Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@rpd158 @JamesSurowiecki Your question betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of both what it means to be a libertarian and what it means to be skeptical of Covid vaccines. If you don't believe the vaccine works then you don't regard taking it as a plus for others. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's how strict Hong Kong was in its zero Covid efforts https://t.co/JEuSYRtOqv Omicron broke through anyway. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rpd158 @JamesSurowiecki Because he is unduly skeptical of the vaccines — PolitiTweet.org

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@spankyq Well that would be more likely to be effective than getting mad at Spotify in my estimation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@koeselitz @mystikx20 Doing what work? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki I am not anywhere near a regular enough listener to make any characterization there. I have listened to two episodes where pro vaccine folks got a lot of time to air their perspectives, perhaps to people who wouldn't otherwise have been exposed to them. — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems like the people who are still most intensely concerned about Covid should be agitating for an updated mRNA vaccine but I haven't seen much of that — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey @caitlinmoriah The question misstates the claim I've made so I'm not going to waste time replying to it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexschmidt (whispers) "...start blogging again..." — PolitiTweet.org

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@asymmetricinfo @FeralQuokka Yes, I agree, but also, even if we forget about other performance and just focus on their effectiveness at their own stated goals I think they would earn a failing grade because their understanding of how to fight white supremacy and patriarchy is I'll conceived. — PolitiTweet.org

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... https://t.co/2mZQk2f1xb https://t.co/kbBludQd0h — PolitiTweet.org

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@FeralQuokka @asymmetricinfo But even if that *was* their mission they would still exhibit incompetence at achieving it — PolitiTweet.org

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@mystikx20 I'm told the vax skeptical but I'm not sure as I haven't listened to most of the relevant episodes — PolitiTweet.org

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Okay, now we just need @kmele to be one of the appointees to the newly vacant SF school board seats. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: This is a really fantastic piece making a really simple point: — The greatest vulnerability is among the elderly. — The… — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Also possible he fuels vax hesitancy but only among people who'd wind up anti-vax anyway because they are highly suggestible and prone to conspiracy theories — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Rogan is rare in having both pro & anti-vax guests. It's possible folks who lean vax skeptical gravitate towards Rogan's show and some grow more skeptical over time while others are persuaded by pro vax folks they'd never have encountered otherwise. Not how I'd bet, but possible. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Where did I say that? (Nowhere.) You should start taking my words very narrowly and literally because you're consistently bad at trying to extrapolate a larger meaning that you think I intend. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MJFordBooks I would love to see a study on how many of those people are vaxxed. I bet not zero! — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheOddPost @MarcBodnick @JamesSurowiecki My view is that in a perfect world, everyone would see the wisdom of my position––get vaccinated––and that it isn't clear whether the world with JRE has fewer vaccinated people than would a world without it. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @JamesSurowiecki John, if you can't look at the question and then the characterization and see the analytic mismatch for yourself then my trying to explain it probably won't work either. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Noahpinion: NIMBYs are the ones making America a dystopia. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HankGreene @JamesSurowiecki The position James attributes to me is not one I hold. My position is that Rogan's podcast may or may not have contributed to more Covid deaths than a world without it and we don't have sufficient evidence to say for sure either way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki You've mischaracterized both my question and my underlying position. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Running economies hot lowers real wages. It doesn’t raise them, as you might have been taught on Twitter over the last 10-15 years." https://t.co/oeXUSu4Nd6 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: People being misinformed is a real thing and it’s bad. But the idea of an internet-driven crisis of misinformation seem… — PolitiTweet.org

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@aaronleedowell They attacked the school board because they correctly perceived that it was vulnerable to the charge that it presides over inane dysfunction and indefensible priorities––after all, it did. — PolitiTweet.org

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Confirmed: there is a limit to the amount of inane dysfunction San Franciscans will tolerate even if it is promulgated under the pretense of advancing social justice. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarcBodnick @JamesSurowiecki That isn't my view, exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

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A question for folks who believe that Joe Rogan converted x number of people into vaccine skeptics: do you also think that he increased support for Bernie Sanders by ~x people? — PolitiTweet.org