The problem to be solved is the system. How do we make the system want to be as generous as our hearts are? How do we make the system stop denying that there is enough to go around? How do we make them stop lying? No, not the people asking for accommodation — the liars are the systems _denying_ it.

So appreciated it, especially for my quixotic quest to purge "dependency discourse" from my workplace. And your analysis of thr challenges left-reformist governments face in LATAM and beyond was so helpful too! Great stuff!

Vance banging the table is just perfection.

The Reactionary Centrist instinct—“things were bad, now are less bad, so why are ppl still trying to make them better?”—is generally obnoxious in the best of times, but also true that activists can over-reach, deny gains, etc.

But when the govt is DESPERATELY trying to MAKE THINGS BAD AGAIN? C’mon.

I was just at an otherwise beautiful and moving funeral for a beloved "good and faithful servant" and my tears kind of dried up when the string quartet started playing it...