ok I read the scott piece holy shithttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-for-republicans …
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the tropes are just lying around for a political entrepreneur to pick up and if i wanted to go to war with the expert class as a politician I would simply make my entire staff watch They Live five times straight until they got the message
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its not just They Live of course watch any movie from the 80s. most likely it will feature scrappy neerdowells teaming up to take on some entitled pricks trying to steal their summer camp and/or wifehttps://twitter.com/lehospitalrule/status/1365067280548327424?s=19 …
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the true villain of ghostbusters was not a sumerian death god. it was that besuited, arrogant, bureaucratic Expert, walter peck (dickless) of the EPA a man whose passion was flexing on some buddies who were just trying to start a business. and save Americapic.twitter.com/r9b1Blr1PL
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anyway idk reagan pulled this off. not sure it could be done today and I assume that there are reasons it is not being done. and of course there would be incredibly stupid downsides. but if i were a democrat i would probably consider how to not be vulnerable to this asap glhf
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postscript.
@Noahpinion wrote a similar piece about a decade ago imo its his best work and I still think about it http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/redistribute-wealth-no-redistribute.html?m=1 …Show this thread
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yeah that's pretty fair it seemed like he was taking swings at reaganism too. maybe just it was an anti-yuppie movie and yuppies used to be reaganites and now theyre Experts
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