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@sayitnspinit —The attempted coup (What he asked Pence to do would have been a coup even without the violence.) —Blackmailed Zelenski —Mismanaged Covid —Slashed LEGAL immigration (the surge in illegal started in his watch) —Betrayal of allies —Tradewars with allies

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@SirOpsALot The sources I just Googled to verify this agree. 🙃 One added that the average human can pull 1.2 horsepower. With rounding, maybe we should just call it Human Power (and even keep the same hp abbreviation).

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@psych_k8 I don't know anyone who has been in a restaurant—not relatives, not co-workers, not-friends. I confess resentment ot the people that do NOT treat this seriously. They have made this harder for all of us and will prolong the pandemic even with the vaccine.

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@andreamatranga 🙃 None of the replies to this seem to get the Julius Caesar joke.

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@LPNational @POTUS Yes hospitals should prevent unvaccinated workers from being around patients. People also have a right to drink, but we don't let them endanger others by driving. Legalizing drunk driving is NOT a position of sane libertarians.

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@besttrousers 🙃 I don't list my COLLEGE jobs—janitor, pumping gas, etc. And I even hide my brief side-gig as a Stanley Kaplan GMAT instructor while in grade school (though that is partially to avoid flashbacks).

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@mmastrac @JonahDispatch It gets more suspicious

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@ZenOfDesign A statistician I knew once told a company there was a 50% chance that a big tank they had in the ground was already leaking. They called him back to say he was badly off because "it was corroded 95% of the way through". People don't understand probability.

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@JosephPolitano Not necessarily true in UK, Canada, or other parliamentary countries without proportional representation. Think of the UK as having an Electoral College with 650 states.

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@atrupar @barbelle123 In my youth, I drove van loads of voters to the polls as a REPUBLICAN activist. There is nothing unusual or suspicious about this type of election day activity.

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@RichardHanania Partially out of a legitimate concern that Mengele not be the role model for medical research, medical ethicists have long since turned into brawlers over the number of angels on the point of a needle. It would be funny if it did not hinder so much research and testing.

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@arshbajwaa @ThrowbackLib Sigh, Robinhood is a BROKER not the stock exchange. No one is stopping you from going elsewhere. It IS probably saving you from losing money if you are only trying to buy now. It is a longer discussion whether a broker should try to protect its customers.

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@TristanSnell We keep being told that the comparision is unfair and counterproductive, but denaturalization was part of the early Nazi program. We are not Weimar and Trump is not Hitler, but the song has a lot of the same rhymes and rhythms.

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@scottmccampbell @LucasFoxNews The US has not had a base in Taiwan since 1979. A tweet is too short to list all the other ways your analogy is wrong.

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@asymmetricinfo Megan, looking at the discussion on this and your replies, I think you should walk this back not dig deeper. These tragic cases do exist, and anti-abortion activists do need to explain how their preferred legislation would address them.

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@RadioFreeTom @NRO Strong agreement. Highlighting an assassination fantasy against a political opponent crosses the line. How can they do this while claiming criticism of Trump encourages violence?

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@JustSayin24986 @GeekGuy4225 @cespina1998 Going through "processing at the border" DOES NOT give them a permanent residence card—that is much harder and IS NOT issued at border crossings. Though the type of processing you are talking about WOULD mean they are here LEGALLY.

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@SentientPotato6 Yes. He has repented on many of his more extreme views, but remains quirky and mostly on the right. Even in the past he always had some insightful comments—I believe I described them to you as "fat tailed on bothsides of the distribution".

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@danprimack @Noahpinion And the CEO/scientists behind the other vaccine are immigrants to Germany. Both basic science and applied R&D are very dependent upon people crossing borders.

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@SarahTheHaider Even if you for odd reasons believe it now inappropriate to use "woman", you shouldn't mess with historical quotes. Frederick Douglass should not be edited to remove his use of "negro".

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@SykesCharlie @SnipzPA Despite being a longtime Republican, I am not a religious person, so this is a metaphor not a metaphysical claim: Trump seems classically demonic: Whether through preaching hate & fear; creating temptation; or just being a bad example, he brings out the very worst in people.

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@JeremiahDJohns Also voters are much less ideological than activists—sometimes they just, fairly or unfairly, want to "throw the bums out". The single time that Gaza voted for Hamas, it was less out of fanaticism than out of fatigue with Fatah. We need TWO acceptable alternatives.

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@mattyglesias Only way to do this without Constitutional Amendment would be to give the House of Representatives an even number of seats. 🙃 Pick your potential deadlock.

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@diana_platts @washingtonpost I try not to be critical of massive logistics efforts. But they did have months to plan this and this is a smaller distribution problem than what Amazon solves daily.

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@bo_austin_ @lastpositivist 🙃 "Locally rich" is more accurate and does not have the baggage of referring to the social structure of 19th Century Europe.

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@jasoncrawford Asimov said his silliest mistake was picturing a tiny portable robot taking notes rather than a miniature tape recorder. He didn't even have to imagine a new technology, just made it smaller!

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@feelingschmidty In grad school a girl I liked was bringing a bunch of her friends to a party I was giving. When they found out most of the people there were economists, they made her turn the car around.

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@beau_brendler @ZoeSchiffer I am ok with a demand to keep confidential info confidential. But Twitter itself is releasing confidential emails by former employees in order to harm them. Legally permissible—Twitter owns the correspondence—but same ethical issue.

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@WhiteHouse Tell me how this is different from the Nazis parade of victims of "Jewish criminals"? This is a hate mongering incitement to violence. It is sick and immoral. I like our speech freedoms, but in most European countries you could be jailed for this.

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@NRO @jimgeraghty Specific criticisms of a specific candidate are a necessary part of democracy. When that same candidate demonizes millions, denounces democratic process as a fraud, and glorifies violence, that candidate is not "just a bad choice". History to worthless to us if we can't call

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@alixabeth Funny story—For odd reasons a book that I was one of several coauthors on (in my RL identity) was NEVER published. Some of us had listed it as "forthcoming" in other papers. For 20 years people continued to cite it in journal articles despite never seeing it.

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@Noahpinion Germany, Japan, and South Korea all turned into very nice countries (though not instantly) so perhaps we were spoiled by success. For all the heartache about Iraq and Afghanistan we got rid of Saddam; mostly got rid of Al Qaeda; and let a generation of girls go to school.

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@Noahpinion @mattyglesias Noah, this is a little like the "Is there proof masks reduce the amount of spit I put in your face?" question. FORCE = MASS X ACCELERATION So in addition to being quieter and taking longer to break, it is literally a law of physics that they will hit harder.

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@slooterman I am really confused about this complaint—are bad guys now supposed to be only perfectly abled in fiction?

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@SenMcCollister GOP activist in 70's, College GOP Chair, Convention Delegate, District Chair, campaign staff. Very much a Ford/Reagan/Kemp Republican. Trump was first GOP Presidential candidate I actively opposed. I saw him as MORE opposed to my principles than any Democrat in my lifetime.

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@Yascha_Mounk People often feel uncomfortable criticizing religious tracts. Confessing sins and saving souls is as unambiguously religious as it gets.

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@FAIRImmigration @Nike A "foreign worker" who can do my job better should have it.

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@Noahpinion Good first step: Stop calling suburban moderates racists. In VA there was a tonedeafness about schools. I supported McAuliffe (from across the river) but cringed each time someone repeated "CRT is not taught in Virginia" (playing a definition game/ignoring concerns).

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@seanrcallaghan @JustinWolfers Net immigration is still a positive number, but falling. Net unauthorized immigration has been near zero, but usually slightly negative for the last 15 years. Immigrants are still ALL of our labor force growth.

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@RadioFreeTom The threat of "turnkey depotism" that Snowden warned about applies to all our democratic traditions, not just privacy.

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@BruinGOP Please tell me you are a GRU cyberagent operating from Russia. It is just too depressing if you are actually American.

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@bikesalsa @CortesSteve Yup, Biden won whether you agree with him or not. But if you are really ready to END DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA over illegal immigration, I should point out we have had zero or negative net illegal migration over the last 15 years. You must really hate them a lot.

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@JenAshleyWright 🙃 And of course "illegals" have paid billions in Social Security and Medicare taxes they can never benefit from. While one of Trump's illegal tricks has been claiming zero salary as head of the Trump Org so as to avoid SS & Medicare tax.

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@adamjschmidt @Truth_Gazette @USCG This was by sea and interdicted the usual way. Almost all of the drugs coming over the land border comes in via legal ports of entry carried by people (often US citizens) entering legally. None of this has much to do with illegal entry.

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@DouthatNYT Not to be (overly) flip, but WHICH religion?

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@amandacarpenter 🤔 While occasionally true, it's disturbing how many people immediately answered "stole it". That is mostly leftist BS, and an over simplification even for the British Museum items they have in mind (though I have used "stole" for those items too).

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@hulu You take a discredited history and film it?

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@BullyMaus @Columbia @JLeeSoc A unique argument—they should be discriminated against at the college level because they benefited from teachers having higher expectations of them in K-12. Perhaps it would be better to just have higher expectations of EVERYONE in K-12?

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@sarahoconnor_ Even Sesame Street showed kids playing outside by themselves, traveling down the street to run errands—lots of actions that would risk calls to Child Protective Service these days. At 12 I traveled miles on my bike. Now we have expensive bike paths with only adults on them.

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@manni_patel @SundaeDivine Downfall. A very well done but depressing German movie. To make myself clear, it is not depressing because the Nazis lose, but because of their continued depravity even at the end. Nothing sympathetic about watching the Goebbles poison their children.

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@ACLU Umm, I guess I agree that tampons should not be taxed as a luxury good, and elimination of the tax should not be offensive to either trans men or trans women. BUT why is this even in your top 100 issues of civil liberties in America today?

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@GuadalahonkyToo @joshtpm This has happened a lot. Someone will tweet "OMG this is the worst thing that ever happened", but when I search there are multiple possibilities. WE NEED MORE BORING TIMES.

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@KeithTatem @DailyMail And if he stayed in the old pension system (Feds joining after '83 had to join less generous system), he is essentially working for free now.

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@jpodhoretz I give high allowances for comedy or satire to be crude. Perhaps I should do so here—it is not as if I haven't seen exploding pager jokes that I DID find funny. I would never want to censor it or cancel the artist. But at the very least it is hypocritical of NR to publish

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@DavidKlion Honestly, I can see why convincing evidence that someone can love across race might be important to someone in judging a candidate. Obama's clear ongoing love for his grandmother probably helped certain voters feel comfortable with him.

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@JustinWolfers @statesdj Too many people don't get this. The pandemic was a supply shock that made the '70s oil crisis look like a hiccup. I have LOTS of ideas on things that should have been done differently, BUT I also thought stagflation was inevitable. We came out of this very well.

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@_BarringtonII Actually it is only ⅖ of 1% not 40% —you are only off by 2 orders of magnitude

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@WorldWearyWoman @SpeechUnion @SpitfireAudio @jk_rowling Yes, but the rest of us can denounce the company for its cowardly and intolerant action in disassociating itself from its co-founder because he expressed a fairly mainstream opinion.

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@MaraGay @nytimes It is a huge part of American history, but we are a much poorer nation because of slavery and Jim Crow, not richer. Just misallocation of jobs & educational opportunity has cost us trillions.

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@Halalcoholism The few tweets that EXPLICITEDLY approve of violence against Rushdie seems to be removed by Twitter quickly. But there are so many more of the "he brought it on himself" or "his writing is bad anyway" ilk. We have many authoritarians among us.

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@jessesingal 🤔 First time I've seen "not publishing my letter" described as "ghosting".

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@Imposter_Edits I agree the cop was totally out of line, but why does this 3yo video keep getting recycled?

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@KPMoore8 @PattiWa30471558 I like the similar joke where someone finds a $20 bill, thinks about what Jesus would do, and then turns it into wine.

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@SwannMarcus89 Another person from Russian subsidized Tenet Media.

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@ArmandDoma It was bad enough when they were glorifying the 50's (when ¼ of homes did not have a toilet).

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@ZaidJilani Yes, not particularly a fan of Musk but this is unfair. Many immigrants love liberty precisely because they have seen authoritarian systems.

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@JeffreyASachs Since I have been on the anti-"CRT" side of several recent Twitter discussion, I want to note: —College level sociology is certainly a proper place to discuss race —"Redlining" is a very nonideological topic —I am generally supportive of the line FIRE has taken on this topic

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@ManonGarciaFR At a conference long ago, a presenter went into long detail about why a questioner from the audience was totally wrong because a big name in the field, "Portes showed this", and "Portes showed that". 🙃 Need I tell you who the questioner was?

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@SwannMarcus89 TBH, It was our spectacular success with both Germany and Japan that gave many of us too much optimism on Iraq and Afghanistan. Some limited success: Iraq IS a better place now, even if our highest aspirations were missed. And a generation of Afghan girls went to school.

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@ArmandDoma Socialists, nationalists, social nationalists, and national socialists.

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@JeremyBesch @danwaterfield @viciousvinifera You think you are joking? I have actually seen that used at the beginning of sales pitches for software.

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@snobishdesign @hugolowell Snobishdesign, I am going to treat your tweet as honest misunderstanding C-19 does not travel through the air well. It usually requires moist microdroplets. For this reason cloth masks work better for C-19 than for more airborne viruses. But it reduces, not eliminates the risk.

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@RpsAgainstTrump A sane moderate Republican running against a "progressive" Democrat. Although I justify registering as a Dem by the ability vote for moderates in primaries, it is also true that I do not want the GOP to take the House with its current leadership.

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@TheDailyMuck Sigh, perhaps I have been in DC too long, but referring to mere "millions" as "lacking proper accounting controls" seems like a very ordinary IG complaint in lots of reports on lots of programs.

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@Acyn TPS status was created by Congress in 1990 in a bill supported and signed by GHW Bush. Unlike some Executive Orders (like Trump declaring Canadian steel a threat to national security) there is no grey area here. Vance is simply lying.

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@CathyYoung63 And once again I wonder if they actually watch the show—Cappelle definitely told jokes about Jews in the same Netflix special. Crude jokes that I nevertheless would not call anti-semitic, but I also don't think he was anti-trans.

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@BillFOXLA @FOXLA Most of the replies are saying this is too harsh for a party. I think it is too soft. Arrests, fines, and ankle monitors for repeat offenders. Pandemics are inconvenient. Trump encourages people to be irresponsible children, but they are willing.

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@greggnunziata I think we both believe in CONSTITUTIONAL democracy, where some rights are NOT subject to the democratic process. Where 51% can not do anything it wants to the 49%. You may disagree with what should be a right, but there is nothing wrong with wanting a right protected.

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@NGrossman81 Having your site used as a tool for criminal acts is in a category totally different from TOS violations.

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@momentum_mv @adamdavidson I strongly agree that "balance" does not mean praising both sides or presenting "is it raining?" as a debate with opposing views. BUT: ROFL at the idea that NPR "appeals to the right". It has more journalistic standards than most of media, but definitely a very left perspective

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@pinstripedline Leaving the EU, cutting immigration and foreign students, cutting back BBC World Service. As an American, I don't want to hear Brits whine about their loss of influence in the world as they systematically withdraw from it.

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@DavidAFrench Trump has made the bullhorns acceptable, just as he has unleashed people's inner demons while telling them to be ashamed of their better angels.

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@KFClinton3 @ThrowbackLib @AllisonLHedges LOL, Just in the interest of history, the Congressional complaint was the use of White House postage when "Socks" wrote letters back to children who had written him. 🙃 Still not the type of issue I would want my Congressman to waste time on.

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@BretBaier 1. Migrants are not "flooding" across the southern border—counts of unique individuals are down. 2. It is the L-shape area from Missouri to Florida that should worry us, not Mexico. 3. I would let the Austrian grandparents in IF vaccinated and testing negative.

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@constans One of the great oddities of the "1619" discourse on the left is that they end up arguing slavery was a nation building economic powerhouse. But there was a reason that the North was far richer. (And FWIW the largest industry was canning, not cotton textiles.)

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@awprokop Most atheists are actually fairly chill on the issue—invite us to post-Ramadan feasts, Christmas parties, Diwali, or pagan festivals with mistletoe. Once you accept that most of humanity claims to have an invisible friend(s), you can party with any of them.

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@tcstephenson818 @mattyglesias Yes but "non-voting" also means "non-tie breaking".

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@VoiciLaVictoire @txsguy09 @RealJacobPerry On every single matter, Trump stokes fires. He encourages bad behavior by police and enrages protesters rather than calming them.

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@Third_Nut 🙃 Stretching the "½ age + 7 rule" well beyond its intended range would suggest 94 is ok.

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@MattZeitlin 🙃 There are now American-style-Chinese restaurants in China, American-style-Ethiopian food in Nigeria, American-style pizzerias in Hungary. Tex-Mex in Berlin. And let us not forget that it was Americans who brought bagels to Israel.

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@UrbanAchievr It has been fun to watch "English Only" National Conservatives attack Ukraine for their 2017 law requiring Ukrainian be used in schools. The criticism is partially valid, but should Mexico invade the US over the same issue?

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@natpmanning @Klonick Do you really want the government to decide what is false?

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@greggnunziata To the extent there is a truthful case for Harris for conservatives, I would think yes. Would a John McCain be a bigger supporter of Ukraine than Harris—maybe. But she is expressing strong support, and both Trump and Vance clearly are not.

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@DeanBaker13 There are major resource bottlenecks in arresting and detaining any large number. The BIG NIGHTMARES, occur if resources are thrown at the task. Millions of mostly experienced workers pulled out of jobs in all sectors of the economy. Barracks constructed for camps literally

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Saying that Federal deficits matter more to inflation than the money supply is the most hyper-Keynesian thing I have ever seen any "conservative" group say. I'm fairly sure most leftwing economists would find this odd too.