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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jan 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted David Frum

    Interesting & productive back & forth between @davidfrum & @speechboy71 here. Let me add: the view that politics is about helping your friends & hurting your enemies is not something that is easily dismissible.https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1082649881284624387 …

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    David FrumVerified account @davidfrum
    For sure. That's why it's powerful. And I get why a proper reporter for a great newspaper would quote by name rather than vaguely attribute to someone met at a rural gas station. But I also find myself worrying - what happens to Crystal Minton now? She's also our countrywoman. https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1082649154491478016 …
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      1. Oran Magal‏ @OranMagal 8 Jan 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet @davidfrum @speechboy71

        That view was old when Plato put it in the mouth of Thrasymachus in The Republic; we have been fighting this nihilism for a very long time.

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      1. LynxSL 🇱🇨 🇺🇸‏ @LynxSL 8 Jan 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet @davidfrum @speechboy71

        The trick is in how you categorize friends and enemies.

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      1. Cal Deobald‏ @calmudge0n 8 Jan 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet @davidfrum @speechboy71

        The comments seem to be taking @davidfrum to task by arguing that she deserves what she gets *financially*. I understood his concern to be what happens to her *socially* as in the ravages of social media. As in the precise hatred the commenters are spewing.

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      1. mspaint skull‏ @WordOfZac 8 Jan 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet @davidfrum @speechboy71

        “A rising tide lifts all ships but there are a lot of people I want to throw overboard”

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      1. Baxter Dashingrod‏ @BaxDashingrod 8 Jan 2019
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        I took it to mean immigrants and people looking to enter the country, just based on the context of the article outside of that particular quote, but I guess that's a leap as well.

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      2. Peter Corless  🌎 ☮  💛 💉 💉+ 💉 💉 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇺🇦 🌻‏ @PeterCorless 8 Jan 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet @davidfrum @speechboy71

        2019, where literally 'hurting others' not an 'easily dismissible' political position.

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      3. Tom Elliott‏ @TomTheMeans 8 Jan 2019
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        "Hurting" billionaires is essentially mandatory if we don't want the planet to cook this century

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      1. Andrew Burton‏ @burtonad 8 Jan 2019
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        Irrespective of who she wanted hurting, one thing Ms Minton did clearly internalize is @AdamSerwer’s insight - “the cruelty is the point.”

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      1. Smart Green Just Alt EPA‏ @altEPASmrtGrwth 8 Jan 2019
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        Not easily dismissable because it describes a unavoidable truth, or because you see it as desirable in some way?

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