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Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily halted a judge’s midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return to the country a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador. 

Roberts agreed to hold the deadline until the high court can resolve the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift the judge’s order.

The order does not address the underlying merits of the dispute and is not necessarily an indication of how the court will rule.

They are doing a great job of appealing to a new audience for musicals. I wasn’t really into Broadway bc all the stories felt too saccharine and leaned more into production value than substance. Starkid is some of the funniest content ever set to music.

Redeemed. Thank you for your generosity!

It is worth mentioning, Q1 earnings haven’t even been reported yet. While it’s clear this is a bad event, it can be claimed that this was anticipated. If Q1 indicates an already gradual decline, won’t there be further selloff?

Edit: After talking with others more informed than myself, it was suggested the Q1 will actually look positive, but Q2 will look ugly.

It is important to understand different historical methods of political change as well as their consequences. Blowing a system up with the intent to rebuild from scratch means there are new holes for the rats to hide in rather than revise a pre-existing structure with a knowledge of where and how many of those rats hide and being able to address some of them while avoiding creating too many new hiding spots.

This was the problem with both Bernie and Trump; however, Bernie at least held the interest of the middle and lower classes as his priority. It is pretty clear who Trump’s priority os.

Isn’t this the argument for remixing? If they use pieces of work from other sources, but recombine them in novel ways, it is original? I would say this is a win, but I have a feeling a typical artist will not be afforded the same defense.

It’s Florida. This was predetermined, but the fact that it wasn’t a landslide is actually significant. Populism gave him the office, populism can take it away. He’s trying desperately to take the power away from the people who put him there and they’re finally noticing. We can be angry at those people all we want, but it will be far more productive to find a coalition with them than to resent and perpetually admonish them.

I am (perhaps naively) hopeful that there can be mechanisms in place to avoid this. Ranked Choice Voting seems like one possible lever, but I think it’s probably true that any certain that has a hierarchy is vulnerable to capture by those with access to the most resources.

Genuinely: What are some political systems capable of avoiding capture by the elite (Bourgeoisie, Royal, etc. classes?

What are better indexes for this data?

The reason Marxist nations have struggled is due to elite corruption, not the ideology itself.

I think this is kind of my point exactly. I misunderstood the dictatorship of Marxism, but I’m not sure I believe there can be a “good” Marxist dictatorship that is broadly cooperative on a national scale because it will require intermediaries who are themselves susceptible of corruption. Occupy Wallstreet seems to be a great example of that working locally, but I’m skeptical it can be easy to coordinate nationally as a market can. On paper, the Marxist ideology is sound, in practice, human self-interest seems to not want it to work, though there is always an opportunity to try again somewhere. That being said, markets come with their own distinct style of corruption, as we’re currently seeing playing out right now.

I, personally, don’t accept any kind of dictatorship can ever be good. That there is a series of humans with self interest in between the resources of a nation and the populace of a nation leads me to doubt that possibility. If it were possible, we would have seen more than a few prosperous Marxist nations.

I’m referencing Marxism specifically because, to my mind, it requires individuals, like union leaders, to represent the interests of their union constituents (all of whom are shareholders of the means of production) and would require those representatives to act in the interest of the laborer-as-shareholder which, as I see it, puts them in a moral overlap between politics and economics. i.e., Marxism would be the most likely form of government to satisfy the conditions if a morally good dictator, and yet historically it doesn’t seem to have worked out that way.

I actually fully believe in a genuine democratic capitalist government being a great means of achieving full democracy, but we have never truly been a democratically capitalist country.

Fair, in the sense that an independent or third party politician has a significantly lower likelihood of being elected.