Later the guy turned his camera on me and asked why I sheepdog people into the Democratic Party or some such
The problem with building your entire persona/brand/politics around the idea that nothing good can ever happen is that if something decent happens, u feel compelled to diminish it. And soon u actively try to stop good things from happening just to prove your own cynicism correct
Cynicism is cowardice masking itself as toughness. It's a fear of believing in something, for fear you'll just be disappointed. It's totally understandable, but that's all it is, fear transformed into a coping mechanism.
Apparently the guy in the video uses this pfp (I guess I can't criticize, because I am not actually a 3 year old, despite my pfp)

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18 Jul
As the socialist mayor of Burlington he talked Vermont’s lefty third party world into participating in the 1988 Democratic primary caucuses in order to elect Jesse Jackson. Jackson won VT and nearly won the nomination. Pragmatism is nothing new for Bernie.
All you have to do is log onto twitter to find out how much hell somebody on the left takes for suggesting working within the two party system.
They call it “sheepdogging” on here.
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22 Jun
Watching this ethan/seder/crowder thing and finally starting to get the appeal of twitch and youtube politics shows — it’s basically Bravo. Makes sense now.

Somebody’s about to overturn a table and you don’t wanna miss it…
Trying to figure out which character I am in this youtube bravo world. I’m the mostly off screen figure everybody hates yet he doesn’t really care. Maybe I’m Kelsey Grammer from the early seasons.
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28 May
On one side is me & @KateAronoff talking about Marx’s reserve army to explain full employment and its value to workers, and on the other is Biden on full employment yesterday. No daylight.
Since the ‘70s, government policy, actively supported by Biden, has sought to suppress inflation by artificially increasing unemployment to keep workers competing against each other for scarce jobs. Biden’s now rejecting that entire framework.
The business-owner freakout about not being able to find workers was/is all about pushing Biden to cool the economy so desperate workers will take lower wages. For him to say the opposite in the face of that matters. From here
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27 May
The left is so turned in on itself it has completely lost sight of its actual purpose: improving the lives of millions of people. Instead campaigns are now all about the few people who work on the campaigns.
Also credit to @RossBarkan who scooped the staff implosion on the Morales campaign.
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10 May
The implications of this school re-opening study in Texas are ghastly when you peel it back. What it says is that children themselves didn’t cause much spread attending school, but when they did go to school, their parents then left the house for work /1 nber.org/papers/w28753
So the point is that Texas couldn’t (and didn’t actually try to) persuade parents to stay home or to let workers stay home and still collect paychecks. But if you ban kids from school, then you force parents to stay home to care for them. That’s an awfully sketchy way to do it.
Children’s well being shouldn’t be sacrificed to achieve a secondary policy goal of getting parents to stay home. If that’s your policy goal, do it directly, dont use kids as your tools.
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5 May
Western Mass media still attacking Alex Morse even after he's gone -- this time for donating surplus campaign money to a homeless shelter and other nonprofits in Cape Cod masslive.com/news/2021/05/f… Image
I can't for the life of me imagine why Morse might rather be generous to Cape Cod, where he's now the town manager, than to the place that treated him with such respect and dignity (and that sees fit to complain that his new salary is much more than he made as the town's mayor)
This is the FRONT PAGE of the paper (home page of the website, whatever) Image
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