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26 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
We are watching the shit out of Wonder Woman 1984. I suggested merely watching it, but my family was insistent, no, we're watching the shit out of it.
OK, it took us two nights to get through WW 1984, and, uh ... what an utterly incoherent mess. What was this movie trying to say? What is the lesson? Don't ... wish for stuff? I could not be more baffled.
It can not be emphasized enough that a major plot thread in the movie is Steve's soul coming back, displacing some other dude's soul out of his body, and then Diana & Steve basically using the guy's body as a sex toy. It's so rapey ... & never addressed at all!
Also, Ronald Reagan is in the movie, played by an actor that looks and sounds nothing like Ronald Reagan. Why though.

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26 Dec
Every major political journalist has heard the cries of protest about both-sides coverage. They're all aware of it & aware of the problems with it. But they also know that if they turn on it, they will face social & professional sanction from other journos, editors, VSPs.
The crappy truth is that, from a purely business point of view, both-sides is probably the smart strategy. Normies love it. More to the point, clearly identifying responsible parties would probably lose readers & generate political heat, and who needs that?
This is just a subset of a larger problem: journalism has been disaggregated & exposed more & more to market forces, and honest, in-depth, courageous journalism *is not a particularly smart biz strategy*.
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24 Dec
An infuriating thread about exclusionary zoning in all the places around Seattle. Everything about it is bad, but what is particularly maddening to me is jamming in density around arterials. It's so dumb, so classist & racist, so counter-productive economically, just ... argh.
Density should create walkable, pleasant communities. When density is just low-quality, ticky-tacky apartment buildings lining a giant car sewer (see: north Greenwood), you get none of the benefits. You're just creating a place to warehouse working class & low-income residents.
Go check out Phinney Ridge & Greenwood in Seattle some time. They are supposed to be "urban villages." Instead you have apartments, sidewalks, & bike lanes... wrapped around a car sewer with people driving 35mph. "Walkable"? It's a constant game of dodge-the-2-ton-death-machines.
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22 Dec
One of my conservative dad's (& semi-conservative brother's) most enduring beliefs about liberals -- by which they mean everyone to the left of Rs -- is that they walk in lock step, all think the same, & are on a mission to make everyone in the US think the same.
Everyone on the left agreeing with how I think ... has not been my experience.
I think it is one of the weirder cases of projection on the right. Somehow, allowing multiple races, cultures, and belief systems to live side-by-side as equals under a set of neutral laws & principles is dogmatic & narrow ...
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21 Dec
Nothing is more fundamental to the worldview of the Very Online, over-educated, hyper-verbal, A-student left than the notion that WORDS ("messaging") are the skeleton key to politics, the answer to every political challenge. Nothing can dissuade them from this belief.
All right I'm gonna stop tweeting today but I gotta clarify the above, since "messaging" tends to conflate two distinct things. On one hand there's message development -- finding clever/viral/sticky/effective combinations of words & phrases. On the other hand ...
... there's message distribution, i.e., the mechanics of getting the message to, & into the heads of, the public.

It is the first that lefties tend to fixate on. It's what they spend their time online doing & often mistake for actual politics. They're all experts at it.
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21 Dec
It's amazing how often I log on to find the internet absolutely savaging Dem leadership for ... not getting more out of Republicans. Even supposedly nonpartisan journalists do it! Like, it's Dems' job to deal with sociopaths; it's everyone else's job to judge their performance.
Normies will see headlines: "Pelosi defends $600 checks," and they'll think "terrible, cursed elites!" Somehow it never quite gets conveyed that Dems were fighting & fighting for more & Rs were fighting & fighting for less. That the Rs *could have done otherwise*.
In US politics, Republican sociopathy is treated like a natural feature of the landscape, like a river or something. Only Dems have agency; only Dems are making choices. We all sit around & rate how well they do navigating across the river. "Ha, Nancy, you call that a boat!?!?"
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20 Dec
This week I posted a 3-part interview w/ @dcullenward & David Victor, authors of the new book Making Climate Policy Work. It's about CO2 pricing -- mainly cap&trade systems, which comprise most real-world CO2 pricing -- & why it doesn't live up to its aspirations. A thread.
Part 1 is about the allure of the theory behind economy-wide CO2 pricing (it really would be nice if it worked!) & why, in the real world, the "economy-wide" part never actually happens. volts.wtf/p/why-carbon-p…
Part 2 is about carbon offsets, which are also alluring in theory & also fall short in practice. In reality, there's enormous incentive to hold prices down & very little incentive to ensure quality CO2 reductions. volts.wtf/p/carbon-offse…
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