Yes—And in my mind the indicators thing is connected to this image/substance thing. Let's say that there really is nothing problematic about a gig, or a decision, or a collaboration—but the optics are bad. If you're saying, well, people aren't gonna be arsed to figure out the real situation, they'll just jump to conclusions based on the immediate surface optics, then what kind of selection mechanism is that? What kind of incentive structure are you building for would-be politicians? How are they gonna navigate decisions? How have they been trained?This is one of the more unfortunate positions taken by establishment-friendly ostensible social progressives. Like the image suffices despite lack of substance, or whatever.
I take it you've heard this, or some variant of it:But they're women!!
And arguably it can get kicked into hyperdrive when people operate in bad faith according to what they think the substance is.Yes—And in my mind the indicators thing is connected to this image/substance thing. Let's say that there really is nothing problematic about a gig, or a decision, or a collaboration—but the optics are bad. If you're saying, well, people aren't gonna be arsed to figure out the real situation, they'll just jump to conclusions based on the immediate surface optics, then what kind of selection mechanism is that? What kind of incentive structure are you building for would-be politicians? How are they gonna navigate decisions? How have they been trained?
I love that song... seems like a cruelly ironic choice of band though.
I was on the phone to my dad earlier and he thinks there's a good chance Biden's assassinated. It got me wondering whether Kamala might end up an LBJ figure in the sense of people thinking he was in on the JFK assassination if it were to happen. She could engineer it with whomever else then pin it on Trump and his supporters. She'd then have all three branches of government and carte blanche to do more or less whatever she wanted security-wise due to the seriousness of the event.
Yeah that's what I meant; you wanted a free and radical president, well here's the next best thing.well, fox is always going on about the Democrats' radical left agenda, so...
Yeah that's what I meant; you wanted a free and radical president, well here's the next best thing.
Are you confusing New Radicals with Free Radicals (the molecules that give you cancer)?Yeah that's what I meant; you wanted a free and radical president, well here's the next best thing.