Thread by @katebitz, This is a good point. I'd be remiss not to add, as [...]

This is a good point. I'd be remiss not to add, as a Spokane person, that the Fuck Seattle Strategy will fuck you, the implied audience of the strategy, too. There are at least two ways that FSS will fuck you over... https://twitter.com/GoldyHA/status/1286122849741103104

https://twitter.com/GoldyHA/status/1286122849741103104

For one it will get you the most feckless leadership. Fuck Seattle Strategists aren't accountable to your well-being, they're accountable to making sure that you wanna Fuck Seattle even more. U might get an abortion ban hero bill 1x a session. That's it https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/mar/31/spin-control-recent-proposal-to-ban-abortion-is-a-/

Spin Control: Recent proposal to ban abortion is a ‘hero’ bill

Bills introduced late in the session are sometimes “hero” bills. And that’s not really a compliment.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/mar/31/spin-control-recent-proposal-to-ban-abortion-is-a-/

Like seriously, the Fuck Seattle Strategist gets nothing whatsoever done for his own people. He doesn't have to as long as he's keeping the base fired up. https://www.khq.com/news/khq-investigates-how-effective-is-rep-matt-shea-as-a/article_6c358dd4-df22-11e9-8062-2b69ae2ec0e0.html

KHQ Investigates: How effective is Rep. Matt Shea as a lawmaker?

In a partnership between KHQ and Bill Track 50, data shows Rep. Shea has become one of the least effective Republicans in Olympia.

https://www.khq.com/news/khq-investigates-how-effective-is-rep-matt-shea-as-a/article_6c358dd4-df22-11e9-8062-2b69ae2ec0e0.html

Moving on from how this gets you terrible governance, the Fuck Seattle Strategy has a corollary which is the We Are Not Seattle Strategy. Whenever you say, hm, maybe we could change some things, Fuck Seattle Strategists accuse YOU of being Seattle. https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nadine-woodward-is-running-for-mayor-on-platform-of-spokane-solutions-but-doesnt-yet-have-any/Content?oid=17194806

Nadine Woodward is running for mayor on a platform of 'Spokane Solutions,' but doesn't yet have any

Right there, on the baby blue section of her campaign sign, was the slogan of Nadine Woodward's long-anticipated mayoral campaign: "Spokane Solutions." For nearly three...

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nadine-woodward-is-running-for-mayor-on-platform-of-spokane-solutions-but-doesnt-yet-have-any/Content?oid=17194806

Now this can be simply annoying and regressive and obstructionist, and destroy your quality of life, like the fact that Seattle has had a Just Cause eviction law since before I was born but we can't have one because We Are Not Seattle. OR. It can get really scary.

Once you're defined as the internal enemy, let's say the Seattle Within, Fuck Seattle Strategists might decide they need to take some drastic measures. Because after all We Are Not Seattle. Politics becomes war. https://mynorthwest.com/1485280/rep-matt-shea-calls-for-resignation/

Growing calls for Rep. Shea’s resignation, amid claims of surveillance, blacklist

The Spokane Police Guild, a mayoral candidate, and the NAACP all became the latest to call for Republican Washington State Rep. Matt Shea to resign.

https://mynorthwest.com/1485280/rep-matt-shea-calls-for-resignation/

Like... War on a biblical basis, you might say https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5026577-Biblical-Basis-for-War.html

Biblical Basis for War

Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Sean Quinton (The Seattle Times).

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5026577-Biblical-Basis-for-War.html

So what do you do if you're the target of a Fuck Seattle Strategy? I actually suggest you make sweet love to Seattle

don't let the Fuck Seattle Strategy fuck you over!

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