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"...tariffs only work to reshore production where there is a lot of careful planning, diligent data-collection, and review. Governments have to provide credit to key firms to get them capitalized, provide incentives, and smack nonperformers around. Basically, this is the stuff that Biden did for renewables with the energy sector, and – to a lesser extent – for silicon with the CHIPS Act."
#CoryDoctorow ( @pluralistic), 2025
"Sociologists have a name for this: they call it "schismogenesis," when a group defines itself in opposition to its rivals. Schismogenesis is progressives insisting that voting machines and pharma companies are trustworthy and that James Comey is a resistance hero."
#CoryDoctorow (@pluralistic), 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/28/strew-deal/
This is what US Democrats have been doing for decades. It's a lose-lose strategy. Even when it wins elections, you then have to do the dopey contrarian stuff you promised.
This piece on the news media is pure brilliance. Reminds me a lot of the fire in my belly when I joined Indymedia and helped start the Aotearoa IMC;
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/
Yes, I'm on a @pluralistic binge today. I'm looking for one of the articles where Cory gives his tidy summary of what distinguishes the left from the right.
I've seen it a few times, but I only remember the general shape of it and how satisfying it was. I want to quote it, not butcher it by paraphrasing from vibes.
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