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Dan Kaminsky @dakami
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Bear witness.

It's time to start addressing the Central American War.
A lot of people don't want to do the Adult thing. There are many other discussions, that do nothing to actually help children, but they're fun for us.

Nope. We are going to have to have the shitty discussions, for us, that protect them. That's our job. Kids can't vote.
It's not about our comfort. It's not about us winning. We better be uncomfortable. We have baby prisons. We all lost. Left, right, whatever. Our fight is our children's fear, their misery. They're paying the price for our behavior.

So, it's time for a new fight.
You get to be on the left and say, this is bullshit.

You get to be on the right and say, this is bullshit.

Because this is bullshit. Welcome to Team Kids. We have adults here.
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To maintain consistency of governance in existing institutions, the British system uses Shadow Secretaries. Brexit requires *new* institutions, because the world of 2018 isn't the same world from before the EU.

So, what I would say is: Pause Brexit. Build Shadow Institutions.
They may be new, they may be a transformation of the old, this may or may not be possible. But the whole magic of the Shadow model isn't just that there are competent people, but that outsiders know who they are, what they'd be dealing with, what sort of deal they can rely on.
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I know it's a little presumptuous for an American to comment on Brexit, but hear me out.

One of the things I've really admired about British political architecture has been the concept of Shadow Secretaries. At any moment, there are certainly going to be parties not in power.
But political winds may change, new coalitions may form, and who is in charge of what may change. That new talent is *ready* for this eventuality, already trained and known and competent to the degree one can be without actually having the job -- that's pretty cool!
Of course, we have some of that in America -- ranking members from each party on each committee in our legislature -- but Shadow Secretaries deal directly with executing the burdens of statecraft. And they are burdens. Policy is *hard*, execution doubly so.
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This is complicated, but at least it’s a technically analyzable situation. Warning everyone now, I am *absolutely* speaking in a neutral capacity here. I may not support your politics, or my own.

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First, the type of edit here claimed is not rare at all. I’ve generally heard it referred to as, well, “frame f***ing”. Happens to television shows quite a bit in syndication — scenes aren’t removed, but they’re sped up just enough to add an ad or two.
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