the moralism at play here is kinda tricky. like you can try to do the stoic jiujitsu and say "since it is virtuous, i should be *happy* to pay all these taxes" but in fact that is not how i feel. when i vote for these taxes to continue i am taking a hit in order to do what i feel is morally correct.

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🚨 New avalanches 🚨 youtu.be/EpNSk8qu_Vo?...

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Jan Crawford is CBS News’s longtime Supreme Court correspondent and she’s especially close with Alito. Just a fun little insight into (1) who is providing you with ostensibly straight news about the Court and (2) how their brains can be just as cooked as the brains of the justices they cover.

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right! i almost never see people discuss that voters simply facing multivariate policies or having multidimensional preferences undoes the intuitive logic of the median voter model. (because of this pref ordering, plus there's no single intuitive metric of distance in higher dimensional space)

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(Feels kinda weird that my Goofy Discourse at some margin inspired this Very Insightful Essay!)

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