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@wanyeburkett
Jan 12 • 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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May 17
I think it’s difficult for progressives to conceptualize that I feel about the BLM riots basically the same way they feel about January 6, which is to say that anybody who winked in their direction, anybody who offered anything except a full throated and categorical condemnation, anybody who wants to do anything except arrest and prosecute the people who participated, etc., etc., is to my mind completely disqualified from consideration for office. And, further, anybody who did not categorically denounce their colleagues who winked and nodded and excused the riots is similarly disqualified from public office.

I knew the sensible liberal view is supposed to be that Democrats didn’t support the riots, silly, but I think if you look at the standard I’ve laid out here you’ll find that it disqualifies quite a lot of the Democratic Party.
This is just basically the liberal standard for January 6. You’re supposed to say that it was the worst thing that ever happened, qualify that in no way, and call out any member of your party who supports anybody who doesn’t do that.

That’s how I feel about the riots.
To my mind you literally have to say, “the protests at the courthouse outside the George Floyd trial were an attempt to subvert the normal functioning of the criminal justice system via intimidation.” You literally have to say that, like, literally those words and then add, “and anybody who cannot bring themselves to say that is disqualified from public office.”

I am willing to talk about January 6 with anybody who can do that.
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May 17
Reminder: we should spend significant resources inundating kids with pro-capitalist propaganda throughout the entirety of their schooling
We should do this with clear eyes and full hearts, secure in the knowledge that we are correct and our way of life is superior to all alternatives.
Children should be taught that communism is bad the same way we teach them that smoking crack is bad. We do not give a full hearing to the crack-smoking way of life. We do not present it as a viable alternative. We argue that it is worse and we explain why and we strongly encourage them to adopt a non-crack-smoking lifestyle.
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May 17
It took me a long time to realize that communists really do have these extraordinarily stupid emotional reactions to ordinary reciprocal relationships. Like, I just couldn’t get it for the longest time, but eventually I just had to accept that, no, they really do feel these emotions for some reason.

Like, they enter into the same kinds of transactions that you and I do every day, but they feel extremely used and abused and manipulated by them. It’s absurd and childish and embarrassing, but in some sense I guess they can’t help it that those are the specific emotions they feel every time they trade with another person.

This is why you can’t really fight communists with “facts and logic.“ It really has nothing to do with it. What you have to understand is that when they engage in ordinary kinds of trade, they walk away feeling resentful and manipulated and taken advantage of.

That’s just how they feel.

It’s probably an atavistic, vestigial emotion that was functional and adaptive when we lived in small tribes and some certain percentage of the population is unable to filter those feelings through the realities of modernity.

It’s kind of sad in a way. They feel these strong emotions, which were adapted for a time and place that no longer exists and there’s nothing they can do about it. They have to spend their entire lives fighting for the stupidest possible economic arrangements, because they are a slave to obsolete emotional reflexes.
Like, just try to imagine that, say, being greeted on the street felt like an insult to you. Really try to put yourself in that frame of mind. You’re walking down the street in the morning on your way to work and somebody says hello and emotionally it feels like an insult. You’re upset by it. You feel embarrassed. You feel hurt and attacked.

And you have to imagine in this scenario that you really, truly, earnestly believe that it is an insult. And so you would try to convince everybody you know to stop letting people greet them in the street. Don’t you feel insulted? Don’t you realize you’re being demeaned, abused? How can you let people treat you this way? You’re being walked all over!

This is actually how communists feel about markets and ordinary reciprocal relationships. They feel extremely insulted, demeaned, and take advantage of by a scenario that does not remotely justify those emotions.

But there’s nothing they can do about it! They feel those emotions! They can’t logic themselves out of it.
That’s why you see so many sentiments like this from communists.

“Just look around! Don’t you see that these people greeting you in the street are actually insulting you! All you have to do is open your eyes and look at it!”

It couldn’t be more obvious to them, because they have no choice but to feel these overwhelming emotions about ordinary activity that doesn’t bother you at all.
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May 15
I am listening to Matthew Yglesias’s podcast and he’s going through this thing where he’s saying that he can’t understand why anybody would care that Joe Biden is old, can’t see how it matter, and that it just seems to him like a disingenuous, fake complaint. This is just, man — I actually find it really difficult to express how this makes me feel in a way that isn’t knee-jerk reactionary. Like, stuff like this makes me want to vote for Donald Trump just as kind of a fuck you. I’m not saying that’s a good emotion. In fact, I’m saying that it’s something I have to actively resist. But I’m also saying that that’s my genuine, emotional reaction to that kind of talk.
I think Mathew Yglesias is extremely smart and I also think he’s honest, so if he says he can’t see why this would matter to anyone, then I’m inclined to believe him. Like, I’m inclined to believe that he has gotten himself to that position.

What else do you think is true is that it’s an extremely silly thing to believe.
On some level it’s just like, I kind of don’t know what else to say except that when I look at Joe Biden move around in the physical world and move his lips to make sounds he seems extraordinarily feeble and degenerate and incapable. Like, what these people seem to want to say is, ”nuh-uh, he’s not those things!”

And it’s just like, again, I kind of just don’t know what to tell you other than that that’s exactly how he appears to me. That is my honest assessment of how he appears. That is what he looks like to me when he moves through the world as a human being. You can say that he doesn’t look like that to you, and then I guess I’m just forced to repeat for the 50th time that that’s what he looks like to me.
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May 15
She's literally saying that those stereotypically black traits and behaviors are not what makes somebody black.

This is further evidence for something that always amazes me with progressives. They would much rather look stupid than appear to violate any social justice taboo.
I'm willing to consider that maybe they're just actually that stupid.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this isn't ambiguous and there aren't two ways of looking at it. I am correct. I understand what she's trying to say and the guy I'm quote tweet either does not or is pretending he does not. If this were a paragraph of text on the ACT and you were charged with answering questions about it, then there would be a correct answer and an incorrect answer and my interpretation of her statement would correspond with the correct answer and his interpretation would not.
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May 13
These claims are getting bolder and bolder — this person is claiming a direct link between the size of this truck and “huge numbers” of parking lot deaths — but they’re never accompanied with data, which as far as I know doesn’t exist
I have never seen data for pedestrian fatalities broken out by vehicle type/size. I’m not even sure it exists. They’re just making it up.
I have no trouble believing that larger vehicles are having an effect at the margin, but pedestrian deaths are mostly a) drunk people stepping out into the street at night; b) getting run over by an ordinary sedan is more than enough to kill you and you can’t be extra dead.

These trucks are probably having a small effect on the numbers.
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