Confession: It's going to be a little while before I think I can really be back here. My optimism is deeply shaken. I really thought that 2 months of me really trying to be non-partisan and focusing on data and being open and kind would buy me something.
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I don't hate Tom! I bought his book! Twice! I have the Kindle and paperback! I've tweeted generously about him and even interviewed him on a podcast. How does this man have a beef against me?https://twitter.com/politicalmath/status/937375008577372160 …
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I don't get it. I know a lot of my followers are going to say "well obviously it's because you're on the wrong side" but it's not even that! I'm barely a conservative, with opinions too complex to really squeeze into an ideology. I don't get how I have become a target.
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I'm on a hiatus. I'll be back eventually, but the thing I loved doing these last few months is trying to puzzle through this horrible thing that has happened & try to help people sort through it with honesty and grace. Apparently we're not allowed to do that.
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I do want to make one final note: I have had some generous, kind, wonderful left-ish and liberal friends reach out, some of whom I didn't even know followed me. Some great encouragement has found me from all over the political spectrum. Thank you so much for that.
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Altruistic sadism
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Because you have nearly 40,000 followers and you had the audacity to disagree with them? It wouldn’t matter if you weren’t conservative at all. Do you repeat information that may contradict any accepted stance of the left? Then you’re a target. They even do it to each other.
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Lesson #1 - they aren’t rational, they aren’t measured, and essentially the social media gestapo willing to go to any length to suppress a message or messenger that goes against them. They will never stop.
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FWIW, I have no idea what your politics are, and followed you recently because the stuff you were posting about COVID seemed interesting. So it is appreciated. I think you just ended up as Twitter's "main character" for a day.
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It's the eye of sauron, and every so often it looks at *you*. It's mostly random.
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