HaraldKML

You can't spell ACRONYM without CRONY

reposting this four-year old tweet for no reasonhttps://twitter.com/zeithistoriker/status/796536927470161920?s=20 …

We don't need to claim there's a vast conspiracy to demoralize young progressive voters and to make our democracy look like shit, but we do need to recognize the current system is now demoralizing young progressive voters and to making our democracy look like shit

"cock up or conspiracy" is a bad question because it's looking for agency when what's interesting is structure - if all the cock ups only happen to favour entrenched power, that's functionally indistinguishable from conspiracy

As someone employed by a university, I totally get the appeal to the Iowa Democratic Party of throwing out a tried and true process and paying consultants big bucks for something that doesn’t work.

As with the BBC, incompetence is a form of bias; it's a bias against people who don't have the clout to get mistakes corrected, in favour of people who are enough of a threat to make sure extra care is taken when an unusual result doesn't favour them.

Declaring victory amidst chaos is exactly what a global management consultant would advice you to do.

Nina Turner calls Mike Bloomberg an "oligarch." Is he? He's worth $60 billion. He makes $2 billion a year off that. He's using this year's $2 billion to buy the presidency. He just bought his way onto debate stage. Yes.

Glaswegians get a say. If your demonym ends in -wegian you can caucus. That's corn law.

the Not Me, Us thing is explicitly in response to the levers of traditional power within the beltway being locked down by bad-faith GOP actors like Mitch McConnell