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@DialecticBio Would an orange cat and a black cat be different species, according to this poster?

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@Noahpinion Are there many poor Democratic nations winning medals? Serious question. The high medal winners I see are either 1) highly developed social democracies or 2) authoritarian states which can top-down manage athletics programs. India is neither of these things.

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@RadioFreeTom This is what gets me. Thr criticisms of Kamala are that she is prone to word salad on occasion, or at the very least inartfully phrased answers with little substance. The alternative, however, is what I'm seeing in Nevada right now.

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@SWGoldman @willwilkinson Also why so many have so much difficulty pulling away: doing so implicitly acknowledges that they've been dupes the whole time. Nobody enjoys playing the fool, and as long as you stay in on the con you can convince yourself you aren't one.

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@rebeccarightnow Man, I remember back in the 2000s empathetic straight people specifically started using "partner" to be more inclusive -- that is, so people wouldn't just automatically assume heteronormative relationships. Whether you're gay or bi or straight, we can all have a "partner."

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@JonahDispatch In this hypothetical, did the popular Democratic President also recently incite an insurrection again the US government?

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@RadioFreeTom The Black Horse, The Pale Horse, the Red Horse, and the Horse where Tom Nichols quote-tweets Bernie Sanders and says "He's right, you know"

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@jdcmedlock I genuinely think they're taken aback by Democrats picking a message and actually hammering it home the way that Republicans do.

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@may_kergen @RameshPonnuru Reminds me very much of young earth creationists manufacturing doubt about evolution out of bad arguments and then insisting we "teach the controversy" -- a controversy which only exists because they themselves fabricated it.

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@GarrettHerrin @DrewSav 1 dot = 1 vote is not something I'm used to seeing in state level political maps

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@SykesCharlie My form of optimism, as a liberal Democrat; I dream of a future where I can get back to respectfully disagreeing with Charlie Sykes on almost everything he writes instead of seeing his articles and thinking "yes, he's nailed it" every time.

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@jdcmedlock Honestly I think the guy is going to live a normal lifespan and then only a hundred years later we find out that 2-3 of the things he did really were incredibly good, but then he ruined it by doing some other crazyr thing that cut his lifespan back down to normal size

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@wes_chu Also the reason that interracial marriage is higher among college-educated people. It's not because college kids become "woke" and feel obligated to marry outside their race; it's because you just meet more diverse people at college, so your chances of marrying them go up.

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@jessesingal Not to let Ngo off the hook at all here, but this feels like a pretty widespread problem: explicitly liberal outlets cover stories of "this black person was wronged by the police" but not similar stories of white people being wronged, for instance.

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@Noahpinion I understand that India is becoming less poor pretty rapidly, but "becoming less poor" is not the same as already rich.

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@Noahpinion In a way, if you think about it, Poland was always part of Germany -- and don't let the imperialist Brits convince you otherwise

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@justinbaragona Oof, hirsi Ali was considered a serious activist on the right, as a campaigner for human rights against repressive theocratic regimes. Hard to take her seriously at this point.

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@asymmetricinfo I mean, there does seem to be an asymmetry here. Democrats I know are broadly happy that Bob Menendez and Cuellar are getting shunned and prosecuted. I'm not saying Ds are perfect and Rs are terrible, but the parties don't seem equivalent, here.

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@Noahpinion Hope that Desi Americans get a "dot alert" just to complete the trifecta

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@mattyglesias I'm serious when I suggest this: I think Republicans are so enamored of deregulated market economies and so sure that government interference makes things worse that they truly believed that lifting sanctions would help the problem go away. "Faith in the free market," as they say

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@PFTompkins The rich part of this for me -- as a Clinton primary voter in 2016 and Warren voter today -- is that Bernie fans are now angry that someone who could not plausibly win the nomination without a contested convention won't drop out of the race in the name of unity.

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@JJ_McCullough This is a realignment at work, in my opinion. Those "D tier Democrats" will self-identify as Republicans in 2032, and a lot of the "never Trump" Republicans today will just be Democrats in 2032. I don't mean this as a good thing -- one side monopolizing D tier talent is bad!

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@merovingians @DrewSav My favorite thing in the comments are the people criticizing papal authority for being "globalist" and "authoritarian." What do these people think the Catholic Church *is?* "Who does this supposed Pope guy think he is, anyway? He acts like he speaks for God or something!"

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@DPHBuckeyes @BobDinMI I mean, it's real, but the field isn't actually empty. The scoreboard says 1:37, and looking at the game log, Minnesota made a long pass downfield at that time.

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@wesyang One of my favorite things about posts like this is that they frequently exhibit this sort of exhausted exasperation, as if this is a long fought battle that the OP just barely has the energy to tolerate anymore.

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@AriCohn @RonColeman @toddstarnes Exactly my thought. I mean "mutilate this person" is pretty rough, but it's only a single person, and we *started* with the genocide of an entire country, so in comparison, this is a rapid de-escalation of hostilities!

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@DavidAFrench I admit to not really finding this funny and now being rather scared of what happens when it finally becomes unavoidably clear that Trump must and will leave office.

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@JRobFromMN @GrageDustin I think the obvious explanation is "in the second picture, he's petting another dog that was at the dog park they took scout too." This is... a much, much simpler explanation than a massive conspiracy to hide scout or something.

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@TheSNEAKO Does a woman getting an abortion endanger my health? No. Does a woman choosing not to get vaccinated endanger my health? Yes.

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@jdcmedlock If there was ever a peak of "akshually" twitter, surely it would be "actually giving financial support to families damages families"

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@brianbeutler I think the interesting part of this discussion is that NR *surely* does not mean "better educated" when they say "better voters." If I'm not mistaken, Biden won 48 of the 50 best educated counties. At this point, disenfranchising the uneducated masses would be terrible for Rs.

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@NaomiAKlein I'm sure they would have been welcomed if they want to praise Biden and heartily endorse Harris, etc. But if they're just going to go up there and trash the ticket, why would they ever be welcomed?

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@dblock94 @brianbeutler @psen9 One caveat here I did not see in the article is that in a few cases where right wing populism has been dispatched, it was able to return to power within the decade. Just a concern to keep in mind, I think.

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@wes_chu There is no "magic wokeness" when a white guy (or girl) marries someone outside their race; if a white guy meets lots of asian/black/hispanic/etc. women, then his odds of marrying one of them goes up, a whole lot. You meet more such people at college. It's that simple.

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@mattyglesias This has been the pattern for a while now, albeit not to this comical degree. Criticism of D politician: "15 years ago he exaggerated an award he got in the local paper" Criticism of R politician: "5 years ago he tried to overturn an American election" They're both imperfect!

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@BrandonLBradfor I often envy Republicans their voters in this regard; anti-abortion voters, for example, have persistently voted for the candidate who best represents their interests, election after election, for fifty years. No matter what, no matter how odious. And eventually, it worked.

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@aaronnarraph Shouldn't this depend on area of the country, etc? I know you're from NYC; if Kenyatta is not progressive, I would argue that almost no one in the entire country will fit your definition of "progressive" outside dense coastal cities.

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@AP4Liberty I'm watching the WSB reddit -- obviously quite a lot of gloating, but also some people thanking others for helping them pay down student debt, pay medical bills for family, etc. Good freakin luck turning these people in to the villains thwarted by the heroic hedge fund managers.

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@BrandonLBradfor I actually just assumed they knew that, then did some calculations and decided that the cost of the additional shrinkage was lower than the cost of hiring more cashiers, and they accepted the loss.

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@BrandonLBradfor As a statistician myself, one of the first things that they hammer into your head in your first year of Stats classes is that causal inference is really, really hard. It's rare for data to actually be falsified, but the conclusions we draw from it are often facile.

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@RadioFreeTom I think the peace of the last fourty years has been a victim of its own success similar to vaccines: they have been so successful that some people can't even really fathom a world with rampant war or widespread polio.

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@BrandonLBradfor Can we give the award collectively to the Republicans who will use the single MLK quote they know?

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@jdcmedlock I absolutely agree, but my experience with the left is that they are extremely bad at recognizing when they lucked out. No team is worse at accepting a W than progressives.

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@jbarro AOC definitely maturing into a serious political figure and not just the figurehead of a niche faction inside the party. Tlaib? Not so much. Bush? Gone.

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@stuartpstevens I genuinely hope that the Republican party begins to develop talent again soon. I'm a Democrat, but I have no illusions that the world would be a better place if conservatives just stopped existing -- they need to be the Yang to our Yin. Right now, they're no good to anybody.

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@jayrosen_nyu This is so important to the decline of traditional media in general to me -- they analyze it as if this is just some inevitable force over which they have no control, rather than a broken system that needs fixing, and for which no one has more agency than they themselves.

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@mattyglesias I have genuinely seen conservatives -- including conservative economists! -- talk about the "invisible hand" as if it has transcendent, magical properties which can always find a solution to any problem.

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@Noahpinion As I've gotten well into my 30s, I have not become more conservative in any *policy* sense -- if anything, the opposite -- but I've definitely become increasingly annoyed by hard leftists.

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@jdcmedlock Also highlights the difference between liberal and conservative views of race, in my opinion. Liberals often willing to admit to differences in culture (different flavors, different music, etc.), conservatives lean hard into genetics and superiority/inferiority talk

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@isa_segalovich Isn't the most obvious reason why Black people have difficulty finding housing that housing is expensive? What is your suggested method to make housing cheaper other than affordable housing?

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@AdamSerwer I wish black people would say their ancestors came here legally too and see how many get the reference

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@RadioFreeTom I feel like the R Partisan strategy for the last 30 years (i.e. my lifespan) has been to say that everyone are inept liars. Rarely in my life have I seen Rs make a positive case for their side; it's usually "they're all fools and crooks, so might as well vote Republican."

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@ArmandDoma In seriousness, she really would likely be better off if the global cocaine supply chain collapsed Maybe this entire thing is driven by drug addicts who can find no way to kick their addiction but for their dealer to cease existing

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@PFTompkins If I had some hobby I was really in to and I showed up at that hobby-con and like 60% of the other con attendees were vocally white nationalist I would at least stop and consider what the hell is going on

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@brianbeutler So my guess is that "better voters" would be defined by NR in some arcane, thread-the-needle way that somehow manages to empower Rs despite their comparative struggles with educated voters.

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@mattyglesias Clinton was first lady of Arkansas for eight years, yes? I mean, she obviously still got crushed, but perhaps that buys *something.*

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@RichardDawkins I'm not sure that's the case, professor Dawkins. My understanding is that historical autocrats also convinced people of absurd, obvious lies. This was true before the existence of online echo chambers. Echo chambers are bad, but not sure they're the root cause, here.

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@queerBengali @IDoTheThinking I still find it frustrating how few people can find a Middle ground between "America is perfect and inerrant and nothing needs to change" at one extreme and "America is horrible and irredeemable and revolution is the only solution" at the ither.

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@DavidAFrench What if my core merit is "did they enable Trump?" Because if it is, then virtually all of them do indeed have to go.

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@jessesingal Always a fan of the "you are clearly stupid and its so obvious you are wrong that I don't even feel the need to explain why to you" line of argumentation.

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@mattyglesias Absolutely not. Have to consider the emotional needs a conspiracy theory serves: it makes one feel special, as if you have found hidden knowledge that normal people (and especially elites) don't know. You are a clever, in-the-know insider who has seen through the lies.

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@JNostrabor @mattyglesias It shows the advanced age of democratic leadership. Even the youngest Dem in a leadership role is not very young.

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@jessesingal I want to propose that whenever we see cultural shifts like this, it's typically caused by some underlying environmental change, not by a real change in human nature. I propose that change is the advent of social media, not a sudden increase in sociopathy among youths.

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@rico_rants @deonteleologist Finally! It really was time someone seriously asked this question. The answer is "loll no."

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@awalk_0304 @clairlemon I believe this is not even anecdotal/unusual. I think there is pretty strong evidence that exercise and improving health are among the best possible things one can do to alleviate depression and anxiety.

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@SarahTheHaider And how it predates western influence. There's a trend -- especially in the liberal circles I run in -- to attribute all bias and bigotry to America/Europe, who corrupted the otherwise pure, good, innocent cultures of the world.

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@lastpositivist @Sturgeons_Law This feels like it's been highly relevant to discussions recently

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@Noahpinion Wow, amazing story, Noah. Also, this is a case where anyone invoking Godwin's law is a fool. I'm young, but I've never seen anything like this. If anything in my lifetime truly deserves to be compared to the Nazis, it's this right here.

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@mattyglesias "There is a good Taco place in Budapest, your argument is invalid" is a new one

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@joshtpm And then I replied, "Hey, black lives matter, equality for all" and tried to give them all cookies but then they said "we hate your cookies we just want your money and we will kill you" and so reluctantly I was forced to defend my home

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@jessesingal And as a further point of comparison, slightly under 2,500 American servicemen died during the entire Afghanistan war. So, Russia has lost more men in 12 days than America did in 20 years.

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@jessesingal I disagree. In this series of tweets, I will show how we can draw a direct line from the release of Mortal Kombat 2 on the Sega Genesis to yesterday's events at the capitol (1/43)

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@EvanMcMullin And also *demanding* votes be counted in AZ. Really gives away the game, there: stop counting if Trump is ahead, keep counting if he's behind. Absolutely no consideration of legality or democracy, only power.

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@sahilkapur @chrislhayes I think it really helps underscore the absurdity of this if people imagine Obama in 2012 sending out a bunch of fundraising emails talking about how much McCain sucks

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@scarlettrabe @willwilkinson This is such an explosive story that I want further confirmation. This is crimes against humanity tier scandal so I want the evidence to be airtight.

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@chrislhayes Going to have to fast all month just to give her enough money now

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@JonCrowellOrg @Noahpinion Great counterexample, thanks!

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@stuartpstevens I really wish other conservatives could appreciate this -- there's still people out there hoping that somehow the conservative movement they loved will magically return, that the Republican party will surely come it's senses, etc. This has been the fantasy for a decade now.

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@PFTompkins One of the harsh cycles of American politics is that it is clearly simultaneously true that 1) many Trump voters feel they are belittled and condescended upon by coastal elites who think of them as stupid and 2) many Trump voters objectively believe comically stupid things.

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@Noahpinion Examples like this also show why Dunning Kruger is not a "stupid person problem," as it's often thought of. Studies have pretty consistently shown that the DK effect is not something that just affects stupid people. It's about expertise, not intelligence.

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@girlziplocked I can't speak for all younger guys, but: I definitely cannot fix a toilet or pave a driveway, but I can absolutely build a computer and migrate servers. I have a different skillset that my dad did, that's all.

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@IDoTheThinking Surely education polarization holds high explanatory value here? Latinos are notably less likely to go to college than are Asian Americans. I would assume the shift among Latino and Black voters toward Republicans is disproportionately uneducated and male.

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@BadEconTakes Not sure about this one. Depends on his definition of "value." There are shops that keep their first dollar earned and frame it, meaning it has very high value to them, even if the nominal worth is exactly 1 dollar.

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@Noahpinion I saw someone point out recently that Dem pols are often very willing to compromise with and make concessions to union groups because unions have a proven history of supporting you if you meet their demands. But the super-progressive groups like UM view compromise with disdain

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@mattyglesias And thus the more plausible a conspiracy theory is -- for example, Trump's Russia connections -- the *less* emotionally satisfying it is to conspiracy theorists, because it doesn't make them feel like special insiders who have seen farther than everyone else.

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@DJC_JO @aaronnarraph Progressives: We must listen to black voters in America -- their voices have been silenced for too long. Black voters: We like Biden. Progressives: Wrong.

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@MerkinMuffley5 @lastpositivist As a white guy, I do not envy Black men's ability to say the N word, but I absolutely do envy them the ability to rank races with impunity

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@jessesingal There's also this image also being shared by similar groups and also with a clear methodological flaw: it does not distinguish between a D running in an R+4 district and a D+20 district. Obviously you're more likely to lose -- and less likely to endorse M4A -- if you're in R+4.

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@clairlemon You're like the bizarro world Playboy. I tell my friends I read Quilette and they often give me suspicious looks. I respond by insisting that I only read it for the hot chicks.

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@AshaRangappa_ Leader of the Senate is Jewish (and Dem), Secretary of State is Jewish, and of course: Jewish Senators: 9 D, 0 R Jewish Members of House: 25D, 2R But sure, it's Dems who are biased against Jews!

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@normative In fact, a rule of thumb: many of the most tortured justifications for policy positions are spawned by people who know that their *actual* justifications would be plainly unacceptable.

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@DavidAFrench David, surely you know the hallmark of Soviet Russia was that private corporations frequently banned Stalin from using their services and prevented Stalin from speaking out. It's classic communism.

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@mattyglesias I Would really love to know how many union members can identify who Tony West is. Stoller is so deep down his rabbit hole he's lost all connection to real world concerns, which is ironic given his perspective.

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@jessesingal I'm an (in training) statistician, and the flaw in the linked argument is glaringly obvious: it assumes a normal distribution, which is not reasonable. The data does not pass a Shapiro–Wilk test, but that is expected because the vote counting would not be randomly distributed.

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@janecoaston @UrbanAchievr Isn't this one of the classic rationalizations? "Look at what you made me do" is right up there with "everybody else was thinking it, I just had the balls to say it out loud"

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@morgansam822 @PFTompkins I would very much argue that the Sanders campaign maintained internal anger and struggle within the Democratic party long past the point when Clinton had sealed victory.

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@mathladyhazel I actually think this is great! It teaches a valuable lesson: we cannot *prove* a pattern is absolute and infinite by simply testing it a few times. Or even a thousand. Sometimes, patterns that seem to hold for 9999 times break on example 10000.

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@RadioFreeTom I'm with you, Tom, but this may actually explain why it is an important question: because a lot of people seem to care about this. I'm not saying they *should* care, but they do, and I think in other contexts you'd see that as good politics. Talk about the issues you win with.

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@normative I think it derives from a tortured attempt to divorce their plainly religious arguments from the policy position they are espousing -- they are aware that they cannot make a simple "Because the Christian God said so" argument, so we end up with stuff like this.

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