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Todd of Mischief
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As René Descartes said to Billie Eilish, “I’m not your friend.” | Don’t let the headline do your thinking. | aspiring nano-celebrity | I/me/my
Jul 18 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Everyone’s talking about the alleged Trump birthday letter to Epstein. But before we accept its existence as proof of anything, let’s consider how easily such a document could be fabricated — even in 2003. 🧵

1/ Image Let’s start with the alleged content. The letter reads like a surrealist dialogue between two Bond villains. It’s abstract, poetic, and weirdly restrained — not remotely how Trump talks or writes.

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Nov 20, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The amount of attention given to trans and nonbinary homicide would lead one to think that this population faces a level of violence beyond what any other group contends with. However, the very opposite is true. They are, in fact, the most protected in America. Keep reading.

1/ The US Census Bureau finds 2.6% of the population identifies as trans or nonbinary, about 8.7 million people. Compared to The Human Rights Campaign's count of 36 homicides, that is a rate of 0.41 per 100,000, a mere fraction of the national rate of 7.1.
usafacts.org/articles/what-…
Aug 19, 2024 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@Gitabushi Hmm, the post-Katrina Kanye West line "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" needs this context to be properly understood. West at the time was describing a particular kind of care, direct, overt action. You may have noticed, the left talks often about direct action. @Gitabushi What West meant, and what I suspect is often meant by such sentiments, is that Republicans do not personally attend to certain groups. This may be tinged by an assumption that they do attend to other groups.
Jul 17, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Cancel culture is losing a scholarship because you sang a hard-r along with your favorite rapper on TikTok.

Cancel culture is having your food-truck review-bombed because you decided to learn how to make authentic tortillas in Mexico. Cancel culture is your employer receiving threats because you posted something from your vacation about how different the culture is in another part of the world.

Cancel culture is getting mobbed for wearing a sombrero on Cinco de Mayo.
Feb 22, 2024 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
.@Gitabushi Here is a perfect example 🧵 of the consequences of the type of education you’ve described where, instead of teaching critical thinking, students are taught to look for the twist. This has been going on for awhile. I don’t have as clear a recollection of any particular exercise, but I’ve been familiar with this type of ruse since grade school, also.
Aug 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The "Trump brought this on himself" argument fails because of course anyone who aims to root out official corruption is going to bring corrupt officialdom down on themselves. It's like the old children's riddle about the two barbers who share a shop. One has a good haircut, the other a bad one. Who do you choose to cut your hair?
Nov 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Guys, heads up. See the logo in the bottom right? IPG. Ever heard of it? Probably not. That’s because 1) they don’t actually advertise to consumers, 2) they are a holding agency that owns ad agencies. Because IPG is at minimum twice removed from any consumer advertising, it’s a little tough to know which agencies, let alone which brands, they are behind. I know from memory that IPG is behind GM, L'Oreal, and Mondelēz—maybe behind them all.
Sep 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Quick media-literacy lesson. I am, of course, not suggesting the press spun up owning a cartoon on DVD as possessing foreign nuclear intelligence. I'm just demonstrating a habit that I recommend when consuming the news. Really consider the way ideas are stated and, rather than jump to the most likely meaning—which is the best practice in a one-on-one or small group conversation—instead try to think of the least likely thing the same phrase could mean.
Sep 7, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
We now find out that the “nuclear secrets” aren’t even ours. Note the cautious wording. Never is it said that the documents containing nuclear information were the restricted ones. Juxtaposition to make you think something never said was said. Be careful out there. Moreover, the type of “nuclear capabilities” is unstated. The audience is supposed to think weapons, but in an era where energy sources are hotly debated, it could likely be about some nation’s power grid. There’s so much innuendo here, I wonder how a fact could hope to slip in?
Sep 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Jan 6 was “about” overthrowing democracy. The programming is complete. To elaborate, both sides of the argument over what occurred in the 2020 presidential election, culminating with the events of January 6, 2021, base their claims in democracy.

One side holds the election was fair, the other disagrees.
Aug 18, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I'm viewing the absolutely incredible Sam Harris interview where he says to the rest of us what leftists normally only say amongst themselves.

good stuff starts at about 33:30

What stuns me is how clearly terrified he still is of Trump, even now 🧵

To be honest, I never really thought about what causes the Terror of Trump in his detractors so much, but when I just did, I think it immediately came to me.
May 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
@Herr_Lipp @wahlstedt007 *sigh*

Firearms technology was advanced well beyond the musket by the time the Framers drafted the Bill of Rights, and even before many of them were born. For example…

Rifling came into being in 1498. @Herr_Lipp @wahlstedt007 The Kalthoff Repeater was a rifle designed around 1630. The capacity varied between 5 and 30 rounds. A single forward-and-back motion on the trigger guard deposited a ball and load of powder in the breech and cocked the gun. Within 1-2 seconds, it was ready to fire again.
Apr 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fast food as emojis
🤡🍔 - McDonald
🍔👑 - Burger King
🍔👩🏻‍🦰 - Wendy’s
🌮🔔 - Taco Bell
🌮🚽 - Taco John’s
⚓️🍗 - Popeye’s
🏇🐓 - KFC
🤠🥩 - Arby’s
⭐️🍔 - Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr.
❓🍔 - Whataburger
🧀🍦 - Culver’s
⬜️🏰 - White Castle
🦷🍺 - A&W
🦔💨 - Sonic
🌯☠️ - Chipotle 🦬🍗 - Buffalo Wild Wings
🍦👑 - Dairy Queen
🍕🛖 - Pizza Hut
🐴🍕 - Godfather’s Pizza
👺🍕 - Domino’s
🏁🍔 - Checker’s
🇬🇧🎁 - Jack in the Box
5️⃣🧔‍♂️ - Five Guys
📥📤 - In & Out
🏀🍩 - Dunkin’ Donuts
⚓️🐟 - Long John Silver’s
🦞🍴 - Red Lobster
🐼🥢 - Panda Express
Apr 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The point of defining war crimes is so that the winners can justify continuing to kill the losing side's soldiers even after they've given up. @StevenWillcox2 raises a good question.
Apr 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
More often than not, opposing extreme positions don't develop independently from opposite sides. Rather, one side, upon being confronted with the extremity of their own position will craft a strawman defense, asserting that it's their way or something else equally extreme. /1 In this way, both extremes actually originate 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦. What is liable to happen next, however, is that the extreme faction of the other side says, "yeah! great idea!" and adopts the alleged opposite extreme. /2
Apr 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
A good indication that someone is trying to bulk up a flimsy argument is when they repeat the same argument over. "Ambiguous" and "does not precisely define terms" is the same argument twice. In response to Robby's singular objection, it's a principle of statutory interpretation that when a term is not otherwise defined therein, it's to be read by the ordinary meaning. Naturally, ordinary meanings can be vague, but it's here that Robby needs to offer an example.
Apr 5, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
I already responded twice to this thread, but I'm stuck on it.

The things David calls absurd are, to the contrary, more than reasonable reactions to leftist extremism. But he staked his opposition on who rather than what and now he must make absurd contortions to justify it. /1 David puts the charitable reader in the awkward position of having to decide whether he is disingenuous or just dumb. Of course a Parental Rights in Education addresses more than young children! This thing has been on the radar for months! /2
Feb 4, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I swiped this cool meme from @EmersenLee because it can help illustrate a concept I have discussed several times before, which is that in woke parlance, whiteness and blackness have almost nothing to do with skin color. Because I'm a mischievous jerk, I like to often leave it at that. But I do have a solid idea what whiteness and blackness in woke parlance actually have to do with. I promise, I'll get back to the nifty meme. Away we go.
Feb 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The evolution of Twitter's disclaimer tag applied to @roadtoserfdom3's viral tweet. 🧵

In the first iteration, it was simply stated that vaccines work. Put a pin in that.

Strangely, the tag does not address movement licences or public incarceration. These points are ceded. Quickly, I'd point out that "misleading" is not wrong, per se. So Twitter implies that preferring "gene therapy" to "vaccine" insinuates the thing identified does not do what it is meant to. This connotation is not removed, and is only deepened, by insisting on the disputed term.