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19 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I think Ben Shapiro is one of the most destructive forces in media today: getting filthy rich from creating a sprawling hothouse of brainless ownlibs outrage and then selling admission to marks who get duped by it.

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sToP cEnSoRiNG c0nsErVaTiVEs!!
More on Daily Wire Conservatism here:
You simply don’t platform a person this contemptuous of reality if you are aiming for truth or to be a force for good in the world. You do it because you want to be rich, or because you have a pathological hatred of liberals, or a combo of the two.
All of these are true:

(1) The Daily Wire is an atrocity of a publication

(2) They should *not* be censored or shut down

(3) Configuring algorithms to favor certain features over others isn't censorship per se, and any well-constructed algo simply wouldn't favor the Daily Wire

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17 Jul
I don’t buy this. Mainly because you could take away all the mistakes the “credentialed” elites have made, just imagine they never happened, and it’s just outlandish to believe that the “Covid kookery” we’ve currently got would be less rampant in such a scenario.
Notice what I’m saying: there certainly were major missteps by elites—but they weren’t causal drivers of the right-wing kookery, nor do they justify its presence in any way.
It’s a good question. I think elite mismanagement is sometimes—like in the case of Covid—epiphenomenal to right-wing distrust. I think the elite worldview itself—mistakes or no—ensured it would be opposed by an ascendant right-wing populism. The mistakes didn’t change anything.
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14 Jul
As someone who has sometimes criticized anti-woke critics for appearing incapable of sizing up the "threat of wokeism" in a measured and proportionate way, I agree with Yang that the "worst excesses" response too often serves to deflect away from legitimate concerns.
Yglesias suggests a focus on "the worst excesses" of the "identity politics left" is not as fruitful as a focus on social policy and its effects. And Yang's response is to recast his focus as really important: as "attending closely to the takeover of public institutions."
Interestingly, a little over a week ago Yang had an Yglesias-like moment ("THAT'S not important, THIS is important") when he downplayed the value of focusing on the Claire Lehmann/Bret Weinstein dispute over Covid and vaccines.
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14 Jul
Can you appreciate how incredible it is that in this universe—right here on planet earth, in fact—a human being exists who actually thinks the United States of America is currently in the grip of a Marxist regime?
R E K T
Had to finesse her for getting my name wrong.
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11 Jul
Few world events would make me happier than to see Cuba's government toppled, its leadership imprisoned, and freedom finally come to its people.
The courage of these people.

Cuba's dictator-in-chief has warned his goons will be "fighting in the streets," ready to "give their lives" to stop the protesters. I hope they get overrun.
Solidarity with the Cuban people who are yearning to be free
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11 Jul
I don’t understand how it’s possible to have the best, most profitable domestic league and be so godawful at producing players who can touch and pass the ball. England is a horror show.
Sterling and Foden can dribble and play, but unless they’re playing some scrub ass team like Sweden, England will not be able to clear 35 or 40 percent possession.
I am rooting for England, but it’s no surprise that it’s the Guardiola players who are the only ones who can play free flowing attacking soccer.
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9 Jul
Weird flex to suggest such an affinity with an unabashed white supremacist’s program that you interpret his deplatforming as a warning you might be next.
<KKK Grand Wizard is assassinated>

<Michael Knowles>: “They are hunting us one by one.”
This is actually a core tenet of Daily Wire conservatism.

When Rush passed, Shapiro wrote an op-ed in the NYT arguing that the vitriol Rush received could've been redirected to any other conservative—in essence reducing conservatism to the antics of a flame-throwing shock jock.
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