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Good and bad ideas are fairly equally distributed across the political spectrum.

Erect a strawman in my replies, you get blocked.

[i/o @avidseries]

@lex_ordo_ But that guy in the screenshot is ruminating about THE COLLAPSE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION!

If you're going to be doing that, one hopes the take might wade deeper than the shallow end, and that the replier, the world's first trillionaire, might appropriately rise to the occasion.

[i/o @avidseries]

The level of discourse here is sky-high. A regular Algonquin Round Table.

[i/o @avidseries]

@impostersyndrum This is definitely not boomeresque.

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@GenericProfile4 Is this that deconstructionism I've heard so much about?

[i/o @avidseries]

I was a con until college.

In college I became lib, then less lib, then, by my senior year, barely lib.

And then I settled into the center.

I can understand all of these, having been all them.

But white wokes, no. I can't model their minds. I can't model guilt neuroses.

[bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ @yhdistyminen]

"Liberals are terrible at modeling the minds of conservatives"

*five minutes later*

"I don't understand why people are so upset at me musing about abolishing the 19th amendment"

[i/o @avidseries]

@christopherrufo Yes.

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@asdf03291423 Nothing, except the threat of resumption of war.

[i/o @avidseries]

I might as well put this out there: I think it's likelier than not that there will be no signed final agreement between the US and Iran in 60 days, and that it's entirely possible that when the MOU expires, Trump will kick the can down the road until after the mid-terms.

After that, all bets are off what will happen next.

[i/o @avidseries]

@JXJack1 @JamesSurowiecki Generally thought to share the top with Clinton.

[i/o @avidseries]

@fightinbobbyl @JamesSurowiecki No, W isn't dumb. His SAT and GPA were slightly higher than his co-Yalie John Kerry. I assume you don't think Kerry is dumb?

[i/o @avidseries]

@didier_paul @JamesSurowiecki In the post-War era, Clinton and Carter usually top the list, but I'd add Nixon.

[i/o @avidseries]

@JamesSurowiecki There needs to be complete separation of sports and religion/politics/activism.

(BLM may not be a religion, but most of its claims were certainly faith-based.)

[i/o @avidseries]

Bottom line is that when it comes to art and design the American right are hicks. They have either bad or retrograde taste in almost everything.

Anything new or challenging or innovative or relevant to the zeitgeist terrifies them.

It's the curse of low Big 5 openness.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Truly just a disgusting monstrosity of a building.

[i/o @avidseries]

@mistakevni @greg_price11 It's an innovative design.

[i/o @avidseries]

@KingArthurWs @JamesSurowiecki Truman never went to college.

Biden didn't excel in a mediocre university and did very poorly at a mediocre law school.

Penn professors say Trump was "dim".

[i/o @avidseries]

@JeevesReginald1 @JamesSurowiecki I mean, in his case, "low IQ" was probably 110 or slightly higher. He was certainly smarter than the average American.

[i/o @avidseries]

@skeeziez @JamesSurowiecki No, I do not think the guy who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law is low IQ.

[i/o @avidseries]

@JamesSurowiecki Yeah, I agree. Mediocre academic record at a mediocre college, but when you watch him in interviews and debates, it suggests an intelligence greater than the other three.