genuinely its really funny that the "online american catholic" position is that the pope is wrong about the bible and the "online american secular" position is that the pope is always right about the bible

Maybe it was still worth it, and Dems should load up to make a similar move again even if longterm consequences ensue. Or maybe it wasn’t worth it, and so there should be lessons learned. Feels like the material for an important, interesting conversation.

An irony is that a very obvious cause of why Dems are in trouble in the senate is the passage of Obamacare, which directly resulted in various Dem red state senators getting voted out. Given how central Klein was in supporting Obamacare, this could generate an interesting discussion.

Sorry, I’m being dense. Can you explain what you mean?

Along very similar lines, but from a Beauvoir-inspired existentialist view. philpapers.org/rec/TUBAAL

Yeah, I very much stand behind that. I would jokingly say of the campus critics, “they hate us for our freedom.” Campus free speech failures, when real, are cases of colleges falling short of free speech ideals that basically no ordinary workplace makes an effort to meet.

Seems like too much work, and he’s not disciplined enough to have a sustained goal that would stay in place for the length of an invasion.

Bluesky policy discussion: “You’ve got this detail wrong but it’s cool that you’re even here.”

Twitter policy discussion: “I just told your boss you wanna fuck kids.”