Chad Horne

[Chad Horne @lchadhorne]

@jacobinfante24 Love to cheer for our neighbors in Indiana

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@yFactr @xenocryptsite Fine but you're complaining about modernity not capitalism

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@streetsblogchi @the48thward @50thWardChicago @ChicagoDPD A 23 story building is a skyscraper now?

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@ErnestPlacido @Kamelaasa @ChadNotChud Those are certainly words

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@JEmCeeKnight @ChadNotChud The way that you save a life is by voting red. Voting blue makes no difference to anything.

There are eight billion people on this planet. There is zero chance that one person pushing blue tips the scales

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@JEmCeeKnight @ChadNotChud The key thing to notice is that there is zero chance that my choice will be decisive in terms of whether we reach 50% blue. Zero.

So pushing blue is guaranteed to be a waste. If I push red, there is at least a chance that it means one more life is saved.

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@kareem_carr This is wrong. On a planet of 8 billion, my vote will not make the difference as to whether 50% choose blue. So even if I'm an altruist, what happens to everyone is fully out of my control. From my POV, picking blue changes nothing; picking red may save an extra life.

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@artmarkham @rskhm__ @ChadNotChud 😂 you got me there

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@artmarkham @rskhm__ @ChadNotChud Yeah, but voting is irrational too 😅

Whether enough people push blue to save everyone is basically out of my control. So from my POV, the only thing pushing blue does is potentially add one more person to the death toll if blue doesn't get 50%. Pushing red possibly saves a life

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@artmarkham @rskhm__ @ChadNotChud Note that even if I am somewhat altruistic, there is still a strategic dimension to the game. An altruist should only push blue if they have reason to believe their vote will be pivotal (an infinitesimally small chance). So pushing red still dominates for all practical purposes.

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@rskhm__ @ChadNotChud Right, if game theory was a different thing, it would tell you a different answer

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@JerusalemDemsas @mattyglesias This is the best news

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@ChristianHeiens I would like to know what the timeline is here. The US has existed as a liberal society for 250 years. What is the supposed Schmittian alternative, and how long do they typically last?

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@actsmaniac People wrongly assume that it is in the ruler's interest for their society to get rich. It's often not. Economic development can upset entrenched interests. That's why those things are easy to describe but hard to implement.

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@transgendererer @LinkofSunshine This is actually kind of the thesis of Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York. The island both isolates the city from the mainland and also forces everything to grow upward instead of spreading out... that frees the city to develop according to its own inner logic

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@RichardHanania You complain Denmark doesn't "do anything" with Greenland, but you have no ideas for what to do with Greenland.

I suspect there's really nothing you can do with a giant sheet of ice, and Denmark's failure to "do anything" is due to that, not anything to do with European malaise

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@GerkenCU98 @Dan_Hope @TomFornelli @TheColbyD @Moneyline_Mac Programs really went in different directions didn't they