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Nate Bohm
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Buddhist libertarian neuroscientist. This machine kills fascists.
California Katılım Mart 2009
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My best attempt at an explanation for this: the class of people who wield disproportionate influence over how social justice is defined are relatively privileged along the metric *disproportionately likely/unlikely to be victims of crime.* Recommended reading: Jill Leovy.
Sarah Haider 👾@SarahTheHaider
It’s so weird to see the co-option of “justice” as a value by the very people who make excuses for rising crime. Crime, by its very nature, is an injustice—one that disproportionately plagues the most disadvantaged among us. Cracking down on crime *is* social justice.
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We’re several days past the discovery of this bamboozlement, but some of the country’s top political reporters have nevertheless chosen to go along with the ruse rather than admit error. A rookie reporter who refused to correct factual mistakes like this would be fired.
southpaw@nycsouthpaw
The @nytimes should correct this false assertion by @peterbakernyt. Trump held a rally at a non-union shop in Michigan and did not voice any endorsement of the UAW’s strike. Biden joined the UAW on the picket line. nytimes.com/2023/09/28/us/…
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This email is dated August 7, 2020, which, if I'm not mistaken, means that Donald Trump was president and Bill Barr was attorney general.
Oversight Committee@GOPoversight
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Newly released emails and documents show that Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf DID NOT ALLOW AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE JOE BIDEN as part of a FARA probe.
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This is a perfect encapsulation of our family-unfriendly culture.
We have transformed parenthood from a natural part of adulthood into another consumption choice. Thus people believe society has no responsibility to promote and support family-formation.
Paul "9mm Sammich" Tiseo@paultiseo
@TPCarney People: "Ideally, I would eat the whole chocolate cake, but in reality, I shouldn't and can't." Tim: "Society is insufficiently cake-friendly."
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NEWS: The Fifth Circuit panel in the social-media case realized they didn't really do law yesterday, looked at their own rules, and did a do-over. DOJ also filed a memo at #SCOTUS this morning. I've added an update at Law Dork explaining what's happening: lawdork.com/i/137402654/so…
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Here's the ATF form that Trump would have to have filled out to purchase a firearm. Notably, he would have to attest that he is not under felony indictment and not using or addicted to drugs (Hunter Biden case)
atf.gov/firearms/docs/…
Jonathan Allen@jonallendc
Trump bought a Glock in South Carolina, according to his spokesman. Federal law bans people under federal felony indictment from buying guns. BUT, federal judges, citing recent SCOTUS rulings, have said it's not consistent with the Constitution. nbcnews.com/politics/supre…
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@mattyglesias It's a shift from power tied to labor to power tied to capital - obscuring decision making is part of the point
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Though labor unions occasionally push ideas I dislike, they always care about winning races to obtain tangible power.
Shifting the center of gravity in progressive politics to foundations and vanity projects has led to much fuzzier decision-making.
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@JStein_WaPo @MarcBodnick @froomkin The disconnect shows that GOP is not actually interested in managing the budget. Instead you frame it as a bipartisan failure
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North Carolina Republicans passed bill today stripping Dem governor of majorities on state/local election boards & giving gerrymandered legislature huge new power to overturn elections & limit early voting in Dem areas. Scary stuff motherjones.com/politics/2023/…
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@EricLevitz Or white working class people become Republicans due to them being the party of white nationalism and adjusting economic views
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I suspect that the causal chain here is: socially conservative working-class voters become Republicans as culture war issues gain salience —> they adjust their economic views to match their partisanship (while socially liberal college grads took the opposite journey)
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College-educated voters now express more liberal views than working-class voters on economics (I.e. on questions of taxation, social insurance, redistribution and government intervention in the economy)
Will Marble@wpmarble
The white working class has steadily become part of the Republican base while whites w/ college degrees have become Democratic. In a new paper, I study the issue basis of this realignment, showing that both economic and cultural issues have contributed. williammarble.co/docs/EducPolar…
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@EricLevitz The paper and claims from it that were tweeted seem to be focused on white working class voters vs white college educated.
Is there evidence for your claim that this is something that applies more generally to working class vs college educated?
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@mattyglesias So it's unseemly to point out that the media is lying bc they are only doing it to make money.
What is the seemly thing to do in this situation? Pretend media coverage is honest?
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Whining about media coverage is unseemly — on some level there’s no sense complaining that for-profit business enterprises make decisions that are good for business — but people should say plainly what’s up.
nytimes.com/2022/08/11/bus…
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I think a relevant lens for understanding coverage choices is that it’s better for clicks, subscriptions, ratings, etc if Trump wins again and it’s more fun to cover him if you pretend not to know how he’s governed and will govern.
Sean Sullivan@seansullivanNYT
Trump hedges on signing abortion bans if re-elected, saying he'd negotiate with Democrats on the issue, via @marianaa_alfaro & @KnowlesHannah washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…
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@joplin_jimi @CNNPolitics Refusing to leave? Why didn't he just comply?
I've been assured that resisting arrest and failure to comply with the police means what follows is your fault. But not this guy?
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Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday pardoned a Loudoun County father who was arrested at a school board meeting in 2021 while seeking answers about his daughter’s sexual assault on school property. cnn.it/463A8bP
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@gelliottmorris OK, but there are answers for why people think that, which are largely independent of actual economic circumstances.
Look at the disconnect between left and right depending on who is Pres, for example
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sorry to keep harping on this. perhaps on more tweet: if the economy is doing well on paper but a majority of people think we’re in a recession, the response shouldn’t be “lol, these fucking idiots” it should be “why do people think this?”
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IMO a big problem in many corners of the economy discourse is we’ve got a bunch of shape rotators arguing about the first derivative on annual timescales, meanwhile families have memories more than year old and notice a substantial reduction in buying power at the grocery store
David H. Montgomery@dhmontgomery
There's a lot going on here, but I think a big part of it is that, beyond just inflation, experts tend to focus on rates of change/acceleration (more *meaningful*), while laypeople are much more comfortable at lower rungs of the derivative ladder (raw values are more *impactful*)
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@jj4t12win10 Well then, if it is only telling people that you dislike to shut up, then I guess that is entirely different.
Free speech! Except, not that kind of speech
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@natched @JamesSurowiecki Read the tweet. The only people it’s telling to shut up, are the people who are telling other people to shut up.
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The Fifth Circuit Court has now held that it's unconstitutional for the federal govt to influence platforms' moderation decisions, while also holding it's constitutional for Texas to compel platforms to leave up content they want to take down. Impossible to square that circle.
Alex Berenson@AlexBerenson
Hello Fifth Circuit! "The dispositive question is whether the Individual Plaintiffs’ censorship can also be traced to government-coerced enforcement of those policies. We agree with the district court that it can be."
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@jj4t12win10 @JamesSurowiecki The decision is specifically telling a long list of people to shut up, and you think that is erring on the side of more speech?
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@JamesSurowiecki Erring on the side of always more content/speech
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