This mayoral race isn’t about personalities—it’s about whether symbolism becomes substance. What do “seats at the table” mean if the rest of us go hungry?
If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?
it might've been, i was poll-watching around the primary but we don't have a lot of good local polling. but it also meshes with other proxy data, like how intensely mallahan hates harrell (lol) and the %age of out-of-town $$ support for his campaign relative to wilson's
i think the exit polls from the primary suggested (i'd need a lot more raw data to say this for sure) that voters who were more familiar with harrell's campaign were more likely to vote for wilson, even controlling for most other issues lol
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Sara Nelson, correcting me in a debate, says Seattle's police cameras aren't monitored 24/7. I did report this and will correct myself—they're monitored 14/7. I still don't get her argument that a lack of live monitoring at predictable hours is evidence that mass surveillance is a good investment.
In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."
i am fully equipped to discuss his terrible politics. i am becoming better equipped to discuss his destructive vision of technology. but i will never be able to think of this dipshit without also thinking of michael bolton from office space
that’s why i disagree with you here - it might be true for *some* younger people, but it’s hard to fight to protect wealth and capital when you don’t really have any!
i think that’s what jason is really hinting at here - young activists are coming up with the *assumption* that capitalism is broken fundamentally and that political actors are not going to fix it unless they are forced to. that political identity is a lot stickier when it’s reinforced over a decade
this wasn’t the case even 15 years prior to that (broadly speaking) so it was possible to make an individualistic argument for engagement in the prevailing system, whereas by 2008 (or certainly 2016) it was clear that the system itself was the cause of immiseration
this is a bad format for nuance but a meaningful difference between the financial crises you mentioned and the 08 recession is that 15+ years later many people still haven’t been able to accrue any meaningful wealth or assets, including homes, and are often saddled with student loans
