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9 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The first ever terrifying episode of SNL $DOGE

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I’m gonna sell at
I’m gonna sell at
I don’t
I’m gonna hold
A bump on Elon’s decent German accent
wired.com/story/dogecoin…
Bump on Comic Sans
Ours becomes this on Tuesday no matter what

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8 May
To Facebook, democratically elected public servants have authority only insofar as they are “influencers” in its rigged rapacious game. wired.com/story/trump-ab…
At this point the authority of the Grand Theft Auto leaderboard seems more legitimate.
GTA is less hackable & not primarily a data-gouging enterprise.
Read 4 tweets
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6 May
One the most striking things about @davidmweissman’s story is how much his political transformation improved his mental & physical health, relationships & prospects in life.

It’s American pragmatism at its best: Worldviews take hold when they come with practical rewards.
In pragmatic terms, a sign of a short shelflife for current far-right views is that they’re highly inelegant (see: the gibberish of QAnon), risky & lawless (see: the Big Lie), and potentially deadly (see: anti-mask/vax).

Even if they’re initially exciting, they’re unsustainable
And, of course, it’s an enormous cognitive strain to believe and circulate lies.
Read 5 tweets
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4 May
Watched Inherit the Wind (1960) last night which led me to try to understand the real Scopes trial (1925) again. Amazing how clearly it set the terms for the modern-day culture wars.
A Tennessee state rep named John Washington Butler created the Butler Act b/c he heard kids were coming home from school saying they didn’t believe in God. He figured they must be being taught atheism somehow—or that their parents were rubes, or that God was dead, or something.
But they weren’t. All of the teachers, more or less, were practicing Christians. Like Darwin, the teachers probably would have said they “believed in God” but really didn’t teach about theism OR atheism in school. Sundays for religion. Weekdays for civics.
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27 Apr
This country will flourish only when we all collectively withdraw from the culture-war bloodsports.
It’s absurd listening to recordings of Jerry Falwell Sr from the 60s ranting and raving like a lunatic about pornography, drugs, leftists, Blacks, gays, feminists, intellectuals, communists, universities, secularists, Satan.

But he sounds like Bill Barr. Jordan Peterson. QAnon.
Sounds like Fox News every single minute since it launched 24 years ago.
Read 8 tweets
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21 Apr
Four developments in one year have introduced a disconcerting squishiness to the whole notion of taxes. (Of all things.)

1. The confirmation that self-styled billionaires like the former president just don't pay them.
2. With the relief and infrastructure bills, the introduction of a monetary policy not predicated on taxes & budgets.
3. No protests among even conservative economists about these things.
Read 5 tweets
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19 Apr
And 69% approval rate for one Joe Biden.

Maybe White House victories have less to do with hinky “culture wars” than we’ve been told?
Maybe politics are downstream from public health?
...or good government?
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