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2 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
New front on the culture war opened up apparently.
There’s like 8 pieces I’ve been meaning to write forever but one of them is about how intersectionality is, necessarily, a race to the bottom.
This seems to make that point pretty clearly: how can we focus emphatically on a particular group of people without disadvantaging another?
I think the answer has always been “we can’t” but that was okay so long as we were taking shots at wealthy and/or white people. When the people on the losing end (or desired losing end) aren’t unsympathetic, it gets messy quite quickly.

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3 Apr
Nearly all* of the coverage of the GA voting bill seems to be from reporters who haven’t read the bill interviewing partisan activists who are disinterested in what the bill says but very much want you to believe that it’s awful.
* the main exception to this is a phenomenal breakdown by @grace_panetta that you should read and share (especially with your liberal friends) google.com/amp/s/www.busi…
I feel bad for people who are just trying to understand the bill. If you Google it, all that comes up is nonsense about voter suppression. There’s so much garbage obfuscating the truth.
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30 Mar
🧵THREAD🧵

Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since Texas lifted it’s mask mandate. Coronavirus cases have been steadily declining since, w/ yesterday the 18th day in a row of decreases.

But you may remember the left & the media promised the reverse would happen. And I’ve got receipts.⤵️
The only place to start this thread is with @JoeBiden, whom you may remember referred to Texas’s opening up as “Neanderthal thinking.”

Perhaps the White House would like to follow up about why?
Other governors also took shots. Here’s @GavinNewsom, whose decision to keep his state shut down cost the state 52,000 jobs.
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29 Mar
My thoughts on the Covid vaccine are the same as vaccines pre-Covid: not only is it good and you should take it but I’m okay with you facing consequences if you refuse, just like if you won’t pay your taxes or walk your dog on a leash or drive the speed limit or whatever.
I know the whole anti-libertarian thing is somewhat of a bit at this point but also I think the general worldview that undergirds it is bad and wrong.
Anyway, I have long been anti-anti-vaxxer and I continue to be despite (or maybe because of) recent events.
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29 Mar
My unpopular opinion is that vaccine passports are fine so long as the government isn’t the one requiring them for anything.
If the trade off is the vaccine passport for things like entirely full sports stadiums and entirely packed bars, I think it’s worth it.
Another benefit that surely will not pacify the haters is that it would actually, you know, create an incentive to get the vaccine (something govt keeps refusing to do).
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29 Mar
We’re just gonna keep doing this huh
Has anyone even pretended to make the case that there is a need for this? That conditions are so bad that we need to do an unprecedented thing for a **fourth** time? Or are we beyond that?
One of two things is true:

Either the government can give out a lot of money directly to people without consequences, or there are serious consequences to giving out “free” money to people.

Until recently, we all agreed it was the latter (even the first stimulus!)
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22 Mar
Quick 🧵.

I think the idea that “lockdowns saved lives” doesn’t make sense in pretty straightforward ways that we don’t seem to be talking about enough.

(1/12)
The most prominent US study (story on it linked below) suggests that lockdowns helped avoid 60 million coronavirus cases. Otherwise, we’d have about triple the number of confirmed cases we have now.

Let’s use that as a starting point.

google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

(2/12)
To make things simple and round, let’s assume that 3x cases = 3x deaths. This overstates the current mortality rate of COVID (esp accounting for true caseloads vs. positive tests) but accounts for some inexact pressure on hospitals and other systems.

(3/12)
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