What are examples of activists who stopped being activists because the problem they were working on got fixed?
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Replying to @asymmetricinfo
Here's the expanded version of what Megan is implying here (also published in the Washington Post, coincidentally enough)pic.twitter.com/5qRTfTiPye
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @asymmetricinfo
Education advocates always want more money for schools. Tell them to give you a figure how much it will take solve all their problems and you'll give it to them. You'll hear silence.
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Replying to @albo_alt @asymmetricinfo
Really they don't want "money for schools" - they want an excuse for failure that *also* gets them more money and power. Asking for more money fits both of those needs perfectly.
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Education isn't one and done like a building. It's an ongoing project which consists of a massive amount of moving parts. But it couldn't be that conservatives simply want there to be an uneducated underclass whose labor they can exploit while feeling a smug superiority to, right
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Replying to @NoOneA790 @da_gorp_fiend and
I don't understand the stakes here. I'm sure it's true that very few people who want more funding for education have a specific target number - most of us don't work for legislators or think tanks. But you don't need a target to determine that more funding would be better.
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Replying to @phil_igan @NoOneA790 and
That's completely wrong. A target is the result of having a plan to optimize an output (student learning or whatever) if you don't have a target you don't have a plan - you just have an excuse. "What went wrong?" "We didn't get enough money" <repeat forever>
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @NoOneA790 and
When I'm hungry my procedure is generally to 1) eat something, and then if I'm still hungry after that 2) I get more. What am I missing?
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You're missing that you know that eating solves hunger. The plan in "education" is more like 1) notice hunger 2) take a walk 3) if still hungry, repeat step (2). "Give me more money" isn't an education plan - it's a plan for getting more money.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @NoOneA790 and
Well, it's true that advocating more funding only makes sense if you have some evidence that it would help. But supposing you have some such evidence, what's wrong with not knowing the optimal amount of additional funding?
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