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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously (Or misogyny, I should add.) As it turns out, progressives believe many things that are much less popular than "don't be racist" and "don't be misogynist" which are thankfully positions a majority of voters endorse. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously Anyway, your false presumption that I meant to say Democrats should be more racist, a position *that would not be popular*, makes no sense except as an example of a rhetorical tactic of always leaning on tenuous accusations of racism when engaging with any non progressive. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously That depends on the Congressional district or state in question. It might be gun control in one place, an immigration amnesty in another, and defunding the police in a third. What's more, I am not necessarily urging any such step *bc I don't believe democracy is about to go away* — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously I do not think the effect of abandoning unpopular positions will be for Republicans to magically vote for Democrats. I think it will be for marginally more independent swing voters to cast ballots for Democrats rather than Republicans. Now as for what those positions might be: — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously By straw man I mean that you fabricated a view I don't hold to argue with by presuming I meant Democrats should be more racist when there are dozens of more plausible interpretations of my words. Before answering your second question I need to address another straw man you built: — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@AkilahObviously This is a straw man, and you shouldn't put words no one said in quotes. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
It's hard to capture how awesome Cypress trees are-- especially Cypress trees in water covered in Spanish moss--but here is one example, maybe a 3.9 on a one-to-five tree scale https://t.co/bjVU8nFO9u — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@NancyRomm You should see the 11 out-of-focus ones before and after :) — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@japecake Real camera. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@DavidFellerath This was Caddo Lake in NE Texas — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@s_r_s You sound confident so I will assume it is in fact a Great Blue Heron. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
If this helps he is able to point the other direction, too: https://t.co/i6iKnT9eaw — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Because I am Too Online I think of him as a Comey Bird https://t.co/bHkpEEHjOZ — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
What is this swamp bird I have captured on film thereby stealing his soul? https://t.co/u8MyRTHaSf — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@CaseyMattox_ Obviously there's a distinction between Black Twitter users and Black Americans as a whole. But if we're starting out at +17 favorability I'm gonna need more evidence than a few quotes for the proposition at the heart of that article. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Corrected from an earlier deleted tweet where I accidentally looked at the Jeff Bezos numbers. It's Bezos who is more popular among Black Americans than white https://t.co/BXDM35UuTp — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Here are the numbers: https://t.co/bBgT0qnht9 — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
This CNN article asserts without evidence that Black Twitter users are especially concerned by Elon Musk's takeover. https://t.co/BkH4n2vKI2 Actual polling data from 2021 suggests Musk has a +17 favorability rating among Black Americans. https://t.co/4d8okxQFaw — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@RynoWeiss Ugh, my bad, I accidentally looked at the numbers for Bezos rather than Musk. Correcting now! Thanks for the catch. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
They understand their faction to hold power and want to wield it over others. Insofar as that's true they aren't parting with gains for themselves so much as trading away protections for marginalized people in exchange for the ability of powerful factions like theirs to censor. — PolitiTweet.org
Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill
Astonishing so many are willing to part with such hard-won gains 👇🏽 https://t.co/JVcr0vlhqd
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
RT @JamesSurowiecki: So non-woke corporations should get sweetheart deals, but woke corporations shouldn’t? Seems like you’re using governm… — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
This CNN article asserts without evidence that Black Twitter users are especially concerned by Elon Musk's takeover. Actual polling data from 2021 suggests Musk has *higher* approval numbers among Black Americans than white https://t.co/4qbQLWkC32 https://t.co/BkH4n2vKI2 — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ijbailey @jeremiahscholl Median voters do in fact "move" so what do you think does move them? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
After reading the replies, I think a constructive way forward would be a conversation between @chasestrangio and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about the strongest cases for and against using the term "trans" instead of either of the options presented below. — PolitiTweet.org
Chase Strangio @chasestrangio
For those of us who are not women who can become pregnant is the preference that we simply pretend we don’t exist or that we stop existing?
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
These are examples of common-sense pandemic responses that could command broad popular support because doing them helps public health beyond Covid and doesn't require personal tradeoffs from a pandemic-weary public. — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Philp @pphilp
@conor64 @gregggonsalves @hholdenthorp @EricTopol @JReinerMD @meganranney Yes. Yes. Yes. - transparent, national… https://t.co/g7ScNBnsRk
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
A request for @wiczipedia: a comprehensive report on misinformation and disinformation put out by the federal government from the year 2000 to the present, accompanied by a proposal to get the executive branch out of the misinformation and disinformation businesses. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
RT @ggreenwald: Of all the twisted beliefs to support censorship, the worst is the idea that censorship is a tool used to protect the margi… — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@hholdenthorp @gregggonsalves @EricTopol @JReinerMD @meganranney I sympathize with word limits. What specifically needs to happen in your view to solve Paxlovid supply? That strikes me as a goal that could garner broad popular support. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@gregggonsalves @hholdenthorp @EricTopol @JReinerMD @meganranney gains are made it will be in response to specific asks or pressure for specific outcomes, not broad appeals to not treat it as over or abandon the vulnerable, because no one knows what specifically that means I'm practice, and it makes it easy to straw man what the ask is. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@gregggonsalves @hholdenthorp @EricTopol @JReinerMD @meganranney I'd just reiterate my thinking here: that Covid hawks should be pressing for specific agenda items like *x approach to vaccinating more people* and *y approach to expanding access to z treatment*. I have my list. You have yours. We agree about a lot, disagree some, but if — PolitiTweet.org
