Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@districtyoder Whoa harsh critique of HLG and I disagree with it — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick I also believe climate change is a bigger threat than right authoritarianism but that doesn't stop me from criticizing right authoritarians. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick should stand against authoritarians on both sides regardless of which is worse. 2) in electoral politics I have voted for Democrats in recent national elections bc I think Trumpist authoritarians are worse. 3) in CA state government left authoritarianism is the bigger threat. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick My view is 1) you're asking a flawed q bc right and left authoritarianism fuel one another--the right and left both engage in cancel culture, and when they do, they fuel authoritarians on the other side even as they indulge in authoritarian tendencies themselves, so liberals — PolitiTweet.org

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So who is it, exactly, letting that issue distort their view of everything else — PolitiTweet.org

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Yascha has a whole publication, a podcast, and an archive that treats the threat of authoritarianism in the West as seriously as anyone on earth, yet is mocked by David, who purports to care more about that issue, bc David can't abide Yascha also caring about "cancel culture" — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't know what the contents of today's diversity training is, or whether or not I'd agree w/ it, but American troops have been getting diversity training for a long time. https://t.co/SUVZxA7e9l & would best the low-morale Russian military any day in part due to better values — PolitiTweet.org

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If I had a boat, yes, I would sail it on the ocean. But I would not buy a pony, and if I did, the boat is the last place I would take it. The last thing you want on a nice sailing trip is boom knocking your pony into the water. Take Jimmy Buffett sailing instead. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb @trizzlor If a social media company bans x, and a politician wants it unbanned, and they abuse their power to pass a law to that effect, they weren't reacting in panic to a thing that wasn't even happening, they were reacting to a thing that did happen, and for non moral reasons — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC That could be grounded in a number of different things, much as *no one should be tortured* could be grounded in different things. There is no one answer, but there is a most inflammatory posited answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@vituperativeerb @trizzlor Those don't fail the unjust test, they fail the *due to a moral panic* test. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cpoetzscher: "a US ban on Russian energy is defensible…In contrast, punishing another country’s failure to condemn Russia by depriving… — PolitiTweet.org

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@michael_mcleary @MyDomePiece @ijbailey @AOC If someone says *citizens of a free country have a fundamental right to not starve to death* it would be irrational to conclude they have said the Bill of Rights is fundamentally about getting the hungry access to food — PolitiTweet.org

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@MyDomePiece @ijbailey @michael_mcleary @AOC Again this is explicitly addressed in the editorial! https://t.co/ZLvHJSZHmU — PolitiTweet.org

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@trizzlor @vituperativeerb My view is that neither opposition to cancel culture nor opposition to the red scare exhibited an attribute moral panics usually have: a bunch of unjust punishments in the name of the moral panic — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @MyDomePiece @michael_mcleary @AOC It said *as citizens of a free country* not "in our democracy" — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC Much as a speaker's claim that all people deserve an attorney can be twisted by a demagogue into *OMG he said the purpose of the Constitution is defending child molesters* AOC took a claim about what all people are owed and disingenuously acted like the NYT was centering bigots — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC On this level of analysis (accepting her words are inaccurate and speculating about her intent) I would in turn offer this different objection: — PolitiTweet.org

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@MyDomePiece @michael_mcleary @ijbailey @AOC Which isn't talking about the First Amendment, among other divergences with AOCs claim — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC Not the First Amendment — PolitiTweet.org

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@ajm6792 @jholbo1 @AOC I don't know what that means. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ajm6792 @jholbo1 @AOC Because a member of Congress is maligning the flawed thing inaccurately in a manner that is both unfair and needlessly inflammatory and divisive. I would like to point out the unfairness and inaccuracy and add analytic clarity. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC Here's AOC: "asserting the 1st amendment is about protecting bigots from feeling embarrassed in public." No such assertion is made and AOC should withdraw the claim as inaccurate — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @ajm6792 @AOC They are confused but they are also explicit that they are not talking about the 1st Amendment, and AOC falsely asserted the contrary. This is not something about which they were silent or unclear https://t.co/J36y2pxnRK — PolitiTweet.org

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@Henderburn @johnstodder I haven't read about that case in years so I have no view of it. I do think people who are wrong about things should expect pushback for being wrong but shouldn't be treated as pariahs or fear for their jobs for being wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're breaking these rules your anti-Russia efforts have crossed into doing needless harm https://t.co/CqQeIfpEGZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@ajm6792 @jholbo1 @AOC Is that passage from the editorial consistent or inconsistent with AOC'S claim, man? https://t.co/FlMqTxSlQg — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @AOC Is that passage consistent with AOC's claims about the NYT's beliefs about the First Amendment? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @AOC I know that you are asserting the NYT was talking about the First Amendment despite this passage in the editorial: https://t.co/nYgl9ruydq — PolitiTweet.org

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@jholbo1 @AOC I have criticized that passage. It was flawed. But it didn't say what AOC says if that is indeed what she is alluding to — PolitiTweet.org