3 ms·
Correct: but giving them a thousand timeouts doesn't help, if you still need to give the thousand-and-first. It mitigates the immediate problem, but it also tie
by wizzwizz4 1y ago
Correct: but giving them a thousand timeouts doesn't help, if you still need to give the thousand-and-first. It mitigates the immediate problem, but it also ties up your resources. Eliminating the problem at its root, if that's possible, is a more effective strategy: if we can take away the ability for the real bad actors to get loyal followers, by learning how to change those followers' minds, they won't have anywhere near as much power.
- kelseyfrog 1y agoExactly. The distal cause is that the Compromise of 1877 halted an unfinished Reconstruction. What I'm calling for is simple - the natural and final conclusion of Reconstruction. It might be 148 years late, but it's the antidote to the disease.
- vpribish 1y agodamn. fucking. straight. pussyfooting with racist traitors has kept us paying for the original sin of slavery into another goddamn century. popular vote for president nonpartisan redistricting of every state ranked-choice-voting everywhere limits on corporate money in politics end the filibuster strictly define supreme court size, terms, and appointment rules age limits for congress finish reconstruction mess with texas there is a lot of technical debt in this project