Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

It seems to me that few policymakers have been clear where they stand wrt these tradeoffs--that instead, it's been mixed and at times incoherently contradictory messaging from most leaders. Some of this is understandable. Still, I want to be a voice pushing for more clarity. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@dgodofwine @mattyglesias I dunno, I think Matt often gets the fundamentals right, though I disagree here. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias ...makes it legit, I think, to raise the question of whether you've chosen to fight the right people. Libertarian assistance to Pinochet strikes me as the better *really guys* critique of that movement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Not sure the analogy works? Maybe people who purport to value liberty should go fight the Taliban. Fair! But the intellectual line of anti-interventionism is more or less aligned with personal libertarian behavior... whereas the *personally fight fascists in the street* line... — PolitiTweet.org

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Is Antifa harkening back to the Spa ish Civil War and forming a sort of modern day Lincoln Brigade to protect liberals and women from the Taliban now that the U.S. Army has left, or still focusing on Portland? — PolitiTweet.org

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@paulrigby7 Paul, I don't get the logic, is the idea that two democracies can't be under threat at the same time for different reasons, or is it more of an emotional, rally around the flag kind of response than a logical response? — PolitiTweet.org

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Unless we pay for TSA PreCheck. It's absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I always love @JamesFallows, a former presidential speechwriter, on presidential speeches https://t.co/zwgVwLoZeB — PolitiTweet.org

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I favor approving vaccines for the young. But don't you currently face a statistically higher rate of both death and long Covid, even after vaccination, than your unvaccinated two-year-old? — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I'd prefer zero. For more than a year, I voluntarily upended my life and refrained from doing much of what I love to protect others, betting there would be a protective vaccine and Covid would pass. Now that there is (but it won't) I grow impatient with draconian restrictions — PolitiTweet.org

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This is accurate: it's a perennial debate and I have strong preferences for liberty. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill Sorry I lost your meaning here... — PolitiTweet.org

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I hope that's the conclusion Australians reach, and if some encouragement from their liberal friends abroad helps them to get there, we can celebrate together in Sydney, when we're allowed in. — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@iseult Among the best in the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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My concern is precisely that many are giving this answer *and I don't think COVID-19 is going away.* — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I see a lot of "this is only until we reach 80 percent vaccination." What if that took 5 years? What if, due to the resistant, you never reached it? Might "everyone has an opportunity to be vaccinated" be a better standard? — PolitiTweet.org

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The core question in my piece on Australia is one few of its critics even attempted to address, so let me repeat it: how long do measures defended as justifiable on the basis that they are "temporary" have to persist before it is reasonable to worry that they are "enduring"? — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill And to expand a bit: *there is a substantive disagreement about how best to oppose and defeat Racecraft nonsense in public schools.* I want that dispute fleshed out, not elided, which is what the *you're functionally helping the other side* claims do: they beg the question. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill I disagree substantively with the idea that the oped serves any single function and also that it serves that function. I also disagree with the garbage headline that the NYT put on it. — PolitiTweet.org

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W/r/t this point, I want to add that it applies to the whole of the EU as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ElsaJansen @egmercer @clairlemon Already in the works (and maybe updated). It was accurate as written but I do want it also to be universally clear! — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill Your two-sentence summary is a self-serving gloss that is unfair to its targets and defensible only as mercenary self-promotion, certainly not as conveying an accurate impression to your followers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill One wonders how that paragraph has the single function of ushering in the left's worst ideologies... because it obviously doesn't do that at all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill Your email does not qualify your observation in that way. Even so qualified, I still find the claim preposterous. Here is a paragraph from that oped: https://t.co/5UOrDn752K — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill I'm not omitting context, I'm responding to indefensibly overbroad characterizations offered in an email where you provided no more context than what I excerpted. — PolitiTweet.org

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@realchrisrufo @DavidAFrench @kmele @thomaschattwill I did, though it's been awhile. More to the point: those writers serve many functions, and prominent among them are advancing numerous important rebuttals to some of the worst ideologies on the left. French has filed lawsuits against what you would call CRT. — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that the "single function" of @DavidAFrench @kmele and @thomaschattwill is to usher in the worst ideologies of the left is preposterous, @realchrisrufo https://t.co/5Usk4J4Tza — PolitiTweet.org

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Another critic of the piece: https://t.co/Fpz6Awt2fK — PolitiTweet.org

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@born_a_joneser @scienceismessy To be explicit, I think the racist/anti-racist binary is made nonsensical in cases like that one, which illustrate its unworkability — PolitiTweet.org

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@GehringTed @cobra0483 @JamesSurowiecki Goodbye, Ted. — PolitiTweet.org