cannot_stop_the_ishbig

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@grahamformaine Ruben Gallego was originally peddling this claim amid his own set of controversies. Now Platner is doing the same.

https://t.co/EsD6tk4r8i

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@grahamformaine This deserves a community note. Concern over the potential for surveillance pricing is reasonable.

Planter's claim that airlines are *currently* using deaths in the family to determine prices is not supported by the evidence.

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@quinn10264 @ZaidJilani "Epstein class enabler" is the left-wing equivalent of terms like "groomer" or "globalist."

There's some real phenomenon underneath, but the term is so imprecise, elastic, and conspiratorial that it mostly serves as general-purpose smear that further deranges our discourse.

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@Brendoni17 @ZaidJilani Very few people do what?

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@ZaidJilani I don’t wish ill on someone who lies all the time because he has PTSD, but I don’t want that person to be a U.S. senator, either.

I also don’t want Collins to be a senator, which is why I think it might be good for the guy who has a problem with lying to step down.

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@ATLCWorker Explain how your boss can take 500% of your labor value.

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@steady_drumbeat @girlbosswoman The version that actually hurts Platner is prominent Dems going hard negative publicly, and I'd agree that's a mistake. But that's a much narrower claim than what you're making.

So, the conditional probabilities here seem much more nuanced.

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@steady_drumbeat @girlbosswoman The term "support" is overloaded, but I think you're conflating pretty different things. Me, a rando on Twitter, thinking Platner should step aside has no effect on his odds.

I think the same goes for prominent Dems *quietly* encouraging him to drop out, behind closed doors.

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@steady_drumbeat @girlbosswoman I don’t think Mills is a good option, in the same way I thought Harris was a bad option to replace Biden. I still supported rolling the dice there, but more wary here.

Mills is unpopular but polled slightly better than Platner against Collins in the last poll before the primary.

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@steady_drumbeat @girlbosswoman The party has until July 13th to name a replacement candidate, if it wants. So there is a plausible technical means to replace him.

Whether that is wise or practical (what I take you to mean by “realistic”) is the whole question.

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@steady_drumbeat @girlbosswoman I agree. It’s a gamble. But the polling currently suggests a generic Democrat does better than Platner (by a meaningful margin).

So, I think everyone should be less confident in their position here.

Platner is a bad candidate. Getting rid of Platner is risky.

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@wurst007_hans @AliceFromQueens @alicianieves__ That’s true, but a spike in crime would obviously be worse than the DSA grumbling, so this doesn’t seem like a difficult or particularly brave decision.

I’m not suggesting he deserves *zero* credit, but it’s a pretty easy political calculation, not some brave move.

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@wurst007_hans @AliceFromQueens @alicianieves__ I don't think refraining from doing something stupid that could reverse the broader national decline in crime playing out in his city should be considered a "great move," but yes, I'm glad he didn't do that.

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@p0uchcotato @TheRealJChubby @MisterSineWave Can you provide a few specific examples of people you have in mind who are dependent on X to earn a living and would not otherwise be able to do so?

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@p0uchcotato @TheRealJChubby @MisterSineWave The meme was posted as a response to a criticism of the specific person who actually started this thread, who lives in the U.S.

But I think I’ve already addressed your broader point, and I don’t think many people outside the U.S. are earning a living on X, either.

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@CaralhoPhilly @girlbosswoman I don’t understand what you think this does for you.

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@RobertoRuizM12 @AliceFromQueens @alicianieves__ I think Q teams can pretty fairly be described as broken windows-style policing.

Certainly, Tisch’s critics think so.

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@p0uchcotato @TheRealJChubby @MisterSineWave Dude.

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@PhilFalcone3 @AliceFromQueens @alicianieves__ I’m very sorry those dumb people said something dumb to you and you’re still obsessing about it.