Steve Parsons

yes, that WAS a shallow jokey response to a serious issue.

[Steve Parsons @Stevempars]

Anyway I've found your framing of this to have been useful albeit in a different context. So my thanks. (Fin)

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@OliviaMesser a very belated response to a tweet/thread you posted months (years?) Ago about how on social media people "curate" how they present themselves. I just had a 60th birthday and I'm entering that period of Introspection 1/?)

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And I thought about that a great deal not just about myself because I think I do that last one, but it makes me consider that others may be doing that too. And to leave the door open for them to actualize that aspiration at least in the social media setting. (4/5)

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And I realized there is a third category and this is why I found your post so useful. Is that I think sometimes people post aspirationally. That they post as if they are the person that they actually want to be if they could fix themselves. 3/4)

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes Again I think this is a pretty typical myopy. I don't like that I have to pay taxes I don't like that I have to follow regulations. "The Man" surveilles me? Ergo the hyperbolic freedom claim.

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes Education healthcare basic nutrition. The constant trampling of what we consider basic rights. All disappear in the face of the freedom of working fewer hours? (Which idea has been debunked many times)because sometimes agrarian peasants didn't do a primary gig 365 days a year?

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes It's a very odd view of what "freedom" might man. no actual rights, 85% poverty at the beginning of the industrial revolution with absolute immobility economically. I agree that choice of employment is illusory in some cases but still it is a choice.

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@PhilipRucker @isaacstanbecker @partlowj @yvonnewingett Just a matter of time until the United States and particularly red States become banana republics for the rest of the world.

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes Can you summarize these people's thesis? The titles seem to refer to a natural consequence of technology. What freedoms are less and for whom? If it's tangible we should be able to measure it or at least identify it. I appreciate hearing what you think about that

[Steve Parsons @Stevempars]

@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes And this is an odd but prevalent idea today. People use "freedom" as somehow a sword against taxes and regulation. Which is foolishness. We actually live in the freest period in our entire history. Decidedly imperfect of course.

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes The article also has a couple of problems. The ninth amendment indeed has been invoked by the supreme Court (Douglas specifically mentions it in roe v Wade for example). I think the attitude expressed in that article is one that assumes that our rights are being taken away.

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@JoshuaM44439618 @diana_liwen @fritztheyodeler @chrislhayes Perhaps if you have an unchangeable Constitution that's bedrock, but it might be poisoned up front. Likewise changing a constitution might invite improvement and not just poisoning. The founders certainly realize that (see Jefferson's letter to Samuel Kercheval for example)

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@JoshKraushaar @HannahAllam Wow. seems like a blatant false equivalency to Thomas & Alito. At least break down how much of that 3.7 million came from this theoretical prodding. And what is the prodding? I know authors that forgo honoraria if the organizing committee for an appearance buys or sells books.

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AP being the AP. Trying to create an equivalency between Sotomayor selling books and Thomas's and alito's outright grift.

[Eric Tucker @etuckerAP]

The documents we obtained show how Justice Sotomayor’s college visits help advance her book sales and the extent to which her staff has been directly engaged in her book ventures. W/⁦@BrianSlodysko⁩ https://t.co/iX2x2h8ejd

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@jamesrbuk @mehdirhasan Good thoughts. Not sure I would use "no good" in this context.

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@Beltrew I still get my home feed but no other feed will load. Perhaps this is related to the story today or yesterday about musk not paying his bill for Google cloud for Twitter?

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@samstein Robert's doing his usual thing. Doing a "nice" decision first, and then the conservative decisions after.

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@mitchprothero And for the record I completely sympathize with those guys. Living eight to a room in New York City without getting paid.

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@mitchprothero I remember the golden days of cash only visas for Russia. (And whiskey or cigarettes only "entry fees" on the train)