Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I hope this doesn't pass, and that if it does, parents in this district are at least given a school choice option so they can find a charter school or bring a voucher to a private school that better reflects their values. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@AdamGreen I don't have any aversion to neighborhoods with parks. But the idea that no one would want to live in the new housing is absurd, regardless of whether you think this particular project should go forward. Not building it has costs! — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, government housing can be a good, but market rate housing is also a good, people, and taxpayers don't have to cover its cost. That public money can then be spent on other goods! — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't understand the mindset that housing more people in places they want to live doesn't count as a good unless they can't afford to live there and the government pays, in which case that somehow is a good because it's then "affordable." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: I would simply allow property owners to build housing if they want to. ⬆️ Affordability ⬆️ Jobs ⬆️ Tax revenue ⬆️ En… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @samuelwoolley: A very insightful story from @TheAtlantic @conor64: “How ‘Big Disinformation’ Can Overcome Its Skeptics”. As it says: “L… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ijbailey: This is madness. This is wrong. "...and hearing many of the students’ reflections, I realize that this lesson was not cultura… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GildedAgeRetvrn @neiltwit @jessesingal "everyone else" is a lie. The vast majority of us see that your characterizations are utterly absurd — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminder: most Twitter users are not political junkies or aligned with conservative or progressive activists. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@SenWarren Could you clarify how specifically this is dangerous, in your view, for our democracy? — PolitiTweet.org

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Perspective: if you have a given number of housing units, and you add a floor above them with more housing units, you can house more families on the same amount of land, benefitting landlords and tenants at the same time! — PolitiTweet.org

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Covid hawks: urge your local airport to invest in better ventilation, air filtration, and UV light. Climate hawks: fight decommissioning of nuclear power plants, urge new construction. Economic justice advocates: fight the NIMBYs to enable more construction and cheaper housing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pmarca You've def talked to more billionaires than me, so I won't contest that piece, but I find e.g. business elites far more likely than intellectual elites to look at the world through an economics lens, and for many intellectual elites to be more heterodox in private than public — PolitiTweet.org

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@pmarca I'd put it differently: *Listening to their public speech is surprisingly similar given the significant differences in the outlooks they express in their private speech.* — PolitiTweet.org

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It would be fascinating to see how many of the people calling for a Twitter ban on hate speech would be satisfied and how many would complain if all hateful speech was in fact removed from the platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelDavSmith I haven't listened to his podcast since before that so I couldn't tell you. Regardless, Rogin's guests are a distraction if what interests you is the American vaccination rate — PolitiTweet.org

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@GildedAgeRetvrn @jessesingal No those are egregious mischaracterizations of Jesse's work. I might as well be conversing with a flat earther if those are your conclusions. — PolitiTweet.org

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With the passage of time many of you can't even remember why they left, underscoring the purposelessness of their protest, the dearth of benefits it conferred, and the conclusion that the costs to their fans on Spotify and their broken playlists outweighs the nonexistent benefits — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki An authentic human is one who owns at least one Dogecoin. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GildedAgeRetvrn @jessesingal Yes, with him it's all an elaborate gambit to privatize social security, end immigration, ban gay marriage, mandate prayer in school, and return to the gold standard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Having sampled who you follow at random I am confident I can help you encounter more voices with whom you disagree. https://t.co/E2iuHMoM7m — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Lol — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @normative: There are few things more dangerous than a government agency handed cash and resources with a mandate to solve a problem tha… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jessesingal: 2/ The idea that you are 'validating' someone by trying to explain why they are popular and influential, without inserting… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nxthompson: Still think the most interesting idea I’ve read for Elon to unlock value from Twitter isn’t to shift from moderation —> “fr… — PolitiTweet.org

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Dystopian https://t.co/ypePR8OFof — PolitiTweet.org

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Link here: https://t.co/FEglfhuC0h — PolitiTweet.org

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It appears "we’ll make copies for you” was disinformation. Amazing that Stat News is the only outlet to ask for one! https://t.co/V5oOOLc5Dp — PolitiTweet.org

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@bigbigpants I don't get it. What makes him so beyond the pale for you? — PolitiTweet.org

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@HereForTheLink I wasn't thinking of politicians so much as FBI agents and CIA operatives and the DNI and the White House Press Secretary... — PolitiTweet.org