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   timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:53:40 JST timberwraith

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   "Populism is the answer!"

   Populism for whom, and by whom?

   From past experience, I'm used to being the one of the people in the unlucky, undesirable demographics who have to duck "the movement's" not so errant gunfire.

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     timberwraith (timberwraith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:53:41 JST timberwraith

     After a half century of watching humans behave badly in large groups, I've learned to keep my hand on my wallet and my other hand on the doorknob whenever a political movement stops by my doorstep to ask for support.

     I can't tell you the number of times that I've seen movements run by and trashed by their own internal social hierarchy, which so often comes to reflect major aspects of the social hierarchy that the movement claims to want to dismantle.

     Bill repeated this.