The Rational Liberal

Anti-woke, anti-Trump, anti-authoritarian, anti-snowflake. Pro-humanist, pro-liberal, pro-secular, heterodoxologist and critical theory dragon slayer.

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

@AdamMGrant @JustinJBariso @JustinJBariso Scaring people into disacknowledging basic facts under the threat of being publicly smeared doesn't exemplify EQ. It serves to contribute to a stifling and homogeneous culture, where everyone pretends away inconvenient data @JonnyNemo @Inc
https://t.co/ldocIBb2e1

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

Anyone else feel like Twitter is one arbitrary change away from becoming whatever it was that happened to MySpace in its dying days? (Re: #X" @elonmusk)

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

Since when was @SFGate in the business of platforming libelous smear merchants like @Dannosphere who hurl willful inaccuracies at a progressive hero like @DaveChappelle (e.g. "transphobe") unrebutted?

[Dan Gentile @Dannosphere]

I saw Dave Chappelle last night, and while he's still a very skillful comedian, the jokes are hard to laugh at if you've been paying attention the past few years. Also he talked a lot of trash about SF. Read my review here. https://t.co/CyVRy0jPQa

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

Inspired by the latest bit of nonsense from Scientific American, I wrote about the human sex binary and those committed to lying about it.

Why do scientists keep pandering to gender ideology? - spiked https://t.co/gHt5YTXICh

[KTXS News @KTXS_News]

"Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed," said Payton McNabb.
https://t.co/iIi7Lyytku

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

Wow, what a shocker. It's almost as if appeasement of hyper-PCism and cancel culture has obviously damaging consequences... 🙄

[KTXS News @KTXS_News]

"Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed," said Payton McNabb.
https://t.co/iIi7Lyytku

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

@ABC Lol down 6 Billion. Points for creativity with that headline though...

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

@lucolinga @TheStreet Targeting woke values isn't an attack on the left, or at least it's not that simple. Centrists and old guard liberals also recognize the mental illness of wokeism. See the book 'Woke Racism' by New York Times columnist and Ivy league professor John Mcwhorter for more

[Brian Soto @TrainedHedonist]

In case there is still any confusion about whether or not everything is terrible, this:
https://t.co/h54OIRyyFy

[Dolan O'Hagan @dolanohagan]

If you are looking for a #podcast series then can I recommend what I have no doubt will come to be seen - wherever you stand - as one of the most nuanced, respected and informative pieces of audio journalism this year. Well done @meganphelps and @TheFP https://t.co/TiBc5Gvkat

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

NEW PODCAST EPISODE
Sam Harris speaks with Megan Phelps-Roper about the new podcast series she hosts and produced, “The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling.” The series is also produced by Andy Mills and Matt Boll for The Free Press. https://t.co/YafXp8YL2v

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

@SFBART "Two budgets" - The truth is, they're federally subsidized. They'll never be "broke." Plus, anyone who actually rides BART knows those train cars look like sardine cans in the morning. They're clearly back to pre-pandemic ridership.

[Kafkas Typewriter @KafkaTypewriter]

Quizás más tranquilo, pero a diferencia de México, aquí resolvemos nuestros crímenes y procesamos a nuestros criminales. Mientras tanto @lopezobrador_ es un títere ineficaz de los cárteles...

[Novelist's Corner @NovelistsCorner]

Uh oh, erythritol dramatically increases stroke/heart attack risk. Someone tag @hubermanlab on this one...
https://t.co/kGqkaMxMP5
#erythritol

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

@AmyArgetsinger @MonicaHesse I'm not very invested in the evolution of pop star's faces, but the quote with the picture about aging,"aging gracefully" is a lot of things, but I'm positive it's never been repeated trips to a plastic surgeon. Whoever wrote this should know the distinction.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

I didn’t “expose” that Twitter was hard to run. We found they had elaborate relationships with “government partners” in the FBI and DHS, through whom they processed, for pay, thousands of censorship requests from a vast range of agencies — DOD, State, HHS, Treasury, CIA, more.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Furthermore I found Twitter had an explicit internal guidance giving the “U.S. intelligence community” authority to identify content for removal on their site, even as they publicly insisted they did so only at “our sole discretion”:

[The Rational Liberal @TheRationalLib]

Re: #reparations
I think @WSpriggs, @ThomasCraemer, etc. would start making more sense, and make more compelling arguments if they at least attempted to understand more nuanced positions (e.g. those of @JohnHMcWhorter, @GlennLoury and @coldxman )

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Men aren't women, tho @vijaya

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Thank you @joerogan and @elonmusk! Raicilla for everyone 🇲🇽