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Sun 12 Jul 2020 21:39

@Nick_Boro1 @RichardBurgon all polls show that the most significant draw for those who switched to the Tories aside from Brexit was Johnson’s pledge to give lots of I(taxpayer) money to the (commie) NHS

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 21:37

@Nick_Boro1 @RichardBurgon actually it was exactly as commie, there was virtually no difference – the main difference was that the Conservatives figured out that if they said they were going to do the same thing too, they could get the votes on Brexit

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 21:10

@Nick_Boro1 @RichardBurgon actually 1. those policies were in place in 2017 when working class towns voted Labour, 2. what changed was Labour’s Brexit position, none of the working class voters who abandoned Labour said it was because of those policies.

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 21:08

@hantsarchitect @thepileus @RichardBurgon let’s have a leader who doesn’t tell people whatever they want to hear to gain power, then once he has power, say “ha ha I never really meant any of that” and immediately do the opposite

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 18:32

@pinko_snob @sincerelyzoomer @robrousseau yes, a lot of it is like saying capitalism “caused” the 8-hour day, when really people used to work 6, capitalists tried to make them work 10-12, & after years of bitter struggle the labour movement got it back down to 8 again

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 18:17

@pinko_snob @sincerelyzoomer @robrousseau words can barely express how not just how intellectually irresponsible this is, but how morally despicable. It would be like a German scholar in 1945 totalling up the “murder rate” among Jews, finding it very high, & saying it shows antisemitic propaganda is largely correct

Sun 12 Jul 2020 18:13

@pinko_snob @sincerelyzoomer @robrousseau yes, Douglas Fry’s book “War, Peace, and Human Nature” goes through “Pinker’s List” of supposedly homicidal indigenous societies. In two cases every single example of violent death Pinker cited was actually an indigenous person killed by a white rancher or settler.

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Sun 12 Jul 2020 17:14

@dan_shears77 @OutriderTed @OwenJones84 The numbers were in a NY Review of Books article I wrote right after the election

Sun 12 Jul 2020 16:45

@PaulNolandhm @davidwengrow @biduido you can’t honestly expect me to do ALL the work for you, can you?

Sun 12 Jul 2020 16:00

@PaulNolandhm @davidwengrow @biduido Yes but that’s because biology doesn’t start from a method but defines its object as “that which can be explained by this theory.” Archaeology starts from a method & applying a unifying theory would mean cutting much of its current object out

Sat 11 Jul 2020 13:54

@DaveOneSixNine @KallanGreybe @SaulStaniforth @mattzarb He is NOT harsh on factionalism. He is harsh on leftists. When he discovered Blairites had been so hyperfactionalist in 2017 they were trying to make their own party lose to stop Corbyn, he didn’t even suspend them but left them in positions of power

Sat 11 Jul 2020 02:41

@joshiamitabhevo @SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel so you think it’s not so huge a crime to massacre entire cities because the guy running it mistreated your ambassador. Okay.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 16:52

@pmurnion @dominichills5 @SirPaulHartley @SMBHarris1 @STimpromptu @jasonhickel Actually I know a lot of people from Africa who would passionately disagree. Statistically, if you’d bothered to check, you’d find even official poverty rates have increased in at least as many African countries as they’ve declined in

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:59

@ItzSmiT so I’ve never seen anyone say we should take down sculptures of Plato or Julius Caesar or St. Augustine even though they owned slaves, because the descendants of their slaves are indistinguishable from anyone else

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:50

@ItzSmiT if you want an actual answer, I think people object to monuments that celebrate those who owned the ancestors of people who are still the object of differential treatment as descendants of slaves today

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:48

@ItzSmiT most Muslims believe it is sacrilegious to make any visual representation of the Prophet https://t.co/ypoeHHwYhV the argument being ignorant, or pretending to be ignorant of, something that basic made most conclude it wasn’t worth replying to

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:42

@joshiamitabhevo @SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel well 40 million killed in just a couple decades seemed like it should at least be up there on the list.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:22

@noisegroove @qikipedia okay, I am procrastinating so I looked up the numbers from the Bureau of Prisons. They are here. You will note far and away the most frequent (56%) are indeed non-violent drug offenses. Assault hardly figures. https://t.co/iswaiclel6

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:08

@noisegroove @qikipedia Might be a confusion between “jail” and “prison” going on here

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:05

@dominichills5 @SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel so we reply with the example of the “Romito dwarf” burial of a significantly deformed person who survived to healthy old age 10k years ago, & must have required constant care & attention. What if we wrote all human history around him?

Fri 10 Jul 2020 11:02

@dominichills5 @SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel understandable mistake. So for ancient times, he just pulls out well-known individual cases like ‘Otzi the Iceman”, who got shot by an arrow, rather than even arguing about the actual numbers. Taking just one or two cases you can prove anything.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:48

@dominichills5 @SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel if you look at my tweet, I said Pinker cherrypicks the evidence on Hobbesian origins of human society, I wasn’t talking about the World Bank statistics he cites about what’s happening right now, so you’re kind of changing the goal-posts, presumably inadvertently