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Of course, it's fine to criticize movements at their popular level, but it seems, to me, that one should always be careful to delineate between the obviously stupid average representative of a position & careful, serious advocates of the position.
Of course, it's fine to criticize movements at their popular level, but it seems, to me, that one should always be careful to delineate between the obviously stupid average representative of a position & careful, serious advocates of the position.
I had never seen this particular...work and it has confirmed all of my least charitable beliefs about left-communitarianism, especially in its anti-statist strains
this is a theory of what we would have instead of cops from a popular poster static1.squarespace.com/static/5345d...
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Of course, it's fine to criticize movements at their popular level, but it seems, to me, that one should always be careful to delineate between the obviously stupid average representative of a position & careful, serious advocates of the position.
Of course, it's fine to criticize movements at their popular level, but it seems, to me, that one should always be careful to delineate between the obviously stupid average representative of a position & careful, serious advocates of the position.
Interesting to see liberal v anarchist discourse on here. It doesn't appear to be of a particularly high caliber.
It's consistently surprising to me how uncharitable even smart & well-meaning people can be. It should serve as a reminder that you have epistemic responsibilities.
It's consistently surprising to me how uncharitable even smart & well-meaning people can be. It should serve as a reminder that you have epistemic responsibilities.
September 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Interesting to see liberal v anarchist discourse on here. It doesn't appear to be of a particularly high caliber.
It's consistently surprising to me how uncharitable even smart & well-meaning people can be. It should serve as a reminder that you have epistemic responsibilities.
It's consistently surprising to me how uncharitable even smart & well-meaning people can be. It should serve as a reminder that you have epistemic responsibilities.
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A tough pill to swallow is that, no, our feelings are not always valid. Our feelings are all too often completely illegitimate, and we should just scoff at them, ignore them, and far from letting them fester or guide our action, we should deliberately act in ways that foster better sentiments.
August 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A tough pill to swallow is that, no, our feelings are not always valid. Our feelings are all too often completely illegitimate, and we should just scoff at them, ignore them, and far from letting them fester or guide our action, we should deliberately act in ways that foster better sentiments.
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I'm sad to inform many dear friends that Gab (@atheopagan.bsky.social) has passed away.
If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment.
Thank you.
gofund.me/f2960acc
If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment.
Thank you.
gofund.me/f2960acc
July 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'm sad to inform many dear friends that Gab (@atheopagan.bsky.social) has passed away.
If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment.
Thank you.
gofund.me/f2960acc
If you can spare it, please join me in helping their sister Amanda with funeral costs and assistance with emptying the apartment.
Thank you.
gofund.me/f2960acc
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It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
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one thing about my personal experience with trump 2 that is very different from trump 1 is that i feel that am i being attacked at a *civilizational* level in terms of basic norms and values that i hold
Trump’s presidency is a rebuttal or refutation of the Enlightenment. All the lessons learned in the last 250 years are proactively defied or fully assailed: Due process, habeas corpus, comparative advantage, germ theory, free immigration, free trade.
April 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
one thing about my personal experience with trump 2 that is very different from trump 1 is that i feel that am i being attacked at a *civilizational* level in terms of basic norms and values that i hold
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Trump’s presidency is a rebuttal or refutation of the Enlightenment. All the lessons learned in the last 250 years are proactively defied or fully assailed: Due process, habeas corpus, comparative advantage, germ theory, free immigration, free trade.
April 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Trump’s presidency is a rebuttal or refutation of the Enlightenment. All the lessons learned in the last 250 years are proactively defied or fully assailed: Due process, habeas corpus, comparative advantage, germ theory, free immigration, free trade.
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They've reduced themselves to animalistic freaks in their pursuit of the endless catharsis of hate. There is no stable or prosperous society that can exist as long as these people are allowed to walk around pretending they're like the rest of us, exercising authority
March 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
They've reduced themselves to animalistic freaks in their pursuit of the endless catharsis of hate. There is no stable or prosperous society that can exist as long as these people are allowed to walk around pretending they're like the rest of us, exercising authority
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Their politics really can be reduced to the stupid racist memes and videos they post. "Look at this person! Don't you hate them? Let's hurt them for fun." They don't even really care who they're hurting, the drug for them is getting to inflict pain on their perceived inferiors
March 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Their politics really can be reduced to the stupid racist memes and videos they post. "Look at this person! Don't you hate them? Let's hurt them for fun." They don't even really care who they're hurting, the drug for them is getting to inflict pain on their perceived inferiors
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God save us from the tyranny of c-list fantasy novelists. Calling these people idea landlords is obviously ludicrous, for they have never had a genuine idea transmitted between two brain cells. It's just milking the tropes solidified through millenia of free cooperative labor and fencing the output.
March 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
God save us from the tyranny of c-list fantasy novelists. Calling these people idea landlords is obviously ludicrous, for they have never had a genuine idea transmitted between two brain cells. It's just milking the tropes solidified through millenia of free cooperative labor and fencing the output.
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The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.
March 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The claim that libraries are an alternative to libgen is ridiculous. Almost all libraries don't have expensive academic books. Libgen is the university library of the world, open to everyone regardless of wealth, location, or academic credentials.
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Intellectual property enforcement is not about anyone "asking" you to do anything!
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
it's not a horrifically immoral leveraging of the violence of the state to ask you to pay the people who make a video game if you want to play a video game, imo bsky.app/profile/rech...
Actually, it remains horrifically immoral to leverage the violence of the state to censor people regardless of whether you're a small bean author (like me) or not.
Profiting from the intellectual property regime is a grave evil, even when you're a small fry.
Profiting from the intellectual property regime is a grave evil, even when you're a small fry.
March 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Intellectual property enforcement is not about anyone "asking" you to do anything!
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
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The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
March 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The provision of the 14th amendment that the Supreme Court unanimously wrote out of the constitution existed for a reason. Its drafters knew what would happen if you allowed insurrectionists back into power.
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The Democrats need to stop being a Hamiltonian party and return to their Jeffersonian roots.
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The Democrats need to stop being a Hamiltonian party and return to their Jeffersonian roots.
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It turns out the actual America political realignment was that the GOP became the welcoming home for people who are "bad" in an aretaic sense: Not just morally bad, but bad at being well-functioning people living skillful lives of excellence. And sadly there are enough of them to win elections.
March 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It turns out the actual America political realignment was that the GOP became the welcoming home for people who are "bad" in an aretaic sense: Not just morally bad, but bad at being well-functioning people living skillful lives of excellence. And sadly there are enough of them to win elections.
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90% of participants report being satisfied by restorative justice.
But people need to know about it to want it. Read this great story to see how healing takes place.
inquest.org/uprooting-vi...
But people need to know about it to want it. Read this great story to see how healing takes place.
inquest.org/uprooting-vi...
Uprooting Violence | Phillip Vance Smith | INQUEST
Restorative justice seeks to address the root causes of violence—while also doing the work of healing the grief caused by it.
inquest.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:05 PM
90% of participants report being satisfied by restorative justice.
But people need to know about it to want it. Read this great story to see how healing takes place.
inquest.org/uprooting-vi...
But people need to know about it to want it. Read this great story to see how healing takes place.
inquest.org/uprooting-vi...
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the best writing that looks at the appeal of the petite bourgeois and has something nice to say about it IMO is James C. Scott's Two Cheers For the Petite Bourgeois and the aspiration for autonomy, dignity and self-direction that ownership promises
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jame...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jame...
November 25, 2024 at 6:42 AM
the best writing that looks at the appeal of the petite bourgeois and has something nice to say about it IMO is James C. Scott's Two Cheers For the Petite Bourgeois and the aspiration for autonomy, dignity and self-direction that ownership promises
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jame...
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jame...
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people complaining about kids no longer going outside or riding bikes is because if you try to be a normal parent, other psycho helicopter parents will call the cops on you
www.nj.com/advice/2023/...
www.nj.com/advice/2023/...
November 23, 2024 at 4:18 PM
people complaining about kids no longer going outside or riding bikes is because if you try to be a normal parent, other psycho helicopter parents will call the cops on you
www.nj.com/advice/2023/...
www.nj.com/advice/2023/...
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I’ve thought a lot about the Frank Was Right thesis. I think he was on to something but I worry things are even worse.
What‘s really scary isn’t that bored guys want to LARP out their “knight tries to rescue the princess from orc rapists” fantasies. It’s that they imagine themselves as the orcs.
What‘s really scary isn’t that bored guys want to LARP out their “knight tries to rescue the princess from orc rapists” fantasies. It’s that they imagine themselves as the orcs.
This is the point fukuyama makes in the final chapter of the book!
November 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
I’ve thought a lot about the Frank Was Right thesis. I think he was on to something but I worry things are even worse.
What‘s really scary isn’t that bored guys want to LARP out their “knight tries to rescue the princess from orc rapists” fantasies. It’s that they imagine themselves as the orcs.
What‘s really scary isn’t that bored guys want to LARP out their “knight tries to rescue the princess from orc rapists” fantasies. It’s that they imagine themselves as the orcs.
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i’m going to lose my god damn mind
November 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
i’m going to lose my god damn mind
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Even though the exit polls entirely contradict them, reactionary centrists are going to argue Harris lost because she didn't make their peculiar hangups the center of her campaign. "Everyone needs to take my peculiar hangups seriously" is the only tune they know.
November 17, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Even though the exit polls entirely contradict them, reactionary centrists are going to argue Harris lost because she didn't make their peculiar hangups the center of her campaign. "Everyone needs to take my peculiar hangups seriously" is the only tune they know.