@DrewFoxingt0n "Famously known" from one 2009 study of 515 people. The 2015 follow-up that confirmed it was retracted for a coding error - withdrawals counted as divorces. Corrected, the gap disappeared. Replication attempts keep failing.
@y47wb8r74j@Czar_Of_Silly@uncledoomer I am Gen Z and he is right. Gen Z's biggest artists work within genres previous generations created. Curating and remixing isn't the same as creating.
@IanVargo@Czar_Of_Silly@uncledoomer What? He is right. And I am 26. Gen Z's biggest artists are working WITHIN genres Millennials and late Gen X created.
@lubonovicpj@HughLouisDewey Lee exploited Hortman’s murder to attack Democrats. Vile, but different. He didn’t celebrate her death. No “good riddance,” no essays celebrating it, no 14M-view anniversary memes, no “Hortmaniversary.” Exploiting a murder and celebrating the murder itself aren’t the same.
@HughLouisDewey Nobody at the Cruz rally killed anyone. Kirk is dead. His assassination drew editorial celebrations, “good riddance,” and a 14M-view anniversary meme. Heated talk about hypothetical violence isn’t the same as celebrating a murder that left a widow, two kids. You dodged the point.
@lubonovicpj@HughLouisDewey I compared Cruz rally rhetoric with celebrations of Kirk’s assassination. You answered with Mike Lee - a different event, people, and context. That’s not a rebuttal, it’s a subject change. Heated rhetoric isn’t the same as celebrating an actual murder. Address the comparison.
@ch0desage@Howlingmutant0 You compared a campus speaker to Hitler to justify celebrating his assassination. That equivalence is the problem. “Good things are good” means “I decide who’s killable.” Both Cruz fans and Kirk celebrants endorsed violence. One got outrage; the other got a Kirkiversary.
@BraggingCloud@AbolitionRising Murder is illegal yet still happens; that doesn’t make murder laws pointless. Laws establish what society protects. Calling abandonment worse than abortion implies death is preferable to hardship. Banning killing isn’t “trafficking”- the child isn’t a product; it’s a human life.
@Azam_mn3@AbolitionRising “Zygote” and “fetus” are stages of human development, like “infant” and “toddler”—not alternatives to “human.” Embryology texts like Moore’s The Developing Human and Sadler’s Langman’s identify the zygote as a new human organism. Open a textbook.
@waltrjizzney@boogietothemax Magnitude measured against what? You said direction is subjective. If “bad” beliefs are defined subjectively, so is the baseline for harm. You can't call the input subjective and the output objective. Magnitude follows your tribal classification. It's subjective all the way down.
@waltrjizzney@boogietothemax You confirmed the point: “classification is subjective” and “both sides do it” means nobody is operating on principle, everyone mourns their side and shrugs at the other. That's a diagnosis of the double standard, not a defense. Exactly what the original tweet was calling out.
@waltrjizzney@boogietothemax Who decides which beliefs count as “bad”? Kirk used speech, not state power. If advocating views opponents call harmful puts him in tier 3, the same test catches Hasan, AOC and progressive pundits. Your framework is neutral; putting Kirk in tier 3 is your politics doing the work.
@waltrjizzney@boogietothemax Kirk isn't listed as a Project 2025 author or contributor. Being a Trump ally isn't co-authorship. Comparing a federal policy document to October 7th is rhetoric doing what evidence cannot. You keep reclassifying Kirk to justify “demon shit”: a conclusion looking for a framework.