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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I haven't seen how these questions were asked, but I must say I'm a bit dubious endcitizensunited.org/latest-news/pr…
Why does "For the People" poll 15 points higher than COVID relief in West Virginia?
LOL this is amazing

I realize pollsters try to get to people's "true beliefs", but the truth is that beliefs aren't held in a vacuum and a lot of political decision making is cultural. The second you put "Democrats are proposing. ." or mention Black people in this question, you'll change the results

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10 Jun
This is a horrendous policy change from @UHC. In many health situations, patients are unable to know just how urgently they need care &/or have no other choice than to go to the ER. If UHC wants to improve preventative care, they should focus on incentives, not ER disincentives
My first thought was of people who experience extreme abdominal pain. This could be indicative of an ovarian cyst, which, if untreated, could lead to loss of an ovary &/or fallopian tube. This new policy could lead people to not seek urgent care in such cases
And how is a patient to know one way or another? How is the retroactive decision made by @UHC? If a person goes to the ER w/ abdominal pain & it IS an ovarian cyst, is that "urgent" enough? What if it turns out to not be a cyst, but the patient had no way of knowing?
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8 Jun
I recently moved to rural PA & I'll say that you just don't understand rural white America unless you've lived here. Blue Lives Matter signs are everywhere & I've been asked about my ethnicity at least 5 times (I'm white). People look at me like they *know* I'm not from here.
I'm not saying this to be judgmental. People typically warm up to me once they start talking to me. It still feels bizarre to be treated like a foreigner inside the United States.
So, yeah, I see some folks on the left talking about a leftist revolution in West Virginia and I'm like. . . .yeah, that is not happening anytime soon. These cultural-political divides are *deep*. There are long term strategies to mitigate them, though
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7 Jun
This is just how scientists talk. "It is inconsistent with evolutionary theory" *only* entails 1. they have a theoretical model concerning viral evolution & 2. there are features of this virus that did not match that theory. This happens in biology & other sciences *all* the time
Andersen went on to research the unique features of the virus and then their theory evolved. There is no conspiracy here. Andersen's letter to Nature Medicine explains their thought process. nature.com/articles/S4159…

Go onto google scholar. Read some of the articles on viruses, genomes, classification, etc. Scholars are tweaking their models & their data analyses *all the time*. Researchers spend their entire careers arguing about the classification of specific viruses & evolutionary models
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6 Jun
We live in a society that is permeated with racism and sexism. If you do something that is perceived as racist or sexist, it's not on POC or women to prove your intent.

Bias is not extraordinary.

It is ordinary.

If you transcend it, it's on you to prove you are an exception.
I'm not saying that every accusation of sexism is true. But folks need to stop acting as if these are extraordinary claims. If you ask "How dare you accuse me of sexism?" you are basically asking "How dare you accuse me of participating in a system that everyone participates in?"
POC don't need to prove you are subtly racist in a racist society, nor do women need to prove you are subtly sexist. Identifying behavior as subtly racist or sexist is identifying an *ordinary* behavior. One that happens all the time. Not an extraordinary behavior.
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6 Jun
I think it's good that Schumer is going to take the filibuster fight more public, but I think he should consider also focussing on issues that would put more specific pressure on Manchin (e.g. issues white rural people like), such as prescription drug pricing + Medicare
Manchin being a roadblock in prescription drug costs and/or even slightly lowering the Medicare age would get press in West Virginia. It would also likely get press in Arizona. Make at least part of the fight about what will create heat in Manchin & Sinema's home states.
Prescription drug costs are one of the #1 issues among voters. The House passed a bill on Medicare negotiations, but the gloriously bipartisan Senate sat on it under McConnell. Schumer should elevate this & similar battles.
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5 Jun
This Chomsky passage is kind of funny, but it's also pretty offensive. Chomsky will happily use the genocide of indigenous people w/in current U.S. borders to "whatabout" other genocides, but is apparently unconcerned about the history of indigenous people w/in Mexican borders
"recognize it. recognize what we did."

Dude, you just listed a bunch of cities that are not in Arizona & have *Spanish* names. What does that tell you?

Also gotta wonder what happened to the indigenous population of Arizona when the Mexican government placed bounties on scalps
Anyway, I'm not trying to offer any defense of the United States. I'm trying to say there seems to be a very selective concern about genocide and oppression here. The Spanish were terrible & it's not like the Mexican state was known for its humanitarianism in the 19th century.
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