Scott Baker

Filmmaker and communications strategist helping organizations driving the transition to a just, low-carbon future.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@ChrisSpoke @Janelle_Brady_ @CdnChange The NIMBY side of the force is powerful.

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@ChrisSpoke Yeah, whether this is brilliant or stupid really depends on the purchase price, doesn't it.

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@JohnPasalis It seems to me that whether this turns out to be a good idea or a bad idea just comes down to how much they buy them for.

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@JohnPasalis Not sure that disproves the thesis because red tape wasn't cut across the city, just on one development. So its one development selling into a supply constricted market with supply constrained prices.

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@peterpiontek_ @NoahMF Haha. Fair point

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@joshglancy And the democratic socialism that followed...

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@joshglancy Those pointy helmets really helped the rehabilitation

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@HertzBarry haha

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@levelsio Hard to argue this if you don’t apply it to any entitlement. Not to mention any beneficiary group from any policy. Pork barrel politics is a major issue but if you try to rid it through disenfranchisement you don’t have a functional democracy

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@libsoftiktok that is a remarkably disingenuous interpretation of that clip.

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@pitdesi @Detour I've longed for this app!

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@acoyne democracy is the worst system, except for all the other ones.

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@henrythe9ths AI Guide

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Fascinating research

[David Coletto 🇨🇦 @DavidColetto]

Most of the decisions in Canada are made by people in the quadrant where only 6% of Canadians have similar views.

This is the elite that many feel don't understand them and don't share the same interests.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@mattyglesias #2 is pretty hard to defend

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Give the Onion more tech! Incredible

[Election Enjoyer @ElxMapping]

Guys, we are so back! It looks like The Onion has funding again, and this new election clip is better than ever.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@drvolts And then, there are of course the elites who support him, and I think that is largely just a selfish evaluation of who will enact their interests.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@drvolts ...this explains why elites find him so horrible. Elites are closer to institutions of power, and so they understand that not all politicians are craven and corrupt, they haven't dismissed the whole institution and therefore evaluate trump within this moral universe.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@drvolts Also I think cognitive dissonance is remarkably powerful. But I think its mostly that first thing.

[Scott Baker @scottjbaker]

@drvolts ...they believe all politicians are craven and corrupt and have written off the whole enterprise. So Trump's conduct operates in a parallel moral universe where they (conveniently) don't feel morally obligated to judge...