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Prescriptivism Must Die!

Psycholinguist, and the guy who used to write Motivated Grammar. He/him. Erstwhile blogger: https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com Prosecute ICE and send Homan to the Hague.

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I'm just so damn tired of these lying nihilists. They believe in nothing other than swinging their fists around hoping to hit someone. Two years ago, he was mad because he had a family member who had long Covid. Now he's mad that the government tried to prevent Covid.

Aaron Rupar

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

Here's a quote from Marshall in 2024: “This is personal for me,” he said. “One of my loved ones is one of those 16 million people who suffer from Long COVID, incapacitated for some two years.” www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

Roger Marshall’s finally taking COVID seriously. Is that just because it got personal? | OpinionKansas’ junior senator — a doctor — pushed junk science and downplayed vaccines. But now, a member of his family is suffering. | Opinionwww.kansascity.com

"If I strain, I can imagine a situation in which people want X for reasons besides bigotry" is not the same as "People want X for reasons besides bigotry". It is a particularly insulting confidence game to pretend otherwise.

Jonathan Portes

Peak Goodhart: literally the first citation in this is to Matt Goodwin's discredited "Great Replacement" fantasy. If you're trying to push your sanitised "non-racist" preference/ethnonationalism, perhaps don't start by linking to a far-right racist grifter? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07...

It shouldn't take a linguist to tell you "X is about to happen" and "CEO says X is about to happen" are two very different statements with different truth conditions.

Dare Obasanjo

“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.

For as much as Alex Jones purports to be a Christian who hates Satanists, it sure seems like "do what thou wilt" is the whole of his law.

Ben Collins

Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.

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