Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@thejvsharpe @JDVance1 2 percent is a high fatality rate! — PolitiTweet.org

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I'll never forget attending an admitted students event at Columbia where someone asked about the high tuition cost and the reply was that they were privileged to be standing in the room where the Pulitzer Prizes are announced. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jlazarus001 @AshaRangappa_ I think of antisocial as meaning a person person shows no regard for right and wrong or the rights of others. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AltherrTerry @weirdo__ripper Not to be pedantic but technically I'm a Free Speech Général d'Armée — PolitiTweet.org

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@AshaRangappa_ I think whether it's antisocial depends on whether the refuser believes themselves to be a free rider on herd immunity or refusing a thing that doesn't in fact work. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's not too late for a Fauci dunk tank gambit! https://t.co/5zBeawYJYd — PolitiTweet.org

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@theannasu *world. And I'm on cup 3. — PolitiTweet.org

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@theannasu A pre-caffeine grace period does seem like it could bring about a better word. — PolitiTweet.org

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I continue to think we've underinvested in both direct payments and vulgarly populist incentives. — PolitiTweet.org

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The false assumptions people sometimes make based on questions one asks is a fascinating part of being a journalist who thinks issues through in public. — PolitiTweet.org

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@theannasu Who is *they*? I've defended human rights against U.S. policy for going on twenty years now. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann Well, I am interested in this generally, but I'm currently thinking about it in the context of vaccine persuasion, which has a lot of relevant particularities — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnbillimek I'm interested in those too, I just have a stronger sense of how the analysis would turn out without asking. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jaidling Interesting, so the mockery led to investigation. Do you think it was best suited to spurring your inquiries or would raising the same questions to which you had no answers forcefully but without mockery have done the trick? — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidamann That's not quite what I asked but thanks for answering and I agree that can and does happen — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AlecStapp: Everyone should read this excerpt from @mattyglesias's interview of @davidshor: "There's a lot of damage that gets done by… — PolitiTweet.org

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@realtonysm1th @JDVance1 Hmm. All of us employers of over 100 people? I guess that could be what he meant but that's not what it seemed like. Would still love a clarification, especially if he wants people to get vaccinated because I suspect others will take it that way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RedIsDead If you'd like to specify your objection I'd be happy to discuss it with you. — PolitiTweet.org

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The downside of this approach is that it puts many who take it and their dearest loved ones at significantly increased risk of death. For that reason I assume you are vaccinated, @JDVance1, but you said "all of us" as if you're not. Could you clarify? — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricColumbus Can you give an example of that happening to you? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RheaultRay @TPCarney That's not very persuasive — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrynnTannehill That depends on if you believe there is any interest in the life of the fetus, which our jurisprudence does. If you assume no, then I agree, your analysis holds. — PolitiTweet.org

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The good news: people reconsidered the wisdom of a book burning. The bad news: they did so because the Indigenous credentials of the book burner came under question. If they ultimately check out I'll still be here opposing the book burning. https://t.co/rW5UbbWQKG — PolitiTweet.org

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@NormanGYoung I agree that it can sometimes convince observers. I am more skeptical about the mocked being convinced. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa @aponysus This was helpful, thanks. Eventually I will have a more clear and fine grain description of my views on this — PolitiTweet.org

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@ajm6792 I have changed my mind many times. Never as a result of disdainful mockery, or I'd have caved on most civil liberties questions years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SullaFelix8 @willmasonmusic It's definitely effective at creating monocultures that distort sound thinking and generate damaging backlashes... — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa Maybe this helps explain our different instincts. This sort of mockery with the intention that you articulated clearly seems like using a person as a means to an end for me. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another question: "Have you ever been jarred into thinking again about a question or researching it more deeply after seeing the position you'd assumed was true being treated as laughable?" Specific examples only. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rasmansa So the target of mockery is being used as a means to an end. I wonder if Kant would or wouldn't mock you for that behavior. — PolitiTweet.org