Conor Friedersdorf

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@PetraStPete @Aella_Girl @primalpoly Given that lots of people are understandably concerned about stigmatizing/discriminating against people merely because they are sexual or gender minorities, and the difficulty of knowing another's mind, it seems prudent to me to stick to *no wildly distracting attire of choice* — PolitiTweet.org

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@Robninthehood @EricTopol @JAMA_current @AnuMalaniMD Glad he had an easy case. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PetraStPete @Aella_Girl @primalpoly I mean, it seems inappropriately *distracting* to me, regardless of motive, and I suspect that if God were to speak to us and assure us that, actually, the motive is not sexual, whatever else we think of the outfit, you would still find it inappropriate. Am I right? — PolitiTweet.org

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@PetraStPete @Aella_Girl @primalpoly It isn't "obviously" anything to me save something so radically outside my experience that I don't purport to know what the person doing it is thinking, and I'm confused that everyone else is so confident in their judgments. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EricTopol: Every moderately to severely immunocompromised person should know about Evusheld, a preventive Rx. It's uncommonly prescribe… — PolitiTweet.org

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At the moment of rising nationalism, protectionism, and authoritarian backlash to cross-cultural influence, I am heartened that for the first time I can get a Cruzcampo michelada. And it is delicious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeDrewWhat https://t.co/oYhSubZSuu — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeDrewWhat I should be asking you. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MikeDrewWhat Michael, what are burgers talking about? — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't know whether or not criminality will be found, but the discovery process in the inevitable civil lawsuits is going to be fascinating. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Aella_Girl @primalpoly To me this is a case where lots of people would object to a similarly distracting thing that wasn't at all sexual--for example, if the teacher wore a gigantic prosthetic nose or a wig that dragged behind them like the train of a wedding dress. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JDHaltigan I think that we should hold to the principle that it's bad for politicians to be deceitful regardless of whether we think they are doing it for political ends we support or oppose. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JDHaltigan I imagine some were deceived and some more attuned to the dynamics but I don't know for sure. Regardless I think it's bad for government officials to be untruthful with people whether or not they fall for it — PolitiTweet.org

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@JDHaltigan I disagree but let's accept your version for the sake of argument. They still misled the migrants. They did not tell them, *we're sending you here to draw media attention to an issue we think is important and undercovered." They used others as a means to an end w/o telling them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnnyCiucci: @conor64 @thomaschattwill @adamdavidson @kmele It was like an event from a bygone era. And shows why discourse wins over… — PolitiTweet.org

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I come to praise @adamdavidson @thomaschattwill and @kmele for choosing constructive conversation amid disagreement. https://t.co/FMUL3AuNXg Let's all do more of this. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JDHaltigan Is it your position that the migrants were told the truth, which is to say, that they were being sent to their destination not because it was the best place for them to get help, but because those sending them expected they would be unwanted, demonstrating liber hypocrisy? — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAgeofShoddy @jenmonkey1 How is a person saying their own ancestors of the same race did more to earn citizenship than they did racism? Against their own race? It makes no sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JDHaltigan That is correct: it is wrong to lie to migrants in order to use them as props for political gain. Kant and Jesus would agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAgeofShoddy @jenmonkey1 I don't respect frivolous accusations of racism. — PolitiTweet.org

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The question that matters is the merits of whether a booster is worth getting, not what Dr. Fauci wants. Why not address that? I will get a booster for self-interested reasons. If you won't, what evidence led you there? — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaheemKassam The only reason I haven't written what I tweeted in The Atlantic is that someone else already did--you are just so self-assured in your ignorance that you didn't bother to check that https://t.co/0er2cKGXOz — PolitiTweet.org

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@Elou33 @RaheemKassam Don't believe this liar https://t.co/KvQ1YNCyu2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@traditionalhip @RaheemKassam https://t.co/tjw0SSetmK — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaheemKassam https://t.co/KvQ1YNCyu2 https://t.co/U59BOSVQeS — PolitiTweet.org

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@RaheemKassam You're not only being a jackass, you're being an inaccurate jackass. Joe Biden is too old for my taste, too. The former problem may be unsolvable but you can at least be accurate. — PolitiTweet.org

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I've recently discovered 60 Songs That Explain the 90s hosted by @harvilla -- an enjoyable and unusually well-written podcast. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dan_jeezy @KayleeDMcGhee @chadfelixg Do you disagree with the premise that it is wrong for politicians to deceive people, or do you think it's okay as long as it advances political goals that you find important? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jtLOL @wokal_distance @dan_jeezy @CathyYoung63 @tar_revenge @JeffreyASachs I am not wrong. They lied to the immigrants, representing their motives and the likely outcome as one thing while knowing they were another. — PolitiTweet.org

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@wokal_distance @dan_jeezy @CathyYoung63 @tar_revenge @JeffreyASachs Oh come on. They did not tell the migrants the truth: *that they were sending them to a place they expected them to be rejected as a political stunt.* Instead they pretended they were sending them to a place to help them. — PolitiTweet.org