Sam Brunson
@smbrnsn.bsky.social
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgia Reithal Professor Law, Loyola University Chicago. Lots of taxes, jazz, cooking, and cats. Author "God and the IRS: Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law"
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Pinker is smart, sure, but here he’s a total dilettante—inescapably so.
He naively takes crime stats from 1500 on face value. I, an actual expert, have stopped a paper bc I can’t decide if it’s ethical to use crime data from the 1990s and 2000s, given what I know abt how the sausage gets made.
He naively takes crime stats from 1500 on face value. I, an actual expert, have stopped a paper bc I can’t decide if it’s ethical to use crime data from the 1990s and 2000s, given what I know abt how the sausage gets made.
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pinker is smart, sure, but here he’s a total dilettante—inescapably so.
He naively takes crime stats from 1500 on face value. I, an actual expert, have stopped a paper bc I can’t decide if it’s ethical to use crime data from the 1990s and 2000s, given what I know abt how the sausage gets made.
He naively takes crime stats from 1500 on face value. I, an actual expert, have stopped a paper bc I can’t decide if it’s ethical to use crime data from the 1990s and 2000s, given what I know abt how the sausage gets made.
Ok I’m sorry but you’ve earned my lifelong jealousy just with that first concert.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Ok I’m sorry but you’ve earned my lifelong jealousy just with that first concert.
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I think this aspect is quite important. There are plenty of average people who take a "well, everything is lies and bullshit" approach, meaning when you call them on obvious disinfo, they don't argue so much as say "everyone does it/falls for it." But that's 100% not true! Don't be one who does.
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think this aspect is quite important. There are plenty of average people who take a "well, everything is lies and bullshit" approach, meaning when you call them on obvious disinfo, they don't argue so much as say "everyone does it/falls for it." But that's 100% not true! Don't be one who does.
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We have perfectly good ways to dole out punishment here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We have perfectly good ways to dole out punishment here in the good ol' U.S. of A.
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In fact deporting someone who's rich and powerful is not much of a punishment
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In fact deporting someone who's rich and powerful is not much of a punishment
Or the Netherlands. Or literally any other country that has a legal claim against them.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Or the Netherlands. Or literally any other country that has a legal claim against them.
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Also, Nuremberg references are a great way to remind people that in the 1940s SCOTUS justices thought their job was to PROSECUTE war crimes, not enable them.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also, Nuremberg references are a great way to remind people that in the 1940s SCOTUS justices thought their job was to PROSECUTE war crimes, not enable them.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.
The Roberts Court will clearly be remembered as one of, if not the, worst SCOTUS in US history. Remind them TODAY of how pathetic they are.