mastercrumb.bsky.social
Government technocrat, liberal frustrated by lack of intellectualism in liberalism these days.
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I like this take- because it eggs on the eventual collapse
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All= always
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Uhm it works for all numbers. Think of it this way. (A x B) x C = B x (A x C).
Now A is all (1/100).
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I don’t even know how to add a caution
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I am probably most worried about the politicization of the judiciary, and even I can’t get that worked up about Biden’s pardon. We do need to improve independence- even get rid of presidential pardons, and if this leads to that- I consider it a win-win.
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It’s not about belief, it’s about loyalty.
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It is an interesting point, that there is a lot more conversation about trans issues than climate. I am guilty of that too.
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I may have lost who the “you” is this tweet, do you mean Moulton would express fury, or people who are responding to him?
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Agree. And I actually think this is a lesson we (the left) needs to learn. That is to speak more to peoples perceived experience than factual one. (Ideally without losing a foundation in the factual)
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What does fairness mean to you in terms of sports? What data do you have to support that this is a problem?
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But, that said, he takes as a given trans people have a right to exist, and I want to talk about what are the fair ways to proceed in an important social activity (kids sports). This is exactly the person the left should be honestly engaging with, with questions like-
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First, I will acknowledge that the trans athlete issue does not hold water. There is no data to support it being an issue, and we are quite comfortable with height basically being a the determining factor is basketball- so fairness is a weird concept.
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The argument you lay out is, “I wish the NYT convinced more people” and not “there are facts that I want to know that NYT didn’t say”
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I do appreciate that NYT is moving onto specifics about how power is rolling out- for example, that Trump previously gave exemptions to tariffs, and that is a strategy for currying favor.
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The challenge is that most folks who read the NYT are already convinced that Trump is a dangerous liar hell bent on using power for personal gain. I am not sure I need to hear any more of that argument.
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** (no can)
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Keeping the narrow view on NYT, since “other media” is to wide a scope, it is a legit counter factual. I agree that can you can’t try to lead the party of institutions as a breaker of institutional norms. The challenge with Trump is that the norm breaking is the point.
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And for clarity- we don’t need to allow all voices, some are legit disingenuous or reject basic foundational premises (ie Trans folks exist and have a right to exist). Just a much calmer, more exploratory tone with everyone else.
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**think
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I am genuinely curious about your reaction. I think there is a 50/50 chance you will like him or hate him. lol
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With respect, I do liberal communication spaces have become pretty intolerant of dissent from a pretty narrow world view. I think we are a better intellectual frame if we can have these debates, and not so quickly reduce it to “you are either with us or against us”.
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He is a commentator and not a reporter.
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Do you listen to Ezra Klein? I have appreciated his honesty. Not that I agree 100% with everything he says. But it does feel like genuine independent thinking.
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Doug Mills: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/u...
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newrepublic.com/article/1888...
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I have been pleased to find that better discussion happening here. Agree that Twitter is just objectively bad (independent of the left-right issue)
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But I think most of what you see is an emergent property of a publication that is a mix of market driven, and committed humans trying to report the truth. Not a conspiracy.
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I think that is a fairer criticism of H’s emails, vs Bidens age. It is definitely an editorial judgement about what NYT prints. I did not see the same style of coverage of Biden Age as I did the emails
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Would you agree that Bidens age and Trump lies each got roughly equal coverage?
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www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/u...
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“Biden is 81. Donald Trump is 77. Biden’s age has become an issue in a way that Trump’s has not, because we are being asked, as citizen-critics, to judge the president’s late style. This is what we saw at the State of the Union on Thursday night.” www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/b...
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5th grade, and wacky alternative HS. :)
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Although, as a former teacher, if it didn’t work the first time- reteaching using the same method rarely works. I think we need new methods to rebuild a common truth paradigm.
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Do you think it is the NYTs role to remind people of things? I would argue you no. It’s reporting on new facts. Opinion folks and such are totally welcome to remind away.
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I agree that I am really worried about the lack of a universal truth position. The left - right debate at this point doesn’t actually disagree about policy, but what is true.
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Clearly specifics matter a lot. Agree we should also vote for a good law, and reject any bad law. Seems like that has a lot of face validity to it.
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Cause I am not saying you need to go on some media blitz with Trump, but just if you are going to put up a good idea- we will vote for it. (I have very little faith since I am confident both sides are well funded by MasterCard)
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So are you saying if a vote came up for some kind of anti trust legislation for credit card companies (for example, saying they have to offer the same deal to all companies and not prioritize Walmart) that dems shouldn’t vote for it?
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I think this is exact thing we need to be laser focused. And companies that don’t get exceptions need to sue sue sue
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Fair point. I don’t think you really gain much of anything is situation 2. But I also don’t think you really lose anything. While situation 1 is a clear win. So what’s the risk?
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And please cite the New York Times article that called Trump a great orator.
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Ok that list was from 7 years ago, but I just dropped 3-4 from the last few months.
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Lies, wild claims, untruths, … I mean are we really hating on the NYT because they like thesauruses?
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/u...