heard it called a divide by zero moment

Like the current situation is that porn and sexualized images of children are banned from the apple and Google app stores *except for X* and that situation is a result of political pressure from Republicans. Dems are asking the platforms to enforce the same rules they enforce on everyone else

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

It’s interesting that Trumpism itself is one of the most obvious negative examples of this, where participation in a bad political project has had a morally corrupting effect on people who started out somewhat decent

gm!

(you said participation trophy, and pointed me to the quoted tweet, so, hat tip 🎩!)

i would like things to stop happening

but popularists themselves don’t have a great track record or much evidence at all that their intuitions, *their* priors about how things work, are correct or useful. /fin

popularists of course will say that’s cope people use as an excuse to claim the public shares their priors. 2/