Why do 'grassroots' movements provide support when aligned to insiders? Because of a shared ideology that regards certain types of support as natural, normal ways of deciding disputes. Every group needs dispute resolution processes to run any organizations. 2/x
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"Grassroots" support is the same as "scientific" support; each work the same way but in different contexts. Some things count as "authentic" grassroots - BLM; others are illegitimate - yellow vests, Charlottesville. Manipulating procedural outcomes https://twitter.com/i_contemplate_/status/1047679498009923584 … 3/x
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Company X had to pull some ad or donate billions to a diversity initiative because of a "controversy" - that was "grassroots" pressure (insiders using outsiders as justification); company Y loses money rather than backing down - the pressure on them isn't "real" 4/x
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Insiders need a dispute resolution mechanism; this is unavoidable. In a business they're nominally supposed to care about the present value of the enterprise and this gets routed around; in government who the hell knows what they're even nominally supposed to be maximizing 5/x
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The outcome ends up that you have a Schelling point around progressivism and everyone advances it and advances himself by manipulating progressivism for self benefit (monetary or status-wise). Everyone operates on the same rules because in org fights you need teammates. 6/x
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"My client's blood was found all over the murder scene, therefore he's innocent" is a surprisingly commonly used argumentation technique
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