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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 11

    The Center Is Sexier Than You Thinkhttps://nyti.ms/2m6x7Uj 

    6:30 AM - 11 Oct 2018
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      1. Giulio Ongaro‏ @Giulio_Ongaro Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/IrQvS4IJ0e

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      1. Struan‏ @StruanCurtis Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        Centrist dems lost 1000 seats under Obama. Hillary lost. Radical left Bernie is the most popular politician in the country. Plurality of Republicans support medicare for all. Majority supports ending the wars. Populist left surging despite massive financial disadvantage.

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      2. ResistanceNotFutile‏ @ReasonWinz Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        What Americans call "center", is actually "right". What they call "left" is actually "center". Thanks to the perversion of language by corporate monstrosity over the last 50/y, we must now decode what words mean when in politically & intellectually lobotomized American discourse.

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      3. Paul 🌹‏ @Boohan33 Oct 11
        Replying to @ReasonWinz @sapinker

        Exactly right! Thank you!

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      2. aka Steve (no chekists please, we're Canadian)‏ @Anton_P_Nym Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        Anyone want to define "center" in this context? NYT is notorious for thinking it's half-way between Clinton and Trump, others for halfway between Marxism and "Objectivism". "Center" is about as ill-defined and abused a term as "neoliberalism", I find.

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      3. Paul 🌹‏ @Boohan33 Oct 11
        Replying to @Anton_P_Nym @sapinker

        And “center” basically is neoliberalism.

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      2. Dave Namery‏ @Norm_Names Oct 11
        Replying to @Maksimi46352308 @sapinker

        Ah Christ, the communist disagrees what ever will we do?

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      2. Peter Berdeklis‏ @scttr_Brane Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        This global mess can only be corrected by having the center retake the primary/nomination systems around the world. That is how the extremists have gotten so much power, by massive over representation in the systems that limit everyone else's choice. Changing that apathy is hard.

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      3. Sergio Ballón‏ @el_sergg Oct 11
        Replying to @scttr_Brane @sapinker

        And how did we get into this mess? Who had power before?

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      4. Peter Berdeklis‏ @scttr_Brane Oct 11
        Replying to @el_sergg @sapinker

        The power is always with those who limit our choices. Our complacency give them that power. Now those groups are dominated by ideological and single issue voters who are willing to see the world burn if they don't get their way. Complacency is no longer an option.

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      1. linhdtu‏ @tuduylinh Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        agree. only today's center isn't really center bc Reps have shift so far to right. What is center today is what Mark Hatfield/Bob Packwood of Ore were in 80s and 90s. I wrote a letter to Hatfield begging him not to retire lol and got a nice letter back

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      1. Blaise‏ @blaisepascal2nd Oct 11
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        Center between Genghis Khan and Atilla the Hun

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      1. youropinionisbad‏ @TruthHateStudy Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        0 nuance in the article. It should have been 13 bulletpoints to save my time.

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      1. Cats are the new N-words‏ @WaifuBWillin Oct 11
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        Ass

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      2. Tim Claridge‏ @NotTimClaridge Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        Ya dude totally. Both sides are equally valid.pic.twitter.com/W31Ax5MEgK

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      2. Normal Human‏ @Normal_Human333 Oct 11
        Replying to @sapinker

        Let's do a roundup of the smartest representatives of the main ideologies: Rightwing: Ben Shapiro, David Duke, Trump Center: The creator of Minecraft, Pinker, David Frum Leftwing: Einstein, Sagan, Hawking, Chomsky I think I'll go with Einstein

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      3. Sumit Bedi‏ @SumitBedi19 Oct 12
        Replying to @Normal_Human333 @sapinker

        I think you forgot Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley Jr., Ludwig von Mises, and Thomas Sowell. Idk about you, but I wouldn't ask a physicist how the economy - or society - should be run.

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      4. Normal Human‏ @Normal_Human333 Oct 12
        Replying to @SumitBedi19 @sapinker

        please tell me there are smarter conservatives than Buckley haha. And you should absolutely trust a physicist on economics. If you prefer to get your advice from dumber people, feel free.

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