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Conservatives love touting their adherence to constitutional values, but this wholesale abandonment of those values only shows a willingness to do whatever is necessary to keep their boots on throats. I don't think they truly believe antifa or terrorist are among those protesting. It's all pretext.

There are issues with contemporary leftism (different convo)-- because, again, nothing can be best--but not nihilism. Everything can be rethought in a world that is always shifting. Critique can be an act of LOVE, when done a certain way, and to not engage in it shows a lack of care and stewardship.

The correct answer to people protesting your administration is "that is your right, in our democracy, as indicated by the 1st amendment." Anything else misunderstands the spirit of democracy. I'm not convinced that this isn't just about a narrative for their base. That's what is nihilistic about it.

Everything is "best" or "greatest" and any hint otherwise makes them cry. Critique, the idea that something could be better for anyone and everyone, shatters that self-image. It's a Lacanian field day on display.

I definitely feel more than a little scorn people who just leave their bikeshare or scooters in the MIDDLE of a sidewalk or somewhere else that is inconvenient for literally everyone passing by but the rider.

As a photographer, I use the thirds composition a lot and have to remind myself that other approaches exist. It's just a really easy way to make a photo look pleasing but doesn't always lead to something captivating or provoking.

Also, these "kids" are 30. I'm 35 y'all. Am I a kid too?

None of my chats has ever looked like that in my life. I was a really stupid kid once, but not stupid enough to confuse a joke and an insult to someone's humanity. I can't even, with the mental gymnastics people perform to explain away something they should just acknowledge is fucked up.

People who post about Charlie Kirk's demonstrably hateful approach to understanding the world problems's apparently deserve to have their lives upended, but closeted Republican bigots are just "kids making jokes" in a telegram chat.

The original, not three

This is such a big point people miss. I have an edition of Wittenstein's Tractatus that separates each page of the text into three columns. One for the original Austrian and two others for three prevailing English translations. They are subtly but significantly different!

That's fascinating! I'm not a moral philosopher but I would think shame is so fertile a concept for inquiry. Lack of shame seems to involve an internal posture in which ones episteme supercedes the world. As a fellow Heidegger scholar I'm wondering how that's informing your approach.

Exactly. Shame as a political tool is useful and corrective--and something we have that stops short of physical violence.

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God may be dead but got replaced by science. Knowledge may be concentrated in "scientific method," but people neglect that way they refer to science it in a manner that often mirrors religious practice.

Also, standing in queues.

As a result, certain political positions, and the corroded morals behind them, can attest to being "equal" to everyone, despite evidence demonstrating otherwise. Yet, evidence and argumentation rarely matter in the face of those who have already decided what they believe to be true.