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The "full spectrum of the political/media class" describes a group deserving none of our respect or interest. This is like hanging out in the forest for the wood ticks.

This is ostensibly an argument in favor of Twitter that has all the content of a post arguing against Twitter

Who was it?

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Every single one of those children was still in economic precarity. The FPL is a joke measure.

Not for nothing, but Brookings is one of the worst sources you could go to about poverty policy. They were big boosters of welfare reform! They stink!

Not trying to start an argument. I don't think you're a bad person. The point is that pushing people just over the FPL so you can stop counting them is not a meaningful accomplishment. "Cut child poverty in half" is a slogan designed to mislead laypeople who don't understand how poverty works.

Ah yes, the majority of [people from famously racist region] are Nazis,

This has some pretty troubling implications for your stance on chattel slavery in the US

No. The point is that you set out to create a system that does X. When you put the system into practice, it does Y instead. If you do not adjust the system so that it actually does X, the purpose of the system is to do Y.

You do understand that that's the point of "the purpose of a system is what it does," right?

Videodrome (1983)

what would ever give you that idea?

That's a pretty embarrassing attempt at skewering a sound principle about system design

I'm not saying this to snipe. I just want folks to stop saying this obviously ludicrous thing.

the CTC expansion was an unabashed good that improved the lives of millions but it did not 'cut child poverty in half' by any reasonable measure, please stop saying this

man, if you're going to say you're a journalist in your profile you have to learn how to write a coherent thought

widegrain

"Hammers are inferior to screwdrivers"

PSA on the channel that final bosses watch that's like "just because you can change into your final form DOESN'T MEAN that you don't need to protect your weakpoints"

Is "Republican women don't have passports" even true? It doesn't sound right

Gatorade should be sold in metal cans

People love to talk about the '16 and '24 elections as some kind of referendum on America's misogyny problem, but it's maybe more instructive to think about how differently we've handled Altman and Elizabeth Holmes

Yes, the case for legalization is grounded in the importance of human autonomy. On a practical level, though, it's easier to gain popular support for policies that expand that autonomy when journalists aren't misrepresenting the findings of bog standard health research.

The criticism here is for the article, not the study.

Don't put the weird sexual baggage of average height guys on us short kings

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How would you know? You're illiterate.

Lmao famous defenders of legacy media: me and Albert Burneko

yes please go to bat for the Clintons, that should do it