Pahlavi->Khomeni, October 7->Gaza genocide, etc. etc.) Addressing the present violence at any cost has meant a net loss of peace & justice time & time again. There’s a real need to break the pattern, not just change the current situation.

Looking forward to your answer next time. As to why so many of us ask it before focusing on the present violence: Much of it is bad faith, as you say, but also: Examples from history are not great. Mostly we find victors over violence going on to reinvent violence (Romanov->Stalin,

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Like, why do we even have to normalize it? It was already normal. Look, it’s right there in the constitution, normal li’l part of the civic order. The question is how th did it get ABnormalized? Lotsa people recoiling nowadays thought it was pretty normal in 1998.

So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.

It’s wild how goldfish will continue to eat however much food is available even when it’s actively killing them. 🤷‍♂️ It’s what they do, man

It’s a little unfair to equate LLMs to improv; they’re more like Rob Schneider’s Girlfriend Theater. youtu.be/mLyNPitX85o?...

Are… are you at my Loblaws?

Wait, I thought nutmeats were out this month?