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Foz Meadows

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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      The rise of the internet & social media has changed many things, but in this context, the most important is allowing realtime fact-checking.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      Not so long ago, a politician who lied or contradicted themselves in an interview couldn't be reality fact-checked by the general public.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      *readily in that prev tweet, not reality, sorry.

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      The average person simply wouldn't have access to a record of the politician's claims & data or a ready way to search them if they did.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      But now, you can literally just type "when did so-and-so say the thing" into Google and get multiple sources to prove the lie.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      In an ideal world, this would've caused political culture to shift towards honesty. Instead, they've doubled down on lying as a norm.

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      For all of history, we've known that power corrupts & that politics requires a degree of both deceit & ugly pragmatism. Politicians lie.

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      Which means that, in order to accept our political systems as necessary evils, we also have to accept a base degree of political deception.

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    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      That acceptance has, I suspect, been enabled in large part by the general invisibility of certain ugly things. Out of sight, out of mind.

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    10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      But now that there's so much more information out in the open, political honesty hasn't increased to keep pace with it. Not even close.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

      Instead, that base degree of acceptance of lies has been exploited to create an ever-more generous yardstick for what politicians "mean".

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          This dissonance is used to claim in turn that the clear implications of particular bills, even backed by speech, are up for interpretation.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Thus: a law to ban abortion after 6 weeks & a rep's view that women would should be forced to give birth to grow the workforce are detached.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          A link for the first claim: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/six-week-abortion-ban … A link for the second: https://thinkprogress.org/abortion-restrictions-labor-force-fd5a0d7689cb/ …

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          There's a DIRECT CORRELATION between these points, which hew to the same ideology & contain the same threat. Oh, unless speech ISN'T an act.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          In THAT case, feminists are "reaching" to view Allen's words as relevant to his plans for future policy. He's only saying WORDS, you guys!

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Why, and those words could clearly mean lots of things! Shame on liberals for focusing on their AGENDA instead of the economic growth angle!

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Because really, the REAL point is population decline and the strain it places on the economy! It's only relevant to abortion in PASSING.

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          And once restrictive abortion laws come into place - an ACT - & women suffer from them, their testimony will be dismissed as "just speech".

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Which is what happens when you restrict your definition of "a political action" to mean only "a visible thing occurring NOW IN THE MOMENT."

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Once it's no longer happening RIGHT NOW the testimony is downgraded to "only" speech, just as the threat to enact it was "only" speech, too.

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        12. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          This forced disconnect between words & actions also lets politicians to railroad direct q's abt consequences with the esoterics of "belief".

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        13. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          For eg: a politician is presented with factual research disproving their claims & replies by saying they believe otherwise because [lies].

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        14. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          I see this SO OFTEN & it makes me want to break things. Because it doesn't just stonewall the interviewer - it ERASES VOTER FAITH IN FACTS.

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        15. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Because if a POLITICIAN can just choose to handwave decades of astute scientific research because Belief, then why can't an antivaxer?

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        16. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          If politicians don't have to care about or be held accountable by academic or legal data, then why shouldn't confirmation bias rule all?

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        17. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          It makes me spitting mad to know that these assholes don't even care that they're breaking public faith in science, academia, government.

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        18. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          LBR, most of them won't live long enough to suffer the full ungodly consequences of a large-scale, multi-country cultural regression.

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        19. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Isolationism, xenophobia, oligarchic autocracy, patriarchal heterosexism; we've done it before & badly. But we're scrapping history courses.

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        20. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Listen, I'll freely admit that the arts can be flaky & self-indulgent as hell at times, but there's a REASON the right hates humanities.

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        21. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Humanities teach critical thinking, political analysis, historical precedents, cultural & media literacy; the idea that norms are changeable

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        22. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          When the humanities comes under siege - when politicians actively DEVALUE those skills - it means they're playing a long-con on your heirs.

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        23. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          They want to raise a credulous, fearful, uneducated next generation so that THEIR personal business & political dynasties are secured.

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        24. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          Once they've steered your fear, sleight of hand - divorcing words from actions - lets them prey on you while blaming strangers for it.

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        25. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          I am so tired, you guys. But I'm mad as hell and I'm STAYING mad until we start to see these fuckers held accountable for their actions.

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        26. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 5 Nov 2017

          FIN.

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        27. End of conversation

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