Post #1640672
2026-04-24 21:01 UTC
Replies (3)
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-04-25 00:41
Unfortunately, our problem right now is not Donna the below-average Democrat but Donald the fascist. And when it comes to fascists I do not ask if they are above or below average.
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-04-25 02:59
Okay, today’s Rat fixation that I want to rant about is “constructing hypothetical examples to justify my idiosyncratic position.” Like, I’m not even interested in arguing about whether their conclusion makes sense in their hypothetical world, I’m more curious about what kind of chain of thought leads you to speculate about that in 2026. Like, maybe I’m reading way too much into this but in practical terms it feels like “how do I justify voting for the Republicans no matter how far-right they might go, if my local Democrats try to move the tiniest bit left?” which feels like the rat/tech ethos in a nutshell.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-04-26 15:41
> I think that, while many LessWrong readers do believe that one party is way better than the other, such that the inter-party quality variation is far larger than the intra-party quality variation, this is not true of all readers. ... Wait is this about race and iq again? Anyway the math ain't mathing, as there never can be a republican above average enough to counterbalance out that they are an republican.