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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The prosecutor (a Dem) is also advocating reform to Michigan gun laws. That's a reasonable enough policy debate, but what's not reasonable is slapping the "terrorism" label on an easily-prosecutable crime for no good reason other than to heighten its political/emotional salience
I also don't agree with commenters saying the Waukesha attack should be automatically labeled "terrorism," unless you favor "terrorism" just becoming this tit-for-tat catch-all term for crimes that seem extra bad. There are plenty of laws on the books to prosecute both suspects
This debate seems like an extension of "hate crime" law where someone's alleged internal bias is said to heighten the wrongness of their violent acts -- so a murder is somehow worse if the perpetrator thinks "hateful" thoughts. Except now they're throwing "terrorism" in the mix
OK then, let's just declare everything under the sun "terrorism" -- sounds like a great plan. And if you don't agree, you support school shooters. Funny how people like this end up reconstituting the logic of Dick Cheney, except more extreme

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3 Dec
Twitter purged a large number of accounts last night, coinciding with their announcement of a campaign against "state-linked information operations." But they appear to acknowledge at least some of these accounts were "real." Raising the question of how they define "state-linked" Image
If you don't think the "states" chosen as the target of their campaign has a political purpose, you're dreaming. (Note that these are only the states they choose to publicly "disclose.") Of course no US actor would ever dare launch any "state-linked information operation" Image
Imagine if they banned US accounts for "amplifying support of the government and its official narratives" in some kind of coordinated fashion. What a joke

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3 Dec
How the Biden Family Gets Away With an Enormous Amount of Sleaze mtracey.substack.com/p/how-the-bide…
Spoiler alert: one reason they get away with it is because the great book-buying frenzy of 2016-2020 has dissipated, such that @SchreckReports' info-loaded Biden book doesn't generate anything close to the same amount of attention as a million garbage-quality Trump books did
Take a look at the NYT best-sellers list from July 2020 -- it's impossible to parody book-reading liberals
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30 Nov
Is @TwitterSafety barring the posting of photos taken at public events, so long as "activists" or "women" can claim they've endured "emotional harm" by the photos being posted?
There's ostensibly a carve-out in the rule for "public interest," but of course it's now up to Twitter moderators to determine when media of this kind "adds value to public discourse" and when it doesn't -- an extremely vague standard that I'm sure will be enforced "equitably"
Twitter just made this clarification (which they strangely forgot to include in the post announcing the policy) but caveats it as applying "generally" to "large-scale protests" -- so we'll have to see how that works in practice 🙄
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28 Nov
Being struck by a vehicle on a bridge: bad

Opening fire on the bridge in response: ???????
Here's a video. Seems like a heck of a lot of shots fired in a lane crowded with cars
Police have plenty of resources to apprehend suspects, which they eventually did in this instance. But a lot of people seem to take great pleasure in the state bypassing all due process and just executing suspects on the spot

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26 Nov
Alright the "Get Back" documentary is, as expected, a goldmine. For decades, Beatles junkies could only dream of seeing this footage. To give just one example, you watch them literally introduce and work out the structure of "Let it Be" in real-time, complete with amusing banter
The mythology that John + Paul were at each other's throats during this period just gets exploded when you see their enthusiastic collaboration, constant jokes, low-key cheeky demeanor, etc. They always said the "feud" narrative was largely a media creation and now there's proof
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24 Nov
How AOC "Emotionally Manipulated" The Entire Democratic Party To Do Her Bidding mtracey.substack.com/p/how-aoc-emot…
Few seemed to notice, but the censure resolution passed in the House last week at AOC's behest was the first time in 100 years that a censure was issued to punish speech. AOC's whole paradigm now dictates what is officially deemed by Congress to be "indecent and obscene" speech
Trying to popularize this saying on Twitter. "The drama is the point." Maybe the Atlantic will let me write a histrionic essay coining it
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