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Ken Braithwaite

@DStrungk

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@nytimes @jessesingal “Agreed.” A court ordered it. They lost several appeals.
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@Wilson80649476 @ItsDeanBlundell When he posted part of the list, which is hacked material, he violated Twitter TOS. I reported the tweet.
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@wil_da_beast630 Hilarious. We don’t have the power so I stopped the meeting and gave her the business.
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@wil_da_beast630 This is job related. She clearly cannot be trusted or believed to be fair to students. Fire her.
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@Forbes Is it Forbes’s contention that reducing child pornography is making it worse?
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@primalpoly @MichaelDavSmith He isn’t being naive, he is being dishonest.
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@TheFroggyNight @Timcast People enforcing something other than law. This is obvious of course, your question was bad faith. Muting you.
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@cliftonaduncan Has the immune system ever published anything peer reviewed? I didn’t think so.
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@noonie808 @RonFilipkowski What is wrong with the requirement that any bill be presented several days, 5 is arbitrary but so would be any number, before the vote so members and their staff can read it? Be specific.
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@Winterhawks03 @JonahDispatch You don’t need to remind the man who made a career of it.
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@DanielGreenMN @ZaidJilani @ConsistentLife @demsforlife @GovAbbott I think I can support laws that ban drowning puppies and still support shooting rabid dogs.
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@TheFIREorg @elonmusk I rarely disagree with FIRE but I think I do here. This looks to me like stalking, and reasonable anti stalking laws are allowable aren’t they? This seems like doxxing. Anyway, wasn’t the recent physical attack on the car carrying his son at least worth mentioning here?
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@DrProudman He’s saying you're not allowed on the grass. Maybe you are, but that's what he is saying.
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@TheRabbitHole84 @EdKrassen Being based on claims, these numbers are floors, the actual numbers could be higher but not lower.
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@triketora If you never see a bias it might be because you share it. Your posts have probably been a bit bigoted for years, just a bigotry acceptable to the Twitter team. Not flaming race hatred, just kinda sneering at people for their color.
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@conor64 How can it not? They are blocking him. He has the right to use the path, they have no license to exclude anyone.
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@sussex_police You threatened a member of the public. That should be a firing offense. Your director of communication should resign.
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@TillyLovesBooks I saw the tweet. Didn’t say that. Doesn’t make sense in context. So, don’t believe you.
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@DeputyChow Thank you for allowing replies. Pity the department lacks such courage. It is hard to understand not intervening once actual physical attacks have happened. That looks to me like bias not prudence. The same bias evident in the officer’s comments.
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@Gimpuslegend You don’t. For exactly the same reason you cannot tell if none of them are. But it’s unfair to make women make such impossible guesses when their safety is at stake. So you have helpfully shown why changing rooms should be single sex.
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@SahajKohli @washingtonpost My name contains two thorns, th. Many people cannot pronounce it properly. Francophones almost never. So what? And how arrogant is it to expect everyone to know how it should sound, and to be able to produce the phoneme?
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@DanielGreenMN @ZaidJilani @ConsistentLife @demsforlife @GovAbbott I am pro choice and opposed to executions, but this “consistency” argument is a non-starter.
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@stuartlosaltos This is a point I have not seen many get. That a guy with a PhD in art history knows another painting…. It’s a weaker argument than if a cab driver does. It’s obvious the last supper is intended. The show was called La cène …. Which is specifically the last supper.
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@CamiIIePaglia I like @wil_da_beast630 ’s term for this, taqiya. It's central to everything woke. The woke think power precedes truth, so they have no obligation to be truthful. They say what they can get away with, always. The woke speak power to truth.
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@JuliaNEM33 Your analogy to surgery and prescription drugs is a hair cut?
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@clairlemon @BretWeinstein @HistoryBound @mtaibbi I think you are patronising *me*, one of the readers of the debate, by suggesting I could not come to a sensible conclusion if I hear all sides. I do not accept that your understanding is greater than mine.
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@FilmLadd Lost in the Biden dementia story might be another big story. If Trump has learned he does better when he shuts up he will become a much stronger candidate.
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@jessesingal The video doesn’t have to prove the assertion. The question is whether the assertion is true. I think 17 is young. It is certainly below the age of majority. You want to censor the tweet because in your opinion 17 year old girls are not “young girls”.
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@Timcast The only cure for past discrimination is present discrimination.
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@wil_da_beast630 The real point, as with a lot of the linguistic stuff, is to keep changing it. It’s a status discrimination tool because only some can keep up.
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@KSommerlot “I was a dull and uninspiring teacher for 10 years.”
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Not *a* burger, agreed.
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@frankfriendly88 @shoe0nhead Wasn’t that ruled illegal by a court when Trump did it?
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@emmma_camp_ 15 years or so ago I was asked what was our biggest problem. I said it’s that most people think ad hominem is sound.
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@JamesSurowiecki That’s an absurdly hostile reading. How about, was he charged *because* he was an opponent? Would a normal non-political person have been charged? That's a fair question when even the prosecutor admits it’s a novel legal theory and no one HAS been charged like this before.
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@squarooticus @ejdickson I followed the trial closely at the time. There was no doubt. Internal Oberlin memos made very clear the college’s duplicity.
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@clairlemon @jayvanbavel @JackPosobiec @TPostMillennial I have no idea who or what was discussed, but “had to”? No one ever “has to” lock their Twitter account. You might choose to, but that’s not the same.
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@waitmanb @Irminsul1337 @VisitNotts And there is the “data point.” You simply want to control other people. I live near the last flying Lancaster. “No need to fly a Lancaster” I suppose. And no need to read Mein Kampf or Sereny’s interview with Stangl. Check with Dr Beorn first!
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@Capitalist_Mike @EndWokeness We don’t need new laws or new powers. Enforcing our existing laws against violence would suffice.
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@arbyhotdog @StewMama71 @ScottLeibowitz @wpath The editor said he didn’t participate in the writing. You know this already as it was discussed n Singal’s thread. You are a obfuscating. Muting .
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@wil_da_beast630 How to kill interracial adoption.
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@carlosFsiempre @ALLIANCELGB It says he was beaten by people at the march. Which part do you doubt, that he was beaten or that the beating took place at the march?
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@NAChristakis Where Eric Clapton performs *is* his lane.
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@CHSommers Gee, why don’t people trust the media anymore?
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@DanFriedman81 @jessesingal Hence the need/desire to get rid of the books — so kids can’t see for themselves.
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@wil_da_beast630 @CathyYoung63 I would prefer a diversity of evidence. On the one side, Wilf has his, one the other Cathy has … what?
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@cryptist0071 @1VeryChillDude It’s part of a series of tweets mocking Christianity. Does he have the courage to similarly mock Islam? He does not.
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@wil_da_beast630 Adult human female. I am perfectly happy to treat many others as if they too were women in most but not all circumstances.
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@WR_Samurai @KonstantinKisin What do you think from the river to the sea means?
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@rupasubramanya My reaction exactly. Imagine 1965. “Kids are dying in Viet Nam and Cambodia, and you’re going on about lunch counters?” Yes it’s better here. One reason is that we protest injustices.
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@CTVVancouver Two? It’s six isn’t it? Speaking up I mean. Plus the implicit rebukes of some of those who didn’t attend or didn’t applaud. Not two.
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@itshalves @SahajKohli @washingtonpost Indeed. My name contains phonemes several languages lack. It was mispronounced by many coworkers over many years, who physically could not produce the correct sounds. So what?
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@BarbaraRKay Cis is a slur. It’s the equivalent of a Calvinist saying “unelect”. It’s a division of people into groups based on fictional criteria that they themselves reject.
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@jacobrossitx @realchrisrufo @jonathanchait No, one is about operating from a premise and the other is about creating a feeling in others. Example of the difference: I presume Chait intended to lie but I did not create his intent to lie.
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@PuckLoptr @wesyang @MattRinaldiTX Or the school or someone at it convincing the kid to keep it secret.
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@ProfKarolSikora Very uneasy about blood pressure pills being offered to tens of thousands of obese patients on the NHS. It sends completely the wrong message and undermines the importance of personal responsibility. Take a pill and all will be fine. Not the right attitude.
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Years ago I was asked who was the most destructive figure in America. I said Jon Stewart. He made it cool and funny to distort, straw man, sneer, and impugn motives. Bad faith dunks as the height of debate. I still like my answer.
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These articles are utterly bizarre. It's like they're referring to an entirely different set of shootings than the ones we have video of. There's no attempt to make sense of those actual moments -- it's all rote recitation and archetypes.
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@phl43 Your tense is wrong. This kind of thing has been criminalized in Britain a long time. Remember the Hitler salute dog? Some years there are over 3000 arrests just for Facebook posts.
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@stuartlosaltos No. The point is that not one of these MPs paused for one second to think, wait, fought on the Russian front against Russia? They just clapped like trained seals. Trudeau is more culpable. He met this guy, he arranged this show. His dereliction is extreme.
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@mwellshalophile @Hedzer15 It is the self image of the Left as standing up for “the real victim”. It’s a common thread. Any fool can condemn a rapist, it takes a sensitive, higher, soul to see his suffering, understand he is the greater victim. That’s the core of it. More extreme in the woke.
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@wil_da_beast630 I mean: Inherently implausible, prepaid but no call to cancel, a tirade in the street instead? Overdone dialogue. “Rules of society “ Won’t give checkable details, because Give $ to the cause please
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King was an adulterer and had some misguided opinions. He was also the greatest leader of his era and a very great man.
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Yes. There are entire books about this, with titles like "Beyond Good and Evil," and "The Great Man Theory of History." We don't build statues of King and Jefferson because "It's great they had mistresses," or some such crap, but because they were among the most essential men in
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@aaronsibarium There is also the issue of waste. If you had a class that could have trained 109 doctors who can pass the exams but you only train 90 who can and 10 who cannot you have done serious damage.
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@wesyang Jon Stewart’s argument is, always, deceptive edits, misrepresentations, and smears.
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@Zero22350 @lizzywol @reason Cruelty, being the new virtue, is its own reward.
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@lizzie363 @JamesSurowiecki @DeanBaker13 The point is that these examples show Musk’s comment is ridiculous.
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@CHSommers @nypmetro Don’t say “ wank” bill.
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@jessesingal These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof. These people think repetition is proof.
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@eeners @SuperFoolSue @MegEBrock Yup. Mockingbird, Finn, Flies, Slaughterhouse we’re certainly left wing targets. Maybe others.
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@lecanardnoir Some interesting examples here. I think recovered memory and lobotomy are the best examples. Definitely got entrenched in the establishment and used to inflict harm with a smug certainty.
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@CathyYoung63 Then you can try explaining to a Muslim who thinks blasphemy more destructive than killing why Salman Rushdie should be left alone. Once you decide your subjective assessment of harm or danger licenses any response that is where you end up.
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@wil_da_beast630 How many were bots though?
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@RitaPanahi She is a teacher.
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@RitaPanahi They don’t seem to care.
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@LeeCEldridge @ggreenwald @LauraSullivaNPR True, but better than Anne Applebaum.
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@karl_jacoby I read sections of Columbia's rules, which are online. I saw that the president must consult with a committee, and that it says explicitly nothing in the rules precludes the president exercising emergency powers. I did not read everything. Can you link to the relevant section?
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@rupasubramanya I agree. I also agree with Glavin that CUPE posting support for Hamas should lead to the union being decertified.
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@ZJSanger @LeorSapir Kids with troubles need counseling and help, not premature diagnoses. The suicide ploy is odious and irresponsible. I am muting you.
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@arthurwatkins @NeverRelevant1 Descriptions do usually fit more than one person.
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@TruismsT Still less do I understand the argument that KR's life shouldn’t matter because he crossed state lines.
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@MaxNordau @Jodi7768 That watching Jews get raped and murdered was exhilarating.
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@AnthonyFrieda @wesyang I agree, but the consequence is you do not get to enforce pronouns, or any other demands that are indeed our business. But live and let live is a good approach.
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@jonathanchait Your misquote is very different, creating something in others is not like operating from a premise.
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@R_H_Ebright @MrsT106 @wesyang Indeed. This isn’t close to the final stage.
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@Boenau @DaCinal Says the guy posting maps of American laws
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This is what we need to ensure does not happen. And we are not doing well at it.
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Caucasians need to adopt a racial consciousness this decade, The mainstreaming of attacking white kids is going to continue in public schools, and school administrations will drag their feet for fear of being called racist The “Colorblind” days are OVER. Racial animus is
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@flz862 @BelissaCohen No it isn't. This is not a reversal at all. This is how Wokes always deal with opposition: they start with passive-aggressive demands and escalate.
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@JamesSurowiecki @rumBaKnight @jessesingal That difference of opinion is grounds for removing a tweet as “false” or even libelous?
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This is putrid. Encouraging troubled young people to kill themselves is putrid.
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Let us never forget the extraordinary courage and commitment of brother Aaron Bushnell who died for truth and justice! I pray for his precious loved ones! Let us rededicate ourselves to genuine solidarity with Palestinians undergoing genocidal attacks in real time!
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@SwipeWright It is difficult to make a man understand when his Twitter following depends on his not understanding.
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@hungus14 @Timcast Can you explain why this section does not apply? It's to influence a judge, and it's at his residence.
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@wil_da_beast630 @jessesingal ”I thought 13 when I read that but in fact only 17 year olds are having hysterectomies so that means you are a lying liar who needs to be censored.”
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@TheodoreGalanos @dukakis_poster If only the poor would agree to live in the dark we could make the cuts we need.
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@MystMod @_CryMiaRiver Nonsense. Staffer sees X request Trans. Staffer grabs second book and puts name X on book. No need to know who Mia is or isn’t.
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@_CryMiaRiver One swallow does not a summer make.
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@CitizenCohn “Fake but accurate”
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@Sal_Robins @StarbucksUK He should be jailed. That was battery.
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