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This part seems true and seems to be easier for non-Americans than Americans to see, which I suppose is not surprising. Americans have always been good at policing uniformity by an…

That's not much of a counterargument. The question could be phrased as "How much room is there still for debate?" and the answer is clearly: less and less, and dwindling rapidly.

Public shaming and the invocation of a mob against you?

For sure, but why would the Wisconsinites be behaving any differently in terms of violence, looting, etc.? I suppose it could be selection bias. Maybe it takes a higher level of an…

What's so different between Minneapolis and Wisconsin that hordes of Wisconsinites would come to town to do things that Minneapolans would never do? That seems implausible, at leas…

He isn't competent enough to pull that off. He can't even get his own staff to do what he wants most of the time.

The argument is that it's getting there. It's the leading platform for public debate in the US right now. Journalists spend their days refreshing their Twitter feed, so the effect …

It has as least as much to do with not fact-checking the claims of people you agree with. Politics is replete with lies. Remember "all 17 intelligence agencies"? The idea of neutra…

It's a public space because it's become the dominant platform for political debate.

That's because these companies function in a way that is between the private and public sectors, and are getting more so. There are plenty of precedents for this, e.g. utilities, a…

Maybe I used that word wrong. I just meant someone who's strongly on one political side. Those things mostly go together in a two-party system though.

It's exactly the opposite. People are going to cringe at their hamfisted and obviously partisan interventions and their transparently hypocritical justifications for them. I don't …