The most infuriatingly misleading rhetoric from politicians
“It’s time to put the politics aside/stop shouting/grow up and get to the hard work of Solving Problems TM.”
Yeah, except the reason you can’t get to “solving” “problems” is that people can’t even agree on what values should underlie those solutions, what the problems even are, what means are acceptable as solutions, and so on. It’s like they pretend their solutions are obvious and their opponents agree but are being petty for no reason.
YES. This. It is so hard to have a conversation with someone about solving a problem when no one notices that they have drastically different ideas about how the world works.
*cough* minimum wage *cough cough*
#endorsed
this is why I always always try to get people to define their terms when it comes to values and consequences
which helps, but only partially
@ambivalencerelations/@insideitsdifferent, whichever you go by these days
2 weeks ago · tagged #i'm only angry at the left because i care about the poor #this is a social democracy hateblog #nothing to add but tags · 38 notes · source: marcusseldon · .permalink
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