RT @NateSilver538: In 2020 the Democratic Party nominated noted hard-left ideologue Joe Biden. A healthy political party can broker some di…
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 13:45:28 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645422749005783041
NO WE WON’T GIVE UP OUR INSURANCE AGAINST AUTHORITY BECUASE YOU CAN’T FORM STABLE, INTEGRATED, FAMILIES
-“No, you may not end our right to defend against an increasingly authoritarian government because you cannot create stable families, cannot control the behavior of your… https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1645404407809359872
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 12:48:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645408353315684354
THREAD
–“I’m sick of herding a bunch of special needs kids pretending to be a movement.”–
Why is social media a false promise of political organizing?
Why are relationships, meetings, email and forums more effective? https://twitter.com/DeadScrump/status/1644476360558034944
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 12:17:24 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645400584906760199
Thanks for saying this.
We (our team) gave up on them despite our early successes.
Social media has not improved political organizing at all. It’s inhibited it by providing a false promise that it CAN be used for political organizing, yet the dysfunctionals always…
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 11:59:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645396178773635073
Reply addressees: @DeadScrump
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1644476360558034944
@DeadScrump
Thanks for saying this.
We (our team) gave up on them despite our early successes.
Social media has not improved political organizing at all. It’s inhibited it by providing a false promise that it CAN be used for political organizing, yet the dysfunctionals always poison any and every well.
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 11:59:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645396178673041409
RT @ggreenwald: Before the Twitter Files, it had long been proven that the US Security State is funding “disinformation experts” to try to…
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-10 01:11:07 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645232911241584641
They are strategically waiting out the postwar era, and the repetition of the historical failure of democracy. They are taking the correct strategy for the long term.
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 18:28:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645131680330526722
Reply addressees: @_Itsmrfoxy_ @TylerLitrel
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645123670522699776
British monarchy. Presidents were a bad decision vs a monarchy or a prime minister. Monarchy exists for those cases where “in case of emergency break glass”. Mostly they exist for when either the people or the government ‘fail’.
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 17:52:14 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645122463024533507
Reply addressees: @_Itsmrfoxy_ @TylerLitrel
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645115730835263490
–“Q: How should we organise aristocracy today? Elective rather than hereditary?”–
Meritocratically Rotating Hereditary. Of the families that will achieve it most will fall out of it, either due to exhaustion, competition, economic failure or corruption. Public service is ‘costly’.
The fundamental problem is that only hereditaries maintain long term time preferences and capitalization where all politicians practice the tragedy of the commons. And democracy is the slow road to communism precisely because it’s an organized method of exploiting the tragedy of the commons.
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 17:14:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645113022417870849
–“Q: How should we organise aristocracy today? Elective rather than hereditary?”–
Meritocratically Rotating Hereditary. Of the families that will achieve it most will fall out of it, either due to exhaustion, competition, economic failure or corruption. Public service is ‘costly’.
The fundamental problem is that only hereditaries maintain long term time preferences and capitalization where all politicians practice the tragedy of the commons. And democracy is the slow road to communism precisely because it’s an organized method of exploiting the tragedy of the commons.
Source date (UTC): 2023-04-09 17:14:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1645113022329810945