Max Shifrin
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If you're still characterizing Trump's election victory as the product of racism, you're not thinking.
About 7m people who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 then voted for Donald Trump in 2016
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Watching people like
@VanJones68
get crucified by his own side for reaching across the aisle and trying to get things done is truly depressing. We'll never have anything close to unity with incentives like these.
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@marclamonthill
He "killed two people in cold blood" but his acquittal was "correct and necessary"?
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Ten years ago I made the somewhat consequential decision of going on a date with this extraordinary person. ❤️
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I have no opinion on the Trump tax story because I can’t even pretend to understand the complexities of the tax code.
But if whatever Trump did was legal, the problem is the tax code and not Trump. I can’t blame any person or business for trying to minimize their tax exposure.
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@jonathanchait
I have trouble comprehending how any honest observer of things can hold this view.
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@JamesSurowiecki
Interfering with an arrest of an individual who is actively resisting, in an environment that is already chaotic and volatile, and then repeatedly disobeying orders is not "nothing."
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Let’s give Michael Avenatti the benefit of the due process that he was so eager to strip from others.
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@JonahDispatch
Protest culture has been over-venerated, over-encouraged, and -- yes -- under-penalized when it has veered into objectively sanctionable conduct that nobody sane wants.
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@briebriejoy
His point is that some percentage of what we casually call "innocent civilians" are neither innocent nor civilians. That's obviously true, and you know it.
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@onesarahjones
@davereaboi
Yes, I always forget how secularism, separation of powers, free speech/religion, women's rights, jury trials, etc. can be found everywhere.
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@ianbremmer
Wouldn't recognizing Palestinian statehood now reward them for October 7th? There should be a serious penalty for these sorts of tactics.
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@EmmaSarley
You're the victim, Emma.
You're not a racist, you didn't say anything racist, and nobody in their right mind would disagree--including Fred, if he were being honest.
Yet he used his Twitter power to ruin you because he knew the stupid cultural moment we're in would let him.
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@cenkuygur
This adorable hypothetical of Hamas dropping leaflets, texting civilians, and projecting its military aims by pleading with Israeli civilians to flee the violence so it can more surgically target military outposts is totally on brand for Hamas, Cenk.
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Presenting Sandra Grace Shifrin. Came out without a hitch at 3:23 this morning thanks to Mama’s…
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@RichardHanania
It's less an irrational commitment to self-determination and more an irrational commitment to there not being an Israel. They could have had self-determination long ago if they accepted Israel's existence.
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@davidfrum
That's not his argument, and you know it. The point he's making is that a president cannot obstruct justice merely by exercising his constitutional powers--i.e., to fire an FBI Director, or otherwise order an end to an investigation.
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@realchrisrufo
There's too much emphasis in these debates on whether this stuff constitutes CRT proper and not enough emphasis on the specific things schools are doing that are obviously wrong regardless of what you call it.
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@ggreenwald
Is it your view that this sort of rhetoric exists in equal proportion on both sides of the issue? This strikes me as the exception that proves the rule.
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@ggreenwald
@evanhill
Yes, Iran has a demonstrated track record of going after exclusively military targets, particularly through Hezbollah and Hamas.
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The surest way to minimize white identity politics is to minimize all other forms of identity politics. It is pure toxicity.
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@primalpoly
That there should be and could be a global government that all countries willingly accept as their sovereign and this system would ultimately extinguish nationalism as we know it.
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@AliVelshi
@nhannahjones
@esglaude
No greater summary of current America exists than our inability to draw apt comparisons.
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@amanpour
@mortadarami
You have to be willfully blind to think that the occupation is the "essence" of the problem. The true essence is violent, self-sacrificial, and multi-generational resistance to an Israeli state, of which occupation is the result.
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@sharcat12
@davidfrum
I have. And he obstructed justice by ordering his subordinates to lie to the FBI--which is an independent crime.
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@shadihamid
Isn't it fairly easy to steel-man the destruction of a fortified enemy stronghold engaged in active combat?
That seems pretty standard in any war but this one, apparently.
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@ggreenwald
@SamSeder
Glenn, this is really silly. You don’t have to agree with everything Harris says, but he’s at least a thoughtful guy with an interesting podcast. If you disagree with him, just do it on the merits—not by calling everything he does a cult.
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@ianbremmer
Whatever one thinks of Netanyahu, the option he describes in this clip is truly the only one that makes sense.
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How about this, for starters: more carefully, dispassionately, and neutrally than this tweet.
The media has no idea how to cover a bully, who is an overt bigot and who lies constantly.
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When they should be offering "how to intelligently engage and refute ideas you disagree with" services. Formerly known as "college."
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@ComicDaveSmith
You are grossly under-appreciating the role that toxic ideologies like jihadism and martyrdom play in shaping a peoples' response to purported transgressions. "We love death as much as you love life" is the dispositive variable here.
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Are our ethics so compromised that we need a TED Talk addressing this?
Why sharing someone else's nude photos without their permission is a horrifying betrayal of privacy:
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@jemelehill
They're not encamped on private property or otherwise in violation of neutral time, place, and manner restrictions?
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@bryan_caplan
Literally speaking, it's not. But as a rhetorical weapon, invoking "lived experience" communicates to the conversation's counterparty that they have wandered into an area where they are no longer permitted to rebut what the other is saying.
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@Ravarora1
His whole point is that he felt unqualified to platform contrarian views on Covid given his background and that it was irresponsible to do so in the middle of an ongoing pandemic absent the proper education/experience on the subject. That sounds quite reasonable to me.
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@ComicDaveSmith
@martyrmade
The Jihadist/Islamist mindset that animates Palestinian resistance will never accept any Jewish state in Palestine. That sort of uncompromising intransigence is why there's an occupation in the first place.
And I truly don't understand how you can say they'll be less violence
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@shadihamid
@RealSaavedra
It seems to me that you can't use human lives as a measure for proportionality when one side appears to be actively trying to increase the death toll on their own side.
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Yes, I believe Ford. She was a good witness.
But given the magnitude of both the charge and the injustice of getting it wrong, we need more than the credible testimony of an accuser. We need some objective corroboration.
Anything short of this is irresponsible and reckless.
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@maggieNYT
It’s not a 180 to acknowledge conservative accomplishments by someone you did not initially support.
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So true, Sara. Definitely got a solid dinner that one time.
@sarahaines
.
@sarahaines
on women and marriage: "We were built up to believe it was something - that it's gonna be this great thing. Men knew what they were getting - they're gonna get dinner, help with all the kids!"
#GMADay
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@ianbremmer
It's not that most of the world disagrees; it's that most of the world isn't particularly concerned with Israeli security.
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@mtracey
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but you should probably at least grapple with the difference between being triggered by Halloween costumes and being triggered by open embrace of organizations that want you exterminated.
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This is a great way to continue losing elections.
Michelle Obama: 'Any Woman Who Voted Against Hillary Clinton Voted Against Their Own Voice'
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@voxdotcom
Whether we classify all this “anti-white people” rhetoric as actual racism is almost beside the point.
Let’s just stop celebrating and encouraging it.
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@NAChristakis
Professors can also do a better job helping students to be more rational about *whether to* protest. It needs to be de-romanticized and counterbalanced by appeals to critical thinking and humility.
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@DipaliM80
@Columbia
It does occasionally still surprise me that professors at prestigious universities can be so shoddy in their thinking and reasoning. A completely unserious email, assuming you actually sent it.
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With respect to the media, aren’t paragraphs like this by
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@nytimes
more problematic than clear errors of fact that are promptly corrected? It reflects a more latent tenor of bias that is much more widespread and is never corrected or retracted.
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I just clipped my kids’ nails for the first time ever. Was gently reminded that I’ll “get better with practice” and not to “forget the thumbkin.”
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@Ravarora1
It's genuinely challenging to fully capture just how absurd and obnoxious this is.
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@adamdavidson
@wil_da_beast630
This does not track with my experience at all. We drank, took drugs, partied -- and we were regularly harassed by the cop, pulled over, and arrested. We were basically the local criminals and were treated as such.
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@SwipeWright
I think you incorrectly frame this as a binary choice: trust or distrust.
We can recognize that certain institutions have made poor decisions affecting their trustworthiness without adopting a posture of complete distrust.
Going full distrust is very likely an overcorrection:
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@ZaidJilani
Doesn't seem that they focus on what's happening on college campuses as a substitute for Middle East geopolitics. They do it because it's emblematic of a fairly deep-seated moral confusion, if not moral rot, on this side of the Atlantic.
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I'm actually beginning to think that that the biggest threat to the United States is the outbreak of this insanity in all its toxic forms.
Librarian rejects Melania Trump’s Dr. Seuss books, calls them ‘racist propaganda’ - via
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@perlberg
@SaysSimonson
This memo should have been issued years ago, but better late than never I suppose.
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@onesarahjones
@davereaboi
Particularly the Muslim world--these things are all the rage there!
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@jh_swanson
Nobody treats it as an absolute, ontological good. It's just that it's the only country that has to constantly justify its very existence. And that deserves a vigorous defense -- especially given the nature of its enemies.
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@conor64
Not a Trump supporter, but it can be framed as a choice between two directions or perspectives. Both sides brand themselves and voters choose between those two brands.
It’s hard to disentangle Biden from the left’s excesses, and thus for some, that will be enough to vote Trump.
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The irresponsibility of this sort of take by people with large platforms is tough to overstate.
I wonder what the verdict would be in the
#RittenhouseTrial
if the defendant were a Black seventeen year old from another state who killed two people with an illegal assault weapon?
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I cannot overstate how invaluable the insights of
@GlennLoury
and
@JohnHMcWhorter
have been on the subject of race. These are the voices that we need to elevate.
In addition to this seminar, check out "The Glenn Show" podcast
@bloggingheads
TV. And spread far and wide.
The origins of two contrarians:
@GlennLoury
and
@JohnMcWhorter
, in a seminar discussion, explain how they came to hold their views about race.
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@kevinnbass
With only 12% of Americans metabolically healthy, it seems odd to be so adamantly against people using a device that could help them get control of their health and improve their lives. If CGM data is analyzed correctly, it really could be a game changer.
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@MaxBoot
@ForeignPolicy
There is something strangely cultish about this piece and the comments to this tweet.
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If your evaluation of one's legal expertise depends on who their analysis supports, then you have no idea what legal expertise is.
There was a time when
@AlanDersh
was taken seriously as a legal expert. His staunch defense of Trump has clearly changed that in many circles.
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My parents immigrated from the former Soviet Union, an undeniable shithole. They come in all colors.
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There is a video going around of a praying mantis eating a murder hornet--which has done nothing to allay my fear of murder hornets but has definitely supplemented it with an even greater fear of praying mantises.
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Turns out being stuck in an airport for 12 hours with three young kids is actually more awful than it sounds, if you can believe it.
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@ggreenwald
Glenn, you bring a lot of value to many conversations. But when it comes to these folks, and your apparent fixation on Bari Weiss in particular, your tweets come off unreasonable and unhinged.
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@shadihamid
He's not justifying anything. He's opposing efforts to combat the humanitarian crisis on terms favorable to the party that's responsible for it.
Why doesn't the global outcry put any pressure on Hamas - which started the war - to take the obvious steps that will end the war
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Ask yourself this question: Can someone wear a MAGA hat and still be a decent person?
If your answer is “no,” you are deeply confused and are part of the problem.
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Parenting confession: I mutter STFU under my breath multiple times a day.
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The only person who was arguably justified hitting someone last night was Chris Rock. But he had the basic judgment and emotional maturity to think for half a second about where he was and what was happening.
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@RIKKISCHLOTT
@jordanbpeterson
@nypost
Well done. One can certainly disagree with specific things Jordan Peterson says, but Olivia Wilde's critique is completely beyond the pale.
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An unpopular opinion I'm considering making mine: Jada overreacted too.
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Everything okay at home?
When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you.
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@ezraklein
It doesn’t matter if it’s not meant to be taken literally and isn’t actual racism. What matters is that the left’s endorsement of this kind of language is toxic, counterproductive, and needs to stop.
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Nazi history aside, most people are genuinely confused about what Jews are. A religion? An ethnicity? A race? All of the above?
It's not exactly intuitive. Better to productively hash this out rather than clobber people over the head for getting it "wrong."
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@DBelardoMD
I appreciate your views and insights. But the way you (and others in your orbit) engage with people you disagree with makes it harder for openminded people to trust what you’re saying. If the science truly supports your position, you don’t need all the invective.
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That we can predict eclipses with such precision is more fascinating to me than the eclipse itself.
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I certainly know which person I am...
@sarahaines
In every long term relationship, there is the person who makes the coffee and the person who lies in bed waiting for the coffee.
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The images of dead children in Gaza is infuriating and turns my stomach.
But my anger and disgust is 100% directed at Hamas, because it's both 100% their fault and 100% their objective.
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Wrote this a few years back and thought I'd share -- On Not Peeing Into the Wind
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The left focuses on guns and ignores everything else.
The right focuses on everything else and ignores guns.
Neither side gives a complete picture of the problem we face.
Ideology and partisanship are blinding and prevent actual solutions.
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