Ciaran Marshall

Economics, philosophy, AI, & nascent food critic. Platonist, utilitarian, & structuralist: reviving neoplasticism one morphism at a time.

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

What do mathematicians, logicians, and neoplasticists share in common? All are essentially (re)defining epistemology and metaphysics in terms of Plato's theory of the forms. https://t.co/BdvDe9Q1r2

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

Jokes about libertarians aside, this is clearly a man in a crisis, and I hope no one gets hurt and he gets the help he needs.

[captive dreamer @captive_dreamer]

Checking in on the libertarians

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

Or perhaps that median voter theorem works. The trick is just finding where that point is

[Ben Ansell @benwansell]

I suspect that the lesson one can take from Vučić losing in Serbia, the Conservatives winning British Columbia and the total meltdown that is the Brazilian Presidential Election is… stop looking for a single lesson - politics doesn’t travel in straight lines.

[Structural Econometrics Truther @MetricsTruther]

UChicago students figuring out how to get laid:

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Whenever you watch Latin American politicians in action, you see why a lot of us say Trump is basically a Latin American politician.

[Voices of Liberty @VoLDaily]

“In order to make people equal, you have to treat them differently. If you treat people alike, the result is necessarily inequality.”

— F. A. Hayek

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

EN VENEZUELA!
JUNTOS!
POR LA LIBERTAD!

[Sichu Lu @lu_sichu]

https://t.co/8ADHt1kTS8

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

lowkey this is what separates developed countries from the rest

[Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦 @bdquinn]

Can't help but feel this is a pretty drastic overreaction. I get that they had priced in Bolsonaro + a right-wing Congress doing market friendly reforms, but this is like they're pricing in a civil war now. Probably too extreme.

[Woke Maggie Thatcher 🇵🇸🍁 @ShinMarginalScr]

Average election east of the Oder tbqh.

[Nik Stankovic @nikstankovic_]

"I find it amusing to watch these scenes in Serbia. Cameras go through the streets, and there are guys wearing crosses and raising three fingers celebrating; soft-spoken woke types celebrating; people carrying pictures of Putin celebrating; EU supporters celebrating; those from the American N1 channel celebrating; conservatives celebrating; liberal girls with short purple hair celebrating. Šarović is celebrating, Nataša Kandić is celebrating, Slobodan Reljić is celebrating, Ćuta is celebrating, Aleksandar Pavić is celebrating, Marinika is celebrating… Russophiles, pro-Europeans, Christians, liberals, conservatives… everyone is celebrating!

Now, the thing is that some of them will inevitably be taken for fools, because the new government cannot simultaneously be both pro-European and pro-Russian, both conservative and liberal, both woke and Christian…

Who will be taken for fools? Will it be the conservatives, Christians and Russophiles, or will it be the pro-Europeans, woke crowd, Soros supporters and liberals… judge for yourselves. I know the answer."

[Panta @thepanta82]

I’ve seen a lot of dumb takes here, like Vucic is MAGA/Putin surrogate, and students are “woke”/EU.

Nope. It’s basically completely orthogonal to any ideology.

I wonder how long will this red unity last when the time comes to make some divisive decisions.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Four years and an election later, worth asking again.

[Pauline @PaulinesLove]

@mat1_u The Student List that defeated Vučić is wild. According to my Serbian friend, they contain everything from leftists to ultranationalist monarchists (one of their activists literally held a blood and soil speech). Corruption really does wonders at unifying people against you.

[Matu 🇪🇺 @mat1_u]

Somehow all semi authoritarian states work this way without resisting at all

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

That the Communist hammer and sickle isn’t commonly regarded as evil and offensive as the Nazi swastika is a failure of education.

[Bia @BeatrizGietner]

this is the USSR 2.0

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

Serbia and Hungary were hardly dictatorships: even if illiberal, authoritarian, and what might be considered "hybrid" regimes.

[scar @7scar123]

Number of right-wing dictatorships overthrown by "useless" voting in the last 10 months: 2

Number of right-wing regimes overthrown by communist revolution in the last 10 years: 0

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

The good sort of Democrat

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

The non-partisan tax foundation found that high income taxes hurt growth. It’s critical that Colorado voters reject Amendment 87 which would make Colorado the 9th highest taxed state. It’s not to late to vote No on amendment 87

[Ciaran Marshall @microfounded]

@ShinMarginalScr Meh fair enough