Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(CORRECTION) Happy to correct one item from this thread: the FBI assessment of a possible lab leak (the only other such assessment besides the DoE "low confidence" assessment) was made with "moderate confidence" but based on *entirely different evidence* than DoE found probative. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(🚀) I accidentally set the National Retro Day subscription sale at RETRO incorrectly, so instead of it ending yesterday, it ends TONIGHT (Tuesday) at midnight. Which means if you want a year of RETRO for $2-and-change/month, you have another chance now! https://t.co/HTRZ7bqrK0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@zemkai Thrilled to hear that if Democrats passed such a law there would be no Republican opposition whatsoever, meaning no appeals to the Supreme Court, no attempts by the executive branch to veto it, no promises of vengeance from GOP voters — PolitiTweet.org

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@Pat__Underhill @IWantToBeJesus Dark Brandon here telling us the government lacks the power to forgive loans domestically though it can *internationally* Love the use of the word “kids” given that the whole point here is that crippling student loan debt is affecting people into their 40s and thus *our economy* — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: The Scott Adams Scandal Is Worse Than You Think Click the red button atop the article below to get a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@organic_twinkie @SweetieWalker She knows. Her stupidity is willful and practiced. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LAST DAY: The 25% off subscription sale at PROOF ends at midnight tonight (Tuesday)! Hope you’ll check it out below.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Good news, Republicans! Conservatives *stealing* between $10,000 and $20,000 in debt relief from 43 million Americans DEFINITELY won’t hurt you at the polls in 2024. You’ve INDUBITABLY made the right call here, and we surely will all FORGET what you did. https://t.co/KW0NLVesGS — PolitiTweet.org

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Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) is the best. Just a flat-out hero. Have been a huge fan for a long time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@trishgreenhalgh I don’t think it’s completely nuts. Not at all. My only opposition is to those who falsely say they know for sure; or falsely say that that’s what the U.S. government is saying; or falsely say that an accidental lab leak would equate to it being a Chinese bioweapon. All untrue. — PolitiTweet.org

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(NOTE) I have no idea where the coronavirus came from and neither does anyone else. Nor would any possible scenario particularly surprise me. But the weight of government opinion is currently on the side of a natural origin—and the disinformation on the subject is 100% political. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Orthomolecures Liar. Read this article—NOT JUST THE HEADLINE—and see how careful the Times has *always* been on this subject, including emphasizing that in some instances natural immunity *could* slightly edge out vaccine-based immunity. https://t.co/CvmZ0uUebp — PolitiTweet.org

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@sandyluvsboyz @ScottAdamsSays LINK. Now. I am sick of disinformation framed as "I thought I read..." — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) If you want to read about how Trump’s lies killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and how the MAGAs should be spending all their time calling Trump a butcher and Fauci a hero, borrow PROOF OF CORRUPTION (Macmillan 2020) from the library and skip to the COVID-19 chapter. — PolitiTweet.org

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(VIDEO) And here you can watch racist cartoonist @ScottAdamsSays lying about the news in real time. What’s so scary about this far-right, QAnonist disinformation is that he *claims he’s reading headlines*. But what he says is 100% false and not a headline. https://t.co/z7jkB2KM6N — PolitiTweet.org

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(2 of 2) ZERO agencies have identified the 2019 coronavirus as a Chinese bioweapon. ZERO agencies have said that federal scientists did anything but give accurate data to Americans based on what they knew at the time. And Trump’s actions in office killed *hundreds of thousands*. — PolitiTweet.org

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(1 of 2) There’s a lot of disinformation out there on this—some from @ScottAdamsSays—so here’s the truth: FOUR U.S. intel agencies have concluded the 2019 coronavirus likely had a natural origin; TWO U.S. agencies have concluded with LOW CONFIDENCE it was an accidental lab leak. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) LAST DAY: The 25% off subscription sale at PROOF ends at midnight tonight (Tuesday)! Hope you’ll check it out below. https://t.co/k21dLXhsvg — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) https://t.co/qhrGScaJuD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: The Scott Adams Scandal Is Worse Than You Think Click the red button atop the article below to get a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Uh, yeah, the solution is definitely to conceive of a vast media conspiracy to worsen race relations rather than having enough media literacy to know that your best example of the supposed conspiracy is an *op-ed* rather than a piece of NYT reportage These people are such clowns — PolitiTweet.org

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@fforw @ScottAdamsSays I suppose it could be a component of an entirely unpersuasive one — PolitiTweet.org

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@MishaInTheCloud Exactly like Ben Shapiro. — PolitiTweet.org

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Adams is smarmy without being smart. His delivery is newsy without betraying actual knowledge of the news. His tone is arrogant to cover for the fact that he has no training, experience, education, or research to back up anything he’s saying. But MAGAs can’t tell the difference. — PolitiTweet.org

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Attention is indeed the currency of the digital era. I wrote about this as a theorist starting many years ago—pre-Cernovich—and know many others who were talking about it well before me. But you can no more produce this currency out of nothing than you can produce gold from lead. — PolitiTweet.org

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If Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, Scott Adams is an idiot’s idea of a smart man. The reason the humanities exist, and for that matter the reason colleges and universities exist, is so that nations don’t embarrass themselves by elevating people like Adams as “thinkers.” — PolitiTweet.org

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So how do we know when a racist cartoonist declaiming on racial politics is engaged in damage control rather than an act of persuasion? When he waits until he’s f*cked up to outline all his credentials for discussing racial politics. Scott Adams is a joke to any educated person. — PolitiTweet.org

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Developing an ethos is hard. It requires a background that commands respect in the relevant field (via education, training, experience, research) and a coherent philosophy (born of morality/ethics but also attuned to the self) that works in concert with one’s rhetorical strategy. — PolitiTweet.org

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What @ScottAdamsSays is telling people is that the *Unabomber* was persuasive. This is what happens when you take your cues on rhetoric from Mike Cernovich and aren’t half as smart or educated as you think you are. To normal folks, “smart” right-wingers sound like drunk uncles. — PolitiTweet.org

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For those wondering if what racist cartoonist @ScottAdamsSays about rhetoric is correct, this longtime college rhetoric professor is here to tell you it’s not. The first rule of persuasion—which Adams skipped—is to develop an ethos that informs an integrated rhetorical strategy. https://t.co/KiK3B6nctL — PolitiTweet.org