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b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@un_a_valeable @Jalane_Schmidt but as @un_a_valeable mentions elsewhere in this thread you really cannot underestimate the extent to which the mass commercial cultivation of short staple cotton by way of the cotton gin fundamentally changed the way that these institutions interacted with political economy — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@un_a_valeable @Jalane_Schmidt to make up for what was assumed to be a northern advantage in the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@un_a_valeable @Jalane_Schmidt This is right. The coalition against equal state representation was led by Virginia and made up of GA/SC/NC as well as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Part of the compromise as well, if I remember correctly, is that in the initial House apportionment the South got more seats... — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@GoldwagNathan there is a way in which a lot of people have internalized the idea of right-wing backlash so thoroughly that they essentially speak and act as if only democrats have any agency in american politics — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@ASRust yep. broadly very important to understand jim crow as part of a national project of democratic retrenchment partly in service of imperial expansion — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@CK_Taverner @pareene One of my favorite things on here are people who seem to genuinely not understand the claims being made and so the evidence they tout just doesn't apply. — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@yankeeshead @pareene alright, give me some examples. — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@B0BHitt @pareene yep! three prominent or consequential people saying the thing. politicians, affiliated commentators, officials, anyone. the more authority they have, the better. — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@cliddle @pareene well part of the argument behind "popularism" is that they're all of equal importance and that if random people on twitter don't display the message discipline of professional politicians democrats can't win — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@namron01 @RottenInDenmark what's fun about retweeting michael on this stuff is it provides a steady stream of people for me to block — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@pareene i've used this formulation before but if democratic politicians and officials and pundits are all attacking the united states as a bad place to live then it should be pretty easy to find examples of the phenomenon in the wild — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@RJAX1X @RottenInDenmark "I believe women of course but not this woman" is verbatim the rhetoric of people who dismiss accusations of abuse. — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@pareene the tell is always the fact that he never actually identifies anyone doing the thing he thinks is wrong — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
RT @smotus: I love the argument that we need guns to keep the government from taking away our guns, just like in Afghanistan where the peop… — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
RT @RottenInDenmark: Four weeks into this case, I remain struck by how few people seem to know the basic facts involved. Here is Amber Hea… — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
RT @jamieson: Trader Joe’s slashed workers’ retirement benefits this year, cutting the company’s 401k contribution by half. The fact that t… — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@Incogburritos “According to the Congressional Research Service, there are roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968: more than 300 million guns in all.” https://t.co/Ihc1zz8Bgo — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@BigDictaEnergy i found this information in 60 seconds while taking a walk — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@whstancil less personal discomfort, more petty dislike of people on the left — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@meelar @ryanlcooper it is only crime if it is happening in chicago or baltimore or detroit — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@Incogburritos there were two clauses in my tweet — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
i mean my opinion is that the reason they do this is because they don’t want to make the real argument out in the open, which is that they think the trade off — lots of easily available guns at the cost of more gun deaths — is worth it — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
people just be saying anything to avoid the obvious conclusion that it is the sheer quantity of guns and ease of acquiring them that is the issue — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
weekly church attendance is higher in the united states than all of its peer nations to say nothing of the fact that within the united states, high rates of church attendance are correlated with high rates of gun ownership https://t.co/O0w7Nt0tMj — PolitiTweet.org
Tim Carney @TPCarney
If you want a populace less attached to guns, you probably want a populace more involved in religion. https://t.co/TKJ8fVuXof
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@Atrios @tomscocca i remember someone, maybe it was jaid zilani, touting a statistic that showed a “50 percent increase” in homicides or something and then looking under the hood to find that the numbers went from 4 to 7 — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@blakehounshell if someone won an election 52 to 37, would you say that the loser attracted “nearly half” of the public’s support? — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
i remember arguing that pruit was underrated as the biggest piece of shit in trump’s first year cabinet https://t.co/epJbZoDdY0 — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
RT @pareene: watching Texas law enforcement try to invent a plausible narrative of their heroism and efficacy that stands up to sustained n… — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
RT @VaughnHillyard: Fwiw, Manchin told me this quote just over a week after Parkland in 2018: “It feels a little different. I’ve got grand… — PolitiTweet.org
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
@MatthewSitman so i'm not disappointed as much as i feel something to the effect of, "well, if that's how it is, fuck you" — PolitiTweet.org
