Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@Daniel_Laurison If you asked, *In international invasions, who decides if one is lawful? The UN? NATO? Someone else?* I would not presume any opinion on your view on who decides let alone your view of the merits of the invasion. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @radleybalko: Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands documents the incomprehensible violence, death, and suffering tyrants have inflicted on Ukrain… — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I first realized in 1991 and thought about while watching post-9/11 invasions and drone strikes, but that I take for granted too often: it is an unearned blessing to live and sleep far from any war zone. May those of us so blessed be good to refugees. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Daniel_Laurison Yes, when someone hasn't stated their opinion, and you assume that their opinion is odious rather than the same as yours, that's uncharitable. Some of us ask questions because we're trying to explore matters of controversy. Uncharitable people don't think of that though. — PolitiTweet.org

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@katimcf I wasn't asking about the innate sense children develop about themselves. Obviously, no one can decide that other than an individual. But there are many matters--I just listed some--that kids can't decide. What do you think about them? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Daniel_Laurison It *is* a dearth of charity. Nothing about the Tweet implies support for the Texas law. Attacking others without knowing their position is a failure, not the fault of the person you attack based on an erroneous assumptions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mckenziewark I'm proud of the work my colleagues do. I'm also always open to specific criticism. But I find that empty criticism like this that asserts a flaw without naming one is often groundless. If you ever have anything more particular feel free to Tweet at or email me — PolitiTweet.org

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@Daniel_Laurison The TX law is awful. It prompted me to think about these controversies generally and how we decide them. Many people engaged in a nuanced conversation about such subjects. Others responded like anti-intellectual bullies whose dearth of charity causes them to misunderstand others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@polarscribe @prospectsierra *The late elementary grades* seems perfectly reasonable to me. It is also a choice someone must make. And obviously, people argue about the when, then as now. Is it just right, or too late, or too early? Who decides? These are reasonable questions about obvious, ongoing disputes — PolitiTweet.org

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@J_L_Fairchild Every time I hear him speak about this it's all sycophantic praise for Putin. Have I missed some criticism? — PolitiTweet.org

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@J_L_Fairchild Trump, for one. — PolitiTweet.org

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@polarscribe There are many nuanced questions on these subjects that one might interrogate more easily if more people were just a bit more charitable on this hell platform. — PolitiTweet.org

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@polarscribe something the kids themselves can decide, so who does? Or, if a kid attends a religious school, and comes home asking for gay conversion therapy because he wants to be straight but isn't, should parents respect that choice? I don't think so. But who decides? — PolitiTweet.org

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@polarscribe If you were more charitable, you would understand that some of us ask questions because we are curious about the answers, perhaps because we discern more complexity than you do. For example, who decides at what age kids are taught about gender and sexual orientation? That isn't — PolitiTweet.org

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An unnecessary and unjust war begins. What a dark day for the world. Like many, I'm against American troops fighting in this conflict, but I have no patience for the moral blindness of those rooting for Putin, the aggressor. The whole world should be speaking out against him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@montresaurusrex @mcbyrne Why would being a libertarian commit me to taking my 12 year old to conversion therapy if he asked instead of telling him, *there's nothing wrong with being gay and no scientific basis for the efficacy of conversion therapy, you're great how you are*? — PolitiTweet.org

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@katimcf It misunderstands the question. Who should decide, e.g., at what age they're taught about sex ed or gender identity or what specifically they're taught? The answer obviously can't be the kids themselves. Hope that helps to clarify! — PolitiTweet.org

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@polarscribe That's not my position at all. Please stop lying about me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Awful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@aschleighj2022 @KralcTrebor @dapokerninja Silent Cal is basically correct and you are incorrect. I am asking about matters that someone other than kids control, not about their interior mental state. That was obvious to many people but not all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jordanzakarin @mcbyrne Hypothetical? Are you aware of the successful movement to pass laws banning conversation therapy at the state level? https://t.co/SW5GsdKxkY — PolitiTweet.org

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@aschleighj2022 Of course, but you don't decide at what age you learn about gender, or the content of your sex ed curriculum, for example. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jordanzakarin @mcbyrne If you were more charitable you'd be less likely to miss the point so flagrantly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_feeney Sure, but e.g. the content of sex ed curriculum isn't something the kids can decide. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidAstinWalsh I don't understand your question, needlessly hostile stranger. — PolitiTweet.org

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@clozilly Yes. Do you realize there are many matters encompassed by my question, like *what age should sex ed begin in schools* or *what should first graders be told about gender* that the kids cannot decide for themselves? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mr_bellis I'm not demanding to know who the buck stops with. I'm pointing out that almost no one has a consistent answer to that question, suggesting that the true root of related disagreements lay elsewhere. — PolitiTweet.org

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@turnip_tops The kids themselves can't decide their own sex ed curriculum, or what and when they are taught about gender, to cite just two examples. If you were more charitable you'd be less wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NotABigJerk @JBritt312 Do you recognize that your behavior on this platform is abusive in ways that are indistinguishable from MAGA shitposters? Is it an ends justifies the means kind of thing you're doing? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Daniel_Laurison I take and agree with your point, but you're missing mine. Kids can't be the ones who decide e.g. what they are taught in sex ed, or how they are introduced to gender identity, or at what age they can get puberty blockers. — PolitiTweet.org