Ecclesiasticus44
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Expert in Distrusting Experts. The dealer wants you thinking that it’s either black or white. Thank god it’s not that simple.
Joined September 2019
Experts and professionals should be seen as craftsmen in the service of democracy. Liberals think the function of democracy should be for voters to rubber stamp the judgments of experts and professionals.
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LOL, we’re about to get a TaylorLorenzPitchbot account premised on her never criticizing conservatives.
Has @TaylorLorenz ever written about Turning Point USA or Daily Wire? 🤔 Funny how she always seems to cover influencers but skips the biggest right-wing content machines….
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I love these posts that are “X looks unrecognizable as Y” but it’s exactly what you would expect X to look like with Hollywood craftsmen trying to make him look like Y. Yeah, I get how movies are made.
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And the pilot flies the plane to the destination I bought a ticket for. The declining trust in expertise is driven by "pilots" who think they deserve the deference to say "actually, you'd be better off going to Cleveland.".
People who think they no longer depend on trusting experts only survive because they're mistaken. Every time you get on a plane you trust experts implicitly about a million questions you're not even aware of.
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A big reason for the collapse of trust in experts is that we saw people with well-earned reputations as experts in particular fields turn into deranged partisans before our eyes as they tweeted their every thought. There’s no going back to “1A expert here…” for guys like Ken.
An abstract statement of what someone should do in a hypothetical situation is never, ever going to meet imminence under the Brandenburg standard. Ken knows this and is trying to hide it by focusing on the possibility of a hypothetical arrest rather than the difference in law.
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Michael Hobbes hasn’t been genuinely curious about anything in at least a decade
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At the barest minimum, a smart campaign would have had an answer to the question “what would you have done differently than your deeply unpopular boss?”.
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Trying to pretend you’re a new-on-the-scene generic Democrat and hoping nobody notices your prior campaign or the presidential administration you were part of is not, in fact, “a very smart campaign”.
I think Harris ran a very smart campaign during her brief window as nominee, but much of that “smartness” consisted of trying to slough off years worth of earlier bad calls that she had to try to convince people didn’t really count.
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When did they create a new Seth Abramson?.
1/31. I believe there is growing evidence, that the White House is covering up the fact that Donald Trump has been dealing with TIA strokes. AND that he likely had a more significant ischemic stroke this week.
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Democrats would have won the 2024 election if anyone in politics or media had thought to say that Donald Trump is bad.
4. The determining factor was the ear-splitting volume of the accusations against Harris and the absence of equal and opposite accusations against him.
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Expert trusters love the pilot analogy, but it’s a good illustration of the point RFK is making. Yes, the democratic leadership of the United States should have experts in its employ, but pilots don’t choose the destination of the plane.
Generals shouldn't be military experts? Surgeons shouldn't be clinical experts? Airplanes shouldn't be flown by professionals? Or does all this only apply to scientists?.
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Responses to the @TaylorLorenz Wired piece are all “yeah, the contract says exactly what she said, but they pinky promised not to enforce it so HOW DARE SHE!”.
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It’s a little frightening learning there’s a whole gang out there that are to Taylor Lorenz what Lorenz is to actual journalists.
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98% of the time people on this site say “debunked” they mean “there’s another side to this story that I personally like better”.
I truly hate this trend of just declaring something “has been debunked.” Nothing the Lorenz article claimed about Pakman or Chorus has been proven false in any way
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Nothing makes you pine for the days of David Broder and Robert Novak like a sprawling debate about the ethical standards of politics “creators”.
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No, I’m not going to pay just to read the one good article you posted in >10 years of existence
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Present-day remake of Dave except instead of a physical lookalike they enlist the social media team of his top political rival to impersonate the president and pretend he’s still functioning.
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I don’t think Trump is dead, but if they were going to Weekend at Bernie’s him, blasting Les Mis and saying “see, he’s right next door” would definitely be part of the plan.
Trump is definitely alive bc who else would blast Les Mis in the Rose Garden??
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