Virtue Signaling, or … Why Clinton is in Trouble
September 29, 2016·19 comments·game theory
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Comments
This post aged well…
Eight years later…….
I saw some poles today that made me think the Dems might try to run somebody else. Joe is between a rock and hard place.
I am all for rerolling the Dem dice as otherwise I’ll probably just stay home on Election Day. Even though I think Biden is the least worst candidate out of the three.
Ashamed to admit that I even gave RFK Jr a rethink for a second there, until his Mad Libs about putting our federal government on the blockchain.
My opinion - This stuff on college campuses is going to bring a lot of people who don’t follow politics as a choice- off the sidelines, and into the process.
My wife is in this group. Normally she doesn’t want anything to do with politics, but is flabbergasted that people in this country are siding openly with the terrorists.
Biden’s silence on the subject is deafening and some members of Congress are marching with them. This spells real bad news for the Democrats come November if people can remember back this far come November.
Is it only me —or what’s with all the covid masks at these protests?
The masks probably aren’t for covid but for anonymization.
I recall protests over Apartheid at my University. Groups set up camps and began a sit/live in on the campus greens. Tents, trash, dogs, music, booze, drugs - the whole scene - it was a mess.
Some sympathized with them, others destroyed tents. I had friends on both sides and knew some of the sit/live-iners.
I asked one of my friends living in a tent - “dude, why don’t you all go to S Africa and help the afflicted in say Jberg?”
My friend looked at me and said, “Seriously? We wouldn’t really make a difference being THERE…”
Exactly. It’s not as cool to actually engage directly in fixing something you “believe” in when one is 18-22.
The mask wearers are so WEAK. Total posers.
This is what the mask sayers are really saying: Let me go disrupt a bunch of peoples lives, but don’t let them know it’s me - i don’t want to face any consequences or have my law school application put in jeopardy. I have the right to be loud and disruptive with no penalty or discomfort.
Ask one of these losers to volunteer in one of the Palestinian hospitals or dig tunnels in the desert - would love to hear the beautiful spin the posers would spew.
Start a thread? Just my two cents but this is a classic ET note with only a few comments and I think it deserves a higher scope discussion than liberal snipes or vice versa.
I remember very well when this note was written and it rang true at the time.
History seems to be repeating itself….I think that’s relevant for this thread.
Another ET classic about having control of your cartoon is also very relevant for this cycle.
Perhaps it is just my problem. I think these latest comments in general badly lack perspective and/or nuance. I think they deserve push back but I’m not very interested in doing so on a classic note with public comments. But without anyone willing to make that pushback the forum becomes useless, at least for what I used to value it for. From my seat the appearance is that you’ve read all these ET notes all these years but your commentary is almost universally a one sided analysis from a spot securely within the widening gyre and easily found within mainstream red narratives.
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