We just have to wait for this disaster in the making to go completely of the tracks…
Week 7 and counting…
#uspol #trump #musk #chaosagents
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-politics.html
#chaosagents
Bovaer is a feed additive that reduces #methane emissions from cows. It is digested by the cows and doesn't get into the milk. However, in its pure form, before the cows digest it, it has health risks for humans.
Lies and disinformation mislead people into thinking that Bovaer is in dairy products. The disinformation machine of the #UK far-right Reform party has kicked the molehill into a mountainous storm.
They're #ChaosAgents
“I think escalation’s good. When we get down to it, remember they’re the ones backpedaling and, like I said, when an enemy’s in retreat, fix bayonets and pursue.”
— Steve Bannon, on his podcast, welcoming the MAGA civil war with Elon Musk.
#SteveBannon #ElonPutz #ChaosAgents #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
3/3
The other issue, as was mentioned, is that these models do not usually include either of the two following problems:
1. #misinformation whereby people make group and policy choices on incorrect information, control of which can be used to steer defection (cheating) choices in Prisoner's Dilemma and anti-coordination games (such as Matching Pennies).
2. #ChaosAgents whereby people break group policy choices by acting randomly, often to their own detriment, but with devastating consequences for other groups.
As I understand it, #ChaosAgents in a coordination game would reduce both the overall gain as well as the individual gain. This could work well for someone if they either (a) didn't care about their individual gain, (b) had strong #spite goals (ok for me to lose as long as you lose as well), or (c) had sufficient backup resources that they could weather the losses.
It would be interesting to model these.
"They could rely on Donald Trump being himself, a man who remains his worst enemy and couldn’t help but step on rakes every day leading up to the election. He’s going down, just like he did on the microphone.
This should not surprise or shock anyone paying attention to Trump’s behavior, actions, and rhetoric over the past decade. The man is a walking chaos agent whose vomitorium of lies, cruelty, and grievances define his petty vulgarity."
"Kamala Harris's pathway to becoming the first female President was aided in part by the numerous missteps & blunders of Donald Trump who self-destructed due to his innate cruelty, bigotry, & misogyny.
In the end, Democrats didn’t need to unveil an 'October Surprise' to help Kamala Harris."
~ Wahajat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
/7
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/donald-trump-was-the-democrats-october
David Kurtz quotes former Trump DHS General Counsel John Mitnick on why he's voting for Harris:
"You won’t escape the disastrous effects of his policies (e.g., tariffs) on the economy, global instability and damage to national security resulting from his admiration for foreign dictators, or the chaos, lawlessness, and persecution that he promises. No one will."
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
/6
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-spent-the-final-weekend-showing
"His campaign is a mess. Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a devastating piece by Tim Alberta about the infighting in the campaign. You really should read it if you haven’t, it’s full of stunning details. The bottom line is as you might guess: The chaos emanates from the top."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
/5
https://newrepublic.com/article/187847/donald-trump-fellatio-microphone-rally
"At the center of this tumult, people close to Trump agreed, is a candidate whose appetite for chaos has only grown—and serves as a reminder of what awaits should he win on November 5."
And Tim Alberta, offering an inside scoop from Trump's team and close advisors about how Trump and his campaign unraveled as time went on, also hits on the word "chaos":
"The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos of Donald Trump—even if the nation was not."
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
/2
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-2024-campaign-lewandowski-conway/680456/
David A. Graham sums up what we got when Trump previously occupied the White House:
"Trump’s term was chaos wrapped in catastrophe, served over incompetence."
#Trump #Republicans #chaos #ChaosAgents
/1
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/swing-states-election-democracy-tight/680491/
"Millions of Americans, stung by the electoral rebukes of their fellow citizens, have become so resentful and detached from reality that they have plunged into a moral void, a vortex that disintegrates questions of politics or policies and replaces them with heroic fantasies of redeeming a supposedly fallen nation."
The electoral rebuke that stung them bitterly was Obama's election.
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
/3
"These voters are not settling a political score. Rather, they want to get even with other Americans, their own neighbors, for a simmering (and likely unexpected) humiliation that many of them seem to have felt ever since swearing loyalty to Trump.
A lot of people, especially in the media, have a hard time accepting this simple truth."
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
/2
"The Republican base actively embraces Trump’s grievances; it emulates his pettiness; it supports his childlike inability to accept responsibility. These voters are not sighing in resignation and voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils. They are getting what they want—because they, too, are set on revenge."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
/1
"Republican voters want him back.
These voters want chaos. They want cruelty. They want vengeance. They want power-grabs. More than anything, they want a sense that people like them are in control — and people who are not like them are being put back in their place.
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Republicans #Iowa #ChaosAgents #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #WhiteChristianNationalism
"even when that posture consistently leads to outcomes farther from this hard-right group’s stated goals, since they completely remove themselves from the negotiating table. …
For a party so lacking a coherent worldview, where doling out losses and humiliations and bending the knee to Trump are the only guiding stars, it’s no wonder that basic governing has become impossible."
#Republicans #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction #CrueltyIsthePoint
/2
"We now have a Republican Party where power, divorced of any cogent, animating policy aims, is king. Spectacle, muscle flexing, reflexive opposition and, most importantly, owning the libs, is the currency of the realm. That dynamic not only allows for no compromise, but makes compromise with Democrats a capital crime —" (continued in /2)
~ Kate Riga
#Republicans #ChaosAgents #PoliticsofDestruction #CrueltyIsthePoint
/1
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-break-legislature-johnson-speaker
"The goals are to debase the truth (is this a real emergency, or a fake one?), expose the swatter’s targets to psychological duress and possible physical harm; smear their reputations; and exhaust the resources of law enforcement officials, who are distracted from other operations and investigations."
#swatting #violence #threats #democracy #ChaosAgents #chaos
/2
"Swatting increases in a declining democracy because it is what chaos agents do: it is the equivalent of the information warfare tactic of 'flooding the zone with shit,' to quote Steve Bannon."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#swatting #violence #threats #democracy #ChaosAgents #chaos
/1
https://lucid.substack.com/p/swatting-is-a-sign-of-declining-democracy
You know Mastodon has arrived because the #RussianDisinformation #bots are here working to get Trump elected with their anti-Biden bullshit and hashtags like "genocide joe".
#disinformation
#chaosagents
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