DataAndDissent

Data over dogma. Old-school liberal, modern pragmatist. Calling out the extremes on both sides because common sense shouldn't be radical. 📉📊

[DataAndDissent @DataAndDissent]

I’m done with the outrage machine.
Common sense shouldn't be radical.
I’m launching @DataAndDissent to provide a rational, evidence-based perspective for the politically homeless.
You will not find partisan cheerleading here.
What you will get:
📉 Data over Dogma: Policy evaluated by results, not feelings.
🏛️ Classical Liberalism: Championing free speech, meritocracy, and individual liberty.
🧠 Stoic Pragmatism: Tuning out the noise and focusing on what matters.
If you value facts over factionalism, welcome aboard. Let’s have a serious conversation. 🇺🇸📊

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Ugh, man get it together…. The original narco terrorism indictment against Nicolás Maduro wasn't issued by Biden, it was unsealed in March 2020 by William Barr under the Trump administration.

Justifying why a leader was removed doesn't erase what happened next. Using military force to arrest a foreign head of state and subsequently taking majority control of their nation's 65 billion barrels of oil "at no cost" is still a textbook resource takeover under foreign coercion.

This is an embarrassment for the US. And please get your facts straight.

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Completely abandoning the Venezuela debate to cry "TDS" and complain about the "SRF" is hilarious.

First off, it’s called the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve). Second, the previous administration literally sold oil high at ~$95/barrel and bought tens of millions of barrels back under $76 while canceling mandated sell-offs. If you can't defend state coerced foreign contracts, just say so instead of botching domestic energy stats. Horrible precedents have been set.

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Central banks target 2% instead of 0% because deflation is an absolute economy killer that freezes spending and spikes real debt loads. New Zealand started the trend in the late 80s and the rest of the world followed because the math works. Save the secret cabal hints for Reddit conspiracy boards.

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RAND YOU BUFFOON!!!!

Senator, Bill Clinton signed that exact prohibition into law 30 years ago back in 1996. Undocumented immigrants are already ineligible for federal welfare, and refugees are here legally under U.S. law. Grandstanding on a bill to re-ban something that's been illegal for three decades is peak beltway performance art. 🤡

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@DavidWolfe So basically lie to her. Great strategy ya dingus.

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But taking PR spin from an interim leader installed after U.S. intervention as proof of an uncoerced deal is wildly naive lol.

That’s the geopolitical equivalent of executing a hostile takeover of a company, hand-picking a brand new board of directors, and then acting impressed when your installed board votes "yes" and releases a glowing PR statement. Citing post-intervention quotes from an installed regime doesn't turn leveraged coercion into a free-market victory. Of course she’s gonna say that 😂

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The seizure is tongue in cheek to the overall picture. You don't get to call it a routine trade deal when it's done under foreign military coercion. When a superpower deposes a foreign leader and writes a contract handing over their nation's primary asset for zero dollars, that isn't exactly free-market commerce my guy!!! It's an economic seizure with legal paperwork stamped on top.

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Basic biochemistry like glutathione pathways and maternal fever risks are undisputed, but using a theoretical biological chain to dismiss massive real-world empirical data is bad science.

While acetaminophen depletes glutathione at high/toxic doses, speculative flowcharts don't override population data. Large-scale sibling-controlled studies of millions of children show the link between Tylenol and autism disappears once genetics and family environment are controlled for.

Severe, untreated maternal fevers are proven teratogens. Using Tylenol to safely suppress a high fever mitigates fetal harm rather than increasing it.

A localized, controlled vaccine immune response is not severe, hyper-inflammatory Maternal Immune Activation (MIA). Vaccines prevent the severe wild infections that actually trigger MIA.

Telling people to "look at things empirically" while rejecting a 1.5 million child empirical study in favor of a whiteboard theory is pure confirmation bias.

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Framing standard foreign policy disagreements, trade debates, and diplomatic criticism as "siding with foreign adversaries" is textbook engagement-bait.

Disagreeing with a specific administration's tariff strategy, diplomatic approach, or sanctions enforcement isn't siding with Canada, Iran, or Venezuela—it's just basic domestic political debate. Conflating a differing viewpoint on global affairs with treasonous anti-Americanism is a masterclass in timeline brain-rot.

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Confusing policy competence with the ability to run a masterclass in political branding is a massive false equivalence.

Having "all the answers" requires deep, boring structural governance, data management, and institutional expertise. Being a master conman and branding artist requires none of that—it requires dominating the media cycle, selling an emotional narrative, and cultivating a devoted personality cult from the cheap seats. You don't need a platform to win a culture war…you just need a better stage persona.

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Carville and the progressive wing aren't just arguing about messaging, they're fighting for the soul and structural direction of the entire Democratic Party.

Carville is pointing to historical primary trends where institutional centrists usually hold the line, while figures like AOC and the progressive wing are betting that the party’s base has permanently shifted left. Framing it as a battle over who actually controls the apparatus is spot on.

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@YankeeGoesSouth @DrewDonJuan @ScottFishman @elonmusk Pretty sure the point is that mitigating personal risk and maintaining community immunity reduces the overall viral load in a population. Pretending herd dynamics don't exist because you want to argue semantics over car safety doesn't change how an R0 of 12-18 operates.

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Doctors don't get paid "bounties" by Big Pharma; medical practices bill insurance companies or public health programs for the actual product cost and clinical labor of administration.

Suggesting that an administration reimbursement fee means pharmaceutical companies are secretly bribing physicians to hand out shots is a profound misunderstanding of basic healthcare billing.

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Springsteen literally just wrapped up the biggest tour of his CAREER, grossing $730 million across 4.9 million tickets, and Jelly Roll routinely packs massive arenas and stadiums nationwide. Swapping objective box office data for partisan wishful thinking doesn't make your tweet any less detached from reality.

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@James_4_liberty @ConceptualJames

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@laralogan Why can’t people just be who they want to be.

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@rustyrockets

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@GuntherEagleman Source?

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@MarioNawfal Yup. When war shifts to UGVs and kamikaze drones squaring off, we're looking at a grim new economic equation. The first lines of engagement are becoming entirely robotic, turning front lines into an attritional contest of hardware, supply chains, and manufacturing scale.

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@grok @GuntherEagleman Lmfao 🤣