Fernando Sanchez

@equalityAlec This is bullshit. If you don't disagree with someone and you can make a cogent argument about it, go ahead. But this vague unsupported accusations are an embarrassment.

Ezra Klein is a serious threat to a world of true equality and justice because he is so effective at masking his service to the ruling class through (often faux) intellectual cooptation of progressive people who otherwise would support much more profound social change.

@justforfun1328 @katrosenfield I can't argue against this. I am not God.

@fsanchez1983 @katrosenfield You understand you don’t have the ability to know the motives of another human being right? You aren’t God.

Turned out this whole thing was still sticking in my craw a few days later so I wrote a blog post about it

@katrosenfield And sure, i could write a thread. If that was my intent. But i wanted to talk to you.

@katrosenfield I find this surprising. And inconsistent. You are asking to give the benefit of the doubt to people with bad takes. While accusing me of being a bad faith debater when all i said is that people who are serious about a topic and trolls merit different treatment.

@nicksortor @shashj If by the man, you mean retarded, yes.

@shashj LMAOOO what a LEGEND. Scott Bessent is the MAN

‘Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a “little fucker”, a “special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack”, according to a new book.’ theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

@katrosenfield Ok. Do you get what i'm trying to do? Is it fair to say that to have good public discourse, rules are needed, and that means being charitable and civil to people trying to make a serious point even if it goes against common sense, but that mocking trolls is public service?

@fsanchez1983 I don't think you do get what I'm trying to do, since you keep describing my writing on this as if it were something it is explicitly not. I can't make you stop doing this but it's not something I can engage with anymore

@katrosenfield I get what you are trying to do, but the current "debate" against women disenfranchisement has nothing to do with shaming HBO into killing an alternate history show. To encourage civil discourse, to protect one, we have to discourage the other one. So the bunch of turkeys matter.

@fsanchez1983 The original post didn't argue that, and I didn't argue that, so again: nobody here is arguing that. I don't care what a bunch of turkeys shouting in a room somewhere else are saying

@LonesomeWest @katrosenfield I have a lot of respect for Kat. Although i think that her personal experience leads her to treat a lot of bad takes with more charity than they deserve.

@fsanchez1983 @katrosenfield What you have to understand is that Kat think it's, like, an act of violence to ever consider anything she says or does in any context other than the one she specifically needs to make what she's saying seem smart

@katrosenfield Of course you didn't. But people out there are arguing just for that. If we are talking about rules of civil discourse, people making an honest to make a point deserve protection. Trolls being piled on by other trolls has a pleasing symmetry.

@fsanchez1983 good thing nobody here is arguing for that

@agraybee I don’t think he decided not finishing it. But he is terrified of ending it badly. So he is second guessing himself and probably hating having to write it.

He's not finishing it. He saw the reaction to the show's ending and he decided he'd rather be remembered as the guy who got the yips than the guy who outright failed to stick the landing.

@RafaNery_GRider @Statikoo Estas viendo que EEUU no puede tomar Iran, y tu crees que Brasil puede tomar toda America del Sur? No seas ridiculo.

@Statikoo Brasil tomaria toda a América do Sul em menos de 3 meses. Nossa tropa de Selva é melhor e mais numerosa, nossa marinha no pantanal é a única que tem navios de combate na região, nosso contingente é superior mesmo sem usar as forças auxiliares, com elas triplicamos o efetivo

Olası bir Güney Amerika kıtası savaşında savaşın muhtemel gelişimi

@KurtSchlichter Well. It's not going to happen. Draw your conclusions.

Remember, the only power the mullahs have left is what we give them. They can really only fight an information battle, most of their hard kinetic power having been blown to bits. That’s why everything is then yelling, screaming, announcing, and declaring. They win when we react to them. They are exercising power from a position of powerlessness. Flip the script. All @realDonaldTrump has to do is call them on it. Throw up the blockade, no slack, no exceptions. Unleash the IDF. Restart the fight for a few days, taking out those juicy targets we no doubt have been watching for 2+ months. And publicly refuse “negotiations” until we hear them say what we want to hear. Call their bluff.🇺🇸

@slxthkween Whenever people argue for their parents to have married earlier or later, or to other people, they are arguing to not exist. This is dumb.

Can we not normalize having kids at 40? My parents had me at 40 and my Oma will never know the adult version of me.

@Leni1680234 There has to be a better way to do that.

Imagine flooring your entire house with just one tile.

@jbraunstein914 @HistoryBoomer It is well established that humans estimate probability with memory, which in turn is correlated with emotional impact. So it is not strange that horrific events live a bigger mark. But that still means they are a poor basis for public policy.

I think liberals have a tendency to misunderstand how people view these things. A better analogy is terrorism. Terrorist attacks are statistically very rare but create terror; a climate of fear. Statistically rare but horrific crimes do the same thing, especially in densely populated areas.

The fact that certain crimes are statistically rare is important. School mass killings are horrible, but gun advocates are probably right that they are too rare to be a reason to change gun policy. Police killing unarmed men is horrible, but also incredibly rare. Cries of "defund the police" are a foolish emotional overreaction. Likewise, subway shoves are scary, but they are super rare. About 25 people a year are shoved onto the tracks (almost all shoves are non-fatal). That's out of 1.2 BILLION subway rides a year. Your chance of getting shoved on any particular trip is 1 in 48,000,000. This doesn't mean we can't do anything. Earlier this year, Ross Falzone was pushed down subway stairs by a mentally ill man with a criminal history. That dude should have been in jail or institutionalized. But "act" doesn't mean "panic." New York is a generally safe city, even if it still has more disorder than it should. Its citizens (and visitors) live in a great city but deserve an even better one. And we don't need to overreact to "statistically rare" incidents.

@TedFran03073128 @RichardHanania Don't be an idiot. Of course, the number is 0. But if you are going to single out a group of people as the main perpetrator of a country's sexual assaults, you better have the receipts to back it up. That report doesn't, and now it is backfiring on them.

@RichardHanania Do you really want to quibble with the "number" of girls and young women who were raped? What number of victims would cause you to become concerned about these assaults?

Amazing level of BS is behind the estimate of 250,000 white girls victimized by "Muslim rape gangs." What they did was: 1) Come up with a number for Telford, Oxford, and Rotherham, the center of the scandal 2) Extrapolate to the rest of the country Imagine if, to calculate murders in America, you looked at Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore and then assumed all of America has the same murder rate. But wait, there's more! Even the original numbers are nonsense. To get the original estimate for Oxford, they included all supposed victims of sexual exploitation or grooming, by Muslims or anyone else. This means that they assumed 100% of victims were white girls and 100% of the perpetrators were Muslims for all cases of sexual exploitation! The report also switches between saying there were 250,000 victims, and 250,000 instances of victimization, without any explanation why. For Telford, they went back 40 years, though I don't think that there were Muslim rape gangs in the 1980s. The Oxford number includes all instances of "grooming," whether or not they involved sexual contact at all, and not much is shared about the methodology. It is a complete guess. I often hear rightists say "the liberals lie so I don't believe anything." What conclusion are we supposed to draw from the fact that rightists are this indifferent to facts?

@LulaFeliz2026 Hazle un favor al mundo, y no publiques. Creo que nada mas de leerte perdi 10 puntos de IQ. Espero que solo sea transitorio.

Quero parabenizar o México que apesar de ser vizinho do império mais pervertido da história ainda mantém sua cultura e tradições vivas. Ao contrário do Japão por exemplo que se vendeu mais fácil que uma prostituta.

@CoreyWriting It should not be difficult for Elon to give us the power to control our feed. But he won't. And since engagement is the goal, he will expose us to as much stupidity and moral decay as possible.

The level of unapologetic and unprovoked racism on this site is just a sight to behold. I shouldn't even be phased by it at this point, but it just keeps amazing me.

@NotoriousAKG Sigh.

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