Some important reminders of history and the reality of our society’s power structures in this thread from @seachanger:
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by [email protected]
Here's a great example of the activist-politician handoff in action, from @jztusk:
https://mastodon.social/@jztusk/113007506440716149(Yes, Obama didn’t directly enact marriage equality, but his executive choices such as extending federal employee benefits to same-sex partners in 2010, plus his SCOTUS noms, plus his public change to supporting same-sex marriage, all helped set up Obergefell.)
Was Obama lying before? or after? Or did he truly change his mind? …Does it make a difference? Not to the result!
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@inthehands I listened to a really interesting interview with sen. Butler who went from activist to politician in a really sudden way. And she spoke about how more close relationships between the two would be more efficient, pointing to MLK and LBJ.
Def worth a listen.
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@Jackiemauro
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@inthehands Thank you, I think we will, but the next hearing we're all in I will take more care to remind her that we're all working on the same result (a fair price) and she is paid while we are not and she should be mindful of that. The worst possible outcome is that they grieve it to the state and then I *think* it's out of our hands and not actually worse for the town. We're just all trying, cooperatively, to keep the state's lawyers out of it because it costs the state money.
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@jztusk
What? Where is this coming from?
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@_dmh @ionizedgirl
I wondered that too. Not sure whether it was careless reply based on misreading of the spirit of the post, or a joke that’s too oblique for me to understand. I just filed it under “sometimes replies don’t make sense.” -
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@inthehands @donaldball I couldn't have been more proud of John Lewis as my congressman. He was a loud and persuasive voice against war - from his application as a conscientious objector to Vietnam in 1961 (it took 3 years for him to become the first black CO in the state of Alabama) through the end of his life. But it was his base in Atlanta that made that activism possible.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to jonathanpeterson last edited by
@jonathanpeterson @donaldball
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@inthehands We finished this hearing today and I was very proud of me that when she said "I don't mean to be disrespectful but..." and then said something disrespectful I interrupted to say "Yeah that was really kind of disrespectful" and she walked it back.
(also we wound up not agreeing with "her side's" appraisal but not because they were rude!)
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@jessamyn
Nice. Sounds like you made it through in one piece, and maybe even some learning occurred on her part! Maybe.