@jensorensen "...But because everything is fucked up and bullshit and because everyone at all on the right has spent forty years (at least) doing their damndest to _make sure_ everything is fucked up and bullshit, even the smallest gesture in that direction is not so much reconciliation as collaboration. And so our host has sads.”
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word -
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word@jensorensen
I'm reminded of an ancient Cosma Shalizi quote:
“… our gracious host would really _like_ to be just a little bit to the left of a technocratic center, and to debate those just a little bit to his right about optimal policies within a shared objective function, and pretending that it is a technical and not a political discussion..."