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20 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Nothing demonstrates someone's commitment to the colloquial "values" of free speech more than locking their replies, right Adrian?
I mean he's got every right to do that; nobody is entitled to use his replies as a vehicle for speech he doesn't want to hear or help promote.

I just wish he had the intellectual honesty to recognize that rule *doesn't only apply to him, or to speech he disfavors*
BTW, I consider a lack of intellectual honesty a disabling, insurmountable vice in public discourse, and I wish more people did. I can have a meaningful discussion with, and learn a lot from, people I strongly disagree with, if they're intellectually honest.
But people who are intellectually dishonest? Whose only lodestar is whether their argument today supports the goal they want, never mind what their position on it was yesterday? (Looking at you, @JonathonTurley). Their views are literally worthless, even when I agree with them.

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20 Jan
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14 Jan
"Even if you believe, as I do, that Congress ought to remove Trump over his actions last week, can you fault Republicans for not wanting to be a part of this specific process?"

Yes. Yes I can.
Look, @HaMeturgeman, I get it. But the response, if that's how a particular republican senator feels, is to make a floor speech denouncing what they see as inappropriate politicization and then explaining that they're voting to remove *despite*, not *because* of it ...
Because it's the right thing to do and a necessary response to Trump's impeachable misconduct.

"I can't do the right thing because you didn't do the right thing" is, particularly in the face of this issue, completely indefensible.
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Please do not pile onto Michael, who is lovely. But this raises a point that I think deserves wider discussion: the idea that anger, hatred, jealousy, and the other so-called "darker" emotions are inherently bad ... is wrong. They aren't. They're just more likely to be used wrong
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People keep saying Clayton Kershaw throws a lot of strikes, but I've watched his games and the pitches they call "strikes" NEVER hit the batter. Nobody discusses this.
Look, I get it. The constitution uses the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" and in the context most people are familiar with the words "crimes" and "misdemeanors" mean "criminal offenses". That's not how it's used here
Easy way to prove that? "Misdemeanors", in the usual legal sense, *are* crimes - just relatively minor ones Image
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Looks like we need to spend some time talking about the Parler lolsuit against Amazon and why it's deader than a Mitch McConnell comedy special. They've brought three claims - antitrust, breach of contract, and tortious interference. None will survive. Here's why
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There are a few problems with this approach. First, there's a factual problem: Twitter and Parler take very different approaches to moderation. Hell, *that's Parler's entire pitch.* So "we're the same as Twitter, why are you treating us different" isn't going to fly
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