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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      61. Other people should have children

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      62. The most deeply subversive political skill is learning to see what’s real about other people, 1 at a time, not what’s fake about them, 1000 at a time. Learning to see the fakeness at scale wins you elections, learning to see unscalable realness wins you history

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      63. You can win elections and lose history, and vice versa, or win both, or lose both. Winning history matters much more than winning elections.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      64. Politics is always a choice between competing bets on the past masquerading as bets on the future, and you should bet on the weakest such bet

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      65. Star Trek is the best political universe but most humans are either too smart or too stupid to live in it. Mostly the latter.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      66. The global political future is headed for Fireflyverse: globalized, aestheticized, romanticized, sanitized, sentimentalized post-civil-war American south with Chinese characteristics. Where stupid people will be sustainably miserable.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      67. The best politics aims for government by the mediocre, of the mediocre, for the mediocre

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Dec 2019
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      Okay good place to hit pause. Act 3 within the next week. Suggestions for topics I haven’t yet touched welcome.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Dec 2019
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      68. Big-tent-leftist-causes approach to climate are a bad idea both pragmatically and ideologically. It's a surgical cause. [Gonna slow-walk my own thread as a sort of threadapalooza median-pace-setting mechanism, and and add an opinion for every dozen or so I see float by]

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    10. former work from home enthusiast‏ @akaashkolluri 17 Dec 2019
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      What do you mean by this? Like incorporating centrists or trying to pass a massive healthcare/economy/climate omnibus a la GND?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Dec 2019
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      Replying to @akaashkolluri

      See WA 1631 as an example. The right in the US is even more a lost cause. I'm talking about big-tent left only.https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/9/28/17899804/washington-1631-results-carbon-fee-green-new-deal …

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