Covid-19 Anti-Vaxxer Education Thread:
There is one major misconception at the root of most anti-vax rhetoric I see and hear online and in real life: The idea that viruses work like bacteria. We’re going to tackle this one now.
1/ If I don’t provide a link, it’s due to Twitter character count, so please just use your browser’s search engine.
2/

Thread:
Here’s the speech I wasn’t allowed to finish at yesterday’s @M4M4ALL march in Los Angeles, as promised.
1/4 2/4

The truth as I understand it regarding my not being allowed to finish my speech today at the @M4M4ALL rally in Los Angeles:

I was confirmed as a speaker 6+ weeks ago, thanks to the advocacy of @bigclasstraitor. I was allotted 6-7 min, and I immediately wrote my speech.
1/ About 3 weeks ago, Savage Joy (we don’t get along *because* I criticize Bernie and the Squad—you can search our last interaction on Twitter as proof) had me removed from the docket. Then I had a lot of people fight for me to get me back on the docket, but organizers resisted.
2/

Neither party wants to address the root causes of any problem we face because they rely on these problems to campaign against each other. The best you’ll get from either party are ineffective laws that they’ll try to sell afterward as “helping”.

1/ But the goal isn’t to help us. The goal is to garner and maintain power for their party and its big-money backers.

To appeal to voters, they pass ineffective laws and then launch PR campaigns, while the problem they’re supposedly addressing remains unchanged.
2/

Quick explainer:
I’m a left-wing libertarian.
Right-wing libertarians typically only care about negative liberty, which is about *preventing* (thus, “negative”) the government from interfering in your life. But on the left side of that...
1/ On the left side of libertarianism (which is actually the root of the libertarian concept), we care about negative liberty but also *positive* liberty, which is not just about preventing interference in your life, but actually empowering people to be *able* to live freely.
2/

Thread:
The most difficult thing for our campaign has always been fundraising. The services that provide donor contacts usually cost thousands up front so you have to raise money before you get the contacts to raise money.
#Paradox About a year and a half ago, a campaign volunteer asked a service that supposedly only supports “left wing” candidates, and does it with no money up front, Grassroots Analytics (@grassrootsmath), working with our campaign. They said no because I’m not a Democrat.

Aaaand she’s off! Happy 41st birthday to Erica; the best wife and mom anybody could ask for.

This is a thread of comments I’ve gotten from Trump supporters.

I’m going to be adding to it as time goes on.

Semi-live tweet thread for the #PresidentialDebate2020:

Biden struggling already... The moderator has absolutely no control over Trump.

1/
I know we all like to talk about how we justify this or that position to vote-shamers, but here’s where I’ve stood since 2012:

I believe when we contribute our vote to somebody who harms others, we are complicit and we lose some part of our humanity in doing so. 2/
So I will never, ever vote for a pro-war candidate or party who will do this to other people again (Syria, 2016). It’ll never happen.

https://twitter.com/realstevecox/status/1310446395573239808?s=21

1/37
Police abuse of power is a subject I’ve been passionate about for over a decade. Some people are just now waking up to it, so I'm here to help.

It's time for a (long) thread to explain why police are allowed to kill and abuse civilians with near-impunity in our country: 2/
We don’t know the actual number of civilians killed by police because it’s not even tracked by the Department of Justice/FBI. They track civilian homicides, and officer homicides, but not when a cop kills one of us.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/w…

1/33
ANNOUNCEMENT:
We have a plan to defeat this partisan duopoly that has failed us for decades. The basics are in the attached graphic. @AicilaLewis is the systems person that’s key to this coming together. Follow her. Together, we're going to change the world.
#CoxsArmy 2/33
Despite the need for (and the public support behind) drastic change to how our government operates, nothing changes simply because the status quo works perfectly for the Democratic & Republican Parties, & the lobbyists who fund them. But the status quo doesn’t work for *us*.

The stock market has been overinflated since Obama was in office. It’s a massive bubble. It’s going to burst, not because I want it to, but because it must reflect some sort of reality.

They’ll blame the crash on Bernie’s momentum or presidency (depending on when it comes)...
1/ But that won’t be true. (Shocker.)

But here’s some truth:
A Bernie Sanders presidency is our *only* way to prevent Wall Street from being bailed out again when this all comes crumbling down once more.

Every other candidate will bail them out again.
2/

Regarding parties/politicians, here’s a universal truth:
The only people who want free & fair elections are those who benefit from free & fair elections.

Nobody should be asked to (or shamed into) trusting any voting system. Properly designed electoral systems are trustless.

1/ Trust isn’t required of properly designed electoral systems. If a system *can* be cheated, it *will* be cheated.

Trustless systems are designed to be transparent, inclusive, and neutral.

Any time a system is made more opaque, more exclusive, or more biased, it’s shenanigans.
2/

Lengthy but valuable thread on politics as it should be:

I’m an introvert, so one would correctly assume that politics can be difficult for me. But it gets easier, and as I’ve learned, I’ve gotten better at it, too.
1/ But there are things about politics, especially as an independent, that I approach much differently than run-of-the-mill politicians. The following is an example of such a thing:
2/

@TitusNation Dipshit, I’m an independent who donated $500 to Obama in 2008.

More than half the country owns no stocks whatsoever. If you want me to list some stuff, I will, but you won’t like it.

Ready? The following list are all things he chose to do with no influence from Congress:
1/ @TitusNation 1: Increased funding to militarize police in his first budget by almost 5 times the previous amount.
2/

@brettachapman @MichaelSkolnik @bardblackthorn This is going to come across as a rant, but it’s something I’ve put a ton of thought and research into, so please allow me to get through this:

There are currently between 350 and 650 million guns here, depending on whose numbers you want to believe...
1/ @brettachapman @MichaelSkolnik @bardblackthorn The low number is *583 times* the number Australia turned in back in 1996. Today, they actually have more guns than they did in 1996. The gun ban in NZ happened quickly, but only about 2000 people have turned in any guns (out of like 700,000) and most weren’t semi-auto rifles.
2/

Imagine if you had $1000 in your pocket and someone told you, “We can fix Flint, Michigan’s water immediately for a total of $65.”

Would you give them the $65?

Now, change $1000 to $1 Billion, and $65 to $65 Million.

Exact same thing.

All these billionaires, yet no solutions. $1 Billion is 1000 million. It will cost about $65 million to fix Flint’s water supply.

Jeff Bezos is worth 140,000 million dollars. He has a million dollars 140,000 times. He does nothing but hoard it.

Imagine having $140,000 and it’s only $65 to fix Flint’s water...

Folks, please listen: Donald Trump is a lot of things—arrogant, belligerent, narcissistic, dishonest, dumb—but do you know what he isn’t? He’s not the problem. He’s a symptom.

Thread: For some reason (I’m pretty sure I know the reason) many people seem to think if we oust Trump from office, everything can go back to being hunky-dory.

I tried and failed to bring the term “turnkey tyranny” to prominent use and understanding through my social media during the Obama admin. Here’s what that is: This is why I don’t trust *anybody* with the kind of Orwellian power that came via the USA PATRIOT Act (Bush) and the expansion of the surveillance state (Obama). But at least they were elected (based on lies, but elected nonetheless).

There’s a major, fundamental ignorance about all this talk of #TrumpTreason:

Elected officials are meant to represent the body of the people, to whom they’re meant to be accountable.

The intel community is *not* accountable to us. They’re accountable to the Executive (Trump)
1/ There is no reason whatsoever that elected officials should be loyal to the intel community. That’s backward. And *anybody* saying they don’t support the intel community is not “treasonous.”

Nor is saying you believe another world leader is correct over our own IC.
2/