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PoIiMath
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Dec 30, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
A friend of mine died today

He was too young to die. His kids were exactly the age of my kids, they played together and loved each other.

He was fine last week, looking forward to Christmas with his family

Now he is gone I've had a peculiar life but generally speaking, the possibilities of life grew in scope throughout my 20's and well into my 30's

I had a serious speed bump when I was unemployed for a time, but generally things seemed on the up-and-up until, in my late 30's, my dad passed away
Dec 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The community note here is really fascinating b/c it exposes one of the strategies @PolitiFact uses to deceive its readers:

They routinely reframe the context of the "fact" in question so that they can claim that their team is honest or the other team is dishonest Image What most likely happened is that Newsom was given a talking point by his debate team and he just flat-out forgot that the details of the fact mattered

He internalized what he was supposed to say but he's not a careful enough person to get the details correct
Nov 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is going to end up being the most easily preventable crisis in the history of American health policy

"experts" and politicians thought they could bully people into the Covid vaccine and ended up poisoning the incredibly hard-won cultural victories for childhood vaccines They were warned. We were begging them not to do this. The consequences were not just obvious, we had seen exactly this thing happen 150 years ago with exactly the same result.

Evil, stupid people portraying themselves as saviors

Oct 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On "cancel culture":

Yesterday, they crushed @KyleKashuv's Harvard career b/c some shit leaked private messages from when he was 15

Today, they are begging for mercy b/c Harvard law students publicly celebrated the largest Jewish genocide since the Nazis

Tomorrow, they will cheer the firing of a mildly right-of-center student or professor for suggesting that trans ideology is a social contagion (which it obviously is)

Every "oh no, this is cancel culture" appeal is not honest. All they want is you to pause long enough that they can get away with it.

They will not reciprocate. They will never give you quarter or kindness. They will beg on their knees for mercy and the very second you grant it, they will stick a knife in your child and laugh at the stupidity of the grace you showed them. fuck them. When the political winds change, you should absolutely take the opportunity to fuck them.

You asked to be left alone and they tried to fire you.

They celebrated the murder of children and now, realizing their folly, they are begging for mercy

No. No mercy for people who laugh at dead children. Their remorse is driven entirely b/c, after laughing and mocking the dead, they saw their boss look at them weird and they realized they crossed a line.
Sep 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
When the final history on the decline in institutional trust is written, there should be a chapter on Obamacare

We were subject to 2 years of fact-checks, expert opinions, and projections and they were all bullshit

Obamacare changed nothing, made nothing better

Healthcare continued to get more expensive, none of the things it was supposed to fix got fixed "It's gonna bend the cost curve, here's my model that assumes this is true that proves that it will work"

shut up, nerd. go talk to a real person for 5 minutes
Sep 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There is a good chance that the 74 year-old woman who sat in front of an abortion clinic will get more jail time than the guy who killed a kid for being a Republican

msn.com/en-us/news/cri… I need my left-wing friends to start looking at this situation and admitting that this is not justice

They need to shake themselves awake and realize that their team is utilizing the justice system for political punishment and that this is destabilizing our entire culture
Aug 31, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
one of my center-left friends remarked on the collapse of the that 100 year old tree onto the FL governors mansion that they wished it had fallen on him and I'm really pretty fascinated how much the left hates DeSantis who is popular in FL *because* he's a normie When you look at most of DeSantis' moves in Florida, they are individually popular

People don't want porn in schools

People are ok w/ restrictions on gender surgery for minors

People are ok w/ sane Covid policies

But you have to know what the policy is to be ok with it
May 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There is going to be an backlash against home schooling as more people realize that it is an existential threat to politically powerful groups like teachers unions

It will be dressed up in pieces like this

archive.is/zn0Eu#selectio… There is a group called the Coalition for Responsible Home Education

It is run by a small pile of angry, vindictive, ex-homeschool kids. The press goes to this group for horror stories every single time they write about the evils of home schooling.
May 22, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Since @washingtonpost decided not to include this info in their article, here is a review of the books that were removed by the Forsyth County schools: 🧵 All Boys Aren't Blue by George M Johnson

"This book contains sexual nudity; sexual activities including sexual assault; alternate gender ideologies; profanity and derogatory terms; alcohol and drug use; and controversial racial commentary."

booklooks.org/data/files/Boo…
May 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Remember that the definition of "Nazi" is "anyone I disagree with" The reason they have not released the Nashville manifesto is likely b/c she wrote that killing Nazis is good and her definition of "Nazi" was "6 year old children with Christian parents"
May 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
@PolitiFact Here is Weingarten advocating for the closure of 80 schools in New York City

@PolitiFact Here is Weingarten advocating for the closure of universities to stop the spread of Covid

May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"What about this thing you said"

Zeynep: "You can't read"

"here your literal words"

Zeynep: "you're a dummy who doesn't know words don't have meaning anymore." ImageImage Zeynep blocked me, but she has descended into shattering dishonesty. She makes fun of and then blocks anyone who tried to honestly engage her literal words.

Any half-functioning elitist class would have reprimanded her by now.
May 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
this is fascinating b/c this is one of the first images I've seen that someone is trying to pass off as real for the purpose of political narrative that seems to be AI generated What tells might we have to say this is AI?

A good rule is to develop an eye for visual detail and then start asking questions

Questions in this picture:

1) is this an outlet? kinda looks like it but also not

2) what is this? seems vaguely medical but not functional Image
May 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The brutal truth is that the left does not give a single shit about Morgan Bettinger as an individual

She was acceptable collateral damage for the narrative

This is happening everywhere on the left

A lot of the people I became friendly with during Covid saw this happen. They were liberals (many still are!) but they saw that they became the target of the machine the minute it became necessary to find a villain.

The institutional left has become hopelessly corrupt.
Apr 28, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Randi Weingarten told Congress she really wanted schools to open during the 2020-2021 school year

And so, I present to you, her greatest enemy: Randi Weingarten

"Teacher's Union Advises City to Shut Down 80 Public Schools"

Randi 2020 attacked Georgia schools, blaming open schools for the death toll in Georgia

Apr 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The weird thing about the Disney-DeSantis fight is that the left really seems to wants the narrative to be "and then Disney pointlessly screwed DeSantis and he backed down" but every time he doesn't back down they act all indignant like this is all coming out of nowhere The whole "Disney neuters DeSantis board" story was ridiculous and pointless

That "royal clause" nonsense is clearly stupid and was never a serious piece of legal work

It was done simply to mock and the left jumped on it

bbc.com/news/world-us-…
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I don't know how to say this to my pro-life friends in a gentle and loving way, but...

if you demand 6-week abortion bans and banning mifepristone, you will end up with abortion up till birth and over-the-counter abortifacients twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Most of the country is not ready for extremely restrictive abortion laws

I know this topic is a tender one, but if you do not move slowly while testing the water, the pro-choice side will win and will implement the most extreme version of their policy that they can muster
Mar 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The reason I lean toward "release the manifesto" is b/c the main reason for *not* doing so is b/c we shouldn't put the focus on the murderer

But the press is doing that anyway. I've never seen the press ignore the victims so completely and admire the killer so openly. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Normally when a group is targeted in a mass killing, our corps & political groups assure the public that we stand behind them, we will protect them, they are a vital part of our national identity

I've seen nothing like that for Christians. Not a word.
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Ibram Kendi has more books in American libraries than CS Lewis

For him to complain about his standing as an intellectual is laughable

The establishment has installed him in a position to punch 10X above his intellectual weight in cultural influence Here is the Brooklyn public library

they have more copies of one of Kendi's books than they have of all of CS Lewis' books combined

Lewis' books are sparse and constantly have multiple holds, even the e-book editions
Mar 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This attitude always strikes me as incredible

Where Covid came from matters *enormously*

If the virus transmitted through a wet market, that has *enormous* implications for wet market regulation If Covid was collected in the wild & stored for testing in a lab and then transmitted zoonotically (is that a word) there, that has *enormous* implications about whether or not we should be seeking out dangerous viruses and studying them in large cities
Mar 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Kelley is 8,000 times nicer than I am

this makes my blood boil

Yeah, tools don't need to be divisive. So why the fuck did we have a federal judge nullifying state law and mandating masks for all children in a TN school?

That's as divisive as it gets

"masks are just a tool"

no, they are a totem of protection and you, Zeynep, made them that way

If you had written about what a dumbshit Judge Ronnie Greer was for overruling state law and mandating masks on kids, he would have changed his mind!