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@AVGirl4Life Obamas deal was mostly unfrozen assets. We paid them money owed since the 70s

How does this kid not get a community note? Trump is unfreezing their money. Obama gave them our money. See the difference?

@fmod999 @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ Slaves couldn’t vote

@NamesHunter @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ It is quite possible. Haven't voters ever voted against a minority? Remember when people voted to keep slavery+

There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.

@dsawyer The EC isn’t limited democracy. It’s skewed democracy.

Dude says: "There is no good civics argument [for this] anti-democratic device." Me: **looks at the history of democracies** I think you just made the case there, dude. The reason we have Republics with limited democracy is that there is no semantic gap between "true democracy" and "mob rule."

@fmod999 @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ I’m just tired of everyone speaking in hyperbole. And doing so all the time to the point that they start to believe it. Milk truck driver pitched a ridiculous hypothetical. And again, one that is just as possible (ie practically impossible) in our current system

@NamesHunter @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ You can get your business seized by the state Also you are pedantic ally nitpicking an expression for being exagerated

@bonchieredstate How does “a few metroplexes” add up to a majority of the electorate?

“I don’t like your argument so I’ll dismiss it” isn’t an actual counter. Not having a few metroplexes dictate all policy is a viable reason to support the electoral college and believe it leads to less damaging outcomes. We don’t have to accept your “muh democracy” premise.

@ChesterMorton96 @Sudsiii @neontaster Don’t cities already dominate rural votes within each state?

@Sudsiii @neontaster Because there's nowhere near 100 million votes outside cities. Get rid of the electoral college and cities will just outvote rural areas every time.

This literally is an actual argument. You might not care for it, but the only one hand waving here is James.

@gillogly83 @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel Absolutely. Childhood diet is a totally different matter. I’ve especially been impressed with the folinic acid data

@NamesHunter @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel I get that. I, having at least one ASD child, don't really have the luxury of waiting. I have to use the latest research to help re-align how I provide dietary needs. Latest science has been producing great results related to glutathione and folinic acid.

Ok, I'm going to explain this simply. Tylenol reduces glutathione. Glutathione is an antioxidant that highly mitigates inflammatory damage. If a mother has an illness during pregnancy, something called maternal immune activation (MIA) can occur in response. This is known to cause deleterious effects to fetal development. This is all well documented and not controversial. If she takes Tylenol during this inflammation to reduce symptoms, it can also cause a reduction in the ability to mitigate the inflammation, which can exacerbate any potential fetal damage. There is a risk to benefit ratio in every medication. In this instance, the risk is fetal damage, and the benefit is reduction in symptoms. The risk outweighs the benefit. Vaccines cause inflammation. That is, in fact, the goal. Create inflammation to generate an immune response. So pregnant women are given vaccines, which causes inflammation, and cause MIA, which potentially harms fetal development, and then are given Tylenol, which simply exacerbates the situation. I really wish people would just look at these things from an empirical perspective and stop politicizing everything. Feel free to look up anything I just said. It's all textbook medical knowledge. For decades, doctors implored pregnant women to take extra care of themselves, avoid all drugs, toxic foods, get adequate rest, reduce workload, etc, because a developing fetal is exceptionally vulnerable. Please stop spreading incorrect information that harms patients.

@gillogly83 @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel I’m totally open to the possibility. I just don’t wanna get ahead of the science

@NamesHunter @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel I also believe it's much more complex than what everyone is trying to simplify it to. My personal view is that a minimum number of a variety of factors must align to produce the environment to develop ASD. I agree tylenol doesn't cause autism but may be involved in some cases.

@gillogly83 @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel The thing is that these associations have not borne out on a population level in large studies. We can theorize about mechanisms that could cause certain effects, but we need to actually see them play out in studies to make broad, public health recommendations

@NamesHunter @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel Almost responded to first one. I presumed different context, my apologies. The connection he described in the original post to inflammation is the link. Inflammation of the brain in utero appears to strongly correlate with incidence of ASD.

@gillogly83 @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel There were other issues with that study as well. I point to that study bc the HHS did in their announcement

@gillogly83 @AndrewZywiecMD @Gramsterwheel The best study on the connection between the two looked only an acetaminophen blood levels at delivery, which can only show an association within a few days of birth. Obviously confounded by other factors (why certain mothers took Tylenol, for example).

@beigepilled @FloridaThales He should’ve worked harder

@FloridaThales The lefts explanation for this is that you were annoying and a bad person

When I was in high school here in Florida, I got a taste of the regime's hatred of me. I was a straight A student in all the AP and honors classes, with the highest possible weighted GPA. This was in a school with legit race riots in the news - due to the odd demographic split, half Southern redneck, half ghetto blacks (you'll need this for later). Two other students in the running for valedictorian: a black girl, and an Indian guy. You already know how this goes, don't you? They removed roadblocks for the two of them so they could stack classes out of order to take more weighted GPA classes than they let me take (I was not permitted to do this). But whatever, the Indian guy was bad in his foreign language classes - he was going to get a C in Spanish, which would have given me salutatorian at least. But the teacher gave him a ton of extra credit, especially for him and no one else, so that she could change his grade to an A. I was confused about this until I saw the local news. "School in the South with race riots graduates a black woman valedictorian and Indian salutatorian." Got it. I was whitey. It was fine to screw me over for a headline. I had the third highest GPA in that school's history up until that point and I was third in the class. I learned quickly that it doesn't matter how good you do if you're the wrong race/gender/whatever and can't give the school authorities a good soundbite in the news. There was never any universe where I would be allowed to stand on the podium. Fuck the public school system. h/t @travis4nh

@fmod999 @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ Yes, that is what taxation does. Milk guy said everything he owns

@NamesHunter @realcentrist404 @JamesSurowiecki @Badbrothers__ Yes they take away your property and money

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok Doesn’t require an amendment

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_…

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok Faithless electors have never changed the result of a presidential election, so the system has so far assumed an educated and informed electorate already. But beyond faithless or fake electors, how would it remove power from the states?

@NamesHunter @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok That system takes away the check of the faithless elector and removes power from the states. It also assumes an educated and informed electorate, and that is simply an unrealistic ideal.

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok You seem to believe there would be net bad effects if this change were instituted. I’m asking what those are

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok The current system punishes the residents of larger states, punishes political minorities in every state, and punishes all states that are not swing states. A one-citizen-one-vote system punishes no one.

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok You’re not making an argument, you’re appealing to a platitude about a “system” but not specifically describing that system, or how the EC is essential within it. What would happen to this “system” if the EC were abolished?

Ok let me say this again slowly. It is a PART of the SYSTEM Your steering column isn't what makes your car go from A to B but it helps. If you can't understand how a part of the system doesn't provide the whole function of the system I can not help you friend because I am not sure how to dumb this down anymore than I already have.

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok You could take any minority of any kind, design a system that inflates their voting share, and say that it prevents mob rule.

@HolyCityGambler @LiquidLibertyio @JamesSurowiecki @grok State lines aren’t what distinguish voting patterns anymore, but the rural urban divide. The millions of republicans in California and millions of democrats in Texas undercut this argument.