One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

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My prediction is that this whole thing is gonna blow up and we’re gonna end up right back with the BCS

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If Meta suspended the account at the request of or under pressure from the admin, that would be “jawboning” — and a 1A violation. This was exactly what the MAGA states argued wrt the Hunter Biden story and COVID minsinfo. The purpose of the investigation would be to find out if that happened

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Collective deliberation leads to large, reductons in affective polarization Deliberation requires that people use good information to “weigh” competing arguments through civil and diverse discussion The impact was strongest among the most extreme www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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My view is in Ch 7 of Democracy for Busy People. Briefly—the only way to have most people deliberate is to revolutionize govt by abolishing electoral representation in favor of randomly selected deliberative assemblies. But that would reliably exclude those who aren't already interested in politics.

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