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Politics, math, etc. GitHub pages page: https://t.co/fBpQtqLvYl Medium: https://t.co/1gnQzJWJQ5 Blogspot: https://t.co/ACCsP5BP6R
Nov 6 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hm maybe Democrats could walk some picket lines, funnel a ton of money into infrastructure, put some aggressive antitrust regulators into the FTC, oversee tight labor markets and income growth concentrated in the bottom quartiles, that should fix it. Plus finally running on legal weed, pic unrelated. Image
Oct 24 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
What are some of the most-cited supposed tropes and cliches in movies and TV that actually barely have any examples. The "Magical Negroes" movie struggled with this, having to cite a handful of movies from decades prior.
Aug 16 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
One thing I think people don't realize is how relatively new the highly-focused-Electoral-College campaign is. In 1976 for example, 20 states were within five points. Image So obviously if 20 states are within five points, you have to basically run almost a de facto national campaign. Even in 1996, Bob Dole made a great show out of hitting up 21 states in person at the end of the campaign.

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Oct 15, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
"A bunch of broadly satirical upper-class jerks who are parasitic about this one rich guy are going to get shown up by a WOC who seems to be a supporting character but then becomes the surprise protagonist of the movie, and also the biggest jerk is the killer." I liked both "Knives Out" movies but "Glass Onion" is a little like...too close to the first one. RJ basically has a blank check with these.
Sep 4, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I feel like making Anakin a little kid in "Phantom Menace" really made a lot of stuff needlessly weird and backed them into a corner. Suddenly you have one fewer movie where Anakin gets to be "a good friend, the best pilot in the galaxy" etc, and the romance is just...real weird on both sides...
Jul 12, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Several people saying Ds should have vetted Mesha Mainor better, so I wanted to see her endorsements etc..in a few minutes of Googling I cannot find any coverage of her primary at all, which was only in 2020. Did she just have some name rec from this Atlanta city council run? Like I probably just don't know where to look, you'd think an open safe-seat state legislative primary in a big city would get some coverage from someone.
May 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Charitably, it's as a (dubious) proxy for the larger group of "Hispanic voters/Hispanic Texas voters". Uncharitably it's because Squares On Map Have Color. I know it's not a county map, but that area does more or less have like literally the only 90%+ Hispanic counties in America (outside Puerto Rico).
May 13, 2023 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Trying the new entry in the Bridgerton Cinematic Universe. Kind of terrified they'll go into like the actual politics of the Bridgerton setting which there's absolutely no way to do.
May 12, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Was it a (named) trope in musical theater from before that? I'm trying to remember my @Sideways440... The idea was that the opening song of a musical explains the setting, introduces the ensemble, etc, and then the SECOND song is the "I want" fleshing out the protagonist.
Mar 13, 2023 • 27 tweets • 7 min read
I was asked to do a thread about this paper, so I suppose I will make an effort. OK so, before I really read it, do I have any prior thoughts on the "Black conservative paradox". I have seen that, if you just look in a simple way at how White and Black respondents differ in the aggregate on issues that aren't "who are you voting for", they can be similar...
Mar 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This happens every time. IIRC one account went from saying mixed-positive things about "La La Land" to calling it a "white supremacist movie". People have legit different opinions but there's also always like, one other layer of snobbery you can apply no matter what. "You like The Conversation, hm, I suppose I did too, in...kindergarten or something."
Mar 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is why there's a "Spoken Word" Grammy category that's largely obsolete. Well not this exact record but this kind of thing. It's sort of like how there's "Best Animated Short" because there used to be a Daffy Duck cartoon before every movie and now it's mostly for weird art festivals. I 100% support this.
Mar 13, 2023 • 43 tweets • 6 min read
Damn was trying to time watching the Oscars to missing the opening. They got rid of that relaxed "audience members can just walk up to the host" lounge setup from last year, IDK why, did something happen.
Mar 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Feel like the only way to perform "Naatu Naatu" in the spirit of the movie is to have it interrupt a lame performance of one of the other songs. (Lady Gaga might actually be down with this.) It's pretty funny how many mansions in movies and shows are actually like official buildings. IDK if there aren't enough actual mansions in the world or if they don't let anyone film there.
Mar 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Sitting down to "All Quiet On The Western Front" with the defeated expressions I assume the characters will have in the last shot in two and a half hours. Hey is that Daniel Brühl, good for him, getting to play a different character, except Zemo is also a different character in every appearance.
Mar 11, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Yeah it's quite interesting how tilted the delta is towards "bisexual". It would be interesting to compare to self-reported sexual activity over 12 months say. Image Didn't realize this. Image
Jan 12, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Manhattan has been for the Democratic Party for 200 years, whatever that happened to mean at the time. Why exactly IDK.
Jan 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Well maybe it shows an element of calculation to what is starting to look to my untrained eyes a bit like a pathology. You know, if you tell someone you were a Super Bowl quarterback, they won't believe you. But if you say your Ultimate team went All-County... Jon Ossoff if a fellow Member of Congress lies about Ultimate success:
Jan 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Between the Golden Globes and a special election it's a fine night for small groups of people sending out arbitrary signals. I love the Golden Globes. They are proof that if you or I decided to shell out for a golf trophy and some catering, then Brad Pitt would probably show up to our house.
Jan 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
What logistical challenges? It's a little unclear to me how much the specifics of the primary calendar "matter", since it's a little unclear to me exactly how much primary momentum "matters".
Jan 10, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Trying "The Mayfair Witches", to support the AMC Anne Rice Cinematic Universe. Yeah I mean I'm not saying I use my time well.