reportedly there was recently a slate retrospective on this with their iraq-era writers and @robertwrighter suggested everyone who outspokenly supported the war should be lined up and taken to a black site and i am deeply grateful for this if its true
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also in this Parrot Room episode
@kausmickey reinvents Acemoglu on the employment effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act and@robertwrighter independently rederives@timurkuran's Private Truths, Public Lies thesis in re: that Princeton letter genuinely impressiveShow this thread -
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Lie. People who were right on Iraq got fired. So there, there was accountability.
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And then Donald Trump adopted the rhetoric of the "anti-war" crowd, and no politician wants to tell unpopular truths, so their gaslighting goes uncontradicted. And we'll be isolationist for the immediate future.
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has anyone more important than Janis Karpinski been fired or lost their office because of iraq?
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I chalk it all up to "sometimes people go crazy and do evil shit, and there's likely no 'reasons "; what say you and or Mickey?
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hmm i don't follow?
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"I was just following reasonable opinion."
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