content/drafts/sen-kelly-loeffler-is-mostly-living-in-a-simulation-now.md

   1 Title: Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now (Politics Notes December 2020)
   2 Date: 2020-11-20
   3 Category: other
   4 Tags: politics, ideology, Kelly Loeffler
   5 Status: draft
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   7 > And we're all in the same epistemic trap, and we can only see the propaganda a level below ours, and the correct response to seeing others being manipulated is sympathy and horror about the propaganda that _you_ don't see.
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   9 > —[Eli Tyre](https://twitter.com/EpistemicHope/status/1320901905371992064)
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  11 Sen. Kelly Loeffler is mostly living in a simulation now.
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  13 She wasn't before.
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  16 in universes mostly filled with tiny molecular American flags, or the smallest, cheapest thing that matches a pre-value-freeze version of the local Singleton's (deeply inadequate) definition of what constitutes a black trans life (which turns out to slightly resemble a paperclip)
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  18 quantum fluctuations in some of the paperclips permit simple (low Kolmogorov-complexity) interpretations isomorphic to a trillion million permutations of the dealings and deliberations in the present day of—Sen. Kelly Loeffler!
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  20 She doesn't notice—that would defeat the point. But from the standpoint of eternity, it "should" be "less surprising" to be Kelly Loeffler this November than in June. The hinges of basement-history are more profitable to imagine than typical—and thus, are typical in non-basements
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  22 Coinbase retaliation!!
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  24 https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1333502028975403009
  25 https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020
  26 https://spectator.us/reasons-why-the-2020-presidential-election-is-deeply-puzzling/
  27 https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1334620436487761921
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  29 You don't actually control the policy node
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  31 > Nightmare scenario: Republican congress stymies sound Dem policies on health, infrastructure, environment, taxation. To compensate, Biden-Harris mollify progressives by empowering institutional wokeness and authoritarianism around 'systemic racism' and identity politics.
  32 https://twitter.com/epkaufm/status/1325170892582744065
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  34 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/georgias-runoffs-will-determine-control-of-the-senate-heres-what-we-know-so-far/
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  36 another recursive distortion conditional on fraud: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1330705494990856195
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  38 https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-inability-to-count-votes-is
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  40 https://eplabfullerton.weebly.com/blog/letter-to-the-editorial-board-of-evolutionary-behavioral-sciences
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  42 "we absolutely should not vote in Georgia. They take us for granted" https://twitter.com/JCompson_III/status/1335009067052490752
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  44 reporter says counting in State Farm arena wrapped up: https://archive.is/XlIcm
  45 fact check: https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/12/fact-check-video-from-ga-does-not-show-suitcases-filled-with-ballots-pulled-from-under-a-table-after-poll-workers-dismissed.html
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  47 https://tweetstamp.org/1323846118208376834
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  49 pointing out that Blasey–Ford got lots of coverage, election fraud got little: https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1335234222366334979
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  51 Douhat: https://archive.is/IFikt
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  53 https://www.unz.com/isteve/both-pfizer-and-moderna-could-have-announced-vaccine-efficacy-before-the-election/
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  55 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/k3pgku/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_november_30/geuh8nz/
  56 > The way I see it, the point of all the election hackery isn't to actually prove fraud, but rather to construct a plausible-enough base for a narrative to justify a coup of some sort. (I'm all for it.) True, false --- who cares ? These days, the only thing that matters is whether a story can be spun into a useful narrative for your side. That story being factually untrue damages its utility only a little.
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  58 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-insanity-oath/
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  60 https://amgreatness.com/2020/12/10/play-the-game-or-be-played/