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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Yes, I love Ted Lasso, but I gotta say, Nate's heel turn was a little ... undercooked. He went from nebbishy & insecure to practically a Bond villain without much in between.
I mean, I guess they showed him snapping at players & being more of a dick this season, but I never completely understood why. Even if he wanted more respect or whatever, how does that translate into being petty & snappish with players? Hurt by Ted, sure, but *hating* him?
As always, an interesting discussion here! Couple thing popped out worth flagging. First, this post from the actor who plays Nate.
And this thread, tracing & explaining the changes in Nate.

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This thread has gotten some traction (read it!), but I wanted to add one important point. Lots of the responses are some version of, "exactly, Democrats are terrible at messaging & framing!"

But that's NOT what I'm saying. This is an important distinction. (mini-thread)
We talk all the time about "messaging" but tend to conflate two meanings. On one hand, messaging is *choosing messages*, ie, crafting words & soundbites & images that effectively convey your points/positions. The educated, word-loving left fairly obsesses over this aspect.
But the other, arguably more important meaning of "messaging" is ***the ability to deliver messages to the intended recipients***. Unlike the first meaning, this one has very little to do with cleverness & facility with words & everything to do with *power & money*.
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11 Oct
A striking quote from William Jennings Bryan's famous "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896. (via @adam_tooze) adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-44…
In the wake of a period of horrendous crisis & suffering in the US economy, Bryan tried to rally a populist revolt, win the presidency, & end the gold standard, which favored the rich at the expense of the masses. He & his followers believed the revolt necessary & inevitable.
But Bryan, opposed by status quo interests, lost. The suffering continued; the gold standard stayed in place for years to come.

I flag all this because Tooze's post reminded me of something I've been thinking about a lot in the last few years.
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10 Oct
Apparently everyone has to have an opinion on "popularism" now, so lemme just say what I think is the single most important point in Ezra's excellent review of the debate: nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opi…
Namely this, from @anatosaurus. What voters hear about Democrats is only tenuously related to what Democrats say & do. Image
Fully half the media -- inc. the top-rated cable channel & the most influential FB pages -- is propaganda *specifically designed* to make Democrats look horrible. It's a little wild to me that this ongoing discussion about Dem strategy takes so little note of this fact.
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Today on Volts: I'm too anxious about the political situation to focus on anything, so I wrote a rant about economists, the ways they've botched climate change, & what they might learn from it.
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... are some of the most regulated, managed, distorted, & subsidized markets in the world. The electricity sector, fully of monopoly utilities, is practically soviet. Tweaking the price on carbon & letting everything else go leaves all those distortions in place.
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