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14 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I dunno making fun of people who eat at the most popular restaurant in the country might not be the path to higher vaccination rates.
There’s a narrow path to thread here; vax refusers are in fact doing bad and destructive things, but they’re doing so at the behest of pundits who revel in mobilizing culture war tropes.
@McDonalds could do a lot worse than “show your vaccination card, get a free McRib.”
For my own part, I’m a huge fan of the McRib *and* I started participating in a vaccine trial back in December.

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By 2007 we knew he was fond of pro bono defenses of white supremacists, that he enjoyed writing racist screeds about immigrants, and that he had supported the Iraq War. It was also around that time that he began to get VERY interested in the Thoughts of Ron Paul.
I mean, you had to TRY HARD to not see who he was. He was very straightforward about it!

But hey, a lotta folks were willing to put in that effort.
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@mattyglesias This is not a marginal case that requires careful delineation. Glenn has a long and distinguished career of focusing negative attention upon individuals in order to either drive them from the public sphere or sharply reduce their willingness to engage.
@mattyglesias In this context it is fully justified to refer to his activity as harassment, even if it does not rise to either the legal definition or the platform terms of service definition.
@mattyglesias Glenn is a man who viciously attacks people that he disagrees with, usually in moralistic terms intended to generate follow on attacks by his followers. This does not make him a criminal, but it does make him a sadistic asshole who should be shunned.
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I cannot stop watching Jackson's Kong movie in spite of myself.
It's beautiful and absurd and indulgent and meta and dumb and it goes on forever, which is somehow appropriate to the subject matter.
Also "An independent air force could have killed the ape three times as fast."- Billy Mitchell, probably.
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And very briefly on this final bit from the anti-anti-Trump left; the idea is that serious investigation of collusion between Russia and the Trump administration would somehow benefit "corporate power," which is generally associated with the defense industrial base.
In its most crude, "Lockheed Martin wants likes the Russia investigation because it creates a new Cold War which means more F-35s." This was based on the apparent belief that Russia drives some significant portion of US defense spending.
As anyone familiar with force planning and the budget could have mentioned, the foreign (as opposed to internal) driver of the defense budget is China, and it has been for 15 years or so. The reason is that China poses a much more significant military threat than Russia.
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