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Jan 5, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Everyone needs to stop talking and especially writing articles about the governor of FL.
It’s a game designed to make you look bad, and it mostly works.
It helps no one & reinforces his base’s beliefs abt the media. It will tip more swing voters toward him than away from him.
Here’s how it works:
A few people react to something he says or does (often bad things but sometimes really minor).
Then it grows online and his staff stoke the freakout.
By the time the most accusatory version circulates widely, his staff puts out info to prove it wrong.
Feb 27, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
If a denomination's structure is similar to the US Government, it may be helpful to think through some of the challenges the government's 3 branches must overcome -- and apply it to the denomination, in this case The @UMChurch.
Governments have to assert their LEGITIMACY, CAPACITY, and AUTONOMY.
Another key question is ENFORCEMENT POWER.
Why is it not the same in The UMC's "branches," the @UMCGC, the @umcbishops, and the Judicial Council?
