Politics

@ecomarxi What I think is a mistake is to inconvenience the public merely for the sake of inconveniencing them. If a big protest incidentally blocks traffic, that's ok. But a small number of people blocking traffic *in order to* inconvenience the public is a tactical error.

When one side declares war, the war has started. Your refusal to fight back doesn't mean there's no war, it just means you're going to get fucking destroyed.

one of the basic challenges of local governance is that it is structurally tilted to the preferences of a small group of busybodies and cranks who will show up to every meeting against the preferences of the vast majority of sane normal people

@JanelCubbage In any cause the undecided are who you have to convince. So if you actually care about the cause, you can't afford the luxury of despising them, regardless of how good it might make you feel.

One of the biggest ways Trump changed America is a variety of people now use a presidential nominee as a consequence, a threat, a slur—something to impose on people you'd like to hurt, even if it hurts you too.

what’s become clear is that a large number of people faced with the trolley problem would just get mad about the fact that you’re asking them to pull the lever