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Pointing at it won’t fix anything. Screaming isn’t going to fix anything.

And it’s pretty obvious that the people focused on the inane Nazi-punching discourse aren’t going to figure out something that will help anything.

A little while ago, Duncan Sabien, who works for CFAR, made a post containing this quote, over on Facebook, relating to the vague “ProjectHufflepuff” concept that’s in development:

One of the concerns that's been lurking on the edges of this thing (and occasionally stated outright, but usually with a *specific* objection rather than pointing at the general trend) is that grousing doesn't fix a thing, and the grousing itself can be corrosive.

I think this is part of why my initial impulse was to tinker with the idea of starting a house, instead of to strategize around fixing the community as a whole. Just that statement—"let's fix the thing"—can do further damage by widening the tears.

Which is not to say that gag rules or blind eyes are the way to go. The idea isn't "pretend things are good when they aren't." But I think perhaps a piece of Hufflepuff Wisdom might be: when you see something that's broken, don't prioritize drawing everyone's attention to the broken thing. Instead, just get to work. Start building. *Add* to reality in a positive way. Make the negative part less relevant by decreasing its share of the pie.

I think this is something we all need to contend with, especially in our continual talk about how terrible everyone else is at pursuing things. We need to at least mix a certain amount of constructive action into our criticisms of other people for not solving things, or we’re no better, and every one of those criticisms can be mirrored onto ourselves too.

A little while ago @evolution-is-just-a-theorem​ joked that our July argument would be “What is the best way to pivot all EA resources to stopping Trump after he [redacted]?”. This is a joke; we probably don’t want to do this, at least not yet. But I’d like to open that debate now, for putting some resources into it. So everyone else is useless. Big whoop. What could be done?

I can only barely attempt to live up to my own suggestion here, but a short list of starting points:

For Americans, there is a guide by former Congressional staffers on pressuring their representative to oppose things that require Congressional support - Indivisible: The Guide. It has limited ambitions and still seems ambitious, but is worth considering. There seems to be actionable stuff in it, with particular applicability for anyone in a red state.

The ACLU are always good; they were asked to take over a recent discrimination case after the EEOC asked for a delay due to “administration change”, on grounds the EEOC is now potentially less reliable than it was. One can donate; this does not seem to be limited to Americans. (EDIT: I sent them $50, for now)

Try to directly lobby thinkpiece writers and journalists to stop being ridiculously counterproductive? Risky, but they’re not as inaccessible as other people. People are listening to stuff Scott Alexander writes, if no one else, and he sort of listens to us.

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