I'll rank this way: 1. Bloomberg 2. Buttigieg 3. Klobuchar
George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion." >From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy. On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 9:36 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heh, good game, ranking as enablers. From most enabling to least, I'd go > with: > > 1) Buttigieg > 2) Klobuchar > 3) Warren > 4) Sanders > > (3) and (4) are really a toss-up. Sanders seems light on specifics and > long on rants. And the devil is always in the detail. So Warren might be > less enabling than Sanders by using corral fences with fewer unfilled > holes. But she seems very Trumpian in her confidence that any of her plans > would survive contact with the battlefield. Sanders may well end up with > better plans if he turns out to be more adaptive, relaxing *into* the > landscape rather than trying to out-think it. In the end, I think it'll be > easier for deeper thinking Evildoers(TM) like Thiel to game Warren than > Sanders, which is why I'd rank her as more enabling than Sanders. > Buttigieg's Moderate Rhetoric looks to me like a red meat buffet, waiting > to be gobbled up by the Evildoers ... like so many octogenarian > Casino-goers. If he's the nominee, here's hoping that deep down he's a 3D > foam of camouflaged steel traps waiting to lop off the fractal tendrils of > our squidlike Leviathans. > > On 2/13/20 8:13 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > I do wonder about Warren, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Buttigieg and their > rhetoric trying to pin blame on the divider-in-chief rather than on those > that voted for him. It seems like crypto-partisanism to me. They have to > be different things to different people, that’s politics. I would love to > have an option, at least in ranked choice voting, who had the basic agenda > to finish the culture war by any means necessary and to severely punish > bad-faith actors as you describe. > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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