Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

No one has a lower opinion of Donald Trump's base than Donald Trump's kids. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JerylBier I mean, the Iraq War commanded majority support, including John Kerry, the 2004 Dem nominee, the mayor of NYC and the president were aligned, etc. — PolitiTweet.org

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I need Winning Time to stick around through Kobe's retirement at a one season per season pace. Can we do this @HBO? — PolitiTweet.org

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If Jax Teller could have nudged Sam Crow into the YIMBY camp earlier a lot of violence could have been avoided. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: "Today’s ever-changing algorithms would probably sow confusion and polarization in civic debates even if we were all c… — PolitiTweet.org

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@huzzahmpls @jonmladd I don't think that characterizes his Bush era Daily Show, just his Obama era — PolitiTweet.org

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I think this is right, and that part of what's going on in comedy is that comics face a more disorienting environment where political and cultural power intersect or don't in lots of complicated ways. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: When George W Bush was president it felt like “the establishment” broadly speaking was really behind him and was enthusia… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @StevenGreenhut: @ZacharyGraves As a libertarian who has written a zillion editorials for the OC Reg blasting Disney for its Resort Area… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CaulfieldTim: "How ‘Big Disinformation’ Can Overcome Its Skeptics" https://t.co/r7nwQaHnEd by @conor64 As a member of "Big Disinfo", I… — PolitiTweet.org

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(Updates Bayesian priors in direction of worrying more about AI...) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheFIREorg: ⚠️: This might be the most extreme example of speaker-censorship FIRE has ever seen! The dishonor goes to the president of… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothySandefur @BobbieDooley OMG I did not, thank you — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelDKarras Who has done so? — PolitiTweet.org

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To make the next generation more resilient to disinformation, we should shift back toward prioritizing dispassionate analysis of statements, regardless of the speaker’s perceived identity, as a valuable habit of mind, not a microaggressive example of insensitivity. — PolitiTweet.org

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The latter outlooks are not without insights, but they are not especially helpful in staying resilient against disinformation for reasons I expand on here https://t.co/3VC7EQyRFt — PolitiTweet.org

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Increasingly, however, young people are acculturated to prioritize moral clarity and outrage at injustice, or “cultural competencies” such as “reading the room,” avoiding microaggressions, and centering the identity of the speaker, perhaps w/ privilege or intersectional analysis — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of us were taught to prioritize separating fact from appeals to emotion, looking for evidence to support claims, identifying errors in chains of reasoning, and separating the truth of an argument from the identity of the person making it. — PolitiTweet.org

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As the center-left mobilizes against disinformation, some nonprofits are focusing on educating citizens to be literate consumers of media & political rhetoric. That makes sense––critical thinking is a bulwark against misinformation and disinformation. Now think what that implies: — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelDKarras I'm saying that the asymmetry between the Republican and Democratic Party, while very relevant to some questions, like who I want investigating January 6, or who I voted for in 2020, is not relevant to whether comedians should make fun of absurdity across the ideological spectrum — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelDKarras Like who? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelDKarras I'm not sure who you think hasn't reckoned with that. It sure seems to me like almost everyone has. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidAFrench Lol — PolitiTweet.org

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And if, like me, you're a small l liberal who values pluralism, society will always involve a struggle against multiple kinds of authoritarians who, even when at odds with one another, fuel one another's projects. — PolitiTweet.org

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that our country or society is a Red versus Blue or right versus left struggle, as well as the idea that it's even possible for Team Red or Team Blue or right or left to *win* in any permanent way. In fact, the permanent conditions are diversity and difference and change. — PolitiTweet.org

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It presumes that there are two sides and that all of us are choosing to be on one or the other, or at least seeing the world through the lens of a two-sided struggle. *But that is not how most of us see the world.* We aren't just independents, we reject the idea — PolitiTweet.org

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To expand on the idea of *equal opportunity offenders* or poking absurdities in all directions--a certain kind of left progressive will retort that it's wrong to act as if there is an equivalence between Republicans and Democrats right now. And to me that framing is off: — PolitiTweet.org

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@LucyStag Very different, but all willing to transgress the taboos of the progressive left in what would have once been an extremely normal way for marquee comics and is now a bit anomalous — PolitiTweet.org

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Very few of you will know the reference Bobbie Dooley but there has been no funnier exploration of this phenomenon than Phil Hendrie's bygone call in segments with her — PolitiTweet.org

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If my theory is correct--and it may be wrong--the irony is that *funny, make fun of everyone* Stewart could reach and influence people in a leftward direction in a way humorless, scolding Jon Stewart never will. — PolitiTweet.org