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A lot of people dismissively mocking this tweet but it's worth pausing to recognize its Marxist roots.
This "thinking" traces back to Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno & ultimately Antonio Gramsci.
The Frankfurt School employed a technique called Critical Theory â a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole.
The point of the theory is to criticize every traditional social institution â and to specifically avoid offering any alternatives â as a means to breaking down Western Culture.
Theodor Adorno wrote the influential book The Authoritarian Personality which argued that anyone who defended traditional culture was a Fascist.
Sound familiar?
Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy who created the Theory of Cultural Hegemony. And Counter Hegemony.
Gramsci felt that in order to change society, the entire value systems of Societal Institutions must be overturned.
This "thinking" traces back to Critical Theory, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno & ultimately Antonio Gramsci.
parents are tyrants. "parent" is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.
— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) December 14, 2020
The Frankfurt School employed a technique called Critical Theory â a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole.
The point of the theory is to criticize every traditional social institution â and to specifically avoid offering any alternatives â as a means to breaking down Western Culture.
Theodor Adorno wrote the influential book The Authoritarian Personality which argued that anyone who defended traditional culture was a Fascist.
Sound familiar?
Antonio Gramsci was a Marxist theorist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy who created the Theory of Cultural Hegemony. And Counter Hegemony.
Gramsci felt that in order to change society, the entire value systems of Societal Institutions must be overturned.
IMO, it is sky palace bad. This will do lasting damage to the UCP, perhaps more than the partyâs performance on real issues that matter. Because it affects the perception of the UCP.
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It used to be a gotcha question to ask politicians how much they spent on milk. The point of the question was to finger those politicians who didnât do their own shopping or otherwise were rich enough to not have to worry about how much it cost to feed their families.
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Today, people rail against the âLaurentian Elitesâ who are out of touch with people. The complaint is that these politicians arenât affected by their policies the same way âseverely normalâ people are, and hence come up with ideas that are bad for the non-elite.
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The sky palace wasnât necessarily a bad idea â the premier does need accommodations in Edmonton â but it created the image of an entitled premier, freed from the ordinary day-to-day struggles by virtue of the tax dollars from hardworking Albertans. The rhetoric writes itself.
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Bill Morneauâs ultimate sin was to not notice that he hadnât paid for tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses. That he could just write a cheque to fix that problem didnât help. It showed he lived in a world completely different than ours.
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On a scale of 1-10 sky palaces, how bad is the latest UCP scandal? #ableg #abpoli
— Stacey (@Blurg5) January 2, 2021
It used to be a gotcha question to ask politicians how much they spent on milk. The point of the question was to finger those politicians who didnât do their own shopping or otherwise were rich enough to not have to worry about how much it cost to feed their families.
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Today, people rail against the âLaurentian Elitesâ who are out of touch with people. The complaint is that these politicians arenât affected by their policies the same way âseverely normalâ people are, and hence come up with ideas that are bad for the non-elite.
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The sky palace wasnât necessarily a bad idea â the premier does need accommodations in Edmonton â but it created the image of an entitled premier, freed from the ordinary day-to-day struggles by virtue of the tax dollars from hardworking Albertans. The rhetoric writes itself.
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Bill Morneauâs ultimate sin was to not notice that he hadnât paid for tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses. That he could just write a cheque to fix that problem didnât help. It showed he lived in a world completely different than ours.
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The ECB's long-standing negative rates policy remains unpopular in a union of chronic high savings (demand deficits) & yield-hungry investors. Here I argue that the ECB must do everything it can to escape its liquidity trap of ânegative rates foreverâ CC @elerianm @VMRConstancio
First, negative rates are a reflection of a problem. Sub-zero arrived in Europe in 2014 in response to a critical problem of policy credibility â the arrival of the zero lower bound for the ECBâs main policy rate in the face of persistently low inflation expectations /thread/ 2/n
Europe, like much of the developed world, had seen a secular decline in the trend real rate even before the Covid19 shock, reflecting ageing populations and slower trend productivity growth - higher hhlds savings demand, lower business demand for capital #ECB #negativerates 3/n
The structural shock of the pandemic only accelerated the processes that began a decade ago with the Global Financial Crisis and the Euro government debt crises, pushing the eurozone trend rate even lower. #ECB #negativerates 4/n
This leaves the ECB facing a symmetric credibility challenge. In normal times, the ECB policy rate will follow the trend rate lower. If expected inflation adjusts to the demand-determined output gap, then the policy rate must fall below the equilibrium rate to bridge the gap. 5/n
There\u2019s a strong case to be made for allowing eurozone borrowing costs to fall lower, says @komileva https://t.co/bO86NHutqs
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) December 14, 2020
First, negative rates are a reflection of a problem. Sub-zero arrived in Europe in 2014 in response to a critical problem of policy credibility â the arrival of the zero lower bound for the ECBâs main policy rate in the face of persistently low inflation expectations /thread/ 2/n
Europe, like much of the developed world, had seen a secular decline in the trend real rate even before the Covid19 shock, reflecting ageing populations and slower trend productivity growth - higher hhlds savings demand, lower business demand for capital #ECB #negativerates 3/n
The structural shock of the pandemic only accelerated the processes that began a decade ago with the Global Financial Crisis and the Euro government debt crises, pushing the eurozone trend rate even lower. #ECB #negativerates 4/n
This leaves the ECB facing a symmetric credibility challenge. In normal times, the ECB policy rate will follow the trend rate lower. If expected inflation adjusts to the demand-determined output gap, then the policy rate must fall below the equilibrium rate to bridge the gap. 5/n
This thread attempts to cast light on how the mgmt of #UBCLite worked in lockstep with the EC to mislead, misdirect, deceive and captivate viewers.
FYI, #UBCLite was coined by Tom Ddumba after NBS consistently became a state mouthpiece. The "adjective" fits like a glove 0/13
1/13 Take note that prior and during the elections the EC repeatedly announced that Absolutely NO ONE was allowed to have a tally center, not even the candidates. But somehow NBS was able to ignore those directives and implement what appeared to be a live tally center. Why? How?
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Now the station reportedly have Monday staff meetings. On the Monday of the election week, staff were notified about an election tally center going to be hosted at their station by a selected few (the special ones)- you know these people, they stick out like a sore thumb
3/13 On 15/1/21, when Canary took us through the infamous tour of the "command center", showing us their agents, and how their tally system was using phone calls to aggregate results, it was meant to build confidence in what they wanted to announce. They primed us for fake news
4/13 Interestingly, NBS actually had real staff deployed across the country to collect & relay actual tallies from districts. They collected results & called them in using phones, so on the 15th the teams down stairs were busy working out totals for different districts
FYI, #UBCLite was coined by Tom Ddumba after NBS consistently became a state mouthpiece. The "adjective" fits like a glove 0/13
After posting this thread, i got a detailed anonymous narrative from an insider at NBS on what transpired on that day and I will drop another thread later today. The truth is out there
— #ExplodingNoema (@henryshaykins) January 21, 2021
1/13 Take note that prior and during the elections the EC repeatedly announced that Absolutely NO ONE was allowed to have a tally center, not even the candidates. But somehow NBS was able to ignore those directives and implement what appeared to be a live tally center. Why? How?
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Now the station reportedly have Monday staff meetings. On the Monday of the election week, staff were notified about an election tally center going to be hosted at their station by a selected few (the special ones)- you know these people, they stick out like a sore thumb
3/13 On 15/1/21, when Canary took us through the infamous tour of the "command center", showing us their agents, and how their tally system was using phone calls to aggregate results, it was meant to build confidence in what they wanted to announce. They primed us for fake news
4/13 Interestingly, NBS actually had real staff deployed across the country to collect & relay actual tallies from districts. They collected results & called them in using phones, so on the 15th the teams down stairs were busy working out totals for different districts
It was December of 1992 and I was six, and "Aladdin" was in theaters. My sister and I weren't seeing it. My mother couldn't afford the tickets. I remember this because the three of us were sitting in the car and she cried + apologized for not being able to take us. (thread)
The strange thing is that I don't think I had even heard of "Aladdin" until she said anything. Maybe? I'm not sure. But I don't remember feeling like we were expecting to see it. I don't remember being disappointed. But to her, I think it felt like one more way she had failed us.
This was in the final year of her marriage to her second husband--our first "stepfather"--and there were reasons the three of us were in this car and not back at our place with him and his two kids. He was very abusive, and these car rides felt like a break.
So, we were sitting there in the car while she was contemplating how to get us out of this situation, but by now, it had become almost a weekly ritual, which was not lost on us, obviously. So, we're sitting there, and she starts crying and says the thing about "Aladdin".
And then, while crying, she says: "You've never been to the movies," which was true. My sister and I had not been to a movie theater up to that point in our short lives. I remember saying "that's okay", and my sister said the same and put her little hand on my mother's arm.
Tell me about a great movie-going experience you'll never forget.
— Kristy Puchko (@KristyPuchko) December 3, 2020
Not as a memorial, but as a chance--right now--for us all to tap into that communal joy of the cinematic experience. pic.twitter.com/GqJfqUZ5as
The strange thing is that I don't think I had even heard of "Aladdin" until she said anything. Maybe? I'm not sure. But I don't remember feeling like we were expecting to see it. I don't remember being disappointed. But to her, I think it felt like one more way she had failed us.
This was in the final year of her marriage to her second husband--our first "stepfather"--and there were reasons the three of us were in this car and not back at our place with him and his two kids. He was very abusive, and these car rides felt like a break.
So, we were sitting there in the car while she was contemplating how to get us out of this situation, but by now, it had become almost a weekly ritual, which was not lost on us, obviously. So, we're sitting there, and she starts crying and says the thing about "Aladdin".
And then, while crying, she says: "You've never been to the movies," which was true. My sister and I had not been to a movie theater up to that point in our short lives. I remember saying "that's okay", and my sister said the same and put her little hand on my mother's arm.
I will use this thread to explain the concept of "administrative bloat."
Administrative bloat is the employing of so many managers and supervisors, paying them excess salaries, while the people who do the actual work don't get employed or paid.
That is the government of Kenya.
Since the time of GoK's mother the colonial government, and its grandmother the British East Africa company, the role of the state is to control workers, control our work and its produce, and send it up the foodchain through chiefs, paramount chiefs all the way to London.
One of the cultural lies these parasistes have sold to us is that the only work that can be exploited is where there is a tangible product like tea or coffee. No. These exploit EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Health, education, faith, religion...EVERTYHING.
Elites are parasites. They can't work, won't work. How do they live, then? From taking away the work that we do. They use the state (especially weapons) to threaten us, and they get bureaucrats and managers to distract workers and push the loot up the gravy train.
That is why the less the elites work, the more bureaucrats the employ to protect them from direct contact with us "peasants." That's the function of civil servants. To steal our work on behalf of the elite, while conning us that we're working out of national duty.
Administrative bloat is the employing of so many managers and supervisors, paying them excess salaries, while the people who do the actual work don't get employed or paid.
That is the government of Kenya.
The Government has failed its very own.
— Thuranira Kaugiria (@drthuranira) December 5, 2020
Being a doctor under the Jubilee Government should be listed in the 1000 days to die.
A colleague went to school for 6 years after passing their KCSE.
The 6 year struggle ends and alas you are Dr naniii.
Since the time of GoK's mother the colonial government, and its grandmother the British East Africa company, the role of the state is to control workers, control our work and its produce, and send it up the foodchain through chiefs, paramount chiefs all the way to London.
One of the cultural lies these parasistes have sold to us is that the only work that can be exploited is where there is a tangible product like tea or coffee. No. These exploit EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING. Health, education, faith, religion...EVERTYHING.
Elites are parasites. They can't work, won't work. How do they live, then? From taking away the work that we do. They use the state (especially weapons) to threaten us, and they get bureaucrats and managers to distract workers and push the loot up the gravy train.
That is why the less the elites work, the more bureaucrats the employ to protect them from direct contact with us "peasants." That's the function of civil servants. To steal our work on behalf of the elite, while conning us that we're working out of national duty.