Stephen Dause

SW engineer, husband, parent, nerd. Trying to engage with the topics of the day constructively, though not often on Twitter. RT, follow ≠ endorse. Views mine.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

Let's not ever forget where Trump stood in all of this.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@Metal_Crow To me, the bigger whopper in that tweet is the "A is biased, therefore B is better" fallacy. Like... you just gonna assume that B has no problems? 🙄

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

I can’t vote in the US but I am honored to live here and have always admired it. I don’t much care for Harris or many of her policy positions. But even more after seeing Trump tonight, I look forward to vehemently disagreeing with her for four years as US president.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@IonaItalia I analyzed the issue, and the center of the problem is Brits' inability to realize that our spellings take less labor. No offense, but it's pretty simple. There's no gray here. ;)

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@Texaggie79 @StrangelEdweird Much of the 1st amendment is now considered to apply to the states by way of the 14th amendment: https://t.co/FxGsYcuGAn

[Amarica's Constitution @amaricas_const]

We’ve been talking about it since August, but now, “The World Turns to Section Three” as our episode is entitled, and you can preview the SCOTUS arguments with us by reviewing the pundits’ punditry. https://t.co/UvJrl0gXa1

[Braver Angels @braverangels]

In light of a recent @WSJ article covering our work, a clip from our 2023 Braver Angels Convention is circulating, so we thought we'd provide some context.

But first, here's the full video: https://t.co/iEnL57erGM

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I'm leaving Twitter, for the indefinite future. The reason is simple: this site is becoming more like Gab every day. It's a font of hatred, lies, and harassment. And while it's never been great, at least it had its uses. No longer. At least not for me. /1

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

I’m not a Democrat, but if the precedent this establishes is that you are barred from holding office if a court of law looks at the facts & determines that you “engaged in insurrection” against the US; and then that holding withstands appeal at SCOTUS—

Seems like good precedent.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@CathyYoung63 not a lawyer, but I've read a lot about this issue and it seems like the right call to me. It shouldn't take an action by the courts to prevent him from being POTUS again, but the courts also shouldn't shy away from applying the law either.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@JonahDispatch Part 3: https://t.co/kEbjLEfeVA

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@JonahDispatch Baude and his co-author Michael Paulsen have also been interviewed extensively by law prof. Akhil Amar on his podcast. 3 episodes if you really like detail:

https://t.co/QopizTAhxW

https://t.co/wbe7MAtZ28

https://t.co/kEbjLEfeVA

[Jonathan Roth @jondr44]

Hey @MIT, I'll be a visiting prof in your econ dept next yr. Could you clarify the "context" in which it's ok for your students to call for me & my family to be murdered? I want to avoid awkwardly calling out my wannabe murderers when they're actually following your rules

[Rep. John James @RepJames]

I questioned college presidents from Harvard, UPenn, and MIT about the disturbing rise of antisemitism on college campuses across America as a result of Oct 7.

Guess what happened when I asked what they were doing on campus to address antisemitism? I got SILENCE.

Watch ⬇️

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@IonaItalia @Metal_Crow by the way I don't have a doctorate 😆

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@IonaItalia @Metal_Crow He's just joshing around...

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@IonaItalia Such a punishment is entirely un-grounded. Watt would make you do such a thing? It could trigger a re-volt.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies.

What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to punish "microaggressions," including statements intended to be kind, if even one person from a favored group took offense. The presidents are now saying: "Jews are not a favored group, so offending or threatening Jews is not so bad. For Jews, it all depends on context." We might call this double standard "institutional anti-semitism."

University presidents: If you're not going to punish students for calling for the elimination of Israel and Israelis, it's OK with me, but ONLY if you also immediately dismantle the speech policing apparatus and norms you created in 2015-2016. Please read The Coddling of the American Mind. @glukianoff and I laid out exactly where the oppressor/victim frame came from (ch. 3), how it spread out of a few departments to gain power over administrators and campus culture (chapters 4 and 5), and how it drove the creation of the bureaucratic structures and processes that now have us all teaching and learning on eggshells (ch. 10). In chapter 13 we offer advice to leaders on how to to return universities to their academic mission and regain public trust.

[Stephen Dause @StephenDause]

@SheenaMasonPhD Interesting. How would you say this theory relates to the concept of "Racecraft", if you are familiar with it? https://t.co/xesNfDHQev

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

It is really incredibly sad to watch otherwise smart people traffic in this gross crap. There are NUMEROUS witness testimonies, hard video evidence, and firsthand accounts of rape and sexual violence. Also there are victims who were killed (!!!) so kind of hard to get their testimony!