1/9 In a little more than a month, I'll start looking for another place to live for a few reasons. One place I know I won't be looking is in @Pittsburgh. The roads aren't maintained and don't get plowed, firefighters are begging on the streets.
2/9 But the mayor, @BillPeduto, yammers about bicycles (@Pittsburgh is generally much too hilly for bicycling and I see very few people even on the electric bicycles that are available all around Oakland) and his corporate connections.
4/9 @Pittsburgh takes care of business, if by business, you mean high tech artificial idiocy that draws people in from out of town to push up *some* real estate values.
5/9 @Pittsburgh takes care of business, if by business, you mean drunken college students doing stupid shit in the South Side and restaurants where only the rich can afford to eat in neighborhoods where there's no parking available.
6/9 @Pittsburgh does *not* take care of business if you are poor or working class. But hey, there's this urban connector project so people will be able walk between a now-deserted downtown and @PPGPaintsArena.
7/9 If @BillPeduto has a clue what it's like to be poor or working class, you couldn't tell it from his tweets, which are all about (corporate) "partnerships that produce change." What change?
8/9 Homewood, Lincoln-Lemington, and Larimer are all a short walk from Point Breeze, where @BillPeduto lives. If he's ever even been in those neighborhoods, you couldn't tell. The mayor's solution is trickle-down.
9/9 There are a lot of @Pittsburgh neighborhoods that have seen plenty of trickle-down, as in the rich pissing on the poor. That's pretty clearly what @BillPeduto is about. And the man has the gall to run for re-election. Wow.
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1/11 A real problem is the notion that there is something called 'objectivity.' This is a myth. There is no theory--not a single one--of truth that withstands scrutiny. We don't know what truth is and can never know.
2/11 Qualitative scholars, including critical theorists, acknowledge their own social locations relative to the subjects at hand, empowering readers to ferret out not so much bias as the perspective from which authors perceive their topics. It's a necessary honesty.
3/11 We should note here further that quantitative scholars do not escape bias. They are merely excused from the requirement to talk or even think about that bias.
Numbers *never* tell a whole story. Statistics are about aggregates.
1/4 A difference on the Left between those who could hold their nose and vote for @JoeBiden and those who could not may lie in the @DemoSocialists' substitution of the movement (think "means") for achievement (the "end" as social and environmental justice).
2/4 If you see the movement itself as an achievement, you're likely to settle for an incremental approach that may take decades or centuries to achieve a desired end.
3/4 If, on the other hand, you're concerned about people dying, people being killed, through elite indifference, fecklessness, greed, or outright malice, that might not be good enough.
1/4 I don't know how much of a "hidden" pro-@realDonaldTrump vote there may be that the surveys are missing.
I am convinced there is almost no enthusiasm for @JoeBiden and that a lot of folks might not turn out to vote for him. This obviously suits @TheDemocrats just fine.
2/4 The real issue here is that the #Election2020 will absolutely fail to address serious problems in the U.S. The constitutional oligarchy is simply incapable of responding to a dire need for change.
Voting will not solve this problem.
3/4 Meanwhile, @realDonaldTrump has converted #BlackLivesMatter protests into a confrontation with secret police. This is no longer about racism and the impetus for politicians to implement change, already eviscerated by nonviolence, is now entirely absent.
But any critical theorist is going to raise at least an eyebrow at the power relationship between the president of the U.S. and an intern.
3/6 It's a little too easy to say in such cases that women have the right to name their own experiences, whether as assault, as rape, or as consensual. And yet we can't forget that they do.
1/8 Okay, so we see here that @HeerJeet really, really, really hates @ProjectLincoln because @danpfeiffer really isn't all that favorable towards them either. But I like the article too.
3/8 @HeerJeet notices, apparently from the article, that @ProjectLincoln spends little on swing states. I notice from the article that their work seems mostly aimed inside the beltway. That's also where #neoconservatives have the most influence.