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How can we break our addiction to contempt?

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"rigorous analysis"

It seems hard to get much more rigorous than a peer reviewed scientific article in the European Journal of Epidemiology.

You can go on Twitter and do it.

https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1448892208191467520

Re: How can we break our addiction to contempt?

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Can you cite an example of left-wing news outlets playing "fast and loose" in a way that literally jeopardized the foundation of US democracy and incited mass violence? Even if you think the investigation into Trump's ties to Russian influence was unjustified, it relied on democratically-elected representatives to impeach him, and it never undermined the rule of law itself. I'm sure you can find examples with lesser…

>"in a way that literally jeopardized the foundation of US democracy" What does this even mean? This is way too vague and nebulous to ever get a grip on. I'm guessing you're talking about members of House/Senate contesting the results of the election, which they had a right to do, and followed the constitutional procedure for. You could also say this relied on democratically-elected representatives and wasn't undermi…

>Again, what qualifies as "mass violence"?

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/14530202894077952...

“When do we get to use the guns? ... That's not a joke. I'm not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where's the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”

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