and found inflation was twice as much as reported.
Now maybe those fudge factors are right or maybe they are wrong. But it isn’t like CPI is the gospel truth. And the government has an incentive to understate inflation.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I don’t think that is an accurate depiction. These “protests” went on for awhile. The response was timid and schizophrenic. You did have prominent Dems (eg AOC) visiting and supporting.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The difference between 2 and 3 is 50%. So inflation, if you believe the CPI, was during the best time for Harris 50% worse compared to the average period Nybbler pointed out.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Trump was convicted on trumped up nonsense charges in NY that don’t stand up to legal scrutiny (the one that did was the one in Florida). But all of those crimes or alleged crimes were Mickey Mouse crimes. Bribery is the sine qua non of crime for a politician.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
The point was there were a lot of people predicting the downward revisions because there was a lot of other data suggesting the official numbers were garbage.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
He said the crazy Palestine protests on campus. I pointed out that literally happened three months ago whilst he was talking about how Dems have done a lot of introspection since 2020.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Dude — 2020 was four years ago. The events you are talking about were three months ago. Let’s not pretend like the Dems haven’t been crazy for the past four years.
zeke5123a
11mo ago
Many here were dumbfounded. I argued the job numbers were obviously phony looking at 1) the divergence between establishment survey and household and 2) the unlikely amount of one sided downward revisions.
The response was “sometimes shit moves funny.”
zeke5123a
11mo ago
You said the Dems have figured out not to let their freak fly. Yet three months ago that was happening. Hell Kamala first went on rupaul drag race — that was her first or one of her first appearances since becoming the nomination.
It is relevant because it proves the Dems haven’t gotten wiser. It is just they haven’t said too many dumb things recently (though their price gouging law seems to qualify in my book)
zeke5123a
11mo ago
You mean a guy who was convicted for bribery charges had a hard time not stepping down? That seems a little different…
zeke5123a
11mo ago
I agree with this. I was responding to a comment from the the other poster about Ukraine conquering Crimea.
Agreed 100%. That was by far the weakest and was the most “message” episode of that series.
It is ironic because two of the strongest TNG episodes were court room episodes (The Drumhead and The Measure of the Man). These episodes dealt more with abstract principles instead of shoe horning in the latest thing.
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