While that tweet says good things about his relationship with truth, his defense of talking about immigrants eating cats and dogs because constituents told him without checking whether or not that’s true was awful.
Maybe, we felt like he needed to do it because of political pressure and felt dirty doing it, but it was still awful by rationalist standards.
I think there’s a good chance that JDVance is better than the average US politician, but there’s no good reason to see him as a rationalist.
While that tweet says good things about his relationship with truth, his defense of talking about immigrants eating cats and dogs because constituents told him without checking whether or not that’s true was awful.
Maybe, we felt like he needed to do it because of political pressure and felt dirty doing it, but it was still awful by rationalist standards.
I think there’s a good chance that JDVance is better than the average US politician, but there’s no good reason to see him as a rationalist.