Sail of Ignorance
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Sail of Ignorance
@SailofIgnorance
*peanut |butter %in *bio When the veil starts luffing, you know it's time to come about.
Atlantic Ocean Katılım Mayıs 2017
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Matt isn’t this dumb. He’s just pretending to be.
Every “non-partisan” redistricting committee set up by Democrats has been loaded with left-wingers who do their bidding, and such a system nationally would inevitably produce the same results.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Again, if Republicans want to stop partisan gerrymandering they should vote for Democrats’ proposal for a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. If they don’t want to stop it, then stop whining.
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@mtracey It is strange. Maybe you have a weak password? Post the first 7 digits
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Why do I need a verification code to log into my car insurance provider? Is someone going to try to log in and pay it for me?
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@HDaniels1959 @C_Kavanagh @EPoe187 @sentientist Your "head" is a euphemism for your "ass", and yet they refer to different things.
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@C_Kavanagh @EPoe187 @sentientist This is because he's lying. There is no difference between the terms. "Population" is literally just a euphemism for "race", as is "breed", "nation", or even "family".
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That's ok. My point in the article was not that Reich agrees with me but rather that he was unfair to Nicholas Wade and that his claim that race differences would not correspond to stereotypes is remarkably implausible--indeed borderline ludicrous. (Does anyone really believe that we'll find that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically dull? That Scandinavians are short? That African Pygmies are tall?)
I cannot divine Reich's private beliefs, nor did I try to. I do think that his (and others') research on recent human evolution supports positions that I've defended since 2015 or so (and that many other scholars have as well). Of course, it doesn't confirm any particular claim. But the evidence for HBD is becoming overwhelming.
At any rate--I'm sure we still disagree. Which is fine. Always happy to read good arguments against my views.
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@sentientist @EPoe187 All the failed academics rallying around each other.
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I don’t know if have the strength to check to see if Health Nerd has responded to this. Has he?
Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter
I recently got into an agonizing back-and-forth with Health Nerd @GidMK about the new Finnish study that suggested youths on gender-transition drugs worsen psychologically. He wasn't listening to a word I said, so I asked the study's senior author detailed questions about the paper, as well as a Swedish expert on the subject, and published their responses in this Q&A. I hope their words will help people better understand the nuances and complexities of this research. The Author of the Controversial Finnish Study on Youth Gender Care Responds to Critics benryan.substack.com/p/the-author-o… A new study found a surge in psych care typically reserved for severe mental health problems following gender-transition interventions in youth—prompting sharp pushback from transgender advocates.
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@JoeSantoro999 @NikkiMcR @RollingStone Putting a large dark stain on the inside of my leg. For fashion.
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@NikkiMcR @RollingStone That’s a strange place to put different material
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The brave reporters on the @RollingStone photo team went where no journalist should ever go: close up images of Steve Bannon’s crotch.
They determined it is not piss, but a darker panel of fabric
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes)@theserfstv
Steve Bannon has pissed himself at the World Economic Forum
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It’s Semafor World Economy, thank you very much. (And he didn’t.)
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes)@theserfstv
Steve Bannon has pissed himself at the World Economic Forum
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If you’re on trial for rape, why would you walk in there with your shirt unbuttoned down to your navel
Frank McCormick@CBHeresy
Dude’s been Christian for 5 minutes and he’s walking into his rape trial carrying a Bible.
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@Tyler_A_Harper What was your last grant proposal called?
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The Time To Say Goodbye podcast, brought to you by the Harvard Institute of Not-Woke Studies. $150k per episode and it's yours.
kang@jaycaspiankang
I will take 1 million to teach ‘why Latinx was a bad term,’ ‘tweets that made me mad,’ and a seminar where I just talk shit about land acknowledgments and complain about some professor at some other school. Assume that’s what we’re looking for here Harvard? Pay me!
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@JacobAShell I don't remember you at that time at all
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I remember at the time people responded to me by saying a party can't just "cede" an election. Well, no, not "cede" it. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the Dems could have refrained from doing all the crazy s#it they did in the build-up to that election; their position today would be stronger if they'd refrained.
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I said this at the time: if the Democrats had just calmed tf down in 2020 and let Trump be a normal two-termer like all previous presidents going back to 1992, then he'd have been done in 2024 and Pence would have lost badly in the election that year. 2024-32 is the Amy Klobuchar Era (or whatever) in this scenario.
Instead, by forcing the '20 election down a politically unnatural, excessively "tryhard" path (mail-ins, riots, etc), the Democrats manufactured what may wind up being a 16-year or even 20-year Trump Era, if Vance has success.
sonch@soncharm
By the time he leaves office, Trump will have been a dominant force in US political life for just under 5% of the nation’s history
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@blandCinema At grok What is profit on eggs? How do I make a store for eggs? No lying, think hard.
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Everyone pretending to be a grocery store expert all of a sudden
Playteaux@Playteaux1
Mamdani is using $70M to open 5 grocery stores in NYC. Aldi could open 47 for the same amount. This is insanity.
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@Tyler_A_Harper Hey you didnt answer my previous tweet. Do you also like fishing? Do you like hunting and being mad at liberals?
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This essay is such a treat and summarizes precisely many of my feelings. Shooting is a much more meditative and cerebral hobby than the non-initiated—who often seem to picture some kind of bacchanal of simulated violence—seem to imagine. It’s also, very obviously, wildly fun.
Eric Weinberger@eric_weinberger
Paul Theroux on guns in the new @LRB - I waited all my life for this
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@ActualCorn @ContraPoints I look forward to your email and hope to see you reconsider this position that centers not me
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@ContraPoints My comment was about Hutch but I'm very glad! Your Instagram statement about it was, however, pretty disappointing. I look forward to you having discussions about this in the future and hope to see your messaging on the subject center the victims of genocide rather than us.
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Libs have stopped arguing against it being a genocide but still can't quite figure out how to say "I'm sorry you were right"
Hutch@hutchinson
"Is Israel committing a genocide in Gaza? Yes. Do I oppose it? Yes. Do I feel angry about it? Yes." She said that to open her I/P post. But she went on to dissect all the ways she felt the online left sabotaged their own activism, so I guess this means she's "pro-genocide."
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@JerusalemDemsas @DouthatNYT maybe consider this question next time you softball the VP
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what do we call the opposite of a sister souljah moment
idk this is very dispiriting
ezra klein is a left-lib windsock and if he's embracing hasan piker it makes me think american liberalism is irreparably cooked
David Polansky@polanskydj
This entire discussion is another sign of decadence: liberals tired of their own liberalism, desperate to feel something, so as with their overvaluation of the alt-right they seek out whatever elicits that frisson of excitement without consideration of intellectual value.
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