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Mar 24 8 tweets 4 min read
@LauraMiers Blocking Blue buyers may not be a good idea. But many of us consider this new system itself to be elitist and siloing, because Blue buyers get features the rest of us don’t—most importantly, you get “boosted”. Which means the rest of us are DEboosted. It’s “PAY-for-full-reach”!
@LauraMiers This system bifurcates Twitter into two tiers—those who can easily spare “a few dollars a month”, and those who can’t. The “haves” will rarely even see the tweets of the “have nots”.
We grassroots activists and entrepreneurs will now find it even harder to “reach” the “haves”.
@LauraMiers We peons may not even be able to connect with EACH OTHER as easily anymore, if Blue buyers are boosted in EVERYONE’s feed.
All in all, Twitter’s valuable “free speech”, influencing, and networking opportunities are becoming a paywalled elite good.
#ApartheidClyde strikes again!
@LauraMiers But wait—there’s more!
The pool of those who can easily pay up—plus those who pay with the INTENT of supporting Elmo’s political vision—will skew right/libertarian.
And therefore so will the discourse in this, the de facto national and international Town Square.
THAT’S THE PLAN.
@LauraMiers Elmo said he wanted to foster “free speech” and “citizen journalism”, in this which he himself called the “Town Square”.
He lied.
He—and his financiers—didn’t buy Twitter to facilitate grassroots political organizing and free exposure for creatives.
They came to SABOTAGE it.
@LauraMiers Therefore, to break down and “pay the vig”—pay for play—is to collaborate in this anti-egalitarian scheme.
It’s wrong; and quality accounts (established pros and others alike) should boycott.
If that means #BlockTheBlue—to show that collaborating isn’t all benefit—then so be it.
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Mar 17
NO MORE REGRESSIVE TAXES!

We should support transit—through our PROGRESSIVE taxes, as well as through fares.
AND we should support the roads and parking that transit AND bikes AND cars AND pedestrians AND (work) trucks ALL USE—
and NOT privilege any one form of transportation. Man in driver’s seat of car...
Some say we’ve “privileged” car use—and accomodations for cars—over transit and other transportation.
That’s debatable; we all use roads and all that arrives by means of them.
In any case, to now “OVERCORRECT” by favoring transit is wrong.
#DifferentFolksDifferentNeeds
#ProChoice
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@jenny_schuetz NO—it’s YIMBYs who don’t represent the people.
Especially when they push these draconian anti-car policies, like abolishing parking minimums for “affordable housing” and other development.
Working people want and need cars to “get it all done”; and we need PARKING for our cars! ImageImageImageImage
@jenny_schuetz To add so called “affordable housing”—or “middle housing”—without parking minimums is just a cruel tease.
“You want a place you can afford to live? Okay—but YOU CAN’T BRING YOUR CAR!”
And the same goes for business construction without ample parking for workers and customers.
@jenny_schuetz You know who’s really behind this push to get rid of parking minimums?
GREEDY DEVELOPERS!
They want to cheap out on parking and replace it with more units they can profit from.
And they’re glad to use “environmentalism”—and anything else that will work—as an excuse.
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@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk Transit and biking aren’t free either.
And don’t forget the cost difference between being a captive customer of the pricey “convenience store” near home, vs driving a little to load up the car at the big box discount stores.
And HEALTH?
Can you say “stranded in a food desert”?
@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk And FITNESS?
For many, “just get more exercise—THEN you’ll be fully able bodied (again), and able to walk to bus stops or ride a bike” is NOT a thing.
Neither is “get more exercise—then you’ll be ‘fit’ enough to outfight/outrun any predator you might meet on the street at night”.
@J_lem21 @criticalurban @BradWagon @BFryback @MotoristRights @NoBikeLanes @infopobn @NoMoreBikeLanes @PoundstoneWill @ZEROVISIONPHIlL @hgigante @savehopkins @MikeFromWoburn @DriveBikeWalk And further, “exercise” isn’t one-size-fits-all.
While biking—or walking to/from transit, navigating steps, lugging a backpack or cart all day—
may be the “right” exercise for one person, for others it may actually be CONTRAindicated; and some other form of exercise may be best.
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@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill Want to fund public transit?
Add public $$ for expansion—a bus everywhere every 5 minutes 24/7.
Then, SOMEWHAT more people will ride—and pay fares.
But these transit nuts should stop trying to bully us all out of driving cars. Even the “ideal” transit won’t work for everyone.
@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill Transit would win more public support if these transit nuts would STOP framing cars and car use as the enemy, and STOP claiming that we can’t support ALL transportation options being available, feasible, and affordable—so we can EACH get around in whatever way works best for US.
@Llib7 @Kachowsterxd @PoundstoneWill And also, knocking off the hostile, adversarial language would help.
That “dirtbag” debating style only serves to alienate people from any cause, however worthy.
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“And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao….”
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@criticalurban We need to educate the public—most of whom drive and/or want to drive—about this movement and the harm its pet policies do to working and middle class people. Some liberals and moderates unthinkingly parrot the Shoupist party line; and many give apparent consent through silence.
@criticalurban When asked, they say “yes, I drive—I HAVE to drive to do all I have to do—but I feel guilty about it”. 🙄
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@ejfagan “But the extent to which all that was driven by what was happening on America’s college campuses in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s is often overlooked. What is also overlooked is why this led to America’s spectacularly expensive and wasteful education system.”
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