[FRIAM] by any means necessary

[Steve Smith]

Where are the advocacy groups to write *only* steelmen rather than being 
either corporate/industry lackeys and/or hyper-aggressive activists 
reframing everything as a tragedy? My sympathies are with the "little 
guy", the individuals and groups with no voice or power of their own, 
but too often those who speak up for them get a little shrill and inject 
yet other agendas than the ones I believe actually represent the real 
positions and issues of those they claim to represent.   It seems to be 
a structural failing in the very idea of representative 
government/advocacy?   I'm sure I may be being overly critical/cynical 
here but it feels very difficult for me to sort out what is *really* 
going on when a widespread or structural bias or harm is identified...   
it isn't *just* noise/signal ratios, it is multiple competing 
caricatured? models.

I heard a brief clip of an interview with AOC who said she was 
considering leaving Government and putting her energy/perspective into 
Direct Action or at least Activism...

On 2/15/22 11:02 AM, glen wrote:
> I suppose I could go find paid "news" articles from Big Tobacco or the 
> dairy or meat industry to argue nearly identical points ... or maybe 
> we could ask BP or Exxon to tell us how environmentally responsible 
> they are. But why waste my time digesting corporate propaganda? If 
> they invite some neutral parties to keep an eye on their practices, 
> that might be worth paying attention to.
>
> On 2/15/22 09:52, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> https://neuralink.com/blog/animal-welfare/
>