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11 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Have been thinking of writing something to make this point but I am not sure that I can do it better than this. newrepublic.com/article/159339…
But yes, American state capacity is basically nonexistent and “we will make things work” is a powerful pitch. I also strongly believe there is space for the left to adopt this pitch as their own, to make left-wing politics the politics of competence and efficiency.
After all, part of the pitch for Medicare for All or free college but a pitch is that these would be simpler and easier and more efficient than what we have now.
make sewer socialism great again

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2 Sep
Yet again tweeting in such a way to obscures the full context of the statistics. 45 unarmed deaths, out of 1,022 “armed” deaths, a designation that doesn’t actually say much about the circumstances of each shooting.
To use a prominent example, Philando Castile was “armed” when he was shot and killed. To say this absent the context of the shooting is to suggest he was in the midst of criminal activity.
Even if every “armed” shooting were of a person committing a crime with a gun (they’re not), it is still a problem that police are killing 1,000 people a year.
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2 Sep
tHIs is WhAT THe fOuNDErs Intended
my stated position on the framers and the electoral college is that "intent" doesn't really factor into it and that the EC was a last-minute kludge by exhausted delegates meant to guarantee the election of george washington and nothing else.
every subsequent explanation for the electoral college — "it's meant to give small states a voice, it's meant to give rural areas a voice" — is an after-the-fact partisan justification that has ascended to the realm of folk civics
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27 Aug
It’s cop logic. Doesn’t matter whether his life was actually threatened — no evidence thus far that it was — what matters is he can *say* he *feared* for his life, and therefore the use of lethal force is justified.
And in fact, the local authorities are already treating Rittenhouse as if he is a cop, and entitled to language that obliterates his agency and treats the death of two people as the result of forces beyond anyone’s control. (Except maybe their own.)
Pretty explicit in all of this is the extent to which police and their cheerleaders see these right-wing militia types as essentially performing the same work as formal law enforcement, not crime fighting but the maintenance of (racial, gender, class) “order.”
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26 Aug
yes. riots do not just happen spontaneously and there’s surprisingly little scrutiny of the ways in which police instigate and add fuel to the dynamics which produce rioting.
that’s especially since riots of this sort have followed the same basic pattern for at least a century.
let’s set aside the fact that none of this would be happening in kenosha had two police officers had the forbearance not to shoot someone 7 times in front of their children. the police department *chose* to respond to the initial protests in a draconian fashion.
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24 Aug
I’m afraid this chart doesn’t say what you think it does? It is from a 2017 Pew Research Center study on polarization, but it’s not showing how parties have moved from the center, it is showing how the space between the median Democrat and the median Republican has grown.
Here’s the chart as published. Note: the words “Moving to the Extreme” are nowhere to be found. They appear to be editorial spin from a 2018 Investors Business Daily article. investors.com/politics/edito…
Here’s Pew on their findings. assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/upl…
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19 Aug
They also prove too much. If a 60 vote supermajority is necessary to preserve the sanctity of the Senate, then why not a 67 vote supermajority? or a 75 vote supermajority?
The actual effect of the filibuster in the modern, partisan Senate is to neuter it as an effective lawmaking or oversight body and turn it into an almost insurmountable veto point. It makes Congress weaker and the executive stronger.
If not for Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, then (at the risk of being unfairly dismissive) I don’t think people would have such warm feelings about the filibuster.
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