Conor Friedersdorf

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RT @angrybklynmom: Damn - read this thread from a UK citizen who happened to get COVID in China. — PolitiTweet.org

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An LAX to Santa Monica monorail with stops in Playa Vista, Marina Del Rey and Venice is long overdue. I've always thought that a string of oceanfront municipalities, community areas of a metropolis, and unincorporated county-run areas are like mules with a spinning wheel... — PolitiTweet.org

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@wil_da_beast630 Don't judge until we've all read the explanatory notes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ebruenig: you can't have an adversarial criminal justice system then get mad at people for serving as public defenders lol. literally s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: The unidentified man would've won. — PolitiTweet.org

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And success would not end things, bc incentives in relevant elite spaces would be to differentiate from the problematic masses with yet another set of ostensibly more enlightened new terms on a euphemism treadmill that's always speeding up rather than running at bottom-up speed — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHowardBrainMD @gregggonsalves If the meaning is really *not an er doctor* I think that's a very weird definition of privilege, but I'm pretty sure the intended meaning was something different — PolitiTweet.org

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If you live near Costa Mesa, for goodness sakes, get to the underrated Nick's Trattoria on Harbor Boulevard, near Home Depot. It is a delicious, competitively priced, long running family business that looks so dead lately I'm worried it may go away. Pizza and pasta both great. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JHowardBrainMD @gregggonsalves You may not realize this, but writers are in fact corporeal beings. For instance, today, I helped my nephew throw pine cones into a planter, and later, I am going to ingest food — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidTh84485581 @gregggonsalves What do you think it means? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: In today's edition of the Up for Debate newsletter, @conor64 attempts to unpack the relationship between "cancel culture"… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rachaelbedard: Hi. I wrote an essay for @NewYorker about everything that has happened on Rikers since the pandemic hit, how crisis led… — PolitiTweet.org

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Possibly dumb question. It seems like every history one reads involving a war Russia participates in includes jaw-dropping numbers of Russian deaths as compared to other antagonists. Does this hold beyond the obvious examples and if so, why this consistent outcome across regimes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mariabustillos I have read writing by you that insightfully anticipated the future--but I was happy to talk about it!. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BioTurboNick @gregggonsalves What position? What consequences? Maybe that's what it means? But if so it's hard to see how that's more true of them than Gregg of Yale — PolitiTweet.org

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@gregggonsalves I'm confused as to what "privileged" is doing in this critique. If those other things were true, I would get why you complained about them, but what does it mean to pejoratively label them as "privileged"? — PolitiTweet.org

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I've started to think of them as The Horseshoe People. — PolitiTweet.org

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@APTeacher1754 @bdomenech I agree that removing age inappropriate books from elementary school students is not objectionable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@APTeacher1754 @bdomenech I don't object at all to that standard, or to removing actually racist books. I was trying to express that politically charged *remove the bad books* campaigns tend to be carried out by people who go too far to cover their asses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bernybelvedere I think it's only fair to read the notes and then decide. (Okay, I admit it, I'm just really curious what they say.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@APTeacher1754 @bdomenech My baseline expectation is that in a charged political environment, a *review the library books committee* in a liberal district is going to remove too many books for "racism" while the red district analog will remove too many books for "age inappropriate" — PolitiTweet.org

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@shyunodoslucky @sullydish I too would like to know that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisa_b1962 @clayranck @dstipson Right, I know that we can object to Putin and Red State legislators and illiberalism at Yale, and I do. You should too — PolitiTweet.org

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@bdomenech Evasively answered. My claim is that you and I would agree that the removals are over expansive if we both looked through all the books, because that is the nature of the new incentives. Also, it's their phones you have to worry about. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lisa_b1962 @clayranck @dstipson Let's not pretend that Red State legislatures are the same as Vladimir Putin invading a neighbor, murdering its people, and threatening nuclear war. See how this goes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@bdomenech Come on, Ben, really? You think in 2022 that public school children are learning to hook up from school library books, and that all the books being removed violate that standard? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mrhortywho @jbouie @DavidAstinWalsh Do you have a link to the thread? — PolitiTweet.org

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@billjank @read1ng0nly "Marriage should be between any consenting adults." A father and his adult daughter? A brother and sister? Not settled. — PolitiTweet.org

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@billjank @read1ng0nly "police shouldn’t brutalize people based on their race." That's settled. You'd be hard pressed to find someone to disagree. "women can chose contraception or not to carry a pregnancy to term." Contraception is settled. Abortion isn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@billjank @read1ng0nly Let's take them one by one: "structural racism exists." Too few people know or agree on what that means to call it settled. We'd have to hear how you define structural racism. — PolitiTweet.org