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4 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
I asked Scott Adams if the screenshots of texts between him and Jake Nowak were real, and he blocked me rather than answer.
These screenshots, to be clear.

He's also deleted at least one tweet he made about Gaetz.

He ALSO did a podcast thing about it this morning, which you can find here:
scottadamssays.com/2021/04/03/epi…
Here's a transcript of the relevant part, in case you would prefer to read rather than listen:

drive.google.com/file/d/1DELABy…
Here's the part where he finds out about strict liability crimes in real time:
Well, sort of. It seems like he thinks that our society is, or should be, sort of wink-wink nudge-nudge about statutory rape. Let's look at that last paragraph again because it is a fucking DOOZY.
Scott Adams on statutory rape, everyone:

"There are those situations where you gotta *say* it's a crime, but when you're actually judging the person who was involved, you say, 'Yeah, you know, we understand.'"

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4 Apr
Ok, y’all, gather round, because it’s Easter Sunday and @CodingEtudes and I stayed up way too late figuring out how the fuck Scott Adams ended up involved in the Matt Gaetz scandal.

Y’all, the answer appears to be “because everyone involved is dumb af.”

Let’s get into it.
First, a little background. In a lot of ways, this is a story about Bob Levinson. Levinson was a government agent who disappeared in 2007 in Iran. It’s widely understood that he was kidnapped by the Iranian government and died in their custody. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappear…
His family announced his death just about a year ago, in March 2020. The Iranian government still denies any involvement with or knowledge of his arrest, detainment, or death. C’est la guerre.

However, recently there have been rumors that Levinson is in fact still alive.
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14 Mar
So, there’s a rhetorical trick I’ve noticed amongst the MAGA/Trumpist/whatever crowd that I want to call some attention to, because it is fuckin’ insidious.
In this exercise, the speaker re-defines moral positions as political positions, and then claims these differences must be set aside in the name of unity or fairness or neutrality or whatever.
For example, a lot of us saw this:
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17 Dec 20
@tznkai @JimHenleyMusic @jsmooth995 Oh hey, thanks.

I’ve been fighting with trolls on the internet since almost before there was an internet to fight trolls on. In that time, the trolls have changed a lot, but our tactics really haven’t, and it has cost us.
@tznkai @JimHenleyMusic @jsmooth995 Just ignoring the trolls worked great when they were individual people who were just looking to cause a ruckus, like a two-year-old kicking down someone else’s blocks. Eventually they would give up and wander off, no harm done.
@tznkai @JimHenleyMusic @jsmooth995 These days though, the trolls have goals, and they have allies. Now when we ignore them, we don’t win. We just cede ground. We move away into our own spaces and our own curated conversations and we leave the Default Internet to people with bad intentions.
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16 Dec 20
It's not pro-harassment to say that a lot of harassing speech is protected by the First Amendment. It's just true. Saying that something is speech doesn't mean it's harmless, doesn't mean it's trivial, doesn't mean it's OK. It just means that it's speech.
If I say that most of what constitutes stochastic terrorism is 1A-protected speech, I'm not saying that I don't think it's a big deal or even that it shouldn't be stopped. But if you just pass laws against it, they're going to get shredded the first time they restrain someone.
Even if you think that speech *shouldn't* be protected, it *is.* If you want to effectively curb it with legal action, you can't just pretend like this massive Constitutional hurdle doesn't exist! Because it does!
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8 Dec 20
Hey, y'all! Many of you have followed me for my post-election litigation snark, hopefully you all know I'm not a lawyer

However, you don't have to be a lawyer to understand some basic things about the US court system, so with that mind: let's talk about state vs. federal court.
Specifically, let's talk about jurisdiction! Jurisdiction, roughly, is the power a court has over parties or issues.

There's a popular perception that federal court is "the boss" of state court, and that's just not true -- except for a few circumstances where it is.
Some courts are courts of "general jurisdiction," meaning they can hear any kind of issue -- civil, criminal, large, small, what have you.

Some courts are courts of "limited jurisdiction," meaning they can only hear certain kinds of cases.
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12 Mar 20
Greetings from the future of COVID-19! I live in Seattle near the epicenter of this outbreak; patient US0 and the vast majority of the US deaths have been within 5 miles of my house. We’ve been on social distancing for about ten days. Here is what y’all need to be doing NOW.
This isn’t a thread about panic, or purchases. It’s about process and preparedness. My family had to make a lot of decisions in chaos that would have been better made in calm. You have more information and can do better!
When the tipping point comes, it will come quickly — from “really?” to “maybe” to “soon” to “now” took us less than 48 hours, and probably should have been 24. This means any process you can’t complete end-to-end in 12 hours needs to be finished before you think you’ll need it.
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