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@politicalmath
Jun 2, 2025 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I am becoming slowly radicalized by this

I have lefty friends who have said without qualification that Elon Musk is an anti-Semite and a Nazi but then their response to the actual racially targeted murder of Jews is "hey guys, this isn't helping"
They're not vocally pro-Jew-murder. They just kind of shuffle uncomfortably in their seats b/c they're smart enough to know that this violence is being fed by their rhetoric but they don't think they should be held responsible for it.
Which, to be fair, I don't think they should be held responsible for it either

At least I didn't. But you cannot have it both ways. You can't say that Team A engages in dog whistles and Nazi salutes but Team B deserves the benefit of the doubt

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Mar 31
A few days ago, I asked @JeremiahDJohns where the data from this chart came from.

I dug around and found out. It turns out that, surprise surprise, the data was tortured to produce this result.

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No, FEMA is not screwing blue states. The OpenFEMA data has been carefully manipulated, boiling 2,500 disaster declarations down to a set of 45 data points that would push the narrative that Politico wanted to push

marginallycompelling.com/p/fema-is-not-…Image
Every time a complex data set that is reduced to a "red vs blue" narrative, it's a red flag for data manipulation

I tried to demonstrate how one could get vastly different results just by changing the definition of "red" and "blue"

Depending on your definition, you could spin a narrative of a Biden-led FEMA that was rejecting red states at 3X the rate of blue statesImage
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Feb 4
Not 3 years ago, the AMA said that gender surgeries for minors was "medically necessary care" and demanded that states permit it

Now they say "whoopsie". We are ruled by "whoopsie" institutions.
Here is the link. The AMA specifically said that "gender-affirming surgeries" must be allowed or there would be suicides

ama-assn.org/press-center/a…
Here is the text, in case they decide to memory-hole this particular incident of politically driven medical nonsense Image
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Jan 20
Oh look, another high-profile anti-homeschooling article

There is a 100% chance that this article will cite the Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE), which is an organization started by angry atheist ex-homeschoolers
I found out about CRHE b/c I went to college with one of the founders. The org basically emails journalists and says "you should write an article about how bad home schooling is, we will help you write it".

Then the "journalists" write the article that the CRHE requested.
It is so reliable, it's astonishing. Every single freaking time. Every single freaking article. Their "expert" is ALWAYS someone from the CRHE.

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Nov 16, 2025
Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live Image
Ebert was a gem and I will never hear a word against him. He loved movies. He loved stupid movies and brilliant movies. He loved trash and genius. He loved watching directors pour their heart out onto the screen, even if they failed.
"Ebert was a woke lib" I don't give a shit

Ebert is the guy who pointed me to @MarkSteynOnline b/c he saw that Steyn was a good movie critic. Ebert recognized that in Steyn b/c Ebert wasn't a hack. He was a hard-core liberal but he knew movies and he respected them.
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Oct 1, 2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates and I agree that there is a line. When people cross the line, conversation between the two sides is no longer possible. That line for both of us is the dehumanization of others.

For me, that means celebrating their death, believing that the world is a better place without them

For Coates, that means "hurling epitaphs" at people

youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?si…
This is *extremely* instructive

My hard line is you have to believe that the world is better if I am alive

Coates' hard line is that you have to use the proper pronouns. Coates' hard line is "my team has to win or you are beyond saving"
In the Ezra Klein interview, Coates plainly says that the vast majority of the right is on "the other side of the line"

I say it is only those who celebrate murder (which all my favorite liberals tell me that is a tiny fraction of the left)

This is good to know
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Sep 18, 2025
OK @CatoInstitute , we need to have a talk

I'm looking into the data source for this chart, which was used by @Time magazine.

Time links to this Cato article on politically motivated violence

cato.org/blog/political…
I read through it, scan down to a table where I'd like to investigate the source. I click "Get the data" and I get... the same table, but in Excel format

Give me a break. That's just sloppy.
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