I'm just gonna include Megan McArdle in the EK/MY discussion because I think this thread is pretty interesting:
There is lots of opprobrium for that! Every time we have this conversation I repeat that I am against your son wearing a mask during speech therapy! I now repeat it again! Now, are you going to say that it's irresponsible not to get vaccinated?— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 15, 2021
You really see her struggling to come to terms with the limits of her libertarian philosophy, which demands that people largely left to make free choices will converge on optimal collective behavior because markets/information-sharing, and here she is confronted with the fact that people largely left to make free choices will choose en masse to eschew vaccination despite this not being the right choice for their own self-interest and the self-interest of others, and she just keeps on arguing with this guy -- don't you see that the invisible hand DEMANDS that you and people like you act correctly in this situation? and it's kind of tragic as it dawns on her that nothing short of the heavy-handed governmental freedom-squashing she hates most will get her to the policy outcome she most wants.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 16 December 2021 01:32 (two years ago) link
she's amazing. to my knowledge she's been right about absolutely nothing ever; the only book she's managed to write is subtitled 'Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success' and her ultimate legacy is supporting the grenfell tower fire as economically sound
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 December 2021 04:18 (two years ago) link
people are not and have never been “left to make free choices” tho - this is partic the case with vaccination and public health. would that they were! opinions have been shaped by demagogues and bandits
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 December 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
freedom isn’t free, we just argue about the fee
― mh, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
Get back in your area pic.twitter.com/2YNtCv7I0B— Nolan🌹 (@VoidOfRoses) January 4, 2022
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
Suppose you think that school closures were a disastrous, invasion-of-Iraq magnitude (or perhaps greater) policy decision. Shouldn't that merit some further reflection?— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 6, 2022
You think this was a policy decision (which of course is totally a decentralized one) equivalent to the deaths of 460,000 people and the destabilizing of an entire region?And...do you think parents and educators have not been reflecting, ffs?— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) January 6, 2022
Yeah, I think depriving tens of millions of school children of an in-person education for a year or longer is absolutely on that magnitude. No question.— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 6, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
stick to telling me who's going to win my state's senate race, Nate, and bow the fuck out
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link
were there any schoolchildren in iraq
― mh, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:17 (two years ago) link
considering how many educations were disrupted in iraq and the surrounding region we must conclude that the iraq war was worse than the iraq war
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
this guy dumb
― rob, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
he has suffered from learning loss
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
doing asynchronous days with my kid were my personal Afghanistan
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
Nate's desire to be seen as a Rational Thinker unencumbered by foolish human biases has led him to be overly skeptical of some views that he, in his detachment, can judge as extreme and/or irrational. I think COVID mitigation measures fall into that category for him because it is unfortunately easy to view them through the lens of political and emotional bias (i.e., driven by anxious liberals).
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
remember when
This is not unique to coronavirus, but it feels like the people who know the *most* about something often express more uncertainty and doubt than people who have some adjacent knowledge but fall short of being subject-matter experts.— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 13, 2020
I'm in the high-risk zone for having adjacent, sophomoric knowledge myself (know statistics, have written about epidemiology) which is why I'm mostly trying to shut up about coronavirus. But I will say be wary of overconfidence and trust folks who express uncertainty/doubt.— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 13, 2020
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Someone tell Nate a good way to avoid the appearance of being encumbered by foolish human biases would be to not to double down on making grotesque racist equivalencies
― rob, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Why didn't the morons who called the Steel Dossier worse than the Iraq War get this treatment?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
(citation needed)
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
now that nate silver has compared remote learning to the iraq war, matty is hard at work writing a 3000-word blog post in favor of it— 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖞💀𝖋𝖆𝖚𝖘𝖙 (@crulge) January 6, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
Xpost
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:19 (two years ago) link
otm
nate silver's Very Bad Tweet perfectly reveals how the school reopening moral panic has worked: people say "we have to do cost-benefit analysis on covid mitigations," which sounds very reasonable, and then they say "okay, let's assume the cost of school closures is infinity"— Will Stancil (@whstancil) January 6, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
And, teachers are expendable.
― DJI, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
xxp yeah no one ever roasts Taibbi on Twitter or ILX
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
xxp oh sorry, I thought you were saying that people were comparing the allegations in the dossier to the war in Iraq. Yes, that Taibbi column is pretty dumb!
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
That substack thing doesn’t appear to say Russiagate was worse than the Iraq War, though.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
it does say Russiagate is WMDs times a million!
― symsymsym, Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
specifically stupid times a million
"If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:46 (two years ago) link
Taibbi's 'media criticism' schtick deserves one giant jackoff motion at this point but it has about the same relationship to "remote schools are the equivalent of 500k dead people" as a gnat does to an elephant.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 6 January 2022 20:47 (two years ago) link
no comment necessary pic.twitter.com/08sRqJaaei— austerity is theft (@wideofthepost) January 15, 2022
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 January 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
lmao
The ape pictures from Bored Ape Yacht Club are pretty cool just evaluated as pictured. They’ve shown a lot of range here within the confines of the basic concept.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 15, 2022
― rob, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:36 (two years ago) link
some regular Andy Borhols
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
I like Les Miserables too (especially the 1998 film adaptation!) but how many people do we think are in prison for this loaf of bread to feed your family scenario? https://t.co/ejcqeJUU1x— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 25, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 25 March 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
In the tweet he quoted, Matt had three choices to respond to:
"if you sleep on the street or steal a loaf of bread or cross a border to escape violence against your family, the law will come for you"
His choice describes him well.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 25 March 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
"especially the 1998 film adaptation"
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 25 March 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
Aimless otm even before you read the replies from public defenders citing cases where clients were arresting for stealing a candy bar, a can of baked beans, and a salami
― rob, Friday, 25 March 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
The dividing line between the middle class and the upper middle class. https://t.co/rKxCyv1gHn— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) March 28, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 28 March 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
the lower middle class will cut you
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 28 March 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
“Talk Shit Get Hit” was the original slogan of the IWW.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 28 March 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
this fuckin' guy
I mean at this point it’s hard to say — my hypothesis is that progressives spending days freaking out about Musk has pushed him further to the right. Does that seem crazy to you?— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 27, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
my hypothesis is that Musk does what Musk thinks is good for Musk and whatever politics might be reflected in his public statements have nothing to do with Musk having political convictions.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 April 2022 18:58 (two years ago) link
I think the people catastrophizing about contraception or interracial marriage being next after Roe sincerely believe it. But I'm sorry, I cannot take this seriously.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:14 (two years ago) link
The net effect of overturning Griswold is that contraception will continue to be legal in all 50 states. In a few states, it might become harder to get certain IUDs and the morning after pill, but even that is dubious.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022
i mean sure i think they will do it but
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
and this idiot is still beloved by rightist intelligensia:
Planned Parenthood was founded not simply as an organization for limiting the size of families in general but more particularly to reduce the reproduction of the black population in the United States, as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself noted.— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2022
And the Dems were once the party of segregation!!!!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:44 (two years ago) link
The rhetorical move McArdle is doing here is to verbally suggest that the "catastrophe" is merely speculative and has to do with birth control or Loving v. Texas, rather than the actually imminent catastrophe re Roe that she would rather not talk about.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 5 May 2022 12:55 (two years ago) link
(Also she carefully skips over the most frequent "what's next????" question, which is Obergefell. I wonder why?)
lord knows I hate Sowell, but that isn't his personal twitter; it's an account that tweets out quotes from his books (which I suppose could be him actually). That one is from 2006. I'm sure context doesn't make it any more compelling a fact, but still
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:06 (two years ago) link
it is very sad to think there is a guy out there who is a big enough thomas sowell fan to create such a project
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
men will literally set up a thomas sowell quotes account instead of going to therapy amirite
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
yes and lol
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
oh, I'm sure the effects of any of these things being overturned will never filter up to these columnists. Remember Welfare Reform? They said it would be a catastrophe, and then we did it and never heard a peep about it from any of our friends.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
Finding out King Buzzo is a Sowellhead was a tough one. Next up, Keith Morris singing the praises of Ben Shapiro.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link