Ben Lawson

Terminally interested in psychology, history, politics, and combinations thereof

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch Public schools in Ontario could create an official "take a shit on the flag" day and this same branch of conservatives would push back against being too critical because we should still be proud of what the flag represents

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch The vast majority of immigrants *long* to become part of an unidentifiable category with a constantly denigrated history and no set characteristics other than 'nice i guess' and 'not American'

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch I once again interrupt your doomer posting to clarify that things are actually worse. It ain't even 40k a year and it ain't even 8k/ year

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@parnel1123 @Anthony__Koch Sounds like he worked really hard to give you guys a better life and leave the country in a better place than he found it for the next generation. Your generation unfortunately cannot say that that are doing the same.

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch It's actually even worse than what the averages would have you believe. Peter Turchin lays it out better in "End Times" but really we should be using median salaries to make this comparison because how much higher wealth inequality has gotten.

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

Sean & Michael are both intelligent people. I agree entirely with Sean.

I would add that this is one of the biggest challenges of the democratic system.

Defence should be the top (or one of) priorities of the federal govt.

But it is not tangible. "Free" shit is. 👇

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@mikeduncan @michlbrmly It was to read to his kids, it's not like he happily announcing he's started a competing podcast with it to rip you off man

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch A family should be a domicile where individual and property rights are protected. Anything else is irrational collectivism that can't be justified morally. Lmao.

[Anthony Koch @Anthony__Koch]

I have no idea why any sane country would support this.

Canadian citizenship should not be an insurance policy.

This is national suicide.

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

Some of these are actually encouraging Western separatism, absolutely wild! What a botched scheme

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Wow the Western Standard has revealed even more fake Conservative buttons Liberal operatives circulated at the conference. True astroturfing.

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Prominent_Bryan Why? Wouldn't it be smart to signal that we aren't all rabidly anti-american? Defuse things a bit? He's like the one Canadian Trump has spoken of openly favorably, should we just hide him in a closet instead of using the opportunity?

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch Absolutely wild legal adults are dragging their toddlers into their persecution fantasies. They will fill their child with terror and then flick Disney+ back on, living their lives business as usual. Everything is catastrophic but nothing is serious with these people

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@AThinksAloud That's not what the tweet says. "They were on the soviet side of the line". He's also included direct testimonial from Auschwitz survivors on his show. But otherwise fantastic work detective 👍

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@Anthony__Koch National sovereignty secured

[Jake 🇺🇸 @omni_american]

Trump got just 55% of the white vote last night vs 58% in 2020 and 57% in 2016 (vs Romney with 59% in 2012).

Harris won 43% of the white vote, matching Obama in 2008 but less than Bill Clinton in 1996 (44%). Among whites, she outdid Hillary (37%) and Biden (41%).

Whatever this election was about, it was not resurgent white supremacy.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

No matter how often I see it, I'll never quite get over the shock of seeing how much money the federal government will freely hand out to projects that are indistinguishable from parody.

https://t.co/zrbVMP8CA5

[popelizbet at bluesky dot social is space witches @popelizbet]

While the LOTR movies use wizard staffs as magical tools to fun visual effect, that's not inherent to the text. Wizards are stereotypically old men who walk with staffs - which can be a mobility aid as well as a magical item, or just a mobility aid.

[Ben Lawson @BenjaminJLawson]

@jakeshieldsajj Because we've all heard this same line of attack and set up before you walnut. It's like hearing someone saying "you'll never tell you what books the Nazis the burning 🤔". It's just a wind up to take the actions and beliefs of a minority of our population to shit on all of us

[Intelligent Adaptive Interventions Lab @adaptive_l47365]

🥳Congratulations to @TheMohiReza and @Ananyabha for their acceptance to the prestigious #CHI 2024! They’ll have the chance to present their groundbreaking research at possibly the largest Computer-Human Interaction conference in the world! Go Mohi and Ananya! 📚🚀#Research

[Jon Wu @jonwu_]

Credit @JSeyff for this Star Wars prequel mashup:

https://t.co/KvaXbFT2GH