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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ZackKopplin You're gonna need to type that better if you want me to understand — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ZackKopplin So when I complain about the administration of Yale you hear a complaint about mob rule? This is why your view is incoherent. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ZackKopplin Can you clarify what I've written about free speech that strikes you as rooted in a fear of mob rule? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Characteristically insightful. Mayonnaise Clinic Part 1: The Twitter Issue, by @jbarro https://t.co/TzvMu8mtkE — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ZackKopplin Lol. No. But I'm amused that you've given this enough thought to self-assess your competence, however incorrectly. I'm sorry to tell you that you're not just off, you're *way off* — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@studentactivism @Epsteins_Mom I certainly agree that those things are bad and I am as worried about them as the left. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@joshtpm https://t.co/F8Ni2uflUP — PolitiTweet.org
Zack Kopplin @ZackKopplin
This is Friedersdork's pure id. Democracy is bad because cancel culture is large groups of people telling me that I… https://t.co/ut5GXUYBAt
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ZackKopplin You're not very good at understanding what words mean. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@studentactivism @Epsteins_Mom Right, and on the left, it's extremely common to invoke democracy to protest countermajoritarian outcomes one doesn't like but to also believe a countermajoritarian thing like Roe V Wade is perfectly consistent with democracy. These inconsistencies on both sides confuse things. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@Epsteins_Mom I'm not sure why you want to litigate something I've already said I'm unsure about. This is purposeless. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@Epsteins_Mom I have no opinion about that other than that whatever her meaning it wasn't obvious to me. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@TonyBiasotti @mattyglesias @jbarro Very possible! — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@MonicaBaumann @mattyglesias I am happy to be corrected here but my sense is that it would be normal for someone to say, for example, *The Supreme Court is an essential part of our democracy* even though it is an unelected part of our Constitutional system. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@JerEnt1 No, it isn't. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@MarcBodnick @mattyglesias @jbarro It wasn't obvious to me, but I don't have a strong sense of who that is, so perhaps it would have been if I was more familiar. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@FuzzyMarth @joshtpm @mattyglesias I think Matt is very smart and I'm interested in learning things from him by conversing, sometimes in disagreement. I am not sure what I would gain by deliberately creating straw men three comments down in Twitter threads, and I'm curious what you think I would gain. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@mattyglesias @jbarro other times it means we have to expand the Senate or make more states or pack the Supreme Court or end the Electoral College to save democracy. (That's not to say any such reform is necessarily undesirable on the merits.) — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@mattyglesias @jbarro *when talking about threats to democracy, be consistent about whether 'democracy' means the will of the majority or whether it means 'the system we have'. Don't use it in a motte & bailey way where sometimes defending democracy just means stopping elections from being stolen but — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@mattyglesias @jbarro Yes, I agree. I am not contesting that point. I took the original Tweet to be making a different point, though I can't say I'm certain what it meant. The defensible point I imagined was something like, — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@joshtpm @mattyglesias My intent here is not to create a straw man. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@mattyglesias I agree that we often use "democracy" colloquially as a stand-in for *the system we have*. But then, people characterize aspects of the system we have, like the Electoral College or the Senate or unelected judges making rulings, as threats to democracy, so things get confusing. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@jbarro @mattyglesias None, that's my point, no one wants pure majority rule. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
If you want a picture of the future imagine a daily email warning you a McAfee subscription you don't have expired, forever. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@mattyglesias Doesn't everyone think democracy, in the sense of pure, unconstrained majority rule, is bad, while disagreeing on the optimal substantive and procedural constraints? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@JamesSurowiecki @angrybklynmom The Democratic Party is more sane than the Republican Party because it is led by its centrist faction. The far left and the far right are more plausibly comparable, though I have no idea of their relative numbers. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
As if all these negative connotation words map onto meaningful distinctions at this point in the GOP, lol. — PolitiTweet.org
Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow
3.Josh Mandel has been a constitutional conservative, taking on the RINOs, GOP establishment, special interests, Te… https://t.co/y1vG2Bf1rP
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Always read @GustavoArellano https://t.co/t7G4gEApvc — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
RT @OrinKerr: Holy crap: Although it was barely mentioned in the briefing, the CA9 just held in a single sentence, in a precedential opinio… — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
RT @sullydish: Sleep-walking into another world war. It's much likelier than many want to admit. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Ready for this new Kendrick Lamar. — PolitiTweet.org
