@mvdn777 @andre_spicer @Asher_Wolf Mine isn’t either and I’ve been working from home. It’s more that working from home forces us to confront what we actually do

@bridgeofthighs @ahimaaz well I wasn’t actually referring to shop-floor innovation, but to major technological breakthroughs – genuinely new things like electricity, radio, flight, penicillin, plastics don’t seem to happen any more. But ok: what new Chinese shop floor innovations are you thinking of?

@Reverend_Makers because once upon a time BJ thought “I want to be PM but I have no cause, ideas, character, or qualifications. But I really want it! Tell me oh Dominic Cummings, I’ll do anything for the job. What shall I do?” And DC told him, he did it, and it worked. Now DC runs the country.

@KrumpoB @nikadubrovsky oh I forgot the best line! In the Kuksu rituals there are humans pretending to be gods. But the clowns are gods pretending to be humans. That’s why they’re so ridiculous: that’s what we look like from the perspective of a god.

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@nikadubrovsky @ashnur I think he’s the sort of tweer who wants to be an asshole just for the sake of being an asshole. I’ve never understood why people think that will impress anyone. I guess they crave attention & despair of impressing anyone in any other way.

@joeydefiant @nikadubrovsky You have no idea how many thoughts I have that I would never consider broadcasting to the world. I’m having one about you right now.

@BareLeft @DavetheStag @MrhobanJames @bygeorgist at this point it should have become apparent the guy is obviously trolling.

@markgrueter it’s perhaps only on twitter that you encounter people who not only feel their own ignorance of something is itself an argument, but feel it’s important that everyone should know that they feel this way

@MordechaiGabai I’m all about no borders but how will that work as the big leftist rallying point in the middle of a global pandemic when everyone in the world is closing their borders?

@Gutmenschsein You’ realize that’s the very definition of a straw man argument. “Entirely am evil place?” That was the position I was critiquing.

@lando327 that is the stupidest response anyone can possibly give. No I don’t hang out with them, any more than I “hang out” with you – or ever would – I know them exactly the way I know you, as morons on twitter

@markgrueter then why do these people constantly show up claiming to be lefties who believe that? Or are you saying they are really non-lefties claiming to be lefties for some reason?

@chrizap @mediasres yeah, they just WANT you to think Russia is a second-rate power. It’s all part of their plan. Do you have any idea how ridiculous this kind of thing looks to anyone who isn’t part of Radical Centrist Alternative Reality

@Anne_Margs Of course they do. Even in Russia, Putin only survives because of the infrastructure of schools, medicine, etc etc created by a revolution

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@Gutmenschsein if you identify a “nation” with its ability to kill or brainwash foreigners, then I suppose I’m denigrating them

@mediasres there’s a total disconnect between the seriousness of the crime, & the degree of “concern” & outrage. Look at the reaction to Crimea vs the reaction to Afrin.

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@mediasres kind of run-of-the-mill thuggish state stuff – I mean Saudi Arabia had to assassinate a guy whose best friends were all international journalists before anybody even considered it a news story

@mediasres No I’m concerned about Bolsonaro and Modi too but I don’t blame them for election results in New Jersey or the rise of antisemitism in Bavaria

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