Conor Friedersdorf

@DearLeftyFriend Obviously. I was referring to the shitposting on social media about juvenile personal feuds with entertainers, not fooled by A.I.

@conor64 Conor, he didn't actually travel to New York and perform in a TV skit

Clearly a leader too busy to attend a son's wedding.

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The specific women in that video weren't even in HR. So can you point me to all the TikTok videos where HR people senior enough to make hiring decisions are making TikTok videos like this? I get that you're frustrated by HR gatekeepers but I think this connection you're making is incorrect

@conor64 They do both

This is the best representation of HR I've ever seen. It's crystal clear, right there If you watch this video, it might seem like innocent fun at first. They're just doing a little dance, messing around with the girlies, right? Because that's not a caricature. That's the gatekeeper for your next job That's the person who decided whether you got a callback after an interview I remember applying to jobs when I was young. Fresh out of university, motivated, and willing to work. This was before I hated the corporate life And 99% of the time my CV went straight into a black hole. I never got responses or reasons; it was just discarded by some algorithm, or by someone who couldn't tell the difference between a junior developer and a junior marketing assistant When I finally had actual skills (when I became a web developer and had something real to offer), I thought it would get easier... And it didn't Instead I had to jump through hoop after hoop just to reach a human being who actually understood what I did: - Personality assessments - Group dynamics exercises - Three rounds of interviews with people who'd never written a line of code in their lives, asking me where I saw myself in five years - You want to talk to the CTO for twenty minutes? First sit through forty-five minutes with someone whose job is to make sure you're "a culture fit" A culture fit, FFS For a lot of men I know, starting their own business wasn't some romantic entrepreneurial dream. It wasn't a vision board. It wasn't a podcast-worthy origin story It was the only door that didn't have a bouncer in front of it The system didn't want us... So we stopped asking for permission

@hispanicnomad It's run by twenty somethings, not middle aged people, and instead of asking you to complete video trainings about sexual harassment law, they make tiktok-style videos about their bodies and fashion styles?

@conor64 It definitely is where I’m from

Now that’s how you film from courtside. Wow.

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@S___Elliott It's a much more detailed analysis than anything his campaign has ever put out.

@conor64 What’s surprising about that?

This is surprisingly substantive.

@_giacomo_volpe_ Stop being a mendacious jerk.

@conor64 Goodbye Please be less irresponsible in the future Some of us actually want to fix this state and it’s most broken big city

Extremely embarrassing to see right wingers who pretend to be the thinking ones vouching for a transparently unfit serially dishonest nutcase like Spencer Pratt

@_giacomo_volpe_ Im going to stop replying to you because you persist in making false accusations with a needlessly hostile demeanor and won't stop attributing positions to me that I did not state and do not hold. Goodbye.

@conor64 I still don’t think you’ll get your wish here. The most likely outcome remains Bass getting to face Pratt in the runoff and beating him easily. Him even being able to compete is a disastrous outcome tho, including for the state GOP which needs to learn to improve for real

You are begging the question that it is a "scam campaign" and regardless I am not in fact "laundering" anything. I correctly stated that the video in question was surprisingly substantive, and indeed, it went into much more in depth policy detail than anything the Pratt campaign had done to date, whether or not you agree with those policy details. You should practice better intellectual hygiene in your critiques, especially if you're going to accuse others of lacking it.

@conor64 I actually desperately wish that the CA GOP would give us something to consider voting for By irresponsibly laundering this moronic scam campaign you are only deferring the clean up job that is so overdue from them and that this state needs from them

@mcbyrne Wait who is the second?

@conor64 We have two incompetent reality tv stars in govt. no one needs a third.

I supported Hillary Clinton in 2016. And I think evaluating Pratt in isolation instead of also asking whether Bass has any business being in charge, given her record to date, is evasive. You also act, I'm your tweet above, as though I asserted that everything in the video was correct, when of course I did not. Your style of argument is off-putting, lacks rigor and precision, and is incompatible with the sanctimony you bring to exchanges.

@conor64 Watching you guys and Pratt is like 2016 all over again Working yourselves up to get behind some greaseball scammer with no business being in charge of anything

@GROUNDH09 I have been paying attention and I have not seen any ad with anything close to this level of policy detail, nor did I see him say anything like this in the debate.

It’s only surprising if you haven’t been paying attention.

@odnyc_ Greg and I were both concerned then and are speaking now, so...

@conor64 And not a peep from all of those folks who were super concerned about free speech when the consequences were merely suffering social opprobrium, and not agents of the state jailing the speaker in bad faith

Law enforcement officers who violate free speech rights in this way should be the ones who lose their jobs.

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."