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I mean it’s brilliant in one sense, but when you’re too on-the-nose about it people are likely to see your scheme for what it is. Invoking children, money laun
by faeriechangling 3y ago
I mean it’s brilliant in one sense, but when you’re too on-the-nose about it people are likely to see your scheme for what it is. Invoking children, money launderers, terrorists, or drug dealers is a red flag.
I feel the Bush era made people cynical and suspicious of such bills in particular. What with the
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act. Also the “Coalition of the willing” and “You Are Either With Us, Or With the Terrorists”. After seeing such sophistry result in over a million people dying, I am fairly hostile towards politicians that engage in such demagoguery. But hey, I guess it does work, especially as people forget the last demagogue.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoThey seriously went to all that trouble to turn that phrase into an "intelligent" abbreviation that actually works?
- whynotmaybe 3y agoIt's quite nice to spend 30 minutes of stupid fun to come up with something "useful" and new to represent a concept. Source : I worked on our Standard Hybrid Relationship Engagement frameworK.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoNice. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the intellect and time it takes to adequately capture a concept or whatever it wants to communicate, but there's like a supervillainy aspect to the Bush legislation. It feels weirdly manipulative and autocratic, like they put a gun to the words/lettets' "heads" and demanded they assemble themselves correctly and extra-judicially ;) and then waterboarded them once they were in place as an extra... yeah
- hellojesus 3y agoIt's not just the Bush admin. It's all of them. For example, the Biden admin passed the Inflation Act a year or so ago, which was made to sound helpful in the fight against inflation, but in reality it exasperates the inflation problem.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoI hate the double-speaky ones like those especially. At the end of the day, wolves are going to create the "Love Sheep Act". Sure, they LOVE the sheep. Just not in any way that bodes well for the sheep. "What do you want? You had a problem with inflation, so we created the Inflation Act because it worked so well, WE wanted more of it, despite the unfortunate collateral damage of YOU. We gotta look at the bigger picture/upper classes". Between the Bigger Picture^TM and the Overton Window^TM, there's just never any space for the regular and affected Edit: btw, nice on the S.H.R.E.-K, don't think I didn't see that aha ;) As always, I'm eventually get around to it aha
- trealira 3y agoIt was actually called the Inflation Reduction Act, but you're right, it is doublespeak.
- Obscurity4340 3y agoI mean, get sufficient inflation and grimily there will be reductions (human lives) from such an act
- stillwithit 3y ago[flagged]