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  1. @simone_z Ingeborg read them right. "Love the EU, huh...?" Maybe try to not vote for the EPP, fascists and/or "the most entertaining anti-EU buffoon" then? Put your votes where your mouths are and instead vote for parties who want to give the EU the money and power 💶 ⚖️it needs to "take decisive action"? #revealedpreference #jemmerdelescitoyens

    youtube.com/watch?v=O_mMTl-aqs

  2. CW: Long thread/16

    Corporate apologists like to claim that the proliferation of apps proves that users like them. Neoliberal economists *love* the idea that business as usual represents a "#RevealedPreference." This is an intellectually unserious tautology: "you do this, so you must like it":

    boingboing.net/2024/01/22/hp-c

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  3. For the record, I remain optimistic about rank choice voting. I feel that it leaves room for both stated and revealed preferences to borrow some econ language.

  4. CW: Long thread/13

    Bootlicker economists will tell you that your continued presence on a platform you loathe is a "#RevealedPreference," As David Roth says, the job of a neoclassical economist is to come up with new ways to say, "Actually, your boss is right."

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  5. “here we are, in the last days of 2022, and the private right of action [0] is about to do what the Irish regulators wouldn't do: force Facebook to obey the law.”

    @pluralistic

    pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luc

    [0] “the right of individuals to sue companies that violate the law, rather than having to convince a public prosecutor to take up their case.”