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neil @n31l.bsky.social · May 27
we must end history
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in that one hozier song i always think he’s saying ‘we’ll steal elections’ and i’m like hozier no
December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Other papers have modeled this more and concluded that without non-selfish high performers, you basically always converge towards mutual mediocrity -- low performers dominating while allowing one another to suck shit, while targeting high performers.
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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changed my mind dagoth ur for president
September 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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When we win, and we will, we will hail such names as “Dr. Fuckley” and “Reverend Arson” as past generations hailed Publius
mosheroperandi.bsky.social Keith (advent calendar speedrunner) @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · Jul 13
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
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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 9:43 PM
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we must end history
May 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Beyond that, most people want efficient *user experience*, ie no lines at the DMV. Efficient in the minimal expenditure sense is precisely the opposite
March 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Why would anyone attend an expensive college that would retroactively take away your degree, after you were long gone, to satisfy the whim of a powerful person
March 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Hey you know that one-tap functionality you liked? We added more taps do you like that
May 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM