Portland's *transit authority* is building a jail. I mean, what the actual fuck? But also, this is regulatory liberalism's steady state.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
For too many Black people there's no difference but the time delay.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I've read that the best determinant of survival rates in the Holocaust was the degree of organization and cooperation in the country.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
That's probably true, though mitigated by external factors. But this is why community organizing is so relevant!
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
What I mean is that countries that had their shit together (to e.g. keep records and/or take a census) had the highest death rates.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Apropos your point about how liberal regulatory states can lead to badness. Even though I sort of disagree.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
It's the expansion of executive power, coupled with deference by the courts, that is its undoing.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
There are a lot of arguments that our particular structure of independently-elected Executive and Legislature is a recipe for disaster.
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And de facto 2 party system, too
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