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From the incredible blog Chinese DoomScroll: If you ever see a disaster in China where exactly 35 people die, it's because 36+ means the mayor gets fired. It's fascinating in a horrifying way how authoritarian systems always develop their own unique post-truth quirks.
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He doesn't appear to have a clue about how the federal government works and how so many of the vital departments within it are understaffed rather than overstaffed (including some that pay for themselves like the IRS and USDOL/WHD).
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Vivek Ramaswamy's thought experiment for reducing the size of government on @lexfridman: "Day 1, anybody in the federal bureaucracy who's not elected, whose Social Security number ends in an odd number, you're out. [Day 2], of those who remain, if your Social Security starts in
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Matthew Chapman
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This is spot-on and it explains SO MUCH of the basic governance failures in some heavily blue cities. Lots of "progressives" decided if they can't pass huge welfare programs for the poor, the next-best thing is to just let them hop turnstiles, camp in the street, and shoplift.
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Dilan Esper
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One good point Matt Yglesias and others make about the "trans prisoners" ad is that it arose out of an answer Harris gave to an ACLU questionnaire. Which gives rise to the question: why was the ACLU sending out questionnaires asking for embarrassing answers from Dem candidates?
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