Conor Friedersdorf

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@JustinRood At the elite level, did the politicians of the Bush era or the Trump era strike you as more intolerant? For me, it's the latter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann I wasn't talking about 30 years ago. I was talking about 10 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RLHeppner Pedantic dunks are a waste of both of our time, Richard. I hope you have better things to do than policing other people's questions? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JessPish I don't think the article actually establishes that, but it would be worth examining if it were true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinRood I'm not making a point about the paradox of tolerance here. I'm saying that, seeing that aside, people were more tolerance circa 2010 than circa 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinRood I disagree that we increasingly reject intolerance. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting. I do think social media facilitated a shift from spaces where people engaged in conversation and debate as ends in themselves to spaces where people performed those modes to advance other ends (and also became paranoid that *everyone* was performing). — PolitiTweet.org

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@NormanGYoung Lol. No. — PolitiTweet.org

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Before social media, I thought the Internet would tend to strengthen the position of non-conformism vs conformism. My sense now: despite the good of more total voices getting aired, tolerance for difference may have declined, from teens on insta to adults in professions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting: — PolitiTweet.org

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@kristoncapps There's something to this but as "authoritarian" typically means *willingness to use coercion in service of imposing oneness/sameness* it is an awkward fit to describe opposing mandates to get vaccinated or wear masks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@S___Elliott @Ravarora1 @clairlemon @YasMohammedxx Agree on tagging. — PolitiTweet.org

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@clairlemon Agree on two of these, but I think it's fair game to report on the politically motivated stealing of st… https://t.co/Iw4nx0vneu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LachCartwright: "I was always delighted by his bizarre mind and earnest gaze. (I’m trying to avoid using the phrase, “twinkle in his ey… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LachCartwright: Statement from David Letterman on Norm Macdonald's death: "In every important way, in the world of stand-up, Norm was t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Musa_alGharbi @JonHaidt Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @roddreher That's interesting. — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonHaidt Perhaps there's not enough evidence to say, but do you have any sense of whether the problem would be mitigated or not by getting rid of comments and likes in under 18 accounts but continuing to allow photo sharing? Or is large scale image sharing enough to do the damage? — PolitiTweet.org

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An interesting dispatch that complicates the narrative about who is a vaccine skeptic. (My goodness I can't imagine *working as an administer of COVID-19 tests* and not being vaccinated!) https://t.co/x1UYpePOdc — PolitiTweet.org

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@AdamHSays No problem, here for this every time you publish a good book :) — PolitiTweet.org

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Adam doesn't mention it in this Tweet but happens to have written the book on the subject https://t.co/ZcV8w7JA4f Worth checking out. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NolanDMcCaskill @latimes Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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If you were reading @ENBrown this won't come as a surprise, but if you saw the typical coverage it may come as quite a shock. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyASachs: Norm saves the interview. https://t.co/7OqGodAlyD — PolitiTweet.org

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@plants62 @FelipeDLH Indeed, Pam, as I have told a dozen people already, I was too vague. But believe me, I never have and never will be bullied out of a Twitter take I actually intended by the "read the room" sheep. If that's what I meant I'd tell you. — PolitiTweet.org

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RIP. The audiobook of his autobiography is fantastic, and the moth joke is one of my all time favorites. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @petersuderman: Damn. Damn damn damn. Watching him tell the moth joke may be the hardest I have ever laughed at a human being simply t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@plants62 @FelipeDLH No, Pam, what I do on here is converse in real time with people who have wildly different priors and assumptions, and in the course of freewheeling discourse I'm sometimes too vague, or imperfectly clear, in very normal ways. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @tweetertation: !!! Astronomer Jo Bovy receives Rutherford Memorial Medal for his insights into our galactic home, the Milky Way Galaxy… — PolitiTweet.org