Conor Friedersdorf

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RT @Noahpinion: Please do not rally around the CDC. The agency needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. It is a giant flaming… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ScottGottliebMD: If we have allowed monkeypox to become an endemic virus in the U.S. — which is becoming an increasingly possible outco… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @sullydish @connorjwills Andrew isn't braggy but I know he realizes he was a pioneering voice bringing about equal marriage rights for same sex couples. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/EKDesjx5Cm — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cvaldary: If this is how you intend to fight your ideological foes, you will lose. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eric_laurain No, it isn't. I considered the possibility that a rational case existed for skepticism. Then I reviewed the data, and saw that the case for vaccination was strong. And I reviewed some conspiracy theories that circulate about the vax and concluded that they are nonsensical. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eric_laurain I see different kinds of inane pressure, such that, for example, school closures were insensibly extended long after the better policy was clear, and also where Donald Trump shies away from touting Operation Warp Speed in front of his irrationally anti-vax crowds. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eric_laurain Sensible people always have and always will factor age into their analysis. If you want your analysis to be sensible, you need to do that, regardless of what others have done. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eric_laurain You have to adjust for age. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobWright22 @lauber_andy I think you're underestimating the tribal nature of mass media in other countries and their relative levels of vaccination compared to America — PolitiTweet.org

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@lauber_andy I agree, but I have no reason to think Americans are unique in this respect. Humans like that exist in every country. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThatWinkler I agree that America isn't the best at funding public health. But this thread began with Gregg posting that America is performing *the worst in the world.* — PolitiTweet.org

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@lauber_andy What do we know about the American public? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThatWinkler If you think America's public health community is the worst funded in the world, in general or in terms of Covid specific stuff, you need to go through the global data on health funding and see where we actually stand relative to other countries. — PolitiTweet.org

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America's public health community should take this as a signal to review their significant failings over the course of the pandemic. Going back through the Marginal Revolution archives would give a decent if incomplete overview. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZaidJilani @PamelaParesky What do you mean exactly? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DianaBrickell @Popehat No. I objected when the Dr. Suess estate withdrew some books from publication. I object when platforms disappear art from artists who become controversial. If Random House started taking books out of print because their CEO disagreed with them, I would object to that too — PolitiTweet.org

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@and_furiouser @TomCruise_69 @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey Most obviously, what I said is consistent with just hiring workers to run the one show without any practical need to replace the staff, as one would have to do if boycotts kept happening. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Popehat @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey I haven't yet watched the latest Netflix special where Chappelle talks at the theater dedication, but if that's his line I definitely join you in rejecting it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomCruise_69 @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey I also think this is basically the standard that prevails at every job. Like, if I hire you at the gas station, and you refuse to run payments for fill-ups, because you're concerned about climate change, the gas station has to hire someone for the job who will do the job. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomCruise_69 @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey If I were a theater owner, I would try to accommodate individuals who didn't want to work a given event, but if I were forced to choose between cancelling artistic events and hiring new workers, I would hire new workers. I don't think the theater in this case faced that choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @ethelredunread We disagree about whether it is a threat to free expression. I think it is. You think it is not. Neither of us is engaged in "bullshit" here. We just disagree about the right way to classify this controversy and whether FIRE's position is right-wing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@and_furiouser @TomCruise_69 @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey @BenBurgis I also suspect that if you polled trans people to ask if there preference was 1) to be treated by comics like any other group or 2) to be treated as vulnerable and thus off-limits to comics, number one would win by a significant margin — PolitiTweet.org

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@and_furiouser @TomCruise_69 @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey @BenBurgis What's more, I suspect the overall effect of comedic treatments is liberalization in attitudes through greater familiarity and less tension, not the opposite as so many seem to assume — PolitiTweet.org

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@and_furiouser @TomCruise_69 @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey @BenBurgis It's just not realistic to have anything at the center of political and cultural conflict go undiscussed by comics. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TomCruise_69 @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas @ijbailey I did? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas Because the venue agreed with the workers here, it didn't really come up, but generally, I favor worker free speech rights, while also believing that worker action rights can't be so expansive as to include... not doing the work itself. That's why I gave you the Davidson hypo — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas I'm not backtracking. I told you the same thing before. (And if I were changing my position, don't you want me to change it in ways that come closer to your position?) https://t.co/3pdUISPnzf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidAFrench: I’d ask a jury to ponder a question—if Trump truly wanted a “peaceful” protest, why did he passively allow violence to un… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @and_furiouser @SarahGrynpas (But if there's plenty of staff and one or two people ask to be exempted from working a specific event I would want reasonable steps taken to accommodate them.) — PolitiTweet.org