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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
What does āseizing spoils of the executive branchā even mean here?
fuck, I went into the xcancel link to see if he explains that or any of this other nonsense, and of course yudās replies only succeeded in making my soul hurt:
and someone else points out that a parliamentary republic isnāt an electoral system and he just flatly doesnāt get it:
Here it sounds like he is criticising the parliamentary system were the legislative elects the executive instead of direct election of the executive. Of course both in parliamentary and presidential (and combined) systems a number of voting systems are used. The US famously does not use FPTP for presidential elections, but instead uses an electoral college.
So to be very charitable, he means a parliamentary system where itās hard to depose the executive. I donāt think any parliamentary system uses 60 % (presumably of votes or seats in parliament) to depose a cabinet leader, mostly because once you have 50% aligned the cabinet leader you presumably have an opposition leader with a potential majority. So 60% is stupid.
If you want a combined system where parliament appoints but canāt depose, Suriname is the place to be. Though of course they appoint their president for a term, not indefinitely. Because thatās stupid.
To sum up: stupid ideas, expressed unclearly. Maybe he should have gone to high school.
Which is objectively worse, but apparently Yud thinks itās better than FPTP? Since FPTP is āthe worstā.
It means that Yudkowsky remains a terrible writer. He really just wanted to say āseizing [control of] the executive branchā, but couldnāt resist adding some ornamentation.
less charitably, it seems he might mean to say ātheir job is to do their job, not to get rewarded because of positionā, i.e. pushing the view that he thinks parliamentary bodies are just there for the high life and rewards
and while I understand that this is the type of āwhat did he actually mean?ā that you might get from highschool poetry analyses, it is also the kind of thing that eliyuzza NotEvenWrong yud[0] seems to do pretty frequently in his portrayals
[0] - meant to be read in the thickest uk-chav accent of your choice