Alex

Left-Liberal | Environmental Engineering & Philosophy Undergrad #celtics

[Alex @A1exL_]

@RyanGeddie @liberalismorg @Mattzwolinski Thanks for the link! I always like Zwolinski’s writing

[Alex @A1exL_]

I see some stupid shit like this with tens of thousands of likes once a week man it’s gotta stop 😭

[Calvin @RealCalvin1]

Hitler is mentioned a lot in history books.

Stalin and Mao are nearly footnotes despite doing far worse.

You should ask yourself why.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@basedassad69 @SoToSpeakCaucus @LJPeters15 @liquid2ulu Yes, Our World has the best data from what I remember. They aggregate multiple different tests. A lot of the general trends are the same of course, but it’s much more reliable and much more useful for actual development analysis and whatnot.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@chikkafritz @bearspoopthere @ThinknBlink3 @Rohiiittt45 @BRICSinfo They also met in public in good faith, everybody knew about them, they didn’t forge any documents, and their certificates were EXPLICITLY conditional on the results of the recount. Their plan also did not center completely around knowingly breaking the electoral count act. 😊

[Alex @A1exL_]

@chikkafritz @bearspoopthere @ThinknBlink3 @Rohiiittt45 @BRICSinfo The alternate electors in Hawaii came from a COURT ORDERED RECOUNT, and were CERTIFIED on January 4th. Neither of which applied to Trump’s FRAUDULENT plot. You’ve been lied to, and seemingly didn’t actually look into the 1960 Hawaii situation yourself. 😊

[Alex @A1exL_]

@basedassad69 @SoToSpeakCaucus @LJPeters15 @liquid2ulu Ah I forgot, he also would just ignore datasets of higher scoring Africans and only include the really low scoring set. He was also a eugenicist and worked for the racist Pioneer Fund, though that’s not the central issue for me.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@basedassad69 @SoToSpeakCaucus @LJPeters15 @liquid2ulu Roughly recalling from years ago but: used some samples of children, malnourished people, incredibly small samples to just apply to a population, when he didn’t have data he’d sometimes just use another ethnically or geographically similar country. There’s more but that works.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@RyanGeddie Agree. Could much of the problem here just be that people simply don’t fully understand their own foundations? Enough to apply them to each position anyways? Even within our democratic tent, it feels like a lot of people just default to their perceived group or visceral reactions

[Alex @A1exL_]

@PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago Really? His theory and Blackburn’s are the two most compelling to me. I very much dislike his arguments in political philosophy and he seems to misunderstand his opponents sometimes, but his epistemology and meta-ethics seem okay. Why not?

[Alex @A1exL_]

@SoToSpeakCaucus @LJPeters15 @liquid2ulu What? Shouldn’t we all want to use good data? It’s pretty counterproductive to still use Lynn’s data when it’s very methodologically flawed.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@ETCviperidae @liquid2ulu I think this is true. At least from what I’ve read, the USAID performance studies are quite flawed and that’s the original topic, so fair enough. Effective voluntary charities have been much more helpful, perhaps the government should just consult their people at some point.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@ETCviperidae @liquid2ulu Yeah, fair enough. I think there’s at least some intuitive reasoning behind trying to prevent easily preventable deaths abroad whether it’s vaccines or whatever. It’s cheap to us, and presumably an economy will do better if their workforce isn’t dying by easily preventable causes

[Alex @A1exL_]

@ETCviperidae @liquid2ulu The IDA has pulled like 36 countries from aid dependency since 1960, and something like half of them now donate to the IDA themselves. I read this report some time ago so I’m probably slightly off, but it does seem that these things work.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@LJPeters15 @liquid2ulu Is this from Richard Lynn? Have you ever looked into his methodology? There is certainly an IQ difference, but Lynn’s data is in no way reliable.

[Alex @A1exL_]

@dangerdaveball @MattPolProf

[Art Vandelay @LJS527]

Credit to Obama for this statement. Blood and soil nationalism is antithetical to the American experiment in liberty. JD Vance doesn't care, or doesn't understand that.

[Alex @A1exL_]

Big failure by the Dems to not shout to the hilltops about the fake electors scheme but instead put it in the shadows of the Capitol attack.

The scheme was the actual coup attempt, what happened just isn’t disputable, and like nobody I meet in real life has a clue about it. Sad.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

Jan 6 was like the least bad part of Trump’s coup attempt

[Alex @A1exL_]

@bearspoopthere @chikkafritz @ThinknBlink3 @Rohiiittt45 @BRICSinfo Pence, who has a spine and actually cares about American institutions and democracy, denied this plan every single time he was pressured. His legal counsel advised him and said it was blatantly unconstitutional and illegal, as you can listen in their testimony. 🐑

[Alex @A1exL_]

@bearspoopthere @chikkafritz @ThinknBlink3 @Rohiiittt45 @BRICSinfo Trump hired Eastman, who devised the plan, then Trump and his team carried out the plan and pressured Pence up until the morning of January 6th, and ridiculed Pence for not carrying out his illegal, unconstitutional, and fraudulent plan. All of these docs are publicly available.