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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There’s no genre of take more tedious on earth than the hand-curated “Road to Damascus” take where an editor seeks out someone who ostensibly used to hold a different position but has now recently converted to the one the editor wants to publish to pander to their readers
You’ll be surprised to learn the only evidence (again!) showing dems exiting over school closings is that zombie Third Way focus group that’s been cited nonstop for months that’s a focus group of EIGHTEEN Biden voters that EXPLICITLY SAYS IT CANNOT BE USED TO REPRESENT ANYTHING
Have any editors actually read the focus group??It’s eighteen random people polled by an anti teachers union front group.
Online focus group of 18 people! It’s been cited more than the Constitution

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13 Jan
here's my bottom line with the "school debate" and grocery, nurse walkouts and all the other workers we used to call "essential" we now just complain about, if we accept we have NoChoice But To Go Back To Normal fine ok, lockdowns have their own social and health costs 1/5
Let's concede we have no choice, let's grant that. We're asking already abused, underpaid, and overworked labor to take on a fairly sudden health burden with a lot of unknowns, the least we could, the VERY LEAST we could do is compensate them for this added risk/burden. 2/5
$5K checks? $20K? Anything at all for taking on the least forgiving workplaces in the country. People are leaving in droves for a reason, it's hard, shitty work with a lot of risks. What can the Back to Normal lobby for to help offset this? If it's so important, why not? 3/5
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12 Jan
These guys say it’s “not about right or left” but “power” every few months like it’s a meaningful statement but this is broadly what right-left means. Williamson says this, then (correctly!) lists off corp & military power as the problem which are core elements of…the US right
I think people kind of mean it’s not about “Republican vs Democrat” which is more accurate since the Democratic Party in the US is often very right wing. it’s obviously an imperfect two pole gradient but certainly we can acknowledge that there is a rightwing in the US & it’s bad
Genuinely curious which centers of leftwing “power” are harming the powerless in this country? Academics? Postal service unions? Podcasters?
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12 Jan
The answer to “why is the Biden admin so bad at all the covid messaging stuff” is, I suspect, a massive gap rn in their functional policy of letting it rip vs traditional liberal mitigation efforts & effectively carrying out the former while maintaining the pretense of the latter
Even the Ezekiel Emanuel plan wants free N95 masks for the plebs but it’s kind of an afterthought and if the goal is to expedite the endemic phase it wouldn’t be too high of a priority.
I dare say the White House has moved on and all the yelling for basic stuff like masks and testing is assuming a premise about mitigation they don’t really share anymore
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11 Jan
If the poll doesn’t say “temporary” or “targeted” it’s utterly meaningless. Teachers unions and students are not pushing for remote learning indefinitely, they’re pushing for remote learning until certain safety requirements can be met and/or the current omicron surge recedes
If this keeps getting framed by high status media types as teachers simply loving remote learning for the lolz then yes it could be bad for democrats because it’s a fake thing
Why is remote learning repeatedly presented as some abstract policy preferences independent of the conditions on the ground? Of course no one likes it, no one likes any of this goddamn shit
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10 Jan
Found this on my windshield today, healthy society
Donate if you can!
Probably left by some greedy, lazy CTU teacher as a psyop
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9 Jan
They just wont do any more deficit spending because of ideological commitments to worker discipline and/or threat of capital strikes (d/b/a “inflation”) so austerity covid politics is all we have regardless of what covid does. Everything flows from this unmovable reality
They say it’s because the vaccine changed the dynamic which it ofc did. But it’s also not about the vaccine, and some of the key dynamics remain, but the tool of mass public spending for even targeted or temporary lockdowns is just not an option & it has zero to do with “science”
This is why disciplining labor right now is so essential and why they will absolutely not budge one inch regardless of how many hockeystick hospitalization graphs emerge, new studies or new considerations or even mild mitigation efforts are demanded. They have to hold the line
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