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Jan 12, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Progressives: "Criminals steal because they lack opportunity, because they have no choice"

Criminal: "Actually I am dumb and impulsive like baby"
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Progressives: "Criminals steal because they cannot get honest work"

Criminal: "I ain't working no fucking job. Ain't nobody got time for that." Image
Progressives: "Criminals steal because they have nothing. It's that simple. They don't have the money and they need it."

Criminals: "How much money I'm holding has nothing to do with it." Image
Progressives: "Criminals are behaving rationally given their economic circumstances"

Criminals: "It literally couldn't be less planned out or more impulsive." Image
Progressives: "If criminals had more resources they would not commit crimes"

Criminals: "My desire for easy money is limitless" Image
Progressives: "You can't blame criminality on the choices of the offenders. They are put in a situation where they have no choice."

Criminals: "Our stupid bullshit is always putting us in positions where we commit even more crimes." Image
Progressives: "Criminals are motivated by need and privation."

Criminals: "We are motivated by petty resentment." Image
Progressives: "Criminals are no different form you and me. They steal because they have to."

Criminals: "It's a rush thing. It's a thrill. I don't know, it's just in me to do this stuff." Image
Progressives: "Criminals are forced by circumstances into a life of crime."

Criminals: "Hurting people is hilarious." Image
You should read the paper. It's short, but it says more about criminals behavior than a million progressive treatises on crime.

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Feb 8
This is a sleight of hand tactic designed to make reasonable people look unreasonable. Like maybe I’m just a weirdo who can’t live near other people. Maybe I’m motivated by irrational hatred. Maybe I go to get my mail in the morning and accidentally see a minority and start throwing up and ranting and raving, because I just can’t stand to live around people who are different.

This is all absurd. It’s not real. Almost nobody is actually like that. I get along with people from other places and cultures just fine. I really quite like every minority or immigrant I’ve ever lived near or worked with.

I understand that the United States is already significantly multicultural and that that isn’t likely to change. I don’t think immigration is ever going to go to zero, nor should it.

It’s just a fake, ridiculous caricature that has to stand in for real argument, because people like Noah know that associating reasonable views about demographic replacement with these kinds of weird interpersonal deficiencies has long been an effective tactic.

But this is a fundamentally dishonorable way to argue.
We’re in a period of pretty intense political and social upheaval that also happens to be on the eve of really unprecedented technological change. It’s a great moment to be careful about doing rapid demographic change. There’s nothing unreasonable about that. People who think about these things aren’t weirdos who don’t like their neighbors. They aren’t for the most part incapable of living near other people or motivated by resentment or hatred.

It’s just not true.
Life is of course much easier for my opponents if they can turn me and people like me into cartoon characters.

Many people will jump at that chance, because it is easier, because it means that you don’t have to make real arguments.

I can only hope that reasonable people in the middle see through it.
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Feb 3
It’s important to pause every once in a while and reflect on the fact that this is what passes for really smart liberalism. There are more people in New York, so they should get to decide the direction of the country. People thousands of miles away in smaller states should just deal with this, because they’re less important. The compromises that led to the status quo are somehow completely irrelevant today.

There are no important cultural or organizational principles that conflict with this outlook. It’s all very simple and totally stable and produces no interesting downsides.
There’s this huge hand wave where you go, “OK, so assume we have a totally different tradition, states aren’t real, federalism isn’t important, and there were no compromises that led to the status quo” — OK, now don’t you agree that the popular vote is the only fair method for selecting the president?

I guess that’s true! If I ignore everything that’s actually true about how our country was intentionally organized and forget about all the reasons that we chose federalism and also agree that states are completely fictional entities that don’t matter at all, then your argument does seem stronger!
I’ll tell you one thing, if I were a European I would be screaming from the rooftops that this is what the European Union will lead to, as well. Over time people will forget why the compromises were agreed to, they’ll start to wonder why there need to be states at all, everything will ultimately submit to a central authority.
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Feb 1
This is the line you always get in response to this, but all it does is demonstrate an inability to understand the actual point.

* I mostly want Republican policies

* Democrats say that the *man* who represents those policies is so bad that I should instead choose the party whose policies I do not want

* So I’m already in a bad position, because I don’t want *your* policies. You’ve gotta give me a good reason to believe that I’d be smart to tolerate them, anyway.

* Instead, Democrats did the opposite and got *way more extreme*

I *do* have agency. I’m using that agency to *reject* you.

Imagine how bad you think Trump is. Well I like you even less than that.
No, I definitely chose it. However bad Donald Trump is, I think your morals, your ideas, your plan for the country is objectively far, far worse. I am explicitly rejecting you. I explicitly chose him over you. I couldn’t possibly be more clear about this.

The message in the tweet is that I may have been willing to tolerate your very stupid ideas for four years if it helped avoid a Trump disaster. But your party responded to that by behaving even crazier than normal, to the point where I wasn’t even willing to do that. You need to understand that I was holding my nose, because I find you repulsive, and considering if maybe I could possibly stomach you for four years. And in response you smeared shit and piss all over your body and convinced me that, no, actually, I cannot tolerate you under any circumstances.

Please, I’m begging you to understand this as an explicit rejection of you and everything you stand for.
Frankly, I find this entire debate to be extremely childish and uninteresting and I can’t believe we’re still having it. It doesn’t matter how bad of a person any individual candidate is personally, there is for everybody a policy threshold beyond which they will not consider the other side.

The personal details just literally don’t matter beyond that policy threshold. There’s some threshold beyond which they just don’t matter.

What people are saying when they reference the sprint to the left isn’t that the Democrats, “made me vote for Trump,” whatever that means. What they’re saying is that they chose policies that were beyond that threshold.

This isn’t complicated or weird. In fact, it’s a logic that literally everybody understands and that literally everybody agrees is true, whether they’re willing to say it in response to me or not. Literally everybody thinks there is a policy platform beyond which you would roll the dice with the asshole.

I believe this is so obviously true that anybody who denies it is either completely out of touch with their own feelings on this matter, willfully ignorant, or possibly just retarded.
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Jan 31
I was this kind of voter in 2016. I took it very seriously. The left had a real opportunity at that moment to be sane and normal and to create a real divide on this issue.

Instead they went insane with social justice nonsense, culminating in peak weakness and riots in 2020. At exactly the moment they were trying to convince the world that they were the same alternative, they went completely nuts.

And then their next “reasonable, normal candidate” let in unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants.

I don’t believe that there are any reasonable candidates, anymore. You had me. And you lost me. For at least right now, it looks like it’s just the bad choice that aligns with my policy preferences, so far as I can tell.

The disconnect here is that the center left still thinks it’s their very reasonable guy against the morally corrupt asshole. But nobody thinks your guy is the reasonable guy, anymore. Nobody thinks that. You completely lost the voters on that front. You had a golden opportunity to be better, and you blew it.

And I just think that’s completely your fault.
You cannot tell the voters that their guy is fundamentally illegitimate and that you represent the normal, sane, steady option, and then leave the border wide open to an unprecedented, record-setting number of illegal border crossings. You lose all credibility when you do that. That just happened! This isn’t ancient history. That’s what just happened the last time your guy won.

The Democrats have no credibility left! And so far as I can tell, they do not take this seriously at all. So why should I?
And that’s to say nothing of the fact that your guy was ultimately a brain dead dementia patient and the entire administration lied about it! I mean, can you even understand how discrediting that is to your claims to be the normal, honest, sane option? It’s just so obvious that you can’t.
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Jan 27
This is not what “high trust” *means*. High trust is not something that you can personally manifest. It doesn’t care about your emotional reaction to events. You cannot instantiate a high trust society by being nicer and nicer and nicer in the face of fraud and theft and graft.
You drop a wallet that contains your ID and some cash on the street. And then something happens to that wallet. What happens to that wallet determines whether you live in a high trust society.

It doesn’t matter how you feel about it. It doesn’t matter that you’re OK with the fact that you lost some cash, because maybe the person who found it needed it more anyway. It doesn’t matter that you’re willing to go back and drop more wallets in the street. Nothing hinges on whether you’re upset about what happens to the wallet.

You measure the society by what happens to the wallet, not by your emotional reaction to the wallet, not by your ability to ignore what happened to the wallet.

Again, this is a matter of basic definitions. This is just the very most basic thing to understand about this term if you’re going to insist on discussing it.
That is, of course, unless the way you use language is fundamentally political, instrumental, manipulative, and disconnected from the real meanings of words.

But surely nobody would ever engage in that kind of behavior.
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Jan 13
It getting harder and harder to live with the fact that so many of my fellow citizens imagine themselves to be my moral superiors Image
I know who you people are. You’ve been my friends and neighbors and coworkers. And what you are, more than anything else, is just so fucking average and unremarkable and unexceptional. You don’t know anything that other people don’t know. You don’t have access to better information. You aren’t kinder or more ethical. You’re completely average and uninteresting.

And the fact that you think otherwise is becoming genuinely intolerable.
Post after post in my Facebook feed from people contemplating cutting off family over their opinions on this ICE shooting, as though they are kings on a throne, arms out stretched, deciding who lives and who dies, who gets access to their presence. Will the thumb go up or down? We’re all on the edge of our seats waiting to see who gains the approval of these utter mediocrities.

It’s all so pathetic and narcissistic and embarrassing.
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