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The biases of the electoral college are so poorly understood by the left and the right.
The biggest bias is the winner-take-all effect. Voters in the majority of the largest states get a massive boost.
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funny that elon musk is a paid up member of the field cult nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/po…
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Following Paul LePage's (R) victory in ME-2 (Trump +9.1 points), that district appears set to go from the reddest district held by any D (Jared Golden), to the BLUEST seat held by any R. Crazy and illustrative of the wipeout
calculated thanks to @downballotnews data
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More accurately, the reason DOGE failed is 1.) it's entire operating theory was based on a misconception of the drivers of federal spending. 2.) their poor execution resulted in minimal potential cuts being identified.
See the GAO report: gao.gov/products/gao-26-1086… – at Somerville, MA
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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Also would be good if folks stopped collectively digging into the social media feeds and lives of admittedly super weird and offputting but harmless private citizens online
Yes, that person clearly has something wrong with them, no you shouldn’t broadcast their lives to millions
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I found 175 college football field storms since 2019. No team had a sadder storm field than Michigan (-27.5) last night and Michigan holds two of the three saddest field storms.
(Will continue to chart more field storms in prior years. This is my new quest)
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Poch getting Pulisic off of set pieces was worth the $6m/year
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Greg Sankey is gonna be so furious when he finds out that a tiny archipelagic country with a terrible strength of schedule advanced in a major tournament thanks to a bunch of TIES, when that spot could have potentially gone to a bigger program, like Italy, or maybe Texas A&M.
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Grand juror pressed the prosecutor on whether there are "any new actual facts" on the second attempt:
"I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
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BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.
1944: D-Day
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The IMF disbursed another billion dollars to Milei "despite missing a key program target." LOL
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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anyway for my fellow dad book readers or aspiring dad book readers, if you want something that isn't US presidents, anicent rome, or world war ii, i recommend the entire William Dalrymple ouevre but especially THE ANARCHY
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I kind of randomly became a fan of Los Colchoneros because I happened to be in Madrid for the match. But now that I know the club is owned by an American private equity firm, I’m a fan for life.
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Replying to @xenocryptsite
Ghostbusters? Nostalgia bait.
Peanuts? Never gone away.
Jurassic World? Nostalgia bait.
James Bond? Never gone away.
Despite never really having gone away, new Star Wars stuff is usually nostalgia bait.
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Yeah I don’t see any point in trying to taunt him into doing something stupider than has already been done. The whole thing (including the idiotic rhetoric) is foolish and we should want it to end as swiftly as possible.
We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1jxXgeyMk…








































