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Michael Hobbes
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The reason I find all the vocab-scolding around "coup" and "fascism" irritating is because the consequences of exaggerating the threat of an explicitly anti-democratic political party are minor compared to
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Seeing a lot of empty hypocrisy takes along the lines of, "I guess libs only like protests when they're for causes they agree with" and, um, yes. It's actually fine
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This is what happens when your entire media apparatus treats white supremacy as an idea to be debated rather than a movement to be defeated. We've seen a million versions
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This story gives useful context to the NYT piece about the girl getting her college admission revoked for saying the n-word. If we're concerned about kids' lives being ruined for
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Weird how everyone with expertise in epidemiology, the CDC or the "damning" slide presentation in question doesn't agree with this account of events.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1341866668528717824 This is the slide
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This article is atrocious.https://slate.com/business/2020/12/cities-luxury-apartments-condos-pandemic.html It contains a lot of broad statements with no actual support. There's no evidence that people are leaving cities en masse. Vacanc
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This is a fair question! I think the problem is twofold:First, over-representation of any societal group in power is problematic. It makes leaders more prone to groupthink and self-dealing, limits
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WHY WRITE THIS THEN An article about Antifa-related violence opens with an anecdote about ... non-Antifa-related violence. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME You have not remotely established this! You just
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It's not just that they did this, it's that they deliberately picked letters that don't represent Trump's actual base of support.https://twitter.com/sewellchan/status/1327644697720811520 Former Democrat and a Black entrepren
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I think this is why the "cancel culture" moral panic gets under my skin so much. *So* many of Americans' false understandings of people and events come from the fact
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