Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

How did Hard Rock Cafe get so many people to think *I should buy and wear t-shirts from this place*? — PolitiTweet.org

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Informative! — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels @Popehat I'm trying to persuade you because you seem like a person who is amenable to reason and shares many of my core values. In any event, What About MTGism is rather irrelevant to anything we were discussing. — PolitiTweet.org

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After careful international analysis of COVID-19 deaths rates I've concluded that the U.S. needs to dig moats around the 49 non-island states and Washington, D.C., so that all are islands. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels @Popehat I don't doubt you, but in my experience, the degree to which most people are willing to protect human rights is directly proportional to the degree to which they believe universal empathy is a better approach than selective empathy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PennyRed To be clear, if it comes to it, I'm in on the defense fund. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels @Popehat Wouldn't an orientation of "it's good to have empathy for everyone as fellow fallen humans" rather than "only the worthy deserve empathy" result in a more reliable commitment to opposing things like prison rape and police brutality and torture? — PolitiTweet.org

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@PennyRed Too bad he's not a free speech absolutist :) — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels @Popehat As do I. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kay55 Cocktails can help. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome @wint1208 @jakeroche I am pro empathy regardless of party or clique. — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels "Nurse during Covid" doesn't fit my definition of cowardice, and *unwittingly failed to be good parents* (if that's so) is definitely a category for whom I have empathy! But I get the feeling we're not going to agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CRCliff How long are they now? — PolitiTweet.org

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@gracels They did their best, while raising five kids, teaching school, and nursing the sick back to health during a pandemic. Now their only lives are over and their 5 children are orphaned. One was widowed before that happened. If you can't summon empathy for that I don't get why. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wint1208 @RIOldFolksHome There are whole sections of most in groups like this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome @IvanIlyich3 You define "actively" and "willfully" and "evil" different from most people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davequast Not sure a water park--I assume Raging Waters in San Dimas, which is all outdoors--is especially risky, or that, in the medium to long run, it's a degree of rusk anyone who wants to live a normal life can avoid. But we can all get vaccinated. — PolitiTweet.org

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One great thing about empathy is that it's an inexhaustible resource. In fact, cultivating the habit of feeling it for some people can make it easier to have for other people, rather than harder. But many people have contrary intuitions. Clarifying the truth could do lots of good — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome @ArthurOtkeKeim If a convicted rapist who is vaccinated gets Covid in prison and suffers and dies do you feel compassion for him or not? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome What if they earnestly believe that the vaccine is dangerous, and they are going around telling others not to take it, believing that they are protecting them? — PolitiTweet.org

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@NickCho I'm curious to understand what you mean specifically, because I'm disinclined, at first blush, to think that there are many issues that divide us neatly along a privileged/oppressed axis. Both political parties are coalitions of people in both groups aren't they? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome So if they were afraid of side effects, no empathy or compassion? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RIOldFolksHome So if we could know why the dead nurse mother and public school teacher father of five didn't get vaccinated, what reasons would render you inclined to be empathetic or compassionate? — PolitiTweet.org

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One of so many heartbreaking stories, shared with two purposes: to underscore that it's sensible to get vaccinated, and to have empathy and compassion for unvaccinated people who get Covid-19. https://t.co/RjLMTzElSP — PolitiTweet.org

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This is my tentative feeling too RE "reporting on others for cash." What's the best defense of that mechanism? — PolitiTweet.org

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@5Zepfan @saletan @HotlineJosh @GovRicketts Trump told you to take the vaccine. Israel isn't run by the media of the Democrats. Huge percentages of their citizens got the vaccine. Why do you think that is? — PolitiTweet.org

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“I turned down a knighthood because if you took a knighthood, you had to lose your citizenship.” I don't think that's true, but I only mention it because it made me think of him unsheathing a windshield wiper blade to disarm a man with a squeegee. https://t.co/tHasDUH4Tw — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jpinsk: My latest in @TheAtlantic is an interview with a theater scholar about what "Waiting for Godot" can teach us about waiting for… — PolitiTweet.org

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@visakanv It's gonna have to be a wide angle lens to see the slices — PolitiTweet.org

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So you're saying it's a good thing that I hit the ball more than 100 times every few years when I try to golf and my mistake is not having a video camera there? — PolitiTweet.org