My instinct is that part of this isn't about Twitter, per se, it's because a significant chunk of apolitical people just want someone who looks vaguely like their mental image of a leader and don't actually pay much attention to what they say or do.
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But as the disconnect between Starmer's poll ratings and whether or not I'm impressed suggest, it's possible my instincts are kind of crappy.
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yep, this one's going to ruin my day, isn't it
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Also, the number of people who talk as if their words should carry weight as if they weren't publicly, humiliatingly wrong about politics at some point in the last five years, never ceases to amaze. BE. LESS. CONFIDENT.
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yes it's mostly men
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Also, someone quotetweeted this with (I paraphrase) "then we wouldn't have political journalists, lol" - and yes! That's kind of my point! I am very much not excluding the media!
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Don't tell him I'm being nice about him, but one of the reasons I think Bush is so good is that he writes down his priors, and then analyses what he got wrong, and publishes it all. He doesn't just pretend he was right about everything.
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this thread is really helping with the thing I'm meant to be writing that's literally about fucking space
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What I *can* tell you, however, is that even though the universe has only existed for around 13bn years, we can see objects approximately 47bn light years away - because at the time the light we see left them, they were a lot closer to us than they are now
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People are replying with "Duh, if the universe is 13bn years old, how can we see that far" THAT'S THE POINT THAT'S WHY IT'S WEIRD IT'S BECAUSE SPACE HAS EXPANDED
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This is what it's like in my head all the time. Anyway please buy my book [As Yet Untitled], out in August 2021https://twitter.com/Matt_MYano/status/1271424734966792192?s=19 …
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