Thread of the @RealTimers panel w/ @billmaher @larrywilmore @HBO 3/12/2021

1/ Capitalism is the best system of its kind. We need to bail out people, not companies
2/ We need to break up big tech

The top 10%, not to mention the top 1%, are living their best lives

5 companies (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook & Microsoft) make up 21% of the S&P500 (24% in Jan 2021)

(my stat about 7 companies = 51% is incorrect, misread a chart)
3/ We've created an industrial shaming culture where you get points for being offended. Universities should be graduating not wokesters but warriors.

@NYUStern colleague @jonhaidt cites a core principle of rhetoric: interpret an argument as charitably as possible

@BurgerKing ad
4/ We need to stop using a time machine & applying today's norms to people 50-100 years ago #Churchill #MLK

@billmaher @realtimers
5/ We've created no room for moderates.

We've got bigger fish to fry than dunk on each other on cultural issues. 1/5 households is food insecure.

@billmaher @realtimers

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--It's about sex...
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--Sex leads to relationships, obligations and guardrails (don't get in fights, we need you. Don't gamble your paycheck, we need to save for a house)
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1. When teaching via live video/Zoom, most important, you have to over-animate. Gestures are always good in public speaking — doubly so when teaching online. Voice, motions, intonation — amp everything up.
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1/ This is a great day for @twitter shareholders and the commonwealth.

"Twitter, Inc. Announces Partnership With Silver Lake and Elliott Management"

Ok, let's break this (announcement from @twitter) down:

prn.to/2TUVzII
2/

--Sycophants and stenographers (i.e., @CNBC) gathered at 10 Downing reporting that Prime Minister Dorsey has secured "Peace in our Time." Striking how badly the media (thus far) have misread what has happened here.
3/

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#frontlinePBS
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The holidays are a good time to reconnect w/ people who’ve helped you get where you are. Find your senior year English teacher, say you appreciate her patience. Write to your last boss. You won’t be giving up anything. Gratitude feels good both to receive & to give.
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44% of Republicans believe Hillary Clinton ran a children’s prostitution ring, mostly because of “news” shared on FB.
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@JonHaidt 2) people add powerful survival instincts to social media engagement; both sharing and browsing are charged with much more emotion than reading CNN or NYT, which in turn makes us more irrational and susceptible to deception.
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