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[UAW @UAW]

He's for the billionaires. Not for you.
Donald Trump is a scab.
#StandUpUAW

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@PF_Jung @counterconor On one hand, examples are great to add color to a greater point that is supported by systemic analysis. On the other hand, the vast majority of the time, people who simply raise cherry picked examples have no evidence of systemic problem and try to imply it with enough clips.

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@PF_Jung @counterconor Thats true, except cherry picked incidents don’t necessarily symbolize a real or valid issue. Whether something is a real issue or not is not something that is apparent from cherry picked examples. I think that’s the core complaint of people when they bring up cherry picking

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The "why I left the left" stuff is so tiresome. Be the change you want to see! Focus on policy, message how you think the left should message, recognize heterogeneity within the movement and boost the good stuff rather than hyper focusing on the bad

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@Lauren_Southern @EristocracyTV @TheOmniLiberal Read the story of people who sued and won the case that forced the government to amend their law. It's about Canadian parents not being able to raise their child in Canada. Tell me why should this distinction be allowed between fellow Canadians.

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@Harry__Faulkner For all the troglodytes against this, can someone justify why a foreign born Canadian can't pass down citizenship to their foreign born child but a Canada born Canadian can? The Ontario Superior Court literally ruled this distinction unconstitutional, that's why there's this bill

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@TheOmniLiberal Reading through the stories of the people who sued and won, you will see that it's just a bunch of Canadians from different circumstances who for one innocuous reason or an other had a child abroad and had to shoulder administrative burden to raise their child in Canada...

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@TheOmniLiberal This exception creates 2 class of Canadian citizen and was ruled unconstitutional. The bill simply seeks to comply with the order of the Court while adding a mandatory 3 years stay.

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@mma_orbit @TeamIridiumISA They will rematch for the title

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@amyisquitebusy @AllyTaft You attracted all kinds of men so you had the choice and you chose the wrong kind repeatedly. That requires reflection. People can be deceitful but you gotta do some work on your end for your own happiness. It’s not an inevitable situation.

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@TheOnlyHeem Remember that life has many twist and turns, but we will be ok ☺️

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@SocDoneLeft I sincerely believe anyone with legal and easy access to a gun and above average intelligence could carry out a successful assassination on a politician. I base this conclusion on no special knowledge but would be interested in other people’s opinion.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument.

I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses.

These words are fantastic for activating people, but they are also lies.

The US government currently spends around 50B per year keeping people housed. States, of course, have their own budgets. If Bill Gates spent the same amount of money the US does just to keep people housed, he would be out of money in 3 years. I think that would be a great use of his money, but it would not be a permanent solution.

The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake. They rely on looking at extremely low estimates of homelessness (which are never used in any other context) and include normal vacancy rates (an apartment is counted as vacant even if it's only vacant for a month while the landlord is finding a new tenant.) In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population. But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.)

Housing should not be an option in this country. It should be something we spend tons of money on. It should be a priority for every leader and every citizen. it should also be interfaced with in real, complex ways. And it should be remembered that the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO.

Sometimes they are opposed to it because they've heard stats that the problem is simple and could be solved very easily if only we would just decide to solve it, which is DOING REAL DAMAGE.

By telling the simplest version of the story, you can get people riled up, but what do you do with that once they're riled up if they were riled up by lies?

There are only two paths:

1. Tell them the truth...that everything they've been told is actually a lie and that the problem is actually hard. And, because the problem is both big and hard, tons of people are working very hard on it, and they should be grateful for (or even become) one of those people.

2. Keep lying until they are convinced that the problem does not exist because it is hard, it exists because people are evil.

Or, I guess, #3, people could just be angry and sad all the time, which is also not great for affecting real change.

I dunno...I'm aware that people aren't doing this because they want to create a problem, and often they believe the fake stats they are quoting, but I do not think it is doing more good than harm, and I would like to see folks doing less of it.

One thing that definitely does more good than harm is actually connecting to the complexity of an issue that is important to you. Do that...and see that there are many people working hard.

We do not have any big, easy problems. If we did, they'd be solved. I'm sorry, it's a bummer, but here we are.