@VickyCYang@vardi@PNASNews How much money flows through the institution (for completely appropriate purposes true to its mission)? From how many sources?
Administrative bloat is bred from the adversarial tenor of our times. (It’s not like MIT is building temples to football, for example.)
Reconciliation after the Civil War got us eight decades and more of Jim Crow. The pardon of Nixon got us the playbook for capital decimating labor. Let's learn from this. Being the better human does not work when dealing with the rotten ones.
@asobercannibal@matthewstoller Pretty much. But that's all done at the policy level.
"If you go directly at the hive, this, this and this is likely to happen."
"Screw that. We're tough. Hand me that stick!!!!"
(running and screaming ensues.)
@asobercannibal@matthewstoller The State Department is mostly made up of wonks who study things and know things and maintain contacts with others who study things and know things. Very few have real input into policy and even fewer into its determination.
Or should we just vibe our relationship to the world?
@AwakenedOutlaw@WesternLensman The violence you surmise is deeply in your own head. Do you even know what denazification was? It's amazing how sensitive a bunch of folks based in crudity and cruelty can be.
@the_transit_guy Oh, and why we have these highway corridors that are quarter-mile-and-more swaths (and growing) through cities whose major growth occurred post-1965...
@the_transit_guy It's lack of will, not lack of ability. The "who wants to ride with homeless people?" narrative has held sway in what is, to a very large extent (for now) a suburban country (what percentage of people who live in major metros are in actual urban settings?)