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👇🎯 Also why Musk and all the DOGE guys need to go to jail for the rest of their lives. They had no authority at all to dismantle USAID or anything else.

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I do appreciate the honesty in this, though. 90+% of both parties’ candidates are replacement level cogs in the machine of politics. It would be better to just not have to pretend they’re individually unique. Paxton is horrifically awful, but Cornyn voted for all the far right authoritarianism, too.

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The working assumption about 🇺🇸 politics needs to be that we are going to have 20-30% of voters supporting far right authoritarianism, as is now true in ~every rich democracy. We can reform our institutions to ensure the 70% can govern, or we’ll always be one election from the fascists getting 51%.

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“Opposition parties do win unfair elections, & a restored US democracy will remain unconsolidated until both major parties commit to its defense” This is why we need multiparty democracy reforms. The far right authoritarian party is highly unlikely to moderate under our existing institutions.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 7h

Today in life under…competitive authoritarianism You don’t have to believe me. You can simply read the experts who, quite literally, invented the concept:

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welp

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Using words like "oligarchy"? Talking Funny, according to Elissa Slotkin, Brian Schatz, Barack Obama, & Ezra Douthglesias Calling cities "sh*tholes" & people "vermin" & telling people to "get the hell out of this country"? 🦗 from everyone, every time Happy week, everyone!

7/13/24 tweet about standards in the National Conversation only applying to Democrats

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Wemby wisely leaves open possibilities of future GOATedness: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Again, only <Republicans> get to talk about US citizens, let alone human beings, let alone other elected officials, like this. Which is why it's so exhausting to listen to Ezra Douthglesias & everyone else tell Democrats that they need to moderate & stop talking funny & reach out to Real Folkz.

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Tl;dr:

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We know how to stop it. We aren't doing it. It will therefore happen again.

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Again, you read it here first:

IMF Global Financial stability report: bank exposure to nonbank financial intermediaries

Bloomberg chart: massive interconnected exposure of tech/AI companies to each other

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Fortunately, nothing bad has happened in the history of economies when large-scale cross-border capital inflows come into contact with a financial system in which banks operate alongside & as part of large securities mark- 🤔🧐

Copelovitch and Singer. 2020. Banks on the Brink. Cambridge University Press.

A book page discusses why some countries face more systemic bank risks, focusing on foreign capital inflows and large securities markets, and how banking and politics are closely linked.

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Tl;dr2: This is, of course, the Actual Originalism. It's why Article I of the Constitution in the first Article of the Constitution.

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Tl;dr: Most of what has enabled Trump & the far right authoritarian party to do the lawless authoritarianism is shredding norms & duct tape, & it can be fixed by simply having a functional Congress that passes new laws & solve the perils of imperial presidentialism & Wizards In Robes who enable it.

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Even subordinating the Senate is possible without Constitutional amendments:

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

👇🎯 ~Everything we need to do to fix 🇺🇸 democracy can be done through normal legislation (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), & pretending we're going to amend the Constitution is delusional & unserious fan fiction. Want to fix SCOTUS? Here's the agenda, all done by one simple bill: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

- No clerks
- No building
- No shadow docket
- No docket control at all in fact
- No pay raises
- 25 justices
- 47 justices
- 101 justices
- Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

Again, don't ask us to participate in the H.R. McMaster, John Bolton, & Bill Barr Rehabilitation Tours. Don't tell us that Scott Bessent is a credible Treasury Secretary (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Don't give Harvard fellowships to Sean Spicer. Etc. Etc. Etc.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

👇🎯 Either we can be a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we can be a Big Club, where elites never face any consequences & go on, after doing everything, to the fancy cocktail parties & the cushy sinecures at media outlets, universities, Wall Street firms, & the six-figure speaking circuit.

It's a big club, and you ain't in it. George Carlin

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

👇🎯 Tl;dr: Old authoritarian liar & hack angry that he is going to lose & will be remembered in the annals of American history as worse than Roger Taney

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Look, we get it. You don’t like democracy & haven’t for over 25 years. It’s sad it’s taken so many people so long to figure out who you are. But other choices are readily available, & you could instead act like an adult & a serious person. I’m sure the beach town guests would leave you alone then.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

It takes whole movie, but eventually everyone figures out who Keyser Söze is:

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Probably the last time to wear a Phillies cap this season, so the 1964 one seemed appropriate today

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The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. The double standard on this is, of all the double standards, the most maddening. Where are Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson & all the rest?

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Your regular reminder that neither party - but especially the <Republican> Party - actually cares about the debt or deficits

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h

👇🎯 Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

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Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)

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david. @david.uncensored.zip · 12h

They come in regular envelopes so they cant be easily id and stolen.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 12h

FIRE could go a long way to convince people that it’s a good faith organization by radically altering or better yet eliminating its rankings

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"Are there problems of free speech on campus?" and "Are universities to blame for stifling free speech & causing self-censoring on campus?" are not the same question. It would be nice if FIRE & its terrible rankings would stop conflating those two questions, year after year after year after year.

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Opinion | Is the University of Austin Just a PR Stunt? (Published 2021)

I tried, years ago, to engage seriously with FIRE's director about issues like self-censoring & viewpoint diversity on campus. I predictably didn't get very far trying to explain that his arguments were fraught with selection bias & the limits of student surveys. Quite clearly he still doesn't care.

nytimes.com

Can a new university fix academia’s problems? Or will it just create another ideological bubble?

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