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10 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read
People are coming forward to allege Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver is a sexual predator who has preyed on young men. What do @stuartpstevens, @TheRickWilson and @gtconway3d have to say about that? After all, they are very concerned with public morality and decency.
Wow, this is really messed up
Gross
If this is all true, and it looks that way, the chances @stuartpstevens, @TheRickWilson, @gtconway3d don't know about Weaver's, uh, problem, are zero

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Consider: by boosting this narrative, both the left and the GOP benefit if they can use it to convince more people that immigration is only good and thus create a renewed consensus around liberalized immigration 1/
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Childlessness is making our politics insane because people have no higher loyalty to anything but a dumb political ideology, whether that is cringe libertarianism or even more cringe "conservatarianism" or leftoidism 1/
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"Give me a logical argument" is misleading because people who say "open your arms to foreigners" begin from the point of ideology. That is, there is no argument that can convince them that humans aren't interchangeable Legos and all that matters is GDP go brrr 1/
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