Unfortunately then they get yelled at by serious people in the art community that "There's already SO MUCH generic Shakespeare in the Park shit that gets funded through the private sector and why is your job just to give MORE money to the people who ALREADY get money"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
So then you get a Piss Christ kind of thing once in a while where they try to prove that they are real, credible artists plugged into the art community doing stuff famous educated critics think is valuable and cool Which, inevitably, provokes exactly this backlash
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
I mean piss christ provoked a backlash because we live in a society that suffers the existence of Christianity, which, like the military and NASA, should also go away
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
fwiw, I used to be more irritated by space spending before when I thought of federal budgeting more like budgeting...but the truth is the US has tons of resources and could easily fund the space program and cure hunger in the US without too much trouble.
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Replying to @nberlat @Nymphomachy and
Yeah I think the idea that there's a Civilization-style "player" would could just click some sliders and "allocate things differently" is a massive fallacy A lot of people unconsciously make this assumption and it does not survive even a brief brush with how the government works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Which is why even when you get a President who explicitly comes in promising to slash and burn all the "waste" to focus on what "really matters" -- and such Presidents are uniformly turds who want to buy more jets and bombs -- they do some damage but they fail at their task
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
Appropriations bills are masses of compromises and pork barrel politics. Cutting NASA or any program like it wouldn’t actually have much of a tangible effect on how the US spends money. It probably isn't possible and all you would get in return is a new F-35 factory in Iowa.
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Replying to @jamari_oneal @nberlat and
I mean yeah part of the fallacy here is that the federal budget is this fixed-in-size pie so anything you cut from it becomes "available" to move somewhere else That's absolutely not how they see it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
If you actually cut NASA, the result would be that the pie shrinks by whatever size NASA added to it (a small amount) To "move that money" somewhere else, you've got to grow the pie by that same size again The people who don't want to spend any money at all will fight you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
All this "balanced budget" stuff is theater -- it doesn't actually work that way, it's never worked that way, it probably will never work that way, there's no good reason it should work that way
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If we get a New FDR as a savior who will pour a lot more money into stuff where it belongs they will almost certainly do it, like the original FDR did, by *growing the pie* "You believe this is a life-or-death issue, then just write the checks and run the deficit goddammit"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jamari_oneal and
(This has always been the problem, the GOP controls the terms of the debate, such that we desperately try to play their game of deficits and balanced budgets)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
And idk I feel like part of the problem is that the liberal managerial class is used to thinking in these terms of "balancing budgets" and making an organization operate in the black and solving problems and so they're *emotionally invested* in it being this sort of thing?
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