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ThomasGiferson 37 points ago +37 / -0

I've been seeing this power dynamic all over the place, especially over the last decade plus. It's the go to dynamic in organizations from city governments to international sporting organizations where they don't have a legal mandate or explicit authority to just order some thing be done. They're learning this shit somewhere, in business schools or poly sci classes or some books I'm not aware of.

And it's just like you describe. They push, push, push, until they meet resistance. And then the play book is, they say shit like "we recognize legitimate concern about this issue in our community." They hold meetings of "stakeholders" and pretend they care about the issue. Nothing is accomplished. They wait until interest in the topic dies down, and they try to push again, or seek oblique ways of achieving the same result.

It's some really insidious shit. And to top it all off, these same people often extol the virtues of "democracy".

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Mister_Wonderful 2 points ago +2 / -0

They’re learning that stuff in social work schools. That’s literally what a lot of the curriculum is. Public policy advocacy, community “organizing” and all the buzzwords you just said. They then join a lot of the nonprofits that are out there pushing this crap and lobbying the hell out of lawmakers nonstop. And when they get there they teach others. I don’t understand how a profession that is supposed to be about psychology and therapy turned into promoting communism, but if you look into it you will find that it is behind a lot of this mess.

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christianknight 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sounds like government 101.

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sackofwisdom 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sounds like that internet regulation stuff that was pushed by all the tech companies.