C.J. Fitzpatrick
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C.J. Fitzpatrick
@C_J_Fitzpatrick
Data Analyst | Award-winning criminologist | Thesis: https://t.co/dAXs3N10T4
Auckland, New Zealand Katılım Kasım 2009
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@sentdefender What’s your definition of a “blossoming democracy”? Comparing the 2024 and 2025 elections, things have clearly gone backwards.
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No matter what you think about President Ahmed al-Sharaa, you have to admit that the turnaround we have seen in Syria in less than a year is absolutely insane, from an international pariah state stuck in a bloody decade-long civil war, who’s only allies were China, Iran, and Russia; to a blossoming democracy and potential regional power supported by the United States, Europe, and the rest of the developed Middle East.
Charles Lister@Charles_Lister
Parts of #Syria are beginning to see huge improvements in electricity supply, with #Damascus, #Aleppo & #Hama all receiving 16-24hrs of electricity per day in recent days. That's up from 4-6hrs (which has been the norm for yrs) thanks to gas supplies & vast structural repairs.
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@BenThomasNZ This could easily have been an interaction between Chief Wiggum and Fat Tony.
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This is pretty funny bc they found a gang with almost fifty thousand dollars of $50 bank transfers & bags of cash, labelled “raffle tickets”, & were like, we got ‘em, slam dunk case of an unlicensed community lottery
Newstalk ZB@NewstalkZB
Gang members say illegal raffle was to fund kids' Rainbow's End visit newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/…
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@Economissive I may have been your only follower who popped when your name appeared on the botchamania outro a while ago.
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Me getting more than 1 like for a wrestling tweet instead of the usual 5 unfollows
GIF
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@AzPetrich Your bio reads "truth matters", can you please provide a source that states he had two broken arms and two broken legs?
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America lowers flags and weeps for Charlie Kirk, a white supremacist whose rhetoric dehumanized Black people. Yet when Demartravion "Trey" Reed, age 21, is found hanging from a tree in the middle of Delta State's campus with two broken legs, two broken arms, and police rush to
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@esrtweet @KelseyTuoc Incredibly inane response. "If everyone raises millions of dollars and does thousands of hours of work, you might get back to where you started - so stop complaining!
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@KelseyTuoc There's a simple answer to foreign-aid cuts, especially applicable since you claim they save so many lives with so little money.
Band together and do it privately. With money raised by volunteers.
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I don't really know what to do with "every time I see you get upset about deaths from aid cuts I hate aid more". That's not how I treat you. If you tell me something is important to you, I hear you out. Maybe I still don't care, but I don't actively make it worse out of spite.
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@tedfrank Your hypothesis doesn’t fit the timeline. Nobody thought Mamdani had a chance until late May. Unless you think all the jobs added in the first five months vanished in June, it doesn’t add up.
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Businesses are rational, and understand they’re dealing with Mamdani in five months and shouldn’t be expanding now.
Derek Thompson@DKThomp
Something like this seems plausible to me: The year is 2027. Mamdani is the NYC mayor. NYC is widely understood to be in trouble. The center-to-right blames socialism. The center-to-left says “Job growth was putrid before he was elected, Trump crushed tourism and declines in net immigration hurt our pop growth, plus that AI pullback in Q3 ‘26 has hurt finance.” And debating the causes of NYC’s struggles becomes a major storyline heading into the primaries.
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@Earworm_nz @actparty Question: Why won’t Ardern & co front the Covid Inquiry?
Answer: Here’s a random David Seymour Covid policy.
Make it make sense.
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It's time for accountability. We're calling on Ardern, Hipkins, and Robertson to front the COVID inquiry in public hearings. Petition below ⬇️
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@henrycooke Alex Tabarrok's Happy Meal Fallacy in action
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if you want a free large carry on bag there are many airlines that give it to you bundled into a higher ticket cost. the great thing about ryanair et al is that if you really do just want a flight with no strings attached for £20 that’s exactly what you get.
Businessweek@BW
A free carry-on bag should be a fundamental right, at least in the eyes of one European lawmaker bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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@davidsirota A happened then B happened therefore A caused B. Incredible political analysis.
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Quick reminder: In 2024, Democrats rejected running on populism that donors and media elites hate, and instead ran explicitly on the donor-approved “abundance agenda.”
This decision got them lauded by pundits and lost the election to Donald Trump.
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@ThomasSowell Why would the media be reporting on a random speech delivered in 1980?
Before he retired, his column was syndicated in 150 newspapers, in what world is that being ignored?
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People should listen to Thomas Sowell more often.
This is why the media ignores him.
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@DrEliDavid It is literally made up. Now can you be so sloppy that you don't spend 15 seconds checking before you post?
snopes.com/fact-check/gua…
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@DrEliDavid @JMilei How anyone created a graph that terrible is nothing short of a miracle. @GraphCrimes
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@thehowie That's not how things work. Elon's followers are clearly not a representative sample of X.
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Elon Musk has proven, beyond any shadow of a doubt (or at least 21 Million impressions!) that Twitter/X has become enormously MAGA/GOP leaning. 85+% identify as NOT-Democrat.
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@dragonfishy You do realise not reading news articles and posting ominous sentences with them makes you seem idiotic,
right?
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You do realise they're just starting with the autistic,
right?
Dr. Simon@goddek
Mengele would be proud of Canada.
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@ZaidJilani I thought Trump doesn't listen to music at all. Seems like a bad choice for a road trip playlist
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@Noahpinion People replying here are correctly noting the huge consumption that is mentioned. Too many have missed that he's turned an association into a causal claim.
Every time I read one of his economics posts from now on, I'll be thinking about Gell-man Amnesia...
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Long-term ketamine usage messes up your brain.
People are using K as a party drug because you do it like coke and it lasts for about as long. They tell themselves it's an antidepressant. But in the long term it has major negative impacts.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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@fundypost @JulietMosesNZ @PaulThistoll A moral entrepreneur is one who stokes and benefits from a moral panic.
It is presumably self-deprecatory but might be closer to true than he likes to think.
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@JulietMosesNZ @PaulThistoll A moral entrepreneur is a one-man movement, it seems. Donations are tax-deductible.
I will support CMEA.
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Solidarity with Ani. Chief Censor @PaulThistoll is also a bit obsessed with me it seems judging by the screenshots I get sent. I was blocked by him before I had any idea who he is. This is just a small selection of the defamatory delights.
Ani O'Brien@aniobrien
This man is obsessed with me and harasses me online all the time. If I turn up missing tell the cops to check his basement (half kidding). He regularly makes a show of blocking me and then the next day:
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Sweet merciful crap Boeing! Not even a paltry 2% quality improvement? Barely meeting the threshold for stability for commercial aircraft?
DEI is a death cult.
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
Here's their 2024 SEC filing indicating they hit their DEI and climate targets but not production or quality targets.
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@tmurphyNZ "Why do millennials keep failing at political leadership?" has a photo of a member of Generation X 🤦♂️
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Guest columnist in US politics site The Hill:
Why do millennials keep failing at political leadership? thehill.com/opinion/457601…
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