"Deep state" always makes me think of deep tissue massage. It's that bit on your back that no matter how you stretch you just...can't...reach...but you *know* if you could touch it your back would be twenty years younger and all flexible again.
It's not that simple? *sigh*
Mainstream liberal discourse has been engaged in some serious doublethink on the idea of an unelected power structure running things behind the scenes. On one hand there've been nonstop Daily Beast articles saying only crazy conspiracy kooks believe in it,
https://t.co/RYILViZwxn
That unelected power establishment runs things, with the official elected government operating sort of like the unplugged video game controller you hand your kid brother to keep him from whining for a chance to play.
@BeschlossDC “On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” “
In White House Rose Garden, 1955, President Eisenhower thanked Dr. Jonas Salk for his “selfless and dedicated medical research” to find a polio vaccine. He did not take credit for himself.
@DebbieHayton Erm. I thought that LGBAlliance split from the LGBTQ umbrella because of disliking trans rights?
Not really kind to single out opponents like this. Playground politics is not gonna help anyone.
“Inequalities in Covid-19 outcomes have been exacerbated by the major disinvestment in public services over the last decade," according to a new report from @IndependentSAGE, who are calling on the Government to address the imbalance https://t.co/we5iqmGT76
@AutisticPb Even verbal ones are bad, except for ones like "three more blocks". Complex directions, I spend all my brain power telling myself to pay attention only to not take in a word.
@superjump720 @caitoz So I guess (in lieu of a paradigm shift in our consciousness, which I totally believed in in the 90s but hey lol) we need to design systems which scrutinize. Which will be resisted by the status quo. I don't know what the solution is anymore. A gestalt process I guess.