Too many progressives love to actively confuse what "ought" to be for what "is", even in the face of overwhelming evidence. And you can't make any progress being like that.

In a non-stupid timeline where we feed billionaires to wood chippers instead of giving them social media platforms, this is a goddamn banger of a tweet.

Not at all. I want to play video games and eat pizza, but I run a nonprofit that's trying to teach critical thinking skills to dudes who are vulnerable to misinformation and prone to violence, and that seems slightly more important these days.

I miss Team Fortress 2 though.

Maybe I'll give it another go. Most of the people I agree with and respect are here, but the dudes who need to be snapped out of their bias bubbles and BS are on Facebook.

I'm not going to exclude the possibility that I just don't spend enough time over here to run into what I'm looking for: nuanced but productive disagreement about contentious issues.

I agree with someone like Sam Harris maybe 10% of the time, but if he started an account here there would be riots.

Man, compared to the engagement on my Twitter (RIP) account, this is like shouting off a cliff, but it's still better than some asshole Nazi oligarch making money off the shouting.

You don't need to understand human androgens, gametes, the translocation of the SRY gene from a Y onto an X chromosome, or even a high school version of genetics.

You don't even need to like trans people. You just need to leave them the fuck alone.