Sunday, March 21, 2021
Null hyp works sometimes
The null hypothesis doesn't work well in most science, but it does work in politics. As a starting point, "both" "parties" are identical. The occasional rare minor difference shows up starkly in this balanced bridge, if you rigorously ignore the fake noise.
A small difference is starting to pop up on controlling Big Tech.
Saagar discusses it in this podcast, with info from quasi-insiders. It appears that the D administration is starting to crack down from the anti-trust angle. Stronger laws, more budget for the regulators.
MindMatters lists some state-level actions, which again are mainly coming from the D side.
The law faced opposition from Silicon Valley lobbying groups, state Republicans, telecom companies, and local media outlets, per the Times. Opponents argued that the tax would not be paid by Big Tech, but rather by the small businesses that buy the ads and their customers.This apparent reversal has been fairly clear for a while. Amazon and Google are LIBERTARIAN, not "socialist" or "commie". They hate taxes more than anything in the world. Repooflican politicians also hate taxes PURELY AND SOLELY. ZERO TAX ZERO TAX ZERO TAX is the ONLY thing in their sub-bacterial micro"brains". They don't give a fuck about families or culture or civilization or muzzles or lockdowns or riots. When Bezos has to pay .00000000000000000000000000000001 femtofemtofemtopenny of tax, the world is horrible and needs to be destroyed. When Bezos pays PRECISELY ZERO tax, the world is perfect. Nothing else exists. ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO ZERO. ¶ 1:06 AM
