Jim Antle

Jim Antle @jimantle

@audreyy_kaye *Sigh*, no more orange chicken... — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@scottlincicome Even if there was no violence by the state, if you lived in a society racist enough where that was true, it would be a different problem. We could argue about whether government should be involved, but outlier discrimination is still different than pervasive discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org

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@scottlincicome I am not saying Jim Crow and Twitter are the same. What I am saying is different things are different. And I agree it is not just scale, it is alternatives. Which is my point: not being able to rent a room in one hotel is different from not being able to rent one in 14 states. — PolitiTweet.org

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@scottlincicome That is a good principle. But scale does at some point matter, no? If one racist won't rent a hotel room to a black person, it is a different social problem than if black people cannot rent a hotel room virtually anywhere on the Eastern seaboard in a Jim Crow-ized culture. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyHelsdon @JonahDispatch Is it? I have worked at a lot of publications and we all accepted not everyone could write or work for us or we them. But since Google/Facebook/Twitter have existed, those platforms have been important to every single one of those pubs' business models. — PolitiTweet.org

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Has Russia Today gone with a "See RT" slogan yet? — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheRightDuff @JonahDispatch Yeah, I don't know either. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffreyHelsdon @JonahDispatch What company would voluntarily choose one of Twitter's competitors, if we are defining those as Parler, Gettr or Gab? Maybe not as limiting as not being able to use a phone in 1975, but what are these numerous competing platforms? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch I am not sure that rises to the level of a government policy question. But it does seem different than who speaks at what conference or writes in which magazine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch That is true of almost every political activity besides voting, no? There are lots of conferences with a lot of different viewpoints or purposes. If you want to do what Twitter does -- which not everyone does, true -- there is basically Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DCLongIslander @carbolton I do wonder if she is actually more conservative than he is, despite her being Californian and his being Southern. I don't know, but I wonder. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch Jesse Jackson nor being allowed to speak at an American Renaissance conference is different from American Renaissance being banned from Twitter, even if I think American Renaissance is terrible (as I do) and am not sure there is a government role in either. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch And typos, ugh. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch That may not be sufficient to justify a government response, but still seems like a non-trivial distinction. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonahDispatch I get your point, and don't think it is entirely wrong. But I also don't think it is entirely right eother. Twitter is Twitter because virtuallu everyone in its space is on it, while CPAC and Netroots Nation can be what they are while excluding large numbers of people. — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter/Google/Facebook get some of their market advantage from the fact nearly everyone interested in what they do uses it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@WillsBossyMom Neither is freedom! But, yes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@carbolton Yass, kween! — PolitiTweet.org

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Even *if* — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter may at this point be closer to the phone company than a newspaper op-ed page. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't find the arguments on either side of this debate persuasive, especially from a policy perspective, and hold no brief for Fuentes. But not being able to speak at a niche (even influential) conference is different from not being able to use near-universal platform. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

The Art of the Deal — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi I'M TELLIN'! — PolitiTweet.org

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@kathrynlopez Cordially — PolitiTweet.org

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@carbolton She's just a girl in the world. — PolitiTweet.org

Jim Antle @jimantle

@thefactualprep Mama, take this COVID from me/I can't contract it anymore/Economy's locked, too locked to see/Feel like I'm knocking on unvaxxed doors I'm sorry, this was terrible, and yet I could not help it! — PolitiTweet.org

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@rikkischlott There's a Toobin joke here, but I'm not going to make it! — PolitiTweet.org

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@VerumVulnero1 Aww, shucks! — PolitiTweet.org

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@rikkischlott Only one mask?? — PolitiTweet.org

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I.D. ology — PolitiTweet.org