*Especially* love this part — you can help break apart the doom-loop and build momentum for electoral reform.

Here's Echelon's polling: echeloninsights.com/tribes/

They're going to say "letting OpenAI go under would cede AGI to China." They'll be lying, of course, but that's what they'll say

But even then! The EU doesn’t get enough credit for how much of a bulwark its common institutions are against authoritarianism taking root in member states.

European failsafes are a big part of why Polish democracy survived PiS. And same thing if Hungary does manage to throw off Orban next year…

maybe if economic conditions keep spiraling someday they’ll get to a majority and no longer need coalitions at which point…. yeah, super scary

I still think PR and parliamentarism protects Europe in practice to a pretty significant degree.

Like with Wilders in the Netherlands, even if lunatics get to plurality, they’re stuck in the moderate-to-govern or stand-alone-and-crash-out conundrum

Trump openly mocked Khashoggi in front of the man who ordered him dismembered with a bone saw — and their subhed is "Setting the record straight." So craven www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I still just think talking about "defects" poisons the well from the start.

No one likes defects. Construction defects are very scary. I worry it triggers loss-aversion mindset big time.

And "condos" = rich people housing or vacation homes in many people's minds.

Like, this dynamic is honestly part of the reason IRA didn't include permitting reform...

Arguably sometimes that's even part of challenge — those things are *so* extremely popular that their very invocation can make it hard to pursue good and even pro-environmental policies!