Steven Ervin

2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year, Co-Winner 2016 Golden Globe for best Actress in a Musical, One-time finisher of the New York Times Crossword puzzle.

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

I think maybe instead of mocking the partisans for having whatever apocalypse prophecy, it might help to ask some questions about why we feel the need to generate them in the first place. What function do they serve in ordering society? I don't think this is an accident

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The left loves to mock right-wing religious doomsday preachers for confidently claiming to know the date of the Rapture, only to be proven wrong again and again, and those who take action based on these predictions.

I agree, it's funny.

But the secular left has built its own doomsday religion. Extinction Rebellion, climate catastrophism, and the "Climate Clock" are no less absurd. They all warn of a looming End Times, a short window for some kind of salvation, and even engage in public rituals of repentance while calling out heretics to be shamed and silenced.

Some of these True Believers are even behaviorally sterilizing themselves because they believe the future is so doomed that their children will only suffer.

This isn't some tiny isolated congregation following a quacky renegade preacher. This is a mainstream political movement.

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Reygo21 @JillFilipovic I recognize those are basically impossible questions to answer

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Reygo21 @JillFilipovic Sincere questions, if you are generous enough to engage: if you knew then just about the diagnosis, would you have made a different decision? If you'd known then everything you know now, would you have made a different decision? Looking back now, did you make the right one?

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

This is idiotic. Mainers had a choice between paper and rock. They chose paper. How would rock have defeated scissors?

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

This is idiotic. Mainers had a choice between Platner and Mills. They chose Platner. How would Mills have defeated Collins? Also, Platner is still up. He would be rising if Democratic establishment hacks didn't continue to bring him down even now.

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@wil_da_beast630 But in fairness to RWers, most probably never heard about Timpa because the reporting on it was a rounding error on the coverage of George Floyd. And they generally would interpret his case as an indictment against those officers, not policing in general. Less so with Nowak

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@wil_da_beast630 I think we need to be a little more fair to Cathy here. Right-wingers generally tended to discuss cases like Timpas only as a counterpoint to ones like Floyd, because in general RWers give a fair amount more deference to the police than the left. That sensibility is changing

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@hlodvir @dannyjopage @girl_judah @Lthierry_______ @Bornakang And if that's the bottleneck, fine. Scale up to two pounds, add $8 to the total and it's still cheaper on a per person/per meal basis to make it at home

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@HistoryBoomer I mean, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" paints a more complicated picture than "capitalist v. socialist" but I don't feel confident enough in my recollection or understanding to ever weigh in on this

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@SigNSour @athiestboi Fair clarification!

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@shikisaikankaku @DustBaker This is how we'll know that we're all actually dead and roasting in hell

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@SigNSour @athiestboi No, but--to the general public--Jonathan Edwards probably is

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@thepritch80 @DanFriedman81 Yeah I'll go ahead and take the under on "everyone born from 1978 to 1986"

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@MarkAdamCarroll @BCWallin To be fair, not a lot of people do Bayesian reasoning very well

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@crustyshaklefrd @Atem_Aero @Freebaldin @IamR0galD0rn @grok Par for the course for Nazis actually

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@SubparSammich @Dispropoganda The second you internalize the lessons from Economics 101 you have to hand in your leftist card. This person's not ready to get out of pullups quite yet

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Joeoilio @ReezyResells It proves the graphic is presenting information dishonestly

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Joeoilio @ReezyResells Okay, so for the last time, you didn't refute my claim, which is 100% correct

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Joeoilio @ReezyResells So no, you did not refute my claim. Thanks for confirming

[Steven Ervin @andthatritesoon]

@Joeoilio @ReezyResells Do you not know what it means to adjust for inflation?

And by the way.... That was my original claim? That the median house is substantially different compared to 70 years ago. Have you refuted that? Or was I correct?