Well they shape the world in mostly bad ways so they’re bad infrastructure lol

“Party leaders mistake coordination 4 power, conditional support 4 risk, & coalition itself 4 debt.
These are the political implications of austerity thinking.
It recasts the party’s health as a matter of personal thrift:
save your endorsements, save your reputation, spend only on the safe bet.”

“The same public that sustains campaigns w/ recurring small dollars is well-positioned 2 sustain bond drives that keep services running when federal support is sabotaged.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
#BlueBonds
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@sanders.senate.gov
@warren.senate.gov
@bradlander.bsky.social
@vancebnyc.bsky.social

“Biden2020 campaign reactivated the language of democratic renewal, promising to “restore the soul of America” & inviting citizens to see themselves as participants in collective repair.
Yet…once in office, the administration treated accountability as disloyalty.”
Will Beamon
CC @jjfreyd.bsky.social

“Hillary Clinton tweeted in Feb 2016. “They’re intersectional, reinforcing, & we’ve got to take them all on.” Sensing this was not working, Barack Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus gala in Sep 2016 that it would be a “personal insult” if Black voters failed 2 turn out 4 Clinton.”
Will Beamon

“When BLM organizers disrupted campaign events, @sanders.senate.gov operation was reluctant 2 move beyond a colorblind, class-reductionist posture. Some Sanders supporters questioned why he was being critiqued at all when Clinton’s “tough on crime” record was so much worse for BLM’s priorities.”

“4 many white supporters anxious about their position & identity…the campaign offered…redemption & innocence through post-racial politics… #Obama ‘s operation prototyped a digital organizing hub…small-$ giving alongside small-labor contributions…staging the campaign as a collective production…”

“Biden’s refusal 2hold 47 accountable4 Jan6 & his enthusiastic support 4the genocide in Palestine against cries &pleas from Democratic voters collapsed whatever high ground that administration had in2 a loyalty cult w/out a following.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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#DarkBrandon stylized the gap btween the real Biden& the1 voters needed—an ironicfantasy of competence &backbone…It wasn’t a cult ofpersonality but a collective experiment in franchising charisma—a conditional line of credit…misread as unconditional devotion.”
Will Beamon
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“…this brings us 2 the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social moment, in the eye of a national authoritarian takeover. Where other @democrats.org leaders mistook provisional star power 4 personal greatness, #MayorCardamom has treated it as a platform for shared authorship.”
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“Participation comes w responsibilities leaders must meet, &when they do, the channel widens.Read this way, the campaign has begun 2map a different circuit from Trumpism’s pageants of loyalty& punishment.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
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“…finance franchise is polyvocal &contested.
Every contribution, canvass shift, or meme drive carries a small piece of public capacity, rehearsed in advance of formal institutions…these unofficial circuits move through commitment & follow-through.”
Will Beamon
CC @bernardharcourt.bsky.social
#Praxis

#BlueBonds …transform sporadic enthusiasm in2 lasting commitment,turning habits of coalition politics in2enduring instruments of public credit…it tells the story of how communities fund their own continuities”
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@marklevinenyc.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@democracynow.org

“Just as central banks maintain swap lines 2 stabilize currencies without forcing them into uniformity, coalitions can establish all kinds of reciprocal arrangements between campaigns, unions, schools, clinics, & local governments.”
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@claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social

It's not a bailout from taxpayer-citizens, it's a bailout from the system as a whole in order to preserve oligarchic rule

Uniqlo says yes pretty convincingly but who can pull this off IRL