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Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits
When people not in your camp say "that is not an ideology. That is common sense," it means you are winning the argument.
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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Three months ago, I wrote that one reason I was paying less attention to the online abundance debate is that I saw a clear and significant "Poster-Politician Divide." That is: Online, the response from progressive posters to abundance has been consistently and highly negative.
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Christopher Thompson
@Christophe80815
That's obviously not what he said. But I'm very pleased you guys are desperate for ANY support, including people who you hate, since abundance is about as popular as dental work.
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Timothy Wyant
@timothyjwyant
Exactly. And considering the current state of the country, I think most people would prefer a little less ideology and a lot more of getting things done. Time to build.
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wfdltd
@wfdltd
We went from “this is just neoliberalism” to “this is common sense, you aren’t saying anything we haven’t already been saying” what a sight to behold.
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Paul W
@NerdPaulNYC
No, it means you said something so tautological to basic understanding of the everyday, on the ground, reality of turning politics into policy that you have not yet said anything new or even established a "camp" for people to side for or against!.
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Alex
@tallzabby
Whatever works for them. I fully agree that Abundance is not an ideology, and it is actually just common sense. If that's what makes them feel they won, I'm all for it, because I don't care about winning an argument. I just want policy action. Sure, gaslight us, whatever.
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Jacob
@Perrid13
I agree with Bernie, and my follow up is “If it’s common sense why hasn’t it been prioritized?”
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Xtian
@Xtian375
Cool story by Bernie but can he point to a socialist or communist society without a giant and inefficient bureaucracy? Because there isn’t one.
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Buss'N
@trollcialist
"Make things work" is a meaningless statement. Work how, for whose benefit. A political party that cant answer this is, as we see, without a direction and rudderless.
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