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Good and bad ideas are fairly equally distributed across the political spectrum.
Joined July 2022
So when I read this tweet my first thought was: Holy cow, I can't believe CBS News is actually doing some reporting on this. Then I remembered that CBS News recently changed management.
About half or more of the roughly $18 billion in claims paid out by Medicaid to Minnesota-run programs may have been fraudulent, and at least 14 programs were likely exploited, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
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I like this guy's response to the dim bulb: https://t.co/MFpzW1Ei5N
@ModeledBehavior @avidseries Try this, bud. “I don’t necessarily agree with you, but you do make a valid argument.” Your problem is you believe that if you disagree with someone, their position must completely lack any merit and validity. However, that’s rarely the case.
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People read into this tweet what they wanted to read into it. A lot of people (including this dim bulb: https://t.co/RRTeLtywuU) didn't seem to care that I personally wasn't claiming that old arrivals are "more American" than newer ones, but only that those old arrivals could
A person who legally migrates to the US from a non-Western country, subscribes to our core values, and becomes a citizen is fully an American and should be acknowledged as such. But let's get real. An American who can trace ancestors on both sides of his family back to the 18th
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Average size of home in 1950s: 960 square feet Percentage of households with a car: 58% Percentage of Americans who had college degrees: 6%
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About 1 out of every 5 persons in the Ottoman Empire was a slave during the 16th century. Almost 2/3 of these slaves were European.
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"bulk of the discrimination fell on Asians" This is only partly correct. The bulk of discrimination in ELITE college admissions did absolutely fall on Asians, but in less selective institutions (and elsewhere in society) this was usually not true. Whites were usually the main
While affirmative action affects whites, the bulk of the discrimination fell on Asians. Recall that Asians had nothing to do with “white supremacy” or slavery or any other reason made up to justify discrimination of this form.
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It's not so much the racism that has always enraged me about affirmative action. It's mostly the elevation of the (often much) less capable. We are an advanced society. We should care about excellence. But white people are so neurotic about race, and black people so
Among the top LSAT scorers (170 or above), 82.5% are White, 15.6% are Asian, 1.6% are Hispanic, and 0.3% are Black. Approximately 80% of all U.S. Attorneys are White. Of Biden’s 200 federal judges, 37% were White, 42% mix of Hispanic and black, and 14% Asian. It’s blatantly
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Remember: There are no grad programs in which Hispanics and blacks have ever outperformed whites on test scores and undergrad GPA, or in earned GPA once admitted to a program.* In other words: Even though, on average, they're measurably less intellectually capable, they were
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Despite everything you hear from loudmouths on Twitter, most Americans just want someone like Romney on the ballot. Trump succeeded in 2016 and 2024 because his opponents had high negatives (unlikability in the case of Hillary and a lack of seriousness in the case of Kamala).
As ever, "Generic Republican" is still the most potent political brand in America.
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The beneficiaries of the "woke" initiatives that harmed young white men were "almost entirely... the most-advantaged and least-representative members of the target groups."
Here are some claims that are simultaneously true, but that people maddeningly refuse to simultaneously acknowledge: 1. The knowledge and culture industries are highly unrepresentative of the societies they serve, and remained so throughout the "Great Awokening" (I wrote a book
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Back in 2017 and 2018, we kept asking, "Where is the conservative movement? Why don't they seem interested in fighting this woke crap? Why aren't they exploiting its nuttiness and toxicity for political gain?" Then finally Tucker Carlson started talking about wokeness in 2019
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It was the only time in my life I ever identified with a "movement". It was pre-retard antiwokeness — more intellectual than activist, more measured than polemical — but it did not produce "results". Nothing really got done until Chris Rufo and the cons finally arrived in 2019.
Remember the Intellectual Dark Web?
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Since there seems to be some confusion. (Few people on Twitter seem to be able to recognize cognitive decoupling.) https://t.co/cmxHOXBKYi
@ModeledBehavior "can legitimately claim to have a more meaningful connection to America" I don't personally make the claim, but someone else can certainly legitimately do so.
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Intelligent people are among the biggest believers in stupid things because they possess the cognitive hardware and software that enables rationalization of the worst stupidity. But when unintelligent people are wrong the explanation is simpler: It's because they're stupid.
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A person who legally migrates to the US from a non-Western country, subscribes to our core values, and becomes a citizen is fully an American and should be acknowledged as such. But let's get real. An American who can trace ancestors on both sides of his family back to the 18th
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Christopher Lasch, writing about American elites in 1994: "They live in a world of abstractions and images... as distinguished from the palpable, immediate, physical reality inhabited by ordinary men and women. Their belief in the 'social construction of reality' — the central
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If you're going to post something this retarded, you had better disable your replies, which this deep thinker has in fact done. A debate between JD Vance, a graduate of perhaps the most selective professional program in the country, and a woman whose oratorial style is similar
Note: I have EXTENSIVELY covered both AOC and Vance since they got to Washington DC ... more than any other reporter — and she would totally stomp him.
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