HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈

Science, reason, critical thinking, secularism and sarcasm

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

Bye Twitter.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@RandalRauser The reason that isn’t true is science is greedy. Whenever you find a demonstrably useful tool for better reaching objective truth, it gets absorbed and becomes part of science. Science is the way to discover objective truths *by definition*.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

We agonized in 2016 to apply the principle of charity looking for a way to explain Trump’s victory without resorting to American racism, sexism or stupidity. Turns out that was never necessary.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Quote by the great @VanLathan.
I don't know who made this meme, but pls credit the author.

[Chris Kavanagh @C_Kavanagh]

Also, prepared for the usual claims that this result could have been avoided if everyone had just adopted the preferred positions of the specific person posting. A proper post-mortem takes time. Hypotheticals were you declare the outcomes aren't hard to win.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

We’ve established it’s a country that predictably throws a collective tantrum when you suggest they vote for a woman.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@ZachWLambert It didn’t matter. We needed a candidate who would govern us permission to be mean to immigrants and trans people and to disrespect women. He’s our political emotional safety blanket.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Keep Kamala and carry on a la.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

The meta has just progressed so far thanks to Trump, alternative facts and 8 years of lying and cynicism that we’ve gotten so good at saying things without saying them.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

This a master class in dog whistling. Taken literally, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this tweet. Except it’s phrased in a weird way so you linger on it. And you think about the frame of mind of the author (super anti-woke intellectual) and the target audience the…

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

… algorithm is going to display this to, and any informed reader can infer (I allege correctly) that the *meaning* of the tweet is “Go vote for Trump… and look at how clever I am for not mentioning Trump by name so I can claim to be a non partisan intellectual.”

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@SpeedWatkins The decline is due to demographics. No pollster has a way to reach younger voters without a landline or who screen calls. They’re a black box.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@ScottJenningsKY @latimes @RCPolitics This you?

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

This is funny.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@RandalRauser They care about unborn babies they can draw a mental cartoon of. A few dozen cells inside a parent… tiny baby cartoon. A few dozen cells in a piece of lab equipment… can’t figure out how to draw the cartoon, no emotional response.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@jasonllevin No.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

SNL gave Trump equal time. They let him come on in his orange garbage vest and jerk off his microphone.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Women over 65 remember what it was like before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. That's why they are voting for Kamala.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

@PatrickRuffini Tariffs are taxes paid by American consumers.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

And they uses the trappings of philosophy, history and science to appear rational, even to themselves. And every day more and more people realize they just don’t do a very good job of it.

[HiddenThoughts 🏳️‍🌈 @h1ddenth0ghts]

Religions survive on failures of rationality. Even if the accounts of characters like Moses, Noah, Mohammed or Jesus were actually true, the way they were recorded was such that anyone believing they are true today is irrational.