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@senormonkeyface @scottew x.com/mckaycoppins/s…

@RYLambert2 @scottew Oh yeah? Based on what?

The mask comes off pretty fast when LDS folks don't get in line politically, doesn't it?

@senormonkeyface @scottew Then your experience is pretty limited - they are more positive on us than about any other group. Secular groups and Jews are the most negative by far.

@scottew Based on experiences from my mission I would say no one dislikes us more than protestants

@Viamgold @coldhealing x.com/coldhealing/st…

@object_reality @KeenanPeachy @HungCao_VA Check out the stats on the 2nd generation

I have never met a single immigrant, legal or illegal, who moved to the United States because they longed to experience things like freedom of expression, free speech, individual liberty, or representational democracy. They move here for the money, bro. Even the ones on my side!

Adult men watching college football absolutely hate it when you ask "Why did you say we really need this first down? Who is we? You aren't on the team."

@LDS_Dems Thanks Obama

There has been a huge increase in pedestrian fatalities in this country and I have to think this has something to do with it.

@AnechoicMedia_ @johnloeber When you adjust for parental education levels it becomes very apparent. The children of Harvard professors in Boston aren't going to be illiterate if school policy is looking at a brick wall 8 hours a day

@johnloeber It doesn't look like a red state vs blue state thing

This Mississippi thing is so interesting. The TLDR is that the Bush admin was in favor of phonics, and so a bunch of left-ideologues reflexively went to not teach phonics but different/partially discredited language learning styles, some of which turned out to be bunk. Red states kept teaching phonics and did well. None of this is surprising, all of it totally predictable ahead of time. What a waste in the service of ideology and reflexive contrarianism

@ThePoliticalHat @michaelbd Nope, doesn't matter

@michaelbd Wouldn't have been the case if the Administration had people who could keep their yap shut.

The idea that Jimmy Kimmel is the chief victim of this era of censorship absolutely defies comprehension.

@riboflavinLLC @guypbenson Act of terrorism

@guypbenson i dunno maybe google it

That is a very disturbing passage from the judge. Separately, how is this not first degree murder, regardless of the terrorism angle? He stalked and hunted down his victim, then shot him in the back, then went to great lengths to avoid capture. Textbook premeditation.

@Noahpinion @wil_da_beast630 In August 2020, polls were published showing the riots were unpopular with likely voters and within a month the riot activity stopped

@wil_da_beast630 The point is that the Dems get blamed as a party for every piece of woke culture or progressive street activism. But they don't control much of that.

Democrats "got blamed for it" because it was their fault.

@cosmosadderall Lets be serious, the most negative Christian group is significantly more positive on us than the baseline Democrat x.com/mckaycoppins/s…

Immensely funny watching Mormons get upset over the Daily Wire. Alt right conservatives want you dead! Your religious heritage erased. I don’t know how many times they can tell you that before you finally believe it.

@DKThomp x.com/EudaimoniaEsq/…

Bernie Sanders is obviously the most popular Democratic elected official, by a clear margin. Here he's +15 among moderates and +9 among low-income Americans. People who don't share his political views still have an obligation to try understand what's behind those numbers.

@Phoenix4517 @CartoonsHateHer The crazy staffers in the Biden administration weren't running social media - they were dictating policy because the president was too old and he handed over the reins to a committee of these staffers.

@CartoonsHateHer Also fascinating to compare to the UK where we just don't have this problem at all like even stuff people politicians directly associate with just isn't really considered to basically come from them

Today, I wrote about the Syndey Sweeney controversy. More specifically, the fact that the Democratic party is apparently responsible for every oversensitive lady on TikTok, but the Republican party isn't responsible for their own fringe. Link in replies.

@coninutah @LukeFHan How could you possibly think that's anything other than who he is: the Matt Yglesias of online lib members

@LukeFHan I was shocked that (a) it was so poorly written, (b) it was published at all, and (c) that McKay Coppins was hawking it, as I was positive he was better than that. That piece caused me to lose respect for a whole lot of people, but not one of them was Mike Lee.

I didn't know the Mike Lee piece would be that bad. I couldn't believe the only evidence Slat Lake doesn't like him was the single anonymous quote from a former seventy (one of the ~123 people that report to the brethren and presidency of the 70). And the quote didn't even say Lee was not in the good graces of the Church, it just said Lee was more right than the Church. Which the Church says is fine!

@JReubenCIark The gun lobby is the classic example. Do Republicans support guns rights only because they get money from gun corporations? Obviously not. The gun makers identify people who already support gun rights and provide support so they can get/stay in office.

There's been a whole lot of rw poasting recently that has gotten on my nerves because of the simplistic way it assigns all causality for what politicians do to corruption. It's fine to be cynical, but if *all* you can see is "so-and-so got a donation from the this group, that's why he's doing this," or "I bet he's getting money under the table," you're simplifying things to the point of falsehood. I just feel dumber for reading it. Take a hypothetical: If AOC promotes some dumb idea about education, like getting rid of gifted classes or paying teachers $300k a year, would it really make sense to look at her political donations and say "AHA, she got $2 million from the teachers' unions, THAT'S why she's doing this"? Isn't it more logical to say that she's a leftist nut and therefore has nutty leftist ideas about education and that's why the teacher's unions donate to her? OK, so did Trump bomb Iran because he's bought off by AIPAC or Sheldon Adelson? Or is he a boomer who remembers the Iran Hostage Crisis and probably has thought of them as a uniquely hostile actor for 45 years, and knows they are enriching uranium and figures they probably want to make a bomb, and we can strike those sites and then we don't have to worry about it for a few years? That latter characterization is at least reasonably probable, right? Not that his reasons are correct, but that's a possible way he could be thinking. But you wouldn't think so from reading half the tweets in my feed, it couldn't be anything other than the long tentacles of the Israel lobby finally got to old Donny. I mean DJT has spent the last decade trashing Obama's Iran deal, in his first term he killed that Iranian general, I don't think there was ever any reason to expect him to be a dove about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Yet some people are suddenly shocked and assume that Israel must have kompromat on Trump. Then there's the land sale issue, which I am almost afraid to mention because of the hostility I'm seeing on this. You can say this particular bill is bad, I haven't read it, I don't have an opinion on whether it should be approved or not. But you would think from the tweets that the only possible reason that any R could want to sell less than 1% of federal land (PROBABLY A REALLY GREAT 1%, DON'T ATTACK ME) is because they're doing the bidding of some shadowy developer, or heaven forbid, the @Ch_JesusChrist (if only). You guys have heard of the Sagebrush Rebellion, right? It was an explicitly right wing movement of the 1970s-80s that sought to return federal lands to state use so that it could be economically developed. There was a libertarian element to it but also localist and populist, which are all strains of rw thought. Like MAGA, its premise was that the people know better than the elites in DC. It was really big in places like Utah, and was supported by the Reagan administration. Now for many years I have ceased to care whether some policy or another could be labelled "conservative" or "right wing" or really any other label. I would settle for "good" policy. But if you're going to accuse people of "selling out" their principles, it would probably be good to know if the thing they supposedly sold out for is actually in line with their principles or not. I can buy that the current proposal is bad. But if you're telling me that the government should never ever divest itself of any land ever because it "belongs to the people," and you prove this by posting memes of a Taco Bell at the base of the Grand Canyon, as if the percentage of federally-owned land out west were divinely-appointed rather than a historical accident resulting mostly from apathy, I can't take you seriously on this issue. Yes, the housing issue is largely driven by illegal immigration, but guess what? If you deported all the illegal immigrants from Utah, it would become even more of a utopia than it is, and then everyone would still want to move there. And unless they built more housing, it would become even more expensive, and then LDS families would find it even more difficult to have big families, which is pretty much my single-issue, i.e. whether it's affordable for my people to have lots of kids. So there are bound to be tough choices on this issue, and I don't blame anyone for being cynical about the role of developers in this debate, although I am noticing a conspicuous *lack* of cynicism about the interests of well-to-do *ranching* concerns (WE LOVE OUR RANCHERS, DON'T WE FOLKS?!). All I'm really asking is.....not for more civility or any BS like that, I'm asking for people to quit over-simplifying this stuff and instead talk about it for real and in an intelligent way. There are always gonna be angry trolls, but I see some people who ought to know better just ragetrolling rather than thinking. And I find that cringe and I want it to stop!

@nihilists4jesus In Poland it is called ten sklep

@FedoraWhisperer @micsolana Its a classic because it works

@micsolana The plan is McMansions and Strip Malls. That’s always been the plan.

I am not philosophically averse to *actually doing something* with our land, nor am I philosophically averse to the concept of *having* federal land. I just want to see, as ever, a plan. And if there's not plan, there's not a deal.

@planefag Do you have a good breakdown of the performance?

every air planner in NATO these past three days waking around with a stack of these to hand out:

@CTIronman @ArmandDoma Pre-Environmentalism

@ArmandDoma Pre-litigation era. Pre-Great Society. Vested in their employers success

this is so stupid. the most pro-growth era in American history is the 40s-60s, when labor unions were ascendant

@SonnyBunch If it gets removed in bankruptcy the degree should get repo'd too - no listing it on resumes or working in that industry. If you default on a car you lose it - when the asset is education - if it is so useless it needs to be discharged you shouldn't be able to keep the benefits

This is probably a completely economically illiterate proposal but something has to be done because this shit is entirely unsustainable.

My hottest take on college education is that it should be easier for students to declare bankruptcy and lenders should be allowed to recoup the money lost from schools. Fewer people would get loans for dumb degrees and schools would decrease tuition to lessen their exposure.