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Looks like I picked the wrong election year to quit sniffing glue.
Apr 9 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Oh fuck this is going to be really bad, isn't it?
Yes, I'm afraid it is.
May 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
cc: @DougJBalloon
Oh fuck it's even worse than I thought
Nov 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
@sewellchan@latimesopinion There's a convention in the news media according to which white people (and only white people) are entitled to empathy no matter what they do. Thus is a white murderer described as an "honor student" while Trayvon Martin, as you may recall, "was no angel".
1/@sewellchan@latimesopinion To hand over the whole letters section to Trump voters without doing the same for Trump's victims is to say that they former deserve empathy while the latter do not. That's the message you send with this well-intentioned, thoroughly wrongheaded move.
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Mar 21, 2019 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
Via @RalstonReports, here's an argument for retaining the Electoral College.
This, for example, is a retreat to abstraction. When people make abstract arguments like this, it's generally because their argument isn't supported by practical reality.
