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Apr 21 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
At least 40-50% of Jewish students at colleges and universities right now hate the Israeli government and the war, yet it's being reported as a Jews vs. Arabs thing. Just like the simplistic woke narratives during the Summer of 2020, reducing people to ethnic stereotypes. There's also a broader problem in media that if you're a minority you're supposed to be a victim. If you as a reporter interview someone who says "yeah I feel totally fine" the editor says, sorry that's the wrong story. We need conflict, we need victims.
Apr 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Try telling them Indian parents are fine if the kids live with them until they’re 50. Heck the grandkids too. I was reading a Reddit thread yesterday about a pregnant 19 year old whose mom wanted to kick her out and I was thinking man these people are Americans alright
Apr 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I found the article about NPR on Free Press to be interesting. In that article a former NPR insider notes they struggled to get minority listerners.

I went to the front page and put the first article through a readability test, here were the results: Image Basically NPR's segments and articles are geared towards college-educated audiences. If they want people broader than that to take advantage of their content, they need to use language and cover topics that interest people broader than that segment of people.
Apr 5 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
These are literally legal migrants Stephen Miller who runs America 1st legal and was one of Trump's immigration point men doesnt care that much about illegal migration. His goal is to revert the U.S. to the 1920s or something and that would probably include deporting much of Elon's space x/tesla workforce.
Mar 27 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I did a reverse image search. One hit on the entire Internet, on a website called "Civil War In Europe" in 2017. Jesus is a revered figure in Islam.

Then I realize this account (who Elon loves) posts this image once every few months. Are they gullible or just sociopathic? One day if these guys actually managed to incite a terror attack or something are they going to be like "don't care, got my Twitter payout."
Mar 27 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
When I was in college I wrote a column about a shock jock that was coming to campus, he spent all day ranting about me on his show, I got tons of threats, stuff taped to my door, and I probably didn't care for longer than 48 hours. The Atlantic would consider this trauma. Who reads the atlantic, nothing but rich people now? Every article about how hard it is to attend stanford or harvard or whatever. OK, cross the street, go into Boston and see what real hard life is like.
Mar 26 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
So does DEI just mean black to these Klan accounts now? I did some reporting on Baltimore a few years ago and at least as far as Baltimore politicians go, Scott hasn’t been corrupt and crime has dropped under him, but these guys go to the eye doctor and all they see is Ks
Mar 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I feel like part of the reason Elon keeps engaging with extremist content and posting weird conspiracy theories is because he spent his life as an upper class liberal and he thinks Twitter right wing extremists are average Republicans because he doesn’t know any. Like your average Republican is not posting minority crime stats or IQ gibberish they’re posting bible verses and boomer memes. Elon doesn’t interact enough with actual humans to do his pandering correctly.
Mar 12 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Elon the TikTok hill literally specifies companies owned by foreign adversaries.

And yes it’s about “government control” the same way you’re not allowed to bankroll MS 13. Law enforcement and trade sanctions are administered by the government. Elon has never said one critical word about the Chinese govt and now he’s defending their control over a popular social media platform….
Jan 15 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
What the heck is going on on the activist right, on this trajectory they will be calling the emancipation proclamation a mistake in a month I think most republicans are normies but the online activists are detached from normal people just like many NGOs on the left and get on weird obscure kicks rather than addressing bread and butter issues
Jan 5 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
I got to know Rufo years ago, and he spent a lot of time trying to convince progressives to also oppose DEI stuff. They basically said ain’t nothing to see here. So he allied to the right instead. He’s motivated by the issues more than being an RNC guy or something. There was this whole thing where David French said that legislatures who set up and oversee public schools also playing a role in their instruction is an attack on the constitution or something and Rufo argued with him in good faith for weeks.
Dec 30, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Note that Trump is starting to hit Haley over trying to increase the retirement age. The fact is Trump is still the most savvy Republican running for the nomination, the only one who understands how people outside say DC right wing think tanks think. When republicans realize they had four years to come up with an alternative and Trump is still their most electable candidate because everyone else thinks it’s 2003
Dec 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What she harbors is poor political instincts. Hobnobbing with lobbyists and executives all day, she doesn’t know how to talk to ordinary voters and assume they wanted to hear a Lost Cause monologue. Zell Miller was arguing that the Civil War was mostly about slavery in 1994 in Georgia and it’s an argument he won.
Oct 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Bouie has one beat and he's going to stick to it no matter what else is happening int he world. But FWIW his thesis is wrong. The "Southern Strategy" is overrated and the South stayed steadily Democratic at the local level for decades and today is more integrated than the North. Image Georgia for instance elevated governors who supported civil rights (Jimmy Carter) and our most popular governor ever, Zell Miller, made removing the rebel flag from the state emblem one of his top priorities. Georgia did not become a real GOP state until really 2002.
Sep 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In the name of equity, a Canadian school library is emptied of all books published before 2008 cbc.ca/news/canada/to… Japanese student worries that books about Japanese internment are being removed because they fall behind the 2008 publication date cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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Jul 31, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
I don’t know whose bias it’s showing when you have a song talking about citizens defending elderly from criminals and immediately the response is he’s talking about African Americans… The video is pretty much just antifa plus some equivalent riots in other parts of the world like Europe.
Jul 29, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Another example of a claim from the right that aligns more with how Europeans think about the world than how Americans think about the world. Europe has closed tight cultures built on narrow heritage, America has never been that way. Let's not slander the Founding Fathers by suggesting they wanted America to be full of bad cuisine and poor dancers
Jul 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You have to read until 16 paragraphs down to find that she was not charged under the states abortion law. It was for removing skeletal remains, this was at 30 weeks pregnant. Noam Chomsky once said NYT is better if you read the articles backwards. Image This would’ve been illegal prior to Dobbs in most states and polls show most Americans agree it should be illegal, but she still wasn’t charged under the new abortion law. In this case this was likely a viable baby. Image
Jul 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The book banning discourse is really unfortunate. Most liberal parents would be furious if they kids were assigned Charles Murray's The Bell Curve, and why would they not have a right to protest what is paid for by their $ at the local school district? Education is a democratic product so it will always be subject to community oversight, there is no alternative.
Jul 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A friend of mine raised the question of what would happen if they changed the Hulk to purple or something. Changes like this are jarring just because it’s unusual. It’s 2023 it’s not like people won’t spend money on nonwhite entertainment let’s be real. Walsh and his woke critics have a symbiotic relationship in culture war stuff where both are pretending different groups of people are persecuted when they’re not.
Jul 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
One of the arguments Jerry Falwell made to Jesse Jackson was that South Africa was being singled out for a boycott when worse abuses exist elsewhere. Even if that was true, that's kind of an argument against solving any problem ever except the worst one? https://t.co/bEMlTttKuD
I think boycotting China is kind of what Trump and Biden are pushing forward with the tariffs and industrial policies they implemented but a complete boycott of China is infeasible at this time because we're too linked. Smaller sanctions on small countries aren't, though.