“Politics is just a thing that happens instead of something that can be shaped by advocacy” is such an incredible data science guy(tm) take,,,, and yet there are real people out there in the world making exactly that argument - ThreadSky

sky.skymarchini.net • 6 days ago

“Politics is just a thing that happens instead of something that can be shaped by advocacy” is such an incredible data science guy(tm) take,,,, and yet there are real people out there in the world making exactly that argument

Reposted from Sam (ABeardedPanda)

"Well, if the American people decide that they want to vote for the national suicide party and decide they like national suicide, who am I to say it's bad?"

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silverknyaz.bsky.social•6 days ago

mostly for clicks, too, like those split ticket/welcomefest people are just... ugh

w-philip-insey.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe if you're asked to partake in an involuntary suicide

foolishmortal.bsky.social•6 days ago

But that way it's way easier to model so it's impossible to say whether it's bad or not

dreamingzen.bsky.social•6 days ago

They are Historians of the Now and they have as much computational ability as a stenotype. A town crier that shouts whatever you hand them.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ron Burgundy also

princessjemmy.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thanks for the tips. We have sat out the last couple, but might get around to making a sign for this one.

samwilson.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s okay, in the UK we let our government be run by those people

sky.skymarchini.net•6 days ago

Fun fact, he (Lak, who name searches) got mad at me for calling him a weathervane blown around by polling a few months ago, so it’s really funny he’s staked out the position that “actually bsky gives politicians space not to be blown around by the social media echo chamber” now

sky.skymarchini.net•6 days ago

Found it https://bsky.app/profile/sky.skymarchini.net/post/3lh3gpszwk22h

faeelin.bsky.social•6 days ago

Because i am a dick I emailed him to ask how that is going.

mutual-a.bsky.social•6 days ago

this is why i don't completely dismiss the frankfurt school

sharonk.bsky.social•6 days ago

they were cooking, and i will stand by this

mutual-a.bsky.social•6 days ago

i think that they get science horribly horribly wrong but if you replace that with "technocracy" then yes they clearly have a point

mutual-a.bsky.social•6 days ago

i don't think inquiry into the world is bad because francis bacon used authoritarian metaphors when talking about inquiry

sharonk.bsky.social•6 days ago

i mean eco-feminists make a similar critique, no?

mutual-a.bsky.social•6 days ago

sure and i disagree with them. im firmly with the xenofeminists on this question https://laboriacuboniks.net/manifesto/xenofeminism-a-politics-for-alienation/

maxp94.bsky.social•6 days ago

It was conventional wisdom that advocacy could shape public opinion less than five years ago and now people look at you like you’ve grown a different head if you say otherwise

anonyme16.bsky.social•5 days ago

People should not be reposting this garbage.

thedimpsler.bsky.social•6 days ago

Don’t forget its sister argument “things just kinda happen for no reason bro, materialism is a falsehood”

themalaiseoftech.bsky.social•6 days ago

In the boiled frog experiment, the data science (tm) guys believe there is nothing beyond the reading on the thermometer.

Useless.

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