Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp

Bold move on CNN's part to start this debate with the "Make the Third Way Great Again" slate of candidates — PolitiTweet.org

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McGovern-Mondale-Dukakis are not the trump card they once were, my dude — PolitiTweet.org

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Has John Delaney been frozen in amber since 1992 — PolitiTweet.org

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I can't process Marianne Williamson's accent — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not really sure why we're doing the National Anthem now, and it seems weird. But if you think about it, it's considerably weirder at sports games than presidential debates. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pretty sure I own the suit Buttigieg is wearing, as does every man under the age of 35 — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think CNN's entry video is supposed to be this funny — PolitiTweet.org

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@rortybomb It's a weirdness that draws attention to the key flaw in that essay, which is that the distinction between negative and positive liberty makes no sense — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dylanmatt: This is mostly a guess but I don't think many of the efforts to explain political behavior using innate or immalleable aspec… — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a debate day so very little is happening politically, which means @cjane87 and I spent the last half hour talking about football and the eternal terribleness of Jerry Jones — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a debate day so very little is happening politically, which means @cjane87 spent the last half hour talking about football and the eternal terribleness of Jerry Jones — PolitiTweet.org

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Question for Twitter hive mind: Who do you all think are the sharpest critics of liberalism *from the left* who are currently writing? — PolitiTweet.org

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@profmusgrave Too real, Paul - way too real — PolitiTweet.org

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JetBlue's website is extremely into the binary https://t.co/lUzH75eYuW — PolitiTweet.org

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@normative i'm genuinely curious as to why so many of the results for all publications are so negative — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @juliaioffe: That’s three synagogue shootings in the last year. https://t.co/FCJ5Gbi0VX — PolitiTweet.org

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@jtlevy @dandrezner Very curious who this is about — PolitiTweet.org

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@jamespoulos @CharlesFLehman That's a good question I don't know the answer to, I'm thinking just based on concerns surrounding stigma and the nature of the problem itself — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos Anyway I'm going to go back to work now but I wanted to say this is one of the most thoughtful and worthwhile conversations I've had on Twitter in a while, ty to you both — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos Absolutely right. I think I'm super-sensitive to the potential for rhetoric like MW's to make it even harder than it already is for people who are severely depressed to seek the treatment they need — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos I think there are two separate issues in this conversation. One is what role medication ought to play in treating depression. The second is a meta-question as to whether Williamson's arguments on the former are helpful or harmful. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos That's also a good point. Best evidence IMHO says that therapy and medication work best together and are much less reliable independently. Which doesn't suggest we should be taking MW's anti-anti-depressant attitude, but trying to figure out when SSRIs etc. are appropriate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos I dunno, I look at tweets like this and I see genuinely anti-scientific attitudes — not the measured and appropriate cautions you're voicing here! https://t.co/tBzXWZuWv1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos And that's what makes me quite a bit hostile to Williamson here. While there's a debate over how universally effective anti-depressants are, there's really good reason to believe they work well for *some people* — and discouraging them from taking meds could literally kill them — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos I guess I fall somewhere where Scott Alexander (who you mention elsewhere in the thread) does in his update (https://t.co/9Np2V8Yeby). I'm also a bit partisan because, as I write here, I personally feel like SSRIs really helped turn my life around https://t.co/HhjXmfnOcu https://t.co/UvfDfODrWl — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesFLehman @jamespoulos Worth noting that Kirsch's work is a bit outdated. 2018 meta-analysis finds that anti-depressants are consistently better than placebos https://t.co/X6wP2xQb17 https://t.co/OTkDLjqmax — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth noting that there's virtually no reliable evidence suggesting that the "good guy with a gun" happens with any real frequency https://t.co/esrvfw4cwy — PolitiTweet.org

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@germanrlopez please stop talking about my problems in public it's rude — PolitiTweet.org

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tHe oNlY wAy tO sToP a bAd gUy wItH a gUn iS a GoOd guY wItH a gUn — PolitiTweet.org

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@dylanmatt dylan's tweeting this because i could not actually believe peggy noonan wrote this and he proved me wrong — PolitiTweet.org