@SomeSymbiont @furansu_des That "operate coherently amongst the stars" bit is the worst. But the whole thing is bad.
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@furansu_des Interesting, which part was the dumbest in your opinion?
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People used to condense knowledge into paragraphs, and write books or articles.
Poetry—with our without rhyme—has always existed, mind you.
Free verse poetry is no stranger to any English 101 student.
The greatest measure of intelligence is the ability to state something simply, and correctly.
Arguably, poetically.
We live in the age of intellectual compression, and it makes us light enough to operate coherently amongst the stars.
If you have learned to condense an idea that could be a paragraph into a sentence, you break it up so people can absorb it.
The physical separation means it's a pause, and this is how short form online discourse has worked for all 30 years I've been online—from chat rooms to forums, and social media.
Welcome to the free verse club.
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@christopherrufo @RickGarnett @rclu So conservatives now regard being a stay at home mom as a consolation prize?
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@RickGarnett @rclu “Consolation prizes for everyone!”
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It's possible that people who come up through documentary filmmaking don't always have the deepest understanding of what a university is for.
If you think Elizabeth Corey is the problem, you definitely do not.
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️@christopherrufo
"Chris Rufo solved this social problem, but he did it by generating political action rather than asking the libs nicely" is the perfect summation of why much of the conservative movement—and almost all conservative academics—has been utterly ineffective for many decades.
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@GregoryKBovino @ReichlinMelnick Don't know about the other stuff, but there isn't a drop of common sense in that.
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@ReichlinMelnick Aaron, the 100 million is a solid figure. No conspiracy theories, just research melded with 30 years as an immigration officer mixed in with this thing called common sense
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To believe Chief Bovino's ridiculous claim that there were 15 million undocumented immigrants in 1975, you'd have to ALSO believe that 12+ million people deliberately chose not to get green cards and a path to citizenship during the Reagan amnesty in 1986.
Gregory K Bovino@GregoryKBovino
@ReichlinMelnick It was 15 million inn1975 Aaron. Living in fantasyland I see
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@brteacher @NateSilver538 Or perhaps one of "the corrupt government that used to pay me to be their propagandist and for whose sake I moved to their country has been replaced and it's time to pretend good faith now that some of it might be exposed and the money is no longer coming anyway."
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@NateSilver538 It's another example of "my political opponents really are *that evil,* so I will believe an allegation against them that's absurd on its face."
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Not super interested in this particular controversy, but dude who tweets all the time doing this fey little "oh my, my friend just reminded of my bad tweet 😂" give me a fucking break.
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@Legal_Fil But surely if it was inevitable that someone shat on your face, you would rather have it were someone following a vegan diet, right? You do concede that much?
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A dictatorship is not inevitable.
Glad we cleared that foolishness up.
adri ♡@socialistadri
"IF A DICTATORSHIP IS INEVITABLE, THEN I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT BE A DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT THAN ONE THAT IS DESIGNED AROUND THE NEEDS OF THE BOURGEOIS CLASS" - @hasanthehun 🔥
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@Noahpinion Glad to see the Hungarian electorate respond so positively to JD's injunction to resist foreign influence in their elections.
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@RBMEllis @RadishHarmers @DukesDukeDukes I think his point is that he just doesn't have that many followers.
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What do you want Democrats to do? There's nothing they can do. It's very important you continue to vote for them and give them money.
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This is absolutely, hysterically, not true. Every time I go to Europe (which is often) I hear about "America is so young. Here we have tradition." And then I get to learn that the pub on the corner dates to before the Salem Witch Trials, and how their family lived in Hoozenberg since 1265. It's hammered into me constantly. I don't even mind. I love hearing about this history.
But saying you DON'T claim a heritage in Europe is an outright lie.
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH
Americans are so cute with their heritage stuff. Here in Europe you stop claiming heritage from somewhere after about 3 generations. If I went to Belgium and went 'I'm actually Belgian, my great, great, great great aunt lived here!' they'd be like :) ok weirdo
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@RichardHanania Reading the replies to this post in the hope someone might advance some semblance of a plausible theory is utterly demoralizing. What a cesspool this site is.
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I’m confused why Trump doesn’t dump Israel at this point. His base would be happy, so would the international community and the MSM. They’re not buying him like the Gulf Arabs. The only MAGAs who like Israel are the cultists who would go in any direction. What ties him to them?
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The Hasan Piker and "Joe Rogan of the left" stuff is really weird because the entire point of Joe Rogan was that he (for a while, anyway) had a lot of crossover appeal and was seen as apolitical.
If anything, Piker is the left's Charlie Kirk or Candance Owens. At best.
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@boulderfish @soncharm @nikitabier @NateSilver538 How exactly does the reply button quote-tweet with more context than a quote-tweet?
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@soncharm @nikitabier @NateSilver538 I'm not Nikita, but I think I can help you out. 👇
You're welcome.
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@NateSilver538 Can you stop quote tweeting without the context? It’s intellectually dishonest.
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@helscom @aronro @soncharm @nikitabier @NateSilver538 Nate gave a straightforward answer to a question publicly addressed at him in the one way that allows his followers to follow the conversation. If Nikita doesn't like it he should eliminate the function. He's the one guy that can.
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@Li8rarySpider @Alicoh1 Must is free to do what he wants with the company he owns. Some people think that he's turning it to shit and that's the point in discussion.
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@Alicoh1 It’s his (Musk’s) company. 🤷🏼♂️ Is Lemoine’s complaint and conclusion supposed to be evidence or something?
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this discourse is really bringing out the best minds
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Honestly seems woke to be this relativistic? Hopefully we can walk and chew gum at the same time and recognize 1) this was a dumb typo, 2) sometimes NYT/MSM make more serious fuckups, and 3) Catturd shouldn't get 50x the engagement of serious reporting on endangered soldiers.
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@Dispropoganda The democrats in that graph were the president, the vicepresident, and Barack Obama. Their replacement for MAGA Voice, Libs of TikTok and Catturd, reflects more than a shift in the site's political leaning, which is not the thing being criticized here.
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These were the top 20 Twitter accounts with the most engagement in 2021. They were mostly either democrats, or celebrities pushing democrat talking points. Not a single conservative or Republican account among them.
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.
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@artee_49 @NateSilver538 Intellectual dishonesty is precisely what this site promotes, as Nate has been arguing. If quote-twitting is in some oblique way a small part of that problem, it's very much in Nikita's and his team's hands to change it, along with the other, more salient problems.
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@NateSilver538 This is totally dishonest. What this (quoting) does is result in viewers not normally spend their time going through tweet history to understand context and rather just see this tweet and the post it’s quoting and try to make judgments based on it. It’s dishonest to do that.
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In what sense is it intellectually dishonest, Nikita? The context is clear. My thesis is: I think your algo surfaces too little quality. And I think your excuses in these back-and-forth exchanges have been validating of that. To your credit, it's clear enough you agree with me.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
@NateSilver538 Can you stop quote tweeting without the context? It’s intellectually dishonest.
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@nikitabier @NateSilver538 Then change it so one can quote-tweet with the context. You work at Twitter don't you? It's astonishing that you'd complain about intellectual dishonesty in the context of this particular conversation.
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There's nothing organic about it; it's deliberate choices you and the team are making. And although those choices may have been defensible in the abstract, they're clearly resulting in low-quality content rising to the top. You're a smart dude, you can build a better algo!
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
@NateSilver538 It’s paywalled. If only 0.1% of users can derive value from the content, it will organically rank lower.
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@AnnCoulter Because wishing you had listened to the "legal experts" is too on the nose?
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I really wish "legal experts" hadn't screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he's actually committing war crimes.
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Actually Fuck The Democrats.
They’re Choosing Not To Stop This Epstein War On Iran.
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