Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

It's always a good time to point out that you are a dishonest hack who is trying to profit off of a global catastrophe by spreading dangerous misinformation — PolitiTweet.org

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@calebwatney @CharlesFLehman Maybe that was the right option, and maybe that would have had better effects. But I'm not sure and I'm not sure anyone should be. People point to the EU AZ debacle, which is fair, but we didn't run the counterfactual where EMA handles things differently. — PolitiTweet.org

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While I have Alex Berenson's attention, I would like to remind everyone that he is the pandemic's Wrongest Man https://t.co/F4OTPBzlNo — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman Again, I'm not saying they made the obviously right call. But I do think the narrative of "obviously FDA dumb-dumbs did a dumb-dumb" is way too simple. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman That's not costless either, though. Imagine the vaccine skeptic message after this: "People have died, the FDA admitted it. They knew this was a possibility beforehand and they're still telling you to take the vaccine. Are you crazy?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias @TheStalwart i stand by what i wrote a half hour ago — PolitiTweet.org

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If the FDA didn't act, and then evidence came out that J&J caused blood clots and they covered it up, what would that do for public confidence in Covid vaccines? I'm not sure if FDA made the right call. But this is much more complicated than Twitter punditry suggests. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JustinTLogan No — PolitiTweet.org

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Congrats to everyone who became an expert today on the ethics of vaccination and public health messaging around low-risk, high-impact side effects — PolitiTweet.org

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@beingbrina oh no brinaaaaa — PolitiTweet.org

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@lionel_trolling There’s enough there though. The problem is that it’s mostly Jews who remember Father Coughlin and Henry Ford — PolitiTweet.org

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@hill_charlotte Hey! would you mind sending me an email, [email protected]? Got some election literature questions — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattGertz The Ohio Senate race to the bottom — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattGertz You can anticipate it verbatim, right? "Tucker dared to point out the way the Democrat party is using mass immigration to pass socialist policies, and now the Left is trying to cancel him. Woke political correctness is out of control and needs to be stopped." — PolitiTweet.org

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When Tucker literally parrots the "replacement" theory that motivated the Charlottesville marchers and the Christchurch shooter, he's challenging "elite" dogma. Got it. Question for Mr. Vance: who exactly are these "elites?" — PolitiTweet.org

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So many great things to say about DMX's work — formative rapper for people who were kids in the 90s. But one thing I'll add is that DMX was great in Romeo Must Die, a totally underrated movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanFosterType @SWGoldman Let me put it this way: I think a lot of the concerns about "wokeness" are cartoonishly overblown, but the strongest and most serious critiques are about the standards for evidence and argument internally among progressives — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanFosterType @SWGoldman To clarify, I agree with Sam's view that this isn't about intellectual fads but rather deeper epistemological divides between the left and the right classically construed. If anything, some new social justice doctrines push the left more in the right's epistemological direction — PolitiTweet.org

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@SWGoldman @DanFosterType I really agree with this, and I think you see it filtering down in popular press. Left-leaning publications are much more likely to publish stories on social science, while conservative publications put out more philosophically-minded essays in a way I frankly envy — PolitiTweet.org

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@DenisonBe "We totally would have fought the Nazis, it would have been badass" "So, uh, why didn't you?" "No reason. Everyone was on vacation. Check out our welfare state?" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JerusalemDemsas: New >> A new study found a significant decline (15-20%) in police homicides in places that saw BLM protests from 2014-… — PolitiTweet.org

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@amandataub @jane__bradley ahhhhh congrats!!! deserved recognition for great work — PolitiTweet.org

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The clip is, if anything, worse than it sounds. This isn’t watered down white nationalism - it’s the undiluted, 100 proof, genuine article — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @womenalsoknow: In a @voxdotcom piece featuring @hill_charlotte, @hakeemjefferson, & @JakeMGrumbach, @zackbeauchamp argues that we shoul… — PolitiTweet.org

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Help my baby is bullying me and calling me “four eyes” https://t.co/Jjmus8Fv9d — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattduss The Iran Deal: Bigger and Uncut — PolitiTweet.org

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@OsitaNwanevu you unironically love to see it — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @DKThomp This is the collective version of "can you sell yourself into slavery," and I think there are good reasons in both cases why the rights to freedom and political participation should be considered inalienable — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKThomp @CharlesFLehman Yeah, "suboptimal" is defined in consequential terms prior to entering the overlapping consensus, which is a kind of philosophical alchemical device that sets the terms of debate in a democracy. It's a whole thing, but tl;dr we basically agree — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKThomp @CharlesFLehman I think this is a false binary. I'm a consequentialist who thinks of democracy in Rawlsian overlapping consensus terms; there are certain non-negotiable political principles that it's consequentially good to accept even if they lead to suboptimal outcomes in certain cases. — PolitiTweet.org