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Maybe I need to be clearer: both @AOC & @realDonaldTrump have said & done some things I *admire*. I assume it goes without saying that I‘m NOT a supporter of either.

I can’t make them just be wrong on everything. It would be way simpler! But my pesky villains do good too. #Life
So what I’m saying is this: if you’re used to thinking about simply good & bad people, The Portal probably isn’t your podcast. I’m not the best human as host & I don’t know any saints for guests. This is a podcast by and for difficult,complicated, messy & occasionally bad people.
Many of us don’t have a place in *any* new beautiful virtuous world where we talk endlessly on power & oppression and our side, whether Left/Right, is omniscient while the other side is barbaric.

The Portal is about escaping our low resolution views that make us hate each other.
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Eric Weinstein
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Sure. Austere Religious Scholarship starts harmlessly enough filming ISIS beheading videos, actual sexual slavery and literally throwing homosexuals off roofs, but sooner or later you find @SamHarrisOrg @Quillette and you realize it *was* a gateway to the Intellectual Dark Web.
Look, there is ISIS and “team civilization” with all our warts

I never knew why the legacy media viewed our honestly discussing religiously motivated terror killings as if such a simple recognition of motive where “phobic” rather than rational. Now I am beginning to understand.
I’m unabashedly on team civilization. Al-Baghdadi was on the other team. The bad guys.

The fact that we‘re not *simple* good guys as we claim doesn’t mean we‘re ISIS. We‘re team civilization and we know that because we examine our own flaws & *crimes*. We‘re still the good guys.
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Eric Weinstein
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Just by being here, you‘re always one viral tweet away from your private ideas reaching grateful people who will transform you & your family’s life forever for the better. I believe this.

If that has happened to you, would you share that tweet with me either here or in my DMs?🙏
But keep in mind, there is no known way to go viral that escapes hate. Why?

Just by going viral you disrupt stasis. Disruption creates redistribution, threat & envy. These express as hate, shame & intimidation. Your willingness to pay those speculative prices inspires us daily.
Here is the point of this thread: I get a few DMs every day that move me. I urge those of you who write to me with inspiring stories and ideas to consider finding your voices. I can’t get to them all and you don’t know it but many of you are sitting on Gold. Clear your throat. 🙏
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This the last protest tweet of a small triptych. But these folks are rebelling for our current system against grandstanding environmentalists.

These all follow Arnold Kling’s thy:

Progressives fight oppression. Libertarians fight coercion.
Conservatives fight loss from change.
The reason I bring this up is the following. What if we looked at ourselves as being in *all* three protests:

Yes the world is oppressively rigged.

Yes I don’t want my life at the whim of someone else’s pen and gun.

Yes I want to get to work w/o being shamed by grandstanders.
I think that’s where I am; experiencing all of Arnold Kling’s three triggers simultaneously. And quite frankly, I think most of us are feeling the same. It’s too much change without enough good change. It’s too much humiliating coercion without enough coordinated self expression.
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Marc Owen Jones
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[Thread] 1/ Regarding Lebanon protests, yesterday I looked at suspected influence campaigns promoting Hassan Nasrallah. A few got in touch suggesting I look at a couple of hashtags criticizing him - namely نصرالله واحد منن and حل عنا انت وسلاحك. I analysed around 6,500
2/tweets from around 4,494 unique accounts. There were a few things I found quite striking. Firstly, the spike in accounts created in September 2019, which was obviously before the escalation of protests in Lebanon. Again this might not be unusual for suspicious accounts, which
3/will become active when required and high suspension rates means usually they are 'newer'. The 180 accounts created in September 2019 compares to around the 31 per month average - a large difference. Although I assume it goes without saying (perhaps I shouldn't) it is also
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Eugene Gu, MD
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@realDonaldTrump It’s not a witch hunt and the huge crime was that Russian intelligence services hacked Hillary Clinton’s private information along with that of the DNC and disseminated this information through WikiLeaks.
@realDonaldTrump Then the huge crime on top of that was that Donald Trump obstructed Robert Mueller’s investigation into an unprecedented and hostile foreign attack on the United States. This endangered our country and is much more serious than obstructung justice to cover up a personal crime.
@realDonaldTrump So it’s not “no collusion, no obstruction.” It’s no smoking gun evidence of criminal collusion but a ton of evidence of obstruction of justice. And since Mueller believes it is unconstitutional to indict a sitting president, he is begging Congress to do its job and impeach him.
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Teri Kanefield
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(Thread) guns, authoritarians, and regulations.

Hi, Craig,

Well, okay.

Maybe it isn’t obvious that a desire to sweep away regulations and gun rights and “entitlements” is authoritarian.

So I’ll explain.

Let’s start with regulations.
1/ Regulations are anti-authoritarian, because regulations say that everyone lives under the same rules. This is also known as rule of law. You can’t have rule of law without laws. Regulations = laws.

Authoritarians want to sweep away existing rules so their word becomes law.
2/ This is often done by means of a cult of leadership, as explained👇

The leader says “I alone can solve our nation’s problems!”

The followers believe (or pretend to believe) that the leader’s instincts are superior to the logic of the ruling elites.
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ElizabethCMcLaughlin
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I spent the afternoon immersed in various forms of my own personal therapy. I'm back and I'm ready to tear some shit up.

And I'm just gonna say it: I'm not backing another politician, ever again, who isn't willing to set shit on fire and burn down white supremacist patriarchy.
I'm going to center on people with a history of fighting for justice, people invested in equity, people who know what it means to fight, people who are relentless. I don't give a fuck where they come from or whether they're "experienced."

I'm looking at a coalition of warriors.
And WE make the army--leaders, generals and priestesses alike--as long as we are willing to listen and build and fight.

Make no mistake about it: I don't care if it all ends in ashes as long as what comes next allows nothing like what happened today to ever happen again.

#DONE
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Leo Beletsky
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Been following @jenniferdoleac @anita_mukherjee naloxone paper w trepidation since learning about it last summer. Frustrating to watch how few constructive conversation emerged from the paper's recent broad exposure. My attempt to remedy w long #thread papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
First, let me just say criticizing the paper or its authors for doing what is standard in their field (e.g. publishing online before formal peer review) is patently unfair. Whether or not those academic conventions make sense is a different, longer conversation
But please learn the facts and don't critique people for things they aren't responsible for. Goes without saying, there's definitely no room for personal attacks, including those baselessly questioning the authors' intelligence, competence and professionalism
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