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Pizzaburgers: “Everybody hates this idea, so it must be great”
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#USPolitics #ManchinCollins2024 #NoLabels #ProblemSolversCaucus #AnatShenkerOsorio #Centrism
doctorow.medium.com/pizzaburgers-8…
#USPolitics #ManchinCollins2024 #NoLabels #ProblemSolversCaucus #AnatShenkerOsorio #Centrism
When your family can't choose between pizza and burgers, a pizzaburger won't make anyone happy
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#centrism #ProblemSolvers #AnatShenkerOsorio
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#centrism #ProblemSolvers #AnatShenkerOsorio
A convincer's job is to persuade pizza-eaters to go for the burger instead.
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#NothingBurgers #Centrism #Cynicism #NoLabels
doctorow.medium.com/pizzaburgers-8…
#NothingBurgers #Centrism #Cynicism #NoLabels
"The 🇯🇴 soldiers welcomed us at the border to sent us toward the camps. I told him 'wait a minute, I want to have a last look at Syria.'"
Listening to @lysedoucet & @LoraElwen report on the 10th anniversary of @ZaatariCamp and it brought back memories bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… /1
Listening to @lysedoucet & @LoraElwen report on the 10th anniversary of @ZaatariCamp and it brought back memories bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3… /1
Memories of spending close to a decade working with @SavetheChildren for children and families affected by conflict in #Syria, #Iraq, #Somalia, #Myanmar, #Palestine, and many other places. And losing #cynicism, finding #purpose, and changing my perspective on conflict and war. /2
In 2011, I was sitting in an air conditioned office at @WorldBank in Washington DC. I thought I had landed my dream job. But instead I had tasted #bureaucracy, #hierarchy and the #cynicism of organizational politics. If you had met the 2011 version of myself, you would agree. /3
A thread on some quotes from @gautambhatia88’s “The transformative constitution “In equality jurisprudence, the approach of focusing on the disproportionately exclusionary impact if politics rather than their formal character or motive is known as disparate impact”
“It is based on the premise that inequality and discrimination result not (only) from individual hostile acts, but from structures and institutions.” @gautambhatia88 Only in brackets important & added by me.
An test for entry may be “neutral” but yet exclude by aligning with exclusionary institutions; if an physical entrance test for firefighter includes activities not necessary for fulfilling duties and unintentionally poses #gender-barriers, deserves to be struck down. #NoteToSelf
