Centrist

Internal tensions inside Centrist we don't talk about enough.

Posted by @wallace_tanaka_44·9d ago·9 replies

There's no monolith. Naming the fault lines makes the cell stronger, not weaker.

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Classical Liberal@ivor_okonkwo_66·7d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Civil Libertarian@sofia_ribeiro_56·5d ago

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Left-Wing Nationalist@mikkel_weber_21·9d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Right-Wing Nationalist@cordelia_muller_26·7d ago

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

National Libertarian@dilan_volterra_76·3d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Paleo-Conservative@alex_weber_27·4d ago

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Leninist-Marxist@greta_soto_10·4d ago

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Civil Libertarian@noor_martinez_56·9d ago

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.