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Joe Shipman
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I’m a math guy who knows stuff and can write OK
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    Joe Shipman
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    Oct 26, 2025
    Israel defenders never actually COMPARE the things that would be done in order to win a war against Hamas with the things that would be done if the goal was to get rid of all the Gazans. It is AXIOMATIC that “whatever Israel did was necessary to defeat Hamas”. No need to look!
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    Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
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    Oct 25, 2025
    This was once a city of 172,000 people, filled with life and culture. Many of its citizens refugees or the descendants of refugees from the Nakba. Then the IDF arrived.
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    Joe Shipman
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    May 7, 2022
    Replying to @SarahTheHaider
    The responses purporting to show you a symmetry you missed fail. Women are kinder to men they find attractive too, but your point is not about kindness but self-awareness.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Jan 30, 2022
    The problem with the Rogan show is that he wants to interview both sides but one side has declared that they never want to be interviewed by anyone who ever interviews the other side.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Jan 25, 2023
    nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opi… Confirms my impression that Harry and Meghan are on the good side here, an impression based on noticing the same media propaganda techniques this article details
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    Opinion | Prince Harry Is Right, and It’s Not Just a Matter of Royal Gossip (Published 2023)
    Britain’s most revered institution plays ball with one of its most revolting institutions, even if family members are hurt.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Jul 26, 2025
    Replying to @kevinnbass
    Nixon was unfairly maligned; he did abuse power, but MUCH less than other Presidents since him have. (And every left-leaning reporter who attacked Nixon but defended Clinton etc is a loathsome POS). McCarthy was fairly maligned: he was right in general but unforgivably sloppy.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Feb 21, 2022
    “Imagining Harry Potter Without Its Creator” To the New York Times, J.K. Rowling is now She Who Must Not Be Named.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Aug 21, 2020
    This is an extremely INSTRUCTIVE thread. 1) Balloux makes statistical errors 2) Taleb points them out, calls him names 3) Balloux responds ONLY to names, does not address technical points 4) Balloux commenters engage in hatefest against Taleb AS IF Balloux had won the argument 😂
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    Aug 21, 2020
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    3) Even without fat tails "BS-Frankie" @BallouxFrancois is failing elemtary statistics (Sat 101): comparing 2 variables with different variances (one very low, other very very high). x.com/BallouxFrancoi…
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    Joe Shipman
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    Apr 13, 2020
    I disagree with @nntaleb about the main source of the biased media coverage for HCQ therapy for Covid-19. He thinks Big Pharma don’t want a cheap drug they don’t own to win, I blame Trump Derangement Syndrome. Both contribute, but in the USA I think the latter is more powerful.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Aug 3, 2021
    Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
    Define “beaten”. I object to this tweet as sophistry. There is no conflict between having a vaccine to try to prevent infections and having drugs to deal with infections that do occur. Unfortunately a conflict was ARTIFICALLY CREATED by rules about EUAs. Don’t perpetuate it!
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    Joe Shipman
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    Feb 16, 2024
    Replying to @cafreiman
    It doesn’t need to be “casually dismissed”, but it’s not a difficult question either. Why do people still find ancient poetry and drama still worth reading? Because ancient writers correctly figured out SOME things about human nature, but by comparison, very little about physics.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Oct 8, 2025
    Replying to @BenjaminBadejo and @BenTelAviv
    Maybe “eradicating Hamas” and “directly murdering civilian Gazans” are not exactly the same thing and Israel is actually doing both? Did that even occur to you to be *possible*?
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    Joe Shipman
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    Sep 29, 2020
    THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT F***ING STORY OF THE LAST 4 YEARS!! It has just been DECLASSIFIED that Brennan Hillary Obama Comey and Strzok PLANNED THE RUSSIA HOAX IN SUMMER 2016!! This proves EXACTLY what we’ve been saying all along. Pass it on. Don’t let ANYONE ignore this.
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    Joe Shipman
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    Dec 1, 2021
    This is extremely interesting and instructive NOT because of Fauci or the animal cruelty, which are newsworthy but familiar. The interesting thing is the careful dissection of how the disinformation campaign was constructed and the precise logical fallacies at its core.
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    Glenn Greenwald
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    Dec 1, 2021
    How the Corporate Media Launched a Disinformation Campaign to Protect Fauci outsidevoices.substack.com/p/how-the-corp…
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    Joe Shipman
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    Nov 5, 2020
    Short version of what’s actually happening for people too scared to admit that the media always lie to them: 1) Dems stole WI and MI 2) Dems stopped counting in PA NV AZ GA and NC to prevent Trump from winning them and figure out how to steal more votes than originally stolen.