Poor, car drivers.
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Poor, car drivers. Won't anybody think of them.
Imagine thinking that you need to spend time drafting legislation to rip out bike lanes and calling it a "common sense" law. Anytime you see that phrase you know they are full of it.
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Common sense: “knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument”
In other words: the things we “know” without knowing how we know them. Things that aren’t questioned and don’t require justification. Like biases and prejudices.
A right-wing specialty is to make a claim without evidence, then declare it “common sense “ to shield it from questioning. It has been a very effective framing tool.
We can do the same though: create a body of “self-evident” truths and proven facts and then speak of them as common sense that requires no further discussion.
The simplest solution to someone living on the street is to give them somewhere else to live.
Giving poor people money makes them not poor.
Criminalizing drugs doesn’t help addicts.
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Poor, car drivers. Won't anybody think of them.
Imagine thinking that you need to spend time drafting legislation to rip out bike lanes and calling it a "common sense" law. Anytime you see that phrase you know they are full of it.
Common sense: “knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument”
In other words: the things we “know” without knowing how we know them. Things that aren’t questioned and don’t require justification. Like biases and prejudices.
A right-wing specialty is to make a claim without evidence, then declare it “common sense “ to shield it from questioning. It has been a very effective framing tool.
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We can do the same though: create a body of “self-evident” truths and proven facts and then speak of them as common sense that requires no further discussion.
The simplest solution to someone living on the street is to give them somewhere else to live.
Giving poor people money makes them not poor.
Criminalizing drugs doesn’t help addicts.
ps Spending money to undo things you just did is rarely a good plan or common sense.
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ps Spending money to undo things you just did is rarely a good plan or common sense.
@DavidM_yeg Yes, "Common Sense" as a don't argue with me phrase... They have a number of key phrases that they like to use which are just signal phrases.
