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Everyone should try imagine that the students protesting at Columbia were TERFs protesting transwomen in sports or something. If that changes how you think the university/police/government should react to the protest, you should consider why.
It sucks defending the free speech of people who themselves loathe the liberal conception of free speech itself, but it's what you gotta do!
Re student protest, we should offer a lot of them (not all) some grace. Chanting “intifada revolution” and “from the river to the sea” often means nothing because they often know nothing. Should they know what the words mean? Sure, but ignorance ≠ malevolence.
the thing that makes foreign policy trip wires scary is you often don't know where they are until you trip them. I get the frustration here but just because nothing did happen doesn't mean nothing COULD have happened. This is a delicate issue!
the thing that makes foreign policy trip wires scary is you often don't know where they are until you trip them. I get the frustration here but just because nothing did happen doesn't mean nothing COULD have happened. This is a delicate issue!
This tweet is what's wrong with a lot of people's thinking on climate and elsewhere. It's hard to get a perfect solution but, except in rare cases, better is better. 1.5C is better than 2C is better than 2.5C is better than 3C.
This tweet is what's wrong with a lot of people's thinking on climate and elsewhere. It's hard to get a perfect solution but, except in rare cases, better is better. 1.5C is better than 2C is better than 2.5C is better than 3C.
Lawyers are both the sort of employee for whom a non-compete is reasonably justifiable and have long been prohibited from being subject to them, yet the legal industry seems to do fine.
I know tone policing is bad or whatever. But I can't imagine having the focus be on chaotic, and seemingly violent and anti-semetic protests around Columbia rather than Israel blocking aid to starving Palestinian kids is particularly helpful to the cause.
I wonder to what extent remote work has contributed to student absenses. Remote work makes sick days much easier for parents, who no longer have to take a day off work, or take other steps. I wouldn't be surprised if this makes parents more lenient on what justifies a sick day.
Tell me you're not an American without telling me you're not an American.
Tell me you're not an American without telling me you're not an American.
When Robert Moses wanted to build Jones Beach, he took his whole budget and spent it on the foundation for the bathhouses, forcing the legislature to choose between funding the entire thing or looking foolish for wasting the money. I feel like Israel is doing that with WWIII.
Disney villain songs are usually the highlight of the movie, but King Magnifico's is embarrassingly boring.
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My basic model of student protests is that in general students don't know shit about what they're protesting against, they do it because it's cool, makes them feel like they're part of something important and they want to be with their friends. In the vast majority of cases,…
I think Lemoine overstates his case a bit (although he does qualify it with “in general”) but there’s a lot of truth here. People, students included, don’t think a lot about why they support the things they do. Not you or me, of course. Other people.
My basic model of student protests is that in general students don't know shit about what they're protesting against, they do it because it's cool, makes them feel like they're part of something important and they want to be with their friends. In the vast majority of cases,…
@rwlesq @AliceFromQueens @ijbailey @glukianoff @jbarro Ha, hadn’t even seen this when I posted. This is exactly it. He can’t even fathom what it’s like to have principles.
@AliceFromQueens @ijbailey He’s so sure that everyone else thinks in the same way as he does that he doesn’t even consider that some people have actual principles.
Like that kid who said “Jews don’t deserve to live” or whatever who has been banned from campus at Columbia. I don’t actually want that kid’s life ruined. I want him to be chastened by this experience but people make mistakes.
There are many bad things that social media does to people, but a good chunk of it is captured in the depressing fact that social media is a boomtown for punitive justice. It just makes everyone be like “the wicked must be punished to such an extent that it makes us feel good”
Yes. If you are being unlawfully arrested your remedy is a civil suit, not to physically resist arrest.
@HeidiBachram Even if cops are unlawfully assaulting students???
@rwlesq @ijbailey @glukianoff @jbarro Last week the funniest thing was the goalpost move on USC to "what about Bari Weiss? Ha! Gotcha!" and then you showed them the Bari Weiss tweet condemning USC
@rwlesq @ijbailey @glukianoff @jbarro They also move the goalposts after you show them that they were once again wrong, so that unless Tom Cotton renounces it, it doesn't count
@rwlesq my favorite tactic is almost everyone ignoring and 1 or 2 people standing next to them with a sign that basically says "look at these assholes".
If protesters wanted broad support, slogans like “Ceasefire Now” or “Stop the Killing” seem better than “From the River to the Sea” and “Intifada Revolution.” Those are calls for continued struggle, not peace.
I will vote for him and then come back in with fake mustache to vote for him again. Show me video of Biden snorting coke while watching porn on a 60 inch TV in the Oval Office, and I’ll vote for him a third time.
@HistoryBoomer I think you're getting closer and closer to reality, and I think when November rolls around, you won't be able to get yourself to cast that ballot for Biden.
I hate all the dances at the protests. Reminds of how those kids are in far better shape than I’ll ever be again.
A tiny minority of the too-online left claimed the ok sign was a white supremacy signal. A constant problem is thinking that the very craziest people on the other side represent ALL the people on the other side.
@HistoryBoomer The people who are convinced the "OK" sign is a secret white supremacist salute have trouble understanding the meaning of this slogan?
Her current producers (I think it's the guy from fun.) have this specific type of synth-pop sound they try to achieve on every song. I would kind of prefer if Swift hired Rick Rubin and just sat in a studio with an acoustic guitar and composed. It would be better.
@TeddyChassin @DemocraticLuntz @mattyglesias The reality is that if one state were declared, there would be immediate civil war without all that policy planning (and probably even with it) and millions of Israeli Jews would probably be driven into exile. So it's not an actual solution. It's 2 states or no solution.
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