mhoyeTrump's approval rating is 27%
https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html
barsoomcore@mhoye have been thinking about this post a lot these days
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Emma needs ☕️ and paying work@dubious_dragon @mhoye fuck, I was working at Apple and was still under the illusion I was a boy when Rogers wrote that.
Jack William Bell"Crazification Factor" is my new go-to explanation for everything stoopid in the world.
It's a deep cut but I still think about it a lot. That and https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/07/l33t-justice.html
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Jason Lefkowitz@mhoye I met Alan Keyes, and can confirm that you only had to see him once to know he was crazy. It radiated off him in waves
Dan Sugalski@mhoye This bit later on:
"John: You realize this leads to there being over 30 million crazy people in the US?
Tyrone: Does that seem wrong?
John: ... a bit low, actually."
hurt my soul to think about, and also I agree with John which didn't make it any better.
JohnAny time a pundit attributes political support to "craziness" I have to send them back to their mom.
It's like a bucket that terrible analysts use to avoid analysis that threatens their ideological commitments.
It also assumes a couple things that are simply not true of US politics:
1) That we have an affirmative electoral system, e.g. people vote for candidates they agree with
2) That we have a universal standard for communicating policy goals across the entire population
It also is extremely useful:
If so-and-so group is "crazy", that means - outside of medical intervention - they're both unreachable and dangerous.
The first releases Democrats from opening the Pandora's Box of "but what if government wasn't evil AF and served only the wealthy pedophiles?", and the second allows them to say "sure, we suck, but think of the alternative!!" rather than actually serve their constituents or doing anything popular or useful at all
It's a ratchet and a grift
I'll also point out that if they're "crazy", liberal supremacist views of health determinism allow them to handwave away the brutal and deplorable conditions we allow there to exist in Red States for whatever reason.
I'm reminded of Biden's snide remarks that if people refuse to take the vaccine they deserve to die: an extremely stupid sentiment that further entrenched anti-vax ideology and led to the death of 850k people over three years, a majority of which were SARS2 vaccinated.
@johnzajac it's amazing to watch folks go through contortions to defend the worst people, and anyone who voted for that man is evil.
not a martian, honest@mhoye yeah, that around 25% number is the lowest approval you get in a lot of places. Saw it described as the lizard vote.
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