Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

RT @DKThomp: I wrote about why America makes it so hard to become a doctor https://t.co/5al3OYk90u The U.S. has the world's most expensiv… — PolitiTweet.org

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@HamasakiLaw @davidminpdx That's my point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidminpdx More Americans have died of Covid in the past 12 days than have ever or will ever die in police shootings or executions. But we should still care about reducing police shootings and keep trying to end the death penalty, right? — PolitiTweet.org

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It took decades to get from Critical Race Theorists urging bans on "words that wound" to Red State legislators enacting them, but I bet we get from left-leaning panics about "misinformation" to Red State legislators citing misinfo for their own censorious purposes in < 5 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TheAtlantic: P. J. O’Rourke, who died today, wrote with a searing hilarity about Enron, Rush Limbaugh, and the ridiculousness of politi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Stop threatening to violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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What's the best thing you've read on the Canadian trucker protests? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @willwilkinson: This talking point drives me nuts. Unless you have evidence of systemic collusion or ungodly market power, there's no re… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DKThomp: This is a great piece by @mattyglesias https://t.co/ZvIx3MCg3P My TLDR is that misinformation is a real crisis, but it’s a c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @normative: This is an important point about online misinformation. It’s mostly not that people are being tricked, really; it’s that whe… — PolitiTweet.org

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Now imagine similarly infuriating NIMBYs depriving people of affordable housing all over the state for roughly 50 years: https://t.co/1yhiE3FWz2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pmarca: @conor64 How about the same three books to all three? "The Righteous Mind" by @JonHaidt https://t.co/5OGoPaatGa "A Conflict… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pmarca You get to assign one book or article each to conservatives, liberals, and libertarians to correct what you perceive as the biggest blind spot of each. What are we all reading? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Patterico Maybe the vax skeptical episodes pushed more folks over to the unvaxed camp. Or maybe Rogan's audience self selects for vax skeptical and some of those people were convinced by Nick Christakis to get a jab and never would've heard him otherwise — PolitiTweet.org

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@Patterico I've heard parts of his episodes with vax skeptical guests and also parts of his episodes with pro vax guests, and I don't understand why I should be confident that one or the other was more influential — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki I think a world where the Trump Administration tried to suppress vaccine criticism is one in which lots of people who trusted the vaccine would have felt differently — PolitiTweet.org

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@Patterico I don't know, if I had all the rates in front of me I might have a guess but I don't have an instinct about it without doing research. I'm not even sure if the net effect of JRE is more or fewer vaccinations. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BattenkillMusic His book is a bestseller. You who are kicking it without giving any substantive reasons have 318 followers. The lack of substantive reasons is all I care about but it seems like he's winning by any reasonable metric — PolitiTweet.org

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@JbkJbk1234 No, it isn't — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesSurowiecki Would you trust the vaccines less if, going back to the Trump admin, vaccine skepticism was not allowed on social media? — PolitiTweet.org

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Four women move to Las Vegas and start rival criminal organizations. Who is the last standing? — PolitiTweet.org

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Yep. Handwashing was overemphasized for Covid, but if you had to wash your hands to get through security rather than going through a body scanner or taking your shoes off or ditching your water it would almost certainly save many lives https://t.co/L3UUAHTInk. — PolitiTweet.org

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@colorblindk1d I meant better airport ventilation, the planes are indeed fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let's reorient airport security toward disease prevention. Leave: reinforced cockpit doors, passengers primed to fight hijackers to the death, weapons checks. End: long security lines, liquid bans, de-shoeings. Add: handwashing stations, better ventilation, cleaner bathrooms. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cshirky Are you sure China has high trust in vaccines? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ScruggsDJ @DamonLinker The U.S. is not the worst in the developed world. — PolitiTweet.org

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So far the Sons of Anarchy tv series has taught me that the NIMBYs trying to stop the construction of Charming Heights claimed to act for the good of their town but were actually selfish killers who sowed much misery there. #buildCharmingHeights #YIMBY — PolitiTweet.org

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@love4fog Who suggested that you should turn to entertainers for advice? — PolitiTweet.org

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@DamonLinker In this case, I'm not sure how significant or anomalous my good judgment is given that a huge majority of Americans arrived at the conclusion that they should get vaccinated. — PolitiTweet.org