AtlasMitchell

Believe in America.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@mcuban @elonmusk I have immense respect for Mark Cuban but am baffled by the notion that free speech doesn’t refer to allowing/respecting all viewpoints, but rather “promoting” them.

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

sure the beheading in the street stuff is bad but you know whats worse? being called racist online. so be quiet

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Jimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don’t need a U-Haul…I have nothing left to pack 🤷‍♂️

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@HarryBBronson So smart. As you say, life is not “worth living” unless your local government prominently displays the symbol of your identity group. That’s why I’m sure you support governments displaying crosses everywhere so that Christians feel life is “worth living,” right?

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

Investment is not an achievement.

Returns are.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@Seattle_Mist @SeanTrende 1. Black people can still vote everywhere and will decide numerous elections.

2. Ballroom is privately funded, not tax-funded.

3. Arches accentuate, not block.

4. Haven’t seen evidence of an outbreak of masked men pulling citizens through broken car windows, but let me know!

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@Itstommytime1 @AndrewJ132 @Redistrict I see a lot of districts that would contain many black Americans. Black people don’t suddenly evaporate if you draw race-blind districts.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

I am finding the entire discussion surrounding the SPLC revelations to be insane. We can argue the specific charges, but how can anyone defend what they were doing?

The defense some people have settled on here is that they were paying informants, like law enforcement sometimes does. Except they aren't law enforcement?

There is no special exemption for funding criminal activities from hate groups just because you claim to also be fighting them. Also, the amounts they were paying far exceeded what anyone would need just to gather information. Millions of dollars in funding for the very people they were pretending to fight.

The truth is, they were treating this like a business.

It worked as a business model. They spent a few million to help fund hateful extremists and then raised tens of millions based on highlighting the growth of the very threats they helped fund.

Meanwhile, they would also often conflate political opponents with those extremists, thereby also providing cover for hate groups.

The country would be much better off if the SPLC were put out of business.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@CRob7 @Ravens @elijah_sarratt The #2 WR on a national-championship-winning team might be a good WR. Perhaps.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@peerreviewtweet @SeanTrende @LPDonovan It's not the job of the Supreme Court to "end practices" that are legal. It's the job of the Supreme Court to interpret and apply existing law.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@Kazanjy @LeighWolf You admit that Medicare is “literally other people paying for old people's healthcare.” Correct.

Well, Social Security is literally other people paying for old people's income. There is no concrete “layaway.” Your money is not saved for you. It is spent on others immediately.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@VAvoterX @AndrewCFollett The whole point is that the parties didn’t magically switch in the 1960s, so why *wouldn’t* he focus on their ideologies pre-1965? Most people are already familiar with the parties’ current ideologies.

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

If we are taking Bethany at her word, she's telling us that Hill reporters are *not allowed* to talk about scandals or stories that they are not specifically assigned to

She's telling us that her entire industry is about narrative building, not truth seeking

[Voluntaryist Keith @an_capitalist]

I guess corporate greed has drastically decreased.

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@StatisticUrban You are not really describing a right. You are describing a service – a service that >99% of society would ardently support.

Things don’t magically transform into rights simply by being extremely good.

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.

[Seamus (FreedomToons) @seamus_coughlin]

If you were just complaining that a $4 billion dollar trip to space "could have fed the poor" but you're silent about the $126 billion dollar train to nowhere, it's time to stop pretending your politics have anything to do with feeding poor people

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@rggonzoX @avidseries @JamesSurowiecki i/o’s reply is a bit confusingly worded, but he’s not saying Iran is humiliating the U.S. currently. He’s saying Iran *would* humiliate the U.S. if we suddenly caved to such pro-Iranian peace terms (terms that the original poster thought were “obvious”).

[AtlasMitchell @AtlasMitchell]

@connorjwills @SeanTrende @DamonLinker State politics and national politics are not the same beasts. Not even close.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?

Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?

That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?

That men don’t belong in women’s sport?

That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?

That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?

That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?

That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?

That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?

That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?

That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?

That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?

That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?

That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?

Let me have your thoughts.

[Cal @wyattyhalpert]

This is a little known piece of knowledge for the Reels generation, but scenes used to have many other scenes attached to them, and you were required to watch all of them - we called the combination ‘movies,’ and sometimes some scenes were good but more were bad.