@Oldglorycries The whitepill is NJ is one election away from flipping to a swing state or even lean red. Win once, clean up the voter rolls, and the state is in play.
@pegobry_en Allison’s Essence of Decision
Explains one event (Cuban Missile Crisis) through a variety of lenses - national interest, bureaucratic or priorities, governmental politics
Very useful for understanding how and why things function the way they do
Defunding the police has got to be one of the most discrediting policy stances of all time. Effectively a "transfer" from normal people to psychopaths and criminals. Materially threatens the safety of anyone living in a city. And the only people who ever entertained it were communists or legitimate morons.
@avidseries Why risk it? What’s the benefit?
We have lone wolf radicalization, LLM jailbreaks that can teach explosives, and birthright citizenship
Even normal immigrants from that community will make it politically harder to deal with the problem if/when it arises
@traestephens Great piece. AI systems save lives, which also increases strategic flexibility. Fewer dead Americans and non-combatants reduces the moral imperative for retaliation when things get kinetic, giving policy makers room to de-escalate.