Classical #Liberalism gets mocked a lot but it's a very powerful and valuable idea and generalizes beyond human beings.

A bunch of agents with come together and create an agreement to follow rules which move them out of bad Nash Equilibria, but with some remaining freedom.

A "Bad Nash Equilibrium" is a solution to a game where everyone does what is personally best for them, but the overall result is extremely bad for everyone. Rules/Laws are typically designed to get us out of these

In the past, societies often took extreme measures to keep people out of bad Nash Equilibria, such as cutting people's hands off for stealing, or stoning adulterers to death.

It is good that we don't brutalize people to fix collective games. Classical #Liberalism is good!

But something has clearly gone wrong. The #Liberal order in The West is being replaced by the #Woke.

What exactly is #Woke, in terms of game theory? That's more complicated.

Classical #Liberalism is something like this:

"Apply the minimum amount of coercion necessary to get society out of bad Nash Equilibria"

The betrayal yesterday is of no surprise to me. I had hoped for the best, but truly expected his worst, and that’s what we got.

#JudasPence was necessary to finish setting up the trap. I believe we are in the last few moments before we actually SPRING the trap.

THREAD: Biden 2020 Highlights

"We hold these truths to be self evident. All men and women created by, go, you know, you know, the thing."



“Um, you know, there's a uh, during World War... uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he's called it, you know, the WWII, he had the World, the War Production Board."



“You ain’t black”

Biden confuses his wife for his sister

“We can only re-elect Donald Trump”

From the SC GOP - 2021 Resolutions. Pathetic attempt to rally the party and not one mention of the fight for our legally elected @POTUS @realDonaldTrump @SCGOP 👇
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Dear Fellow Republican,

Sometimes we get so caught up in what's happening in our political world...

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that we can lose sight of what's important and what to do next. Don't let that happen this year! If conservatives want to be successful long-term, then we have to THINK long-term.

With that in mind, here are a few suggested New Year's resolutions for conservatives in 2021.

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And stay tuned for part two! I'll send that around shortly

Focus on the Fundamentals
No matter how things change from cycle to cycle, the need for fundamentals remains the same. The most fundamental element of politics is people, and the most fundamental principle is addition

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More organized people means more political influence.

Find, or create, and focus on projects that you or your group can use to help identify and better organize more people who think like you do.

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Coordinate With Other Conservatives
It's simple: we're stronger when we work together and easier to beat when divided. So, focus on finding ways to work with other conservatives on sharing information, picking which battles to fight, which targets to emphasize, and then ..

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. You know what to do! [1/5]
@SenJohnBarrasso WY
@RoyBlunt MO
@JohnBoozman AR
@SenatorBurr NC
@SenCapito WV
@SenBillCassidy LA
@SenatorCollins ME
@JohnCornyn TX
@SenTomCotton AR
@SenKevinCramer ND
@MikeCrapo ID

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [2/5]
@SenJoniErnst IA
@SenatorFischer NE
@SenCoryGardner CO
@LindseyGrahamSC SC
@ChuckGrassley IA
@SenJohnHoeven ND
@SenHydeSmith MS
@JimInhofe OK
@SenMikeLee UT
@KLoeffler GA
@McConnellPress KY
@JerryMoran KS

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [3/5]
@SenJoniErnst IA
@SenatorFischer NE
@SenCoryGardner CO
@LindseyGrahamSC SC
@ChuckGrassley IA
@SenJohnHoeven ND
@SenHydeSmith MS
@JimInhofe OK
@SenMikeLee UT
@KLoeffler GA
@McConnellPress KY
@JerryMoran KS

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [4/5]
@lisamurkowski AK
@RandPaul KY
@sendavidperdue GA
@senrobportman OH
@SenatorRisch ID
@SenatorRomney UT
@SenatorRounds SD
@Marcorubio FL
@SenSasse NE
@SenRickScott FL
@SenatorTimScott SC

🚨GOP Senators Refusing To Stand AGAINST Election Fraud. [5/5]
@SenShelby AL
@SenDanSullivan AK
@SenJohnThune SD
@SenThomTillis NC
@SenToomey PA
@SenatorWicker MS
@SenToddYoung IN

Just doing an exercise in

Scott Morrisons Image VS Donald Trump Image

#ThumbsUP

Thread of Comparative Images 👇👇

Dark Images appear to make you more important?

#LeaderBeingChauffeured

Business on a Plane

#SoBusy

#BlackAndWhite

#WalkingThroughAnArch

At least Trump had Clothes on.

It is clear that a consequential portion of Republican elected officials hold a particular view of America which only benefits “their kind of people.”

It is a vision so anti-democratic that secure it through exercise of raw, brutal power.

So what is to be done...

Unequivocally and boot these opponents of liberty out of the Republican party or start a new one.

Accept the repentant, but don’t waste time trying to persuade the obtuse, arrogant and violent.

Remember who caved and never, ever, ever vote a Trump lackey into office again.

Make repair for the damage the party has wrought.

Extend and protect voting rights for all. Act in true democratic fashion and listen to the will of the majority.

Aggressively enact policies to disrupt white supremacist extremist activity. Disassociate from racists.

Do a deep and thorough accounting of your authoritarian, patriarchal, white supremacist history and remove from pedestals those who, covered their dehumanizing tactics under the guise of “conservatism.”

Look to your religious institutions and divorce from them any notions that the Republican Party is God’s party and that the USA is God’s favored nation.

Glean wisdom from faith communities comprised of marginalized people groups. Smash the idol of Christian Nationalism.

Y’ALL I GET EMOTIONS ARE HUGH BUT TRY TO STEP BACK AND THINK LOGICALLY:

1. BIDEN VOTERS HAVE BEEN TOLD TRUMP WOULD ATTEMPT A COUP FOR YEARS. IF IT DIDN’T SEEM LIKE TRUMP CONCEDED THERE WOULD BE MASS CHAOS BECAUSE 55M PEOPLE HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT.

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You know, it's just occurred to me...

How many times have we heard @realDonaldTrump say, "If I had a plan, you'd be the last to know it"?

What are the chances he comes out with something none of us saw coming?

#StopTheSteaI
#MAGA

THREAD 📌Those of us whose lives have been made a living hell by Trump's presidency have a right to ask those of you who voted Trump/Trump proxy (yes, your Stein votes threw the election to Trump in PA, WI & MI), to have the decency to just STFU. Not everything is about you.
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And FGS everyone stop applauding GOP who put us here for their belated mea culpas or one tweet you agree with. If you want to applaud, applaud folks who were doing the work of the past 4yrs, not coming in at the end to say they wouldn't make the same awful mistake again.
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And if you want "healing," don't demand it of people who have been hurt. Let the folks who skimmed through the past 4yrs painlessly do that work. Some of you don't even know that Betsy DeVos was one of the most effective Cabinet members--destroying thousands of young lives.
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This is a tenuous time. People are wounded--and I do not mean Trump folks because I honestly could not conceivably care less about them. I mean people I have been interviewing over 4yrs: BIPOC, women, immigrants, LGBTQ, poor and disabled people, Muslims. SO MUCH SUFFERING.
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22k people died this week and that is because 77k people out of 130M just couldn't bring themselves to vote for a brilliant life-long public servant because something something vagina emails speeches and whateverthefck you lied to yourself about in 2016 to "show" Hillary.
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THREAD: As the founding head of @TwitterGov, I have long been a vocal defender of @Twitter’s permissiveness of @realDonaldTrump’s otherwise-violations of Twitter Rules (1/11)

The “newsworthiness” exemption often held true. If the President was a madman or a fraud, or both, let the spotlight shine on it for the populace to see. Don’t have a private company shield the public gaze from the meltdown and pretend the emperor has clothes. (2/11)

The time for that sunlight has long passed. No one can claim ignorance to his delusion; the citizenry has already chosen whether to swill the toxic Kool Aid. A few more Tweets or less won’t affect that. (3/11)

The stronger argument was always that there was something exceptional about the presidency. That there are actions, when taken by the President, that must be held to a different standard than when taken by a private individual. (4/11)

An early example of this was a series of @realDonaldTrump Tweets threatening the North Korean regime early in his term. Violent threats such as these would normally violate the law and Twitter Rules. (5/11)

Comparing and Contrasting the 2000 contested election with the 2020 contested election.
According to @SenTedCruz book One Vote Away in 2000 Bush was able to assemble a Legal "Field of Dreams" team. All they had to do was make a call and people showed up to help.
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President-Elect Joe Biden is asked if he thinks it’s a good idea for House Democrats to introduce articles of impeachment, as early as Monday. Biden says he’s long thought Trump was unfit for the job, says what Congress does is up to them. Says his priority is COVID.

Biden doesn’t say one way or another whether he supports impeaching Donald Trump a second time. Says it’s up to the Congress.

Biden says the next COVID relief package will be in the trillions of dollars. Details to be released next Thursday. Says if the US does not act now, it will get much worse later.

Biden says yes, when asked if the rioters stormed the Capitol should be treated as domestic terrorists. Calls them thugs. Says it will be a judgment for the Justice department for what the charges should be.

Biden says there should be a full blown investigation, noting the statement given earlier today by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) who said his national guard troops were ready to help, but he couldn’t get authorization.

The Anabaptist Option:

Neo-Calvinist Cornelius Van Til was a lifelong Republican voter, but couldn't crack the application of Reformed theology to politics. How does the Christian worldview manifest in the political realm with regard to particular parties and politicians?

Van Til's student, Francis Schaeffer, motivated by his postmillennialism in the Cold War context, promoted Christianity as antithetical to communism. Fundamentalist friends like Jerry Falwell found political motivation in the moralist message of Schaeffer's A Christian Manifesto.

The aforementioned mindset put the Moral Majority (1979) into motion right around the time of the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention (1979) and the presidential run of Ronald Reagan (1981). Similar rhetoric and results followed in the years to come.

Politicians, knowing they had to secure the votes of the Moral Majority, or 'Values Voters,' or 'evangelicals' as a voting bloc, pandered to them by citing their 'Christian faith' and 'pro-life' positions which ran counter to Roe v. Wade (1973), another Schaefferian target.

Those left unpersuaded by the aforementioned project were no longer merely political opponents, but morally inferior people, most likely owing to a lack of true Christian faith and practice. Clearly, the moral failings of Bill Clinton weren't consistent with his Christian faith.

Big things are going down my patriots friends
Since the media refuses to cover any of the things that have happened today, I’m happy to oblige.
The FBI is raiding legislative offices and homes in Tennessee as we speak. Stay tuned for that.
Google is censoring you from seeing

Good afternoon all!! ☕️☕️☕️

I got delayed this morning due to lack of access to 17 drops across all platforms. What a coincidence 😏

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Irish folks, this problem isn't just "over there" - w/ the 45% of Republican voters who were OK with this, a president and elected reps who called for it, police who facilitated it and media who are busy spinning it.

The far right is here too.

There are lots votes in Ireland for anti-Traveller candidates, airtime and column inches for far-right and fundamentalist pundits (and Steve Bannon), Guards who treat black and left protestors v differently to the far right. And Trump fans.

Many of the worst Republicans (and many of the cops) in the States are Irish. And US right-wing money pours into our own Youtube etc. grifters and anti-abortion fundis.

And Co. Clare holds a particular place in Trump's heart (and US military transport).

We are this.

Most importantly: here as there, anti-racists and anti-fascists have spent years telling you: these ppl are dangerous.

They have convictions for violence, they work w/ loyalists, UK and Euro fascists, they assault ppl and call for violence.

But you don't listen.

"Both sides" are a problem seemingly. Protesting fascists is as bad as being a fascist. The marketplace of ideas will solve all this. The Guards are impartial and there are bound to be reasons for ... whatever.

Anything rather than listen to ppl who actually know about it.