theres just this dynamic thats going to form when a party organization which competes in the field of electoral politics also must by necessity have a set of elites who exist outside of and working in acontext where they must be immune to that field

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i find the way religious parties often end up with this tension between the clergy and the politician class interesting. you can see shas in chaos over it now. think some marxist parties (e.g. the SPD) developed a similar tension between the 'theorist' class and the politician class

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Thought from a bruised and tired, increasingly irrelevant, trans elder: One of the simplest and most defiant things trans people can do right now is to keep on creating, making, dreaming, speaking and thinking … Hell shall pass, and our poetry, art, literature, faith, hope and love *shall* remain

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Hayek was wrong about like 90% of what he said which makes it all the more frustrating that he noticed that a lot of the worst policy is downstream of seeing free markets not as a (mostly) efficient distribution mechanism but as a system that rewards Treats™️ to sympathetic Hard Workers™️

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"Does Israel have the right to exist" is a deeply problematic question: "right" can mean very different things, and Israel is not a stable geographic term. Having said that, "no state has the right to exist" is a smartass response that doesn't really work (unless you're an anarchist of course).

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