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Feb 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We need a Xillennial-Zillennial alliance, of people who are just a little too old for Millennial bullshit and people who just are a little too young for Millennial bullshit.
Anyone who was born 1980-1986 or 1997-2003 is in the Xillennial-Zillennial alliance. We must unite against the people whose brains were broken by coming of age between the Great Recession and Trump.
The people in that middle decade shall be known as the Harry Potter Generation
I declare that it is now acceptable to use the word "Potter" as a slur for anyone born from 1987 to 1996

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Feb 17
OK, let's do this. 10 likes = 1 hot take.

(Used to be 1 like = 1 hot take, but...inflation)
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All the usual suspects are jumping all over Lisa Cook's paper from 2014 and pointing out small errors. But Ken Rogoff served on the Fed Board of Governors and I bet you nobody combed over his papers for errors before he was confirmed! And I bet you he made a few.
Econ academia has very little quality control for data errors. When people do comb over papers for mistakes, they generally find them.

newyorker.com/news/john-cass…
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Some folks found one coding error that killed the whole result.

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Feb 16
This is very wrong. 84% of working-age men have a job in America.
And 88% are either employed are looking for work.
The Yahoo article got its number wrong and needs to issue a correction.
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Feb 15
To the people who respond to every horrific murder with "We need better mental health": Please tell me what specific mental disorder you think these murderers have, and what you think the standard of care for that disorder is.
I have met tons of people with mental issues -- depressed people, schizophrenics, people with bipolar disorder -- and I have never met even *one* who had done anything like follow someone into their house and murder them, or who seemed at all likely to do such a thing.
Frankly, it is insulting and stigmatizing to people with mental health issues to say that brutal killers are just struggling with mental health. Most people with mental health issues are very sweet people.
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So, the crisis is Putin's fault, and we must unequivocally support Ukraine's sovereignty, BUT we're also beating the drums of war?

OK Bern, whatevs.
"We must impose severe consequences" if Putin invades...But apparently threatening sanctions, which is now all that we're doing, is beating the war drums...So what severe consequences does Bernie want to threaten??
The entire leftist discourse on Ukraine appears to be premised on the mistaken belief that the U.S. has threatened to go to war over Ukraine, when in fact we have only threatened sanctions.
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