typo: *accession

I'm still happy that Tisza won, and American is not Hungary. We don't necessarily need to run the same playbook, but Tisza's success does seem like a real-world example of "popularism" in action.

Might the reform push also be partially a function of it being easier to amend the constitution?

This seems like a weird example to point to considering that Magyar is a former Fidesz member who attacked Orbán for corruption and not being cruel enough to migrants and while stoking post-Trianon irridentism and opposing aid to / rapid ascension for Ukraine.

hell yeah!

(that's basically my benchmark for "people who's EA criticisms I will take seriously")

Do you eat meat?

It's not like anyone has ever ferociously disagreed about the definition of Jewish before or anything

(To be fair, this is also a product of American religiosity, but that's a pretty big difference.)

*its

The American South and it's history is a pretty unique weight that seems like it might be throwing the country farther towards the right, at least compared to Western Europe.

The Switch 2 pricing was identical before and after the tariffs for the US market? The only thing that changed was the accessory pricing, which you could've get if you weren't willing to buy the system in the first place.

Sorry to be a buzzkill.

I'm also not really surprised that someone with quite fuzzy realist-ish foreign policy views that are far more vibes based than he admits and succeeds only in pressuring on others' contradictions would struggle against someone resolutely confident and dedicated in a moral worldview.

The excuse almost reads as if the writer remembered the disclaimer at the beginning of Klein's last show about having all his show slots taken up by the chaos of January and not being able to do a "Gathering episode" til now and just figured the same would apply to Douthat without checking

As Harp said, the proof is in the pudding! Just look at the last 4 episodes of Interesting Times. (You have to go back to Jan 17th, just two days after the Harp recording, for a topical ICE-Palantir video.) None of it is about time relevant stuff. They just blatantly lied.

latter

yes

nope

I think it is actually much more important to document and lend limited public attention the atrocities of ICE than "activist resilience."

I guess if you can wrap together all of the Nixon admin's Vietnam/Cambodia policy and sending Kissinger to kill the 1968 negotiations, that would actually be #3.

I'm too much of a bean counter, so I'd still roughly rank the top 3 as:

1) Cutting USAID
2) Reagan's AIDS response
3) Militarily aiding Pakistan during the Bangladesh Genocide

Uzbekistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Belarus

That's a win rate of 45%?

I admire your optimism in the belief that the Democratic Party is incapable of making even worse decisions than it already does.

Have fun with that, but then Jay Jones isn't really your guy, is he? He's very much of the latter variety.

If you're advocating actual violent resistance, that's one thing.

But I suspect that you're advocating violent rhetoric without follow through, which is a 1-way ticket to the camps against the organized paramilitary thugs who actually have lots and lots of guns and are using them to kill us.

Which numbers? The 2024 Pres election in VA, or The 2025 Gubernatorial election? Why do you seem deliberately unwilling to make any comparison to the latter?

This is an obvious strawman considering what I explicitly said about progressive candidates earlier, but again, I will gladly back AOC or whatever Dems run to the left in the 2028 primaries. I just don't want them sending texts about murdering cartoon authors and children of Republican families.

Mostly because she ran in the shadow of an unpopular Democratic incumbent. But generally, there were far too many confounding variables to conclude that Jones' texts helped/didn't hurt him off that comparison.

You seem to be deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying.

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If I have to lay it out explicitly: There are dozens of variables that differ between Harris and Jones' election. The far better control results come from the candidates running on the same day and appealing to the same electorate as Jones attempted to.

I'm not trying to say Dems shouldn't be progressive or vocL, but don't engage in vulgarly edgyness either. You know that Jay Jones was saved by national anti-Trump tailwinds and put Republicans as close as they could be to taking the AG seat in a blue wave year.

How did Jay Jones perform compared to every other Democrat on the same ballot statewide?