[new draft post] Rule-of-law is incompatible with a sharply polarized two-party system https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/10/21/rule-of-law-is-incompatible-with-a-sharply-polarized-two-party-system/index.html

sorry but the reason i’m explicitly not engaging with the new feature your software is trying to push on me is because i can see straight through that tooltip to the middle manager across the country who rammed it through for no other reason than that me interacting with it will contribute to a percentage indicator somewhere that their boss in turn will use to see if they’re doing a good job. so it would be unethical, for me, to interact with it

The absolutely horrifying and surreal thing right now is having no idea if in about 20 days I’ll be living a relatively similar life under an upcoming Harris presidency, or be working on the second stage process to move overseas, completely uproot my entire life, sell all my belongings and home, and leave my family, job, and friends before the US crumbles into an authoritarian and anti-LGBT & anti-women theocratic state. It makes it tough to like, anything. And somehow, despite all the scandals, evil, incompetence, and cruelty, that is currently almost a statistical coin flip.