The idea that you should do *more* of the thing you did while getting absolutely smushed at the polls should not be your go-to hypothesis. Sometimes you go backwards because you were facing once-in-a-lifetime headwinds, but more likely it's because you ran in the wrong direction.
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The one consolation in being thoroughly trounced in an election is that you learn what doesn't work. A close election doesn't give you that knowledge! So it's dismaying to watch people throw away a valuable and expensive lesson to double down on their pre-existing beliefs.
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In Hong Kong, they learned not to tear gas the entire electorate for six months. In Britain, they learned not to run Jeremy Corbyn promising socialism. There is massive denial on the losing side in both places but useful lessons are there for the taking!
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Replying to @Pinboard
a more or less common european social democracy set of policies? equated with six month government repression of popular protest? what’s going on here?!
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labours investment plan would have them uhhhh firmly in the middle of european state spending behind such socialist hellholes of germany, sweden, france etc.
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cos if you aren’t willing to do the digging and hard yards, in the way that you have and continue to do with hong kong (and indeed US politics), then that sort of comment just looks like trolling innit.
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I'm talking about the role of elections as information signals that can get through to people otherwise caught up in a political fantasy.
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You're still likening us to people with actual concentration camps full of slaves, and you know, in many cultures around the world this is often seen as offensive
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Replying to @yorksranter @tomwtn
I think you have an odd misunderstanding of Hong Kong
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Well, at one remove, but my point is that you're being gratuitously offensive
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I think you're the one being offensive by suggesting drawing a parallel with a Hong Kong municipal election demeans your country. Everyone's offended!
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