Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@mffwww So are the prohibitions on murder, rape and torture. I'd prefer to conserve the rule of law. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'd like @ClaremontInst to answer this: in '24, if VP KH excludes results from multiple states the GOP nominee wins, citing disputes from Democrats about the result, and declares the Dem candidate the winner, would that be in keeping with the principles of the Founders? — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww The mRNA vaccines require cold storage capabilities that some countries don't have. The contracts with Pfizer and Moderna constrain countries from giving away doses. and maybe other reasons, but I know those two. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mffwww It is hugely complicated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Although I agree that slowness vaccinating the developing world is a moral failure, I wish more journalists would cover it as manufacturing capacity and supply chain problem rather than a moral problem, because until that happens no one knows what changes to push for. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is concerning. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're worried about authoritarianism order and read The Authoritarian Dynamic by the scholar Karen Stenner, who was prescient in her warnings and offers detailed ways to address and mitigate the problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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The bigots also had a Confederate flag, which is never a good sign. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse My Twitter feed is a reflection of what pepe argue with me about and the obsession among some on the left with contesting every claim about illiberal left excesses. I would talk about it a lot *less* but for people like you who raise it, among all possible issues, in my mentions — PolitiTweet.org

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After torture and election-stealing one can only speculate in horror at what a Claremont-affiliated lawyer will tell the next Republican president he or she is allowed to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse It's relevant because you were critiquing an article about a North Carolina law... — PolitiTweet.org

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@jayebeeem If they/them became a universal default that replaces he/she would you stick with it or switch to something else intended to convey the meaning they/them had when you first adopted it? — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems like some people are treating they as a pronoun that clarifies your gender--"I use they/them pronouns-- and others are treating it as a pronoun that presumes nothing about your gender in the way Ms. presumes nothing about your marriage status — PolitiTweet.org

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Got that folks? Anything justified under war powers should now be treated as unlawful, seeing as the president declared that the US is not at war. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse I'll give you $5 for every article I've written critiquing the campus left and you give me $5 for every article I have written critiquing the populist right. Deal? — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse And I maintain that, as you haven't read the majority of my articles, you have insufficient basis on which to assess my priorities. I'll make you an offer that I've made many others to see how confident you are in your priors: — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse That is a different state than what I wrote about. DeSantis is the governor of Florida, not North Carolina, where a Democrat is governor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse If you don't think both political parties are "using the powers of the state to restrict what can or should be taught" I don't think you understand this issue as well as you think. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JPober Multiple public libraries removed the books in the wake of the publisher's decision, which is indeed comparable to a school district removing "woke" books from its library. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse I don't mean to be short with you but it's daily now that someone on Twitter insists I hold a position that I've explicitly argued against. I of course don't expect you to be a reader of everything I write. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse I publicly reject something with careful, detailed arguments. You say I'm giving it cover. And I'm supposed to trust your broader assessments of this critique when you're wrong about that very basic point? — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse Her pop psychoanalysis does not capture the reasons these trends concern me. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse If you think I've given it cover you evidently missed my piece critiquing the laws he supports https://t.co/Hl7DtA8S36 Or my public arguments with him about why I think he's taking the wrong approach. This is why I find critiques like yours hard to take seriously. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse https://t.co/NhU9HiNbqn — PolitiTweet.org

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And any think tank that doesn't condemn it should stop telling donors that they stand for the principles of the founders. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nope. Biden isn't that great but he's much, much better than was Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cobra0483 @graham_strouse I don't focus on it obsessively. It's one of many things I write about. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tkdylan It's a disingenuous assault on democracy that would have plunged the country into violent conflict if attempted. — PolitiTweet.org

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And then they... displayed the chicken like a drug bust? — PolitiTweet.org

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This was an interesting piece but also begged many unresolved questions. — PolitiTweet.org