I did it from memory, about 48 hours later, when I had some time on a train ride. But during the show I did get pretty meta and think about all the thoughts and how hard it would be to write them down. This happens to me often and I decided this was the time to try and write them down. I probably missed one or two. But i enjoyed the exercise.

I agree she has an ego, no doubt. I don’t equate ego with wealth, know plenty of people who are egotistic even when poor. I like Bernie and would vote for him in the general in a heartbeat, and I respect his record of public service, but none of that in any way gives me the sense the dude doesn’t have an ego.

Oh yeah it’s not like she and people who support her aren’t ALSO spending money — I make a point and say rich assholes are spending money in all directions on this issue. It’s actually a whole interesting side-area of the academic literature because it’s harder to measure marketing influence when there is, essentially, ANTI-marketing spend (i.e…

Ok so why is she running for president. What possible financial gain does she have to put her assets in a blind trust for 4–8 years — her last real earning years — only to come out of office no more world famous than she already is, when she’s already worth 9, 10 figures? I would imagine a negative answer to me would be something like “unchecked…

The people you know aren’t representative of the masses. I address this. I still believe, and much evidence suggests, that much money was spent to find the single-weakest angle on Hillary for now, and that topic is then amplified through marketing spend to reach those who are less-informed and cause this topic to be something they are now thinking…

How Did This Happen: Round One

RAMAR RARA NUDGE: Our Undoing.

January 17, 140ARR

Councilwomen:

On the eve of the Great Migration, our deadline has come. Our calculations, as inexpert as they must be when…

You can’t say “omg the world has temperature!” but you can say “omg the world is getting too hot for humans!” That’s the point.

But you’re right. This one was more muddled. My primary interest in this whole debate is to get graham to start arguing the points underneath what he’s writing— the logical extensions and…

Interesting. You’re right, I intentionally chose one I found to be similar that people had a grasp of. Maybe it would have worked better that way!

You’re referring to quality of life measurements, and yeah, across the 20th century they sure did improve drastically. Many of those indicators have leveled off in the last 10–20 years however. But yes, another completely valid way of looking at the pie!

I don’t, because — and here I do actually pretty explicitly disagree with Graham — I’m not sure it actually matters what that money is spent on once the tax is collected. I’m pretty sure you could just bury it and we’d be better off — I’ve read a lot of economic analysis suggesting as much: though not in near as inflamatory words. Uually they say…