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#ProjectToldYouSoYouFuckingIdiots

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@pauloCanning Jeremy Corbyn isn't Prime Minister, @LordBuckethead is

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@GeneralBoles @NickBoles there was a time when Nick Boles parody accounts were niche...

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@stephenkb I think the difference is that few people would argue a person _couldn't_ make judgements significantly influenced by race even if they default to assuming otherwise in actual cases, whereas there was no shortage of people rushing to tell AOC that algorithms were always neutral

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@tcc300892 Some kids were being naughty and should be told off. Some of the other kids were just there. The rest of the world shouldn't be interested.

(Also there are assholes in the Black Hebrew Israelite sect, but that's not exactly news either)

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@cjayanetti I'm not convinced that we're muddling through. But yes, better the "everybody accusing everyone else of destroying democracy and nobody knowing how to resolve things" trashfire than the "federal workers don't get paid until the Mexican standoff is resolved" trashfire.

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@tcc300892 @twlldun The one think piece that nobody seems to want to write is "yes _some_ of the kids were being dicks, but this is the sort of thing they'd grow out of much faster without stinking hot takes trying to turn them all into victims or supervillains"

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@tcc300892 @twlldun No it isn't. It paints a picture of the kids as victims without agency then acknowledges some of them were also being racist and rude and the conclusion the kid doing the staring thing was "the one trying to be respectful" rather than showing off is ludicrous.

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@twlldun one of the things both liberal and conservative takes have been uniformly awful on is assuming that their behaviour was as some sort of coordinated group, as opposed to some kids showing off and other kids thinking they're dicks like any other school

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@twlldun the one thing I can agree with the author of that piece on is that staring out a drummer or cracking an 'edgy' rape joke or having innocuous fun in the background and wondering what the hell is going on probably isn't worthy of a White House audience either

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@twlldun every piece on the Covington schoolboys, without exception, has been absolutely dreadful. This may be due to "schoolboys sometimes act like dickheads in an ultimately inconsequential way" not actually being that newsworthy.

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@CJFDillow Well if it doesn't deliver either noticeably higher revenues or address structural imbalances it's probably not worth spending the political capital on. And leaves possibility it may actually reduce tax revenues or keep the ultraprivileged ahead of the ultraproductive

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@rickburin It's part of his continuing bid to become his own "I can explain everything" punchline...

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@CJFDillow (I think there are better arguments against the 70% tax rate, like the fact it doesn't touch inequality of _unearned_ wealth and is fairly easily avoided)

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@CJFDillow I think it's conclusive many of the rich place a non-zero value on marginal dollars, but I think that's entirely compatible with non-linear utilities. Superrich wage earners provide units of additional labour for an extra £1000 at the margin, not an extra £10

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@post_liberal Technically, on some recent counts though the _UK_ is well behind. On the other hand, London is doing most of the "dense population" work, and England as a whole looks a whole lot less dense than the Netherlands and large regions of Germany and Italy. https://t.co/cRlwiYD4Af

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@streaky81 @Ev1l_Ash @mattharding007 @mussychobham @JuliaHB1 Except that anybody with a remotely competent grasp of the issues knows that (i) a hard border in Northern Ireland isn't leverage for a Canada/Singapore/Wherever style trade deal and (ii) it would actually make such a deal less likely as Ireland would veto it.