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beer and hockey are my bread and circuses. she/they
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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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kierongillen.bsky.social
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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golikehellmachine.com
the beatings will continue until the trade deficits improve
April 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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shaunvids.bsky.social
they are busy insider trading
jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social 𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · Apr 11
The President of the United States engaged in insider trading, and laughed about it.

He is not exempt from the law.

Where the fuck is Congress?
April 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
kurukove.bsky.social
wondering if it's safe to read the new book from @scalzi.com with Cricket or if it'll give her ideas
Tabby cat posed next to a book, Starter Villain by John Scalzi, with a suspiciously similar looking cat on the cover
October 3, 2023 at 12:46 AM
kurukove.bsky.social
keep your friends close and your tails closer
Tabby cat curled up with one paw on her tail
September 3, 2023 at 12:39 AM
kurukove.bsky.social
happy international ball of fluff day
long haired black cat curled up in a cat bed
August 8, 2023 at 11:40 PM
kurukove.bsky.social
squeak now (cricket's version)
Tabby cat in a leash and harness on a lawn, mouth open meowing
July 24, 2023 at 2:00 AM