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Last Checked Sept. 24, 2020

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Mon Aug 31 23:00:14 +0000 2020

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A thing a person can do in a country with lax gun laws is show up, armed, in a volatile situation & act aggressively, provoking confrontations that ultimately lead you to shoot someone “in self-defense.” Halfway responsible people would be discouraging this. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2020 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The whole “Democratic mayors are responsible for rising crime” would make more sense if murder weren’t also spiking in the handful of GOP run cities (here’s Miami). We mostly don’t have data outside of big cities. https://t.co/s9q2qiQsMA — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 31, 2020 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Fun mismatches here: I, like almost all my friends but very few people in the mass public, think the gas tax should be higher. But like the mass public, and unlike most of my peers, I think we should hire more cops. — PolitiTweet.org

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

An interesting mental exercise: think of the policy views that you hold that are most distinctive, relative to eith… https://t.co/0YAGMV9u0G

Posted Aug. 31, 2020 Hibernated

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