Omnishambles MonitorVerified account

@GarettJones

Slate Star Codex fan account

Washington, DC
mason.gmu.edu/~gjonesb
Joined July 2009
114 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @GarettJones

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @GarettJones

  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 5

    Publius would agree.

    My view: if you have something to say online, you should sign your name. If you won’t sign your name, you shouldn’t say it.
    21 replies 36 retweets 141 likes
  2. 16 hours ago

    "...the simulation thesis, which is creationism repackaged for nerds."

    2 replies 9 likes
  3. 16 hours ago
    Replying to

    Last year I recommended The Nerve Center on the Chief of Staff job, Gatekeepers looks similarly useful:

    1 like
  4. 16 hours ago

    Possible White House lessons 18 days post-Bannon, 5 weeks into the Kelly era: Down: Personnel is Policy Up: Management is Policy

    1 reply 1 like
  5. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Good example of how someone thinks anything is conceivable except China being called to account

    A thread, contemplating Trump’s threat to cancel trade w/ China. It’s adapted from my new book. (Website here: ) 1/20
    1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
  6. Retweeted
    23 hours ago
    Replying to

    1982's Deathtrap: Caine is a failed writer of murder mysteries, so he plots to kill his student Reeve, who has just written a perfect one:

    1 retweet
  7. Retweeted
    Sep 3
    Replying to

    he could go between Chris Evans and Rick Moranis

    1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
  8. Retweeted
    Sep 3

    Christopher Reeve turning Superman back into Clark Kent. Again, he's his own special effect.

    29 replies 1,063 retweets 2,958 likes
  9. 24 hours ago

    Evergreen tweet, job numbers edition:

    Replying to @UpdatedPriors
    But to be serious, yes this essay is bananas
  10. 24 hours ago

    The international community gives China a Machiavellian respect Japan is currently denied.

    Imagine Japan was the single trading partner of a rogue country regularly shooting missiles over China. Would we be having this discussion .
    4 retweets 12 likes
  11. Sep 4

    Open borders, but for people who believe in Lamanites

    % of the population in each U.S. state who report a disability West Virginia: 19.4% Utah: 9.9
    2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
  12. Sep 4

    Evergreen tweet:

    i really hate it when i get caught into conversations with what i think of as dunning-kruger twitter.
    4 retweets 13 likes
  13. Sep 3

    With the middle of the class voting, and the back row running social media, the Thin Nerd Line in front is our precarious salvation

    Front row kids
    1 reply 4 retweets 11 likes
  14. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    California is incredibly dependent on its 1% for tax revenue. Kinda explains why they don't care much about middle class families leaving.

    5 replies 32 retweets 70 likes
  15. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Amy Wax was right on bourgeois values, but that's not the point: In a univ., she shouldn't be slandered & bullied.

    47 replies 275 retweets 658 likes
  16. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Given the thinness of primary source support for her thesis, this looks very, very bad for Nancy McLean, & her book:

    19 replies 124 retweets 139 likes
  17. Retweeted
    Sep 2
    Replying to

    This reproduces as perfect copy those debates taking place in China around middle of 19th century

    1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes
  18. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    I agree. I like the new enlightenment style magazines that have come out

    A Centrism Manifesto: . (I’ve been admiring for a while what is doing with Quillette.)
    1 reply 5 retweets 11 likes
  19. Retweeted
    Aug 31
    Replying to

    No laws against price gouging here in NZ; still saw far too little of it after the Christchurch earthquakes.

    1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes
  20. Aug 31

    Like many economists, I support price gouging during natural disasters: Higher price of water = More folks driving Dasani from KY to TX.

    14 replies 30 retweets 70 likes
  21. Retweeted
    Aug 31

    Good thread from Portugal's former Europe Minister on the absurdity of some of the EU's positions

    Replying to @MacaesBruno
    Mutual recognition is part of CETA and yet Barnier just ruled it out of future UK-EU relationship
    11 replies 186 retweets 199 likes

@GarettJones hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·