I asked Abdul El-Sayed about his exchange with the GOP plant about religion. El-Sayed has a theory of how to combat MAGA bad faith: Don't let it frame the discussion. Flush out the assumptions underlying the outrage bait. Here's El-Sayed answer. Read to the end: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

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The spectre they're trying to manufacture is that the evil trans menace is going to steal your children in the night - which is rich given Ken Paxton really, actually did attempt to remove trans youth from their parent's custody

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Advocates for survivors of domestic violence say they've seen an alarming rise in the number of victims being detained and deported by ICE after calling 911, spurred in part by a Trump order eliminating legal protections for undocumented women reporting such violence

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But what is Tim and Elon's argument? What points do they raise? What insight do they offer? None... because Tim spends all day talking to LLMs he doesn't provide an argument or counter-point - he tells Kenney how to think. Think like me - he is trying to correct an LLM not speak to a human.

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From 1906 San Francisco to 2005 New Orleans to 2010 Haiti, people died because of those stupid elite-violence-justifying stories.

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