medlock-thought.bsky.social
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1.) NIMBYism is literally just free representatives and EC votes for Republicans and makes it hard for vulnerable people to escape red states
2.) The New York Democratic Party is a disaster which actively impedes our ability to fight Trump and must be purged.
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here is the thing, if you are thinking pragmatically, the response to trans health bans is to change the subject! “these people are targeting children so they can con you into stealing your social security and health care.” easy peasy! need a specific answer: “keep the government out of my family.”
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the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.
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The dynamic in videogame speedrunning is that if you are caught lying you burn your credibility and end your career vs in political communications where getting a job like lobbyist or corporate PR that requires you to constantly lie is considered a prestigious promotion bsky.app/profile/mrre...
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generally there's an inability to convert from "this person told us something untrue" to "this person told us something untrue several times in a row" to "this person probably lies every time they open their mouths"
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It's pretty significant that the videogame speedrunning community - by necessity - has an informal policy that if you are caught cheating even one time you are basically exiled from the competition and community forever.
Can you imagine if the DC press did that for sources that lie to them!?
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I learned this while working on a program to measure cost performance in Medicare, which took four years from legislation being passed to the first metric rolling out as a pilot program. Government acting slowly is a choice we have made
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Bringing large parts of the American economy to a halt in a sustained, impactful way — this is hard. But replacing a ho-hum Democrat with someone who actually wants to demolish the Republican Party? In many places, this can be done and could have a real impact on party strategy and policymaking.
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The corruption of US politics began with the "savvy" political class, who abandoned basic norms of government because they determined that saying "the president should be bound by law" sounds naive and saying "the president will be popular as long as gas is cheap" sounds smart and practical
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By refusing to treat anything but consumer prices as politically relevant, Democrats are helping create a world in which that is true. Norms are just a social consensus and if you refuse to uphold that consensus - even just to sound savvy and pragmatic! - you are yourself eliminating the norm
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The reason Dems suck at politics is because presented with almost unimaginably efficient communication technologies and more potential outrage and excitement than any one person could ever fully exploit, they.. once again rehearse the same pre-approved boilerplate they’ve used for 30 years
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when the opener is still on at 9pm
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if that seems extreme to you, note that there are twenty million people on PEPFAR-supplied antivirals right now. well, actually, right now there are zero people on PEPFAR-supplied antivirals, but there are supposed to be twenty million.
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1 more point on literacy: it's a disaster that the inner workings of the US government are incredibly complicated and illogical (filibuster, reconciliation, Electoral College, etc). parliaments work better bc dipshits can pick a party that sounds good and see that legibly translated into outcomes
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I have yet to see a use of "Professional Managerial Class" that was not simply an effort to deproletarianize a subset of the proletariat and transform them into a sort of ersatz petit bourgeoisie without any of the self-direction or power that class enjoys
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one under-appreciated (by lay audiences) aspect of slaveholder ideology, in fact, is how it transitioned from "isn't it kind of fucked up that we own people" to "owning people fucking rules"