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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020

      Hence all this ire aimed specifically at Warren, who came to be the scapegoat for keeping the "educated progressive wing" from coalescing around Bernie, which was all they thought they needed

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020

      The Super Tuesday results kind of make it seem this was a strategic disaster Bernie *already had* a big chunk of the college political wonk crowd, and probably hit his ceiling with them a while ago But that crowd isn't important, such is why Warren ended up not being important

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    3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I think people resist the "the college educated wonk crowd aren't important" because if so, it basically means political science and theory isn't important and we just don't give a shit about academic or intellectual qualifications. It would be the death knell for democracy.

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    4. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect

      It would be basically an entire demographic accepting that they do not matter, that they will never matter, and they may as well just despair and flock to populist candidates. Nobody can really tolerate that idea.

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      Nobody's *completely* unimportant, they're just obviously not the majority

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    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      But you understand what I am saying. It is extremely dangerous and demoralizing to internalize the idea that no, voters just don't care about policy or intellectual framework of academic qualification or "merit" and just want some asshole they can have a beer with.

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      That's what "democracy" means tbh Like if you don't want that then what you do want is called "technocracy" (and people usually say that as a bad thing)

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    8. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I am aware. But we play a game in America where we act like democracy produces justice and intellect, it's why we consider it valid at all.

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent

      Well, I mean, we're closer to technocracy than democracy in many many ways A lot of people have produced the hot take that the state bureaucracy is the unelected "fifth branch of government", and the whole world of expert advisory councils the sixth

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    10. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

      Wait, which is the 4th?

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent

      The press

      9:45 PM - 3 Mar 2020
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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 3 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent

          Oh, right - I've heard that mostly as a 4th Estate rather than 4th branch of government, but same principle, I guess.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 3 Mar 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent

          Those two expressions are technically unrelated but the one was probably an influence on the other (the "Fourth Estate" is a reference to the European tradition of dividing the country into the "Three Estates" of the Church, the Crown and nobility, and the commoners)

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