Andrew Larson

Data, politics, dry wit, and punk rock. All in one exceedingly medium package.

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@EricLDaugh Aren’t you the fucking people who say that if you follow the law, you shouldn’t be afraid of surveillance? Or is that only for brown people?

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@KCchemguy @AzPetrich “Cavemen didn’t need books, so books are worthless” - this fucking guy.

Imagine wanting people to be better educated and not just manual laborers.

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@mortiscrumb @mattyglesias Strong disagree. During Obama: On the cusp of single payer, a carbon tax, and people believed immigrants were valuable to the country. Now the dems talk about compromising on healthcare, promoting oil and gas companies, and how many people to deport.

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@mortiscrumb @mattyglesias I’m not prescribing moderation or not on a particular issue. But I’m pretty tired of hearing “the dems need to moderate” when the Overton window has moved consistently right since Obama. Liberals need to defend liberalism, not become conservative-lite.

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@rwlesq The issue with this framing is that there is an incentive to never truly understand the business. Fraud is stupidity with intention, and you can’t prove intention across an entire C-Suite unless they’re writing down “did fraud today”. They learn to never ask too many questions.

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@Live4Eevee @ModeledBehavior He was asked questions about the morality of stealing by the NYT. He didn’t bring it up apropos of nothing. He would have been perfectly content to discuss why we should have Medicare for all, or a more progressive tax code. But centrists don’t want that convo.

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@Live4Eevee @ModeledBehavior Really? Stealing bread from a grocery store to feed your family is the same as pirating a movie is the same as wage theft by employers? You don’t think those have importantly different moral weights? All are illegal, all are bad, some are worse.

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@nomino_nomino @TheOmniLiberal If the best you can offer is not good enough for lots of people. Maybe the issue is what you offer, not the people not satisfied with it.

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@JamieMetzl I thought it was “blue no matter who” what happened to that? Or is it only the left who has to compromise?

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@elonmusk What is the Whiteness you are proud of?

You can have English pride, celebrating heritage is important. But there’s no “shared white history” because most whites considered themselves separate cultures until post WWII

Black pride is about a shared history of Blackness in the US

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@JesseKellyDC @willchamberlain Deeply disturbing that all the men you know talk like this. This is not a mentally healthy way to think about the world. Why does the halftime show at the superbowl upset you so much? Sounds charmin ultra-soft to me.

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@constans Yes, they’re not appealing, increase sprawl, and exist so middle managers with no skills can monitor their minions.

Data centers are a nuisance, provide minimal long term value to the community, and raise energy prices. All so tech billionaires can trim 10% of their workforce.

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@MattRinaldiTX That’s why we should have universal mail voting….

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@MattWalshBlog So true, like that time that guy beat another Senator on the senate floor because he wanted to free the slaves? Very high minded debate here.

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@borderlinesmart Hasan has listed things that would cause him to vote for them. He’s not ruling out democrats, he’s ruling out people who refuse to stake out strong positions on issues he cares about. Isn’t that the point of voting, to get politicians to take your issues seriously?

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@Alejandro27Ale No, you’re right, Biden being ineffectual and moderate definitely didn’t contribute to the second Trump term. The DNC had nothing to do with ratfucking leftists in competitive races (Cuomo, Biden) or forcing “moderation” after initial Kamala enthusiasm for breaking with Biden.