@WajahatAli "I was returning from the Aspen Institute festival to my opinionating job in Manhattan when i decided to stop and speak to the truck drivers and dishwashers who voted for Trump"

"Why do you oppress me so" I asked innocently

To my shock they proceeded to say obnoxious things
@WajahatAli I composed myself, remembering my UC Berkeley theater arts training, and the deep insight into lives of working-class Americans it had provided.

"Have you considered checking your privilege?" I offered

I will then abused w/ a litany of economic claims clearly needing debunking
@WajahatAli I almost began to regret my effort tweeting on their behalf in support of the Affordable Care Act. These people had no gratitude at all. They kept shouting something about "deductibles", which i recognized as a likely racist-dog-whistle, but which i generously ignored.
@WajahatAli Imagine my shock on discovering some of these supporters were people of color!?

"Have you confronted your internalized racism?" I challenged.

"We prefer lower taxes" they lied to themselves. Truly, my capacity for charity was being sorely tested.
@WajahatAli I looked to the Quran for guidance.

Then i put it down again. Clearly i had already done the so-called "Better Way", and it obviously didn't work.

All that remained was to write off large swaths of the population as an unreachable mass of undifferentiated moral inferiors.
@WajahatAli So, Take it from me, expert in reasoning & persuasion:

there is no point trying to win over Trump's base.

The fact a Democratic candidate for President recently won
election, peeling off a % of exactly the people I denounce, should be considered irrelevant statistical fluke

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18 Nov
Not sure what others definition of "book" is, but i think of a few multi-volume things as 1 big work
e.g.

- Gibbon's 6 vols of Decline and Fall
- 7 vols of Proust's Remembrances of Things Past
- the 21(?) books of O'Brian's Master and Commander series

never touched Dune series
tbh some books just feel long. not because there's a lot of pages, b/c they just waste your time

books that felt long
- Underworld (don delillo) the beginning, so fast; the rest 🦥
- Ulysses
- Pynchon's Mason Dixon
fwiw:

none of my "long-feeling" books are russian.

they write a lot of long-ass books, but they tend to write good stories.
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From what I can tell, @youtube is engaged in slow strategic process of slowly eliminating independent content from its platform in order to create space for old-media networks/studios that can concentrate+maximize longer-term ad revenue

This isn't some algorithmic accident
@YouTube ... e.g. there are 100 niche History channels on YT, each with specific style and focus, and it fragments audiences

How much easier it would be if it were 3 or 4, and if those channels had mountains of content to re-purpose, and longstanding relationships w/ major advertisers
@YouTube What recourse independent channels have seems limited; YT doesn't provide any mechanism other than 'appeal' to channels w/ demonitized content. As long as process is dragged out, it still cuts off potential growth.

Ian explains a bit about that here

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