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Elites Failed the Discernment Test: aaronrosspowell.com

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089: AI, Cultural Tools, and Pluralism (w/ Ted Underwood): aaronrosspowell.com

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Roy Cooper, Prayer, and the Folly of Anti-Religious Collectivism: aaronrosspowell.com

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Boys Are Falling Behind Girls Because Girls Aren't Being Held Back: aaronrosspowell.com

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Silicon Valley’s “996” Is About Power, not Productivity: aaronrosspowell.com

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@nonnihil It should all be fixed now. www.aaronrosspowell.com/2024/07/1…

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AI and the Threat of Nostalgia Culture: aaronrosspowell.com

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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities: aaronrosspowell.com

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Why the Right Lies About Cities: aaronrosspowell.com

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An Inconsistent Approach to Viewpoint Diversity: aaronrosspowell.com

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An Inconsistent Approach to Viewpoint Diversity: aaronrosspowell.com

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An Inconsistent Approach to Viewpoint Diversity: aaronrosspowell.com

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If You Want to Win Political Arguments, Stop Being an Asshole: aaronrosspowell.com

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@aaronrosspowell.com Put another way, Harris didn’t lose because of Democratic positions on trans rights. And if Dems adopt right-coded positions on trans-rights, and then elevate those to a more central element of their campaign rhetoric, it’s more likely to turn off voters than it is to encourage them to vote Dem. 5/5

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@aaronrosspowell.com Elites, like the New York Times leadership, are deeply invested in an anti-trans moral panic. But most Americans have other concerns. And polls show they’re turned off by anti-trans campaigning, even when they worry to some degree about gender affirming care for children or trans women in sports. 4/

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@aaronrosspowell.com In other words, to believe that the Dems should speak out against trans women in sports is to think a significant number of voters care enough about it to be motivated to vote, or not vote, or switch their vote based on the issue. And that’s what there’s just not evidence for. 3/

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@aaronrosspowell.com That elite perspective isn’t simply having some worries about fairness of trans women competing, because having “some” worries is pretty common in the electorate (even if those worries are misplaced). It’s a perspective of thinking the matter is a big deal in the political sphere. 2/

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@aaronrosspowell.com I was asked to join a symposium for the one-year anniversary of David Boaz’s death. I chose to write about what David would think of Trump’s anti-trans policies. Spoiler: He’d have hated them—and been saddened by how many in his movement either don’t care about trans rights, or actively oppose them.

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@aaronrosspowell.com The internet, man, I don’t know…

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@aaronrosspowell.com Touché, my dude. Touché.

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@aaronrosspowell.com Was “culture policy” the focal point of Harris’s campaign?

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@aaronrosspowell.com Who exactly are these “favored minority demographics” you have in mind? And how exactly would you like the Democratic Party to move away from them?

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@tlecaque.bsky.social That’s fantastic! And it’s always good to see people share good things.

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@gelliottmorris.com *facets. But “facts” works too, I guess.

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@gelliottmorris.com I wrote this, shortly before the election, about what I mean by it, and explore all its facts (and threats to it) on my @reimaginingliberty.com show. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-basic-…

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@aaronrosspowell.com No. They shouldn’t engage in baseless conspiracy thinking. Trump won legitimately.

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@aaronrosspowell.com I’ve no idea how you read what I wrote to mean any of that, but it did make me laugh out loud, so thank you.

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@aaronrosspowell.com Yep. It’s grim. The sliver of optimism is that Trump 2.0 will be so bad that it’ll turn a lot of people off from anything that looks at all like the far-right. But it might not be enough.

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@aaronrosspowell.com Don’t be the party in power when there’s high inflation.

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@aaronrosspowell.com I didn’t invent the term.

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@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social But they can be irritating far beyond their numbers, Zack.

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@aaronrosspowell.com E.g., this paper. www.cambridge.org/core/journal…

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@gelliottmorris.com Because the GOP is the party of rural and uneducated America, and so is seen as too culturally lowbrow for urban and educated elites. Put another way, it would be embarrassing in culturally elite circles to say you’re a Republican.

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@gelliottmorris.com It’s because they have a set of policy and social preferences, but for social desirability/in-group signaling reasons they don’t want to admit those are their personal preferences, and so they instead argue those preferences are more popular than they in fact are. bsky.app/profile/aaro…

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@aaronrosspowell.com Also his comb over is completely ridiculous.

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@anarchakelly.bsky.social It’d be awfully nice if I didn’t have so many reasons to interview people about it, though.

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@aaronrosspowell.com I pay, she scoops.

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Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities: aaronrosspowell.com

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Trump Promised Disaster. His Supporters Didn’t Believe Him. aaronrosspowell.com

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Reign of the Competency Cosplayers: aaronrosspowell.com

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The GOP is now just grifters grifting each other: aaronrosspowell.com

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Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of \"Content\" Monetization: aaronrosspowell.com

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The Politics of \"Unbiased\" Conservative Search Engines: aaronrosspowell.com

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I bridged my Bluesky account into the fediverse, because I’m much more active on Bluesky. So if you’d like to follow me that account, you can find it at @aaronrosspowell.com@bsky.brid.gy.

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The Shaky Future of Trump's Personality Cult: aaronrosspowell.com

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Why, Despite the Numbers, Bluesky Feels Bigger than Threads: aaronrosspowell.com

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Came across this while walking the dog and now I’m rather tempted to see if I can start a Southeast Denver Hat Spat.

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The lesson I wish my progressive friends were more receptive to—and less willing to forget when it feels convenient—is that if you push expanded state power (new laws, new regulations) as the main way to address problems, you risk those powers getting someday wielded by people like Trump and Vance.

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Why did many prominent libertarians end up in the tank for Trump? A big part is the “some reasonable concerns about COVID policies” -> COVID denialism -> anti-vax -> crank right media diet -> self-imposed epistemic closure -> believing a wide range of right-wing conspiracies theories pipeline.

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