David Frum

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Put me down as unimpressed by AI's renditions. I asked for a paragraph in a famously biting and vivid style, I got "Canada, friendly neighbor to the north." https://t.co/Y0Y5DHRt8A — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: It would be one of the most fateful choices of the war--so bears watching closely. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: the 5th, the USA has to believe that the Chinese government is torn about how much military aid to give Russia and by… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhillipsPOBrien: I would go so far as to say that the only way Russia can wage a long-war is with significant Chinese support in both f… — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread , read to the end — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SuzanneNossel: Better than playing around with these texts is to offer introductory context that prepares people for what they are abou… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SuzanneNossel: The problem with taking license to re-edit classic works is that there is no limiting principle. You start out wanting… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SuzanneNossel: At @PENamerica we are alarmed at news of "hundreds of changes" to venerated works by @roald_dahl in a purported effort t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Sean_Speer: The triumphalist tone in much of the reporting and commentary on the Emergencies Act findings the same day that we learned… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mwmp PG Wodehouse adapted "You're the Top" for a British audience in the 1930s. He changed the lines, "You're an O'Neill drama, you're Whistler's mama" to "You're Mussolini, you're Mrs Sweeney" (a spectacular socialite of the day) https://t.co/qmkYoIb0k4 Moral: leave Cole Porter alone — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KyivPost: 🇫🇷 The first French #AMX-10 RC light tanks will be delivered to Ukraine at the end of next week, French Defence Minister Séba… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DevonScanlon326 That's right too of course. Rather than expunge Fagin from Oliver Twist, eg, teach how Dickens was so consumed by remorse for this early antisemitic character that he inserted a preposterously admirable counter-Fagin into his later-life "Our Mutual Friend." — PolitiTweet.org

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@nigelbeale Middling. She wasn't going to let me ignore the curriculum entirely scot-free! — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm eternally grateful to the 7th grade English teacher who caught me not paying attention in class because I was surreptitiously reading Jack London's "White Fang" under a desk. She moved me to a new seat at the back of the room, and then left me alone for the rest of the term. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm eternally grateful to the 7th grade English teacher who caught me not paying attention in class because I was surreptitiously reading Jack London's "White Fang" under a desk. She moved me to a new seat at the back of the room, and then left me alone for rest of the term. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @patrickjdo: Exclusive: EU members may agree to pool ammunition purchases as early as next month in a push to secure badly needed firepo… — PolitiTweet.org

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A sad fact of modern literary culture is that almost the only people who still care about books are those who want to censor and suppress them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread on the new Bowdlerizers — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LindaFrum: Very sad to hear of this. A respected, kind and visionary friend and colleague of my late mother Barbara. My condolences t… — PolitiTweet.org

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In the comments, a reader corrects me that it was Nahum Tate in the 1680s, not the Bowdlers a century and a quarter later, who rewrote Lear with a happy ending. https://t.co/5BbK73OuEF — PolitiTweet.org

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@DCrittenden1 ... THE poop-scraping ... — PolitiTweet.org

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(Although in fairness it was @dcrittenden1 who executed he poop-scraping) — PolitiTweet.org

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"As Canadian as spending a February long weekend dealing with frozen pipes in a barn" and "As Canadian as scraping frozen coyote poop off the back porch." I speak from immediate experience here — PolitiTweet.org

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Years ago, a Canadian magazine ran a contest that invited readers to complete the sentence, "As Canadian as ..." The winning entry was: "As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances." I don't think it's possible to improve on that, but honorable mentions should go to: — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread about the neo-Bowdlerizers — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BulwarkOnline: Fox's lies, Trump's potential t-shirt, and something about Austin Powers... @davidfrum joins @SykesCharlie for your wee… — PolitiTweet.org

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... she seemed always liable to burst into blushes when there was no need at all. There appeared to be no line of demarcation between the young person's excessive innocence, and another person's guiltiest knowledge." https://t.co/CoIjcYRIaI — PolitiTweet.org

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"The question about everything was, would it bring a blush into the cheek of the young person? And the inconvenience of the young person was, that, according to Mr Podsnap ... — PolitiTweet.org

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... and yet off our generation goes, erasing "boys and girls" from children's books - in a sad, doomed effort to enforce present-day ideas upon the future. Another great English writer, Charles Dickens, brilliantly anticipated such smug censoriousness. Meet Mr. Podsnap: — PolitiTweet.org

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Suppose somebody in the 1640s had taken it upon himself to rewrite Hamlet to eliminate these false ideas - maybe by cutting the Ghost altogether and all his suspiciously Papist speeches? What would we think of that now? Not too highly, I imagine. And yet ... — PolitiTweet.org