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I'm sorry it's fucking crazy that that billionaire lady is disrupting the busiest rail station in the Western Hemisphere the day before a holiday on a whim. We live in the tackiest second gilded age imaginable
One of the most interesting aspects of this video is how dismissive he is of ideas he has clearly not thought very much about, like critiques of militarized borders and the modern prison. He sounds like a flat-earther from the middle ages dismissing the idea of a spherical planet out of blind religious devotion to concepts he's never had the curiosity to question.
This highlights something I explore in the chapter called "What we don't know can hurt us" in Copaganda. One of the pervasive problems with mainstream news is that it never actually explains most progressive views. Whenever many progressive views are mentioned in the news (rarely), it is usually only to assert that the idea is controversial or radical or impractical. And the idea is usually described only with a label like "defund the police" but never offering any substance for why so many smart and kind and thoughtful people who develop views based on actual evidence might have come to that view. The result is cycle after cycle of ignorance, millions of words but no shared understanding of what actual policy ideas are even being discussed, let alone rejected. And, as I noted in my recent Copaganda Newsletter on popularity, when you strip labels but poll people on most of these actual policies, they are enormously popular. And they are even more popular the more evidence and time you give people.
Behavior like this from @jonfavs is extremely troubling, particularly because he's one of the few people in a position to delve a bit deeper and to expose people to a whole world of beautiful, solid, popular ideas that actually present the only path forward for a world on the precipice of authoritarian, ecological, technological, and moral catastrohpe.
@magi_jay This is like when republicans say “this will be the country if a libtard is elected” and they’re describing their current reality in which what they don’t like is happening under their preferred party that they voted for. You sound like that