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James Surowiecki

@jamessurowiecki

Author of The Wisdom of Crowds. Contributing writer for Fast Company and The Atlantic. Editor at The Yale Review. I wrote The Financial Page for The New Yorker.

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In 2020, Democracy Institute had Trump winning the popular vote and taking the swing states by 5 points - neither of which were even close.

In 2020, Democracy Institute had Trump winning the popular vote and taking the swing states by 5 points - neither of which were even close.
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Tim Pool proclaiming on-air that "Ukraine is our enemy," that Ukraine is one of the U.S.' "greatest enemies," and that we should "apologize to Russia" reads a little differently today.

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This may be true in the technology field. But Musk knows essentially nothing about American history or politics, and is notoriously terrible at understanding actual human beings. He can't "synthesize complex information" in these areas because he doesn't have it.

This may be true in the technology field. But Musk knows essentially nothing about American history or politics, and is notoriously terrible at understanding actual human beings. He can't "synthesize complex information" in these areas because he doesn't have it.
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This is actually a terrible point. Exit polling is subject to a host of methodological problems - most obviously self-selection and selection by person doing the polling - and is therefore a useless tool for trying to detect fraud (which it was in any case never intended to do).

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Georgia has no minimum age requirement to own a rifle or shotgun. 14-year-olds absolutely can legally own semi-automatic rifles in that state.

Georgia has no minimum age requirement to own a rifle or shotgun. 14-year-olds absolutely can legally own semi-automatic rifles in that state.
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Even given that two of Tenet Media's "commentators" were unaware of the Russian money, I don't really get the idea that they were "victims" of the scheme. The Russian money is the reason Tenet was able to pay so much for their content. So how were they victimized?

Even given that two of Tenet Media's "commentators" were unaware of the Russian money, I don't really get the idea that they were "victims" of the scheme. The Russian money is the reason Tenet was able to pay so much for their content. So how were they victimized?
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Trump was asked how his policies would affect the fiscal deficit, and answered by rambling on about the trade deficit, which is an entirely different thing.

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Matt Yglesias writes a good tweet quoting a classic bit from "Metropolitan." RW influencer misses the reference and seems the tweet proof that Matt is "an Eternal Bugman." What a site.

Matt Yglesias writes a good tweet quoting a classic bit from "Metropolitan." RW influencer misses the reference and seems the tweet proof that Matt is "an Eternal Bugman." What a site.