Thoreau Away
@thoreauaway.bsky.social
Christian, American, liberal, geoist. Big fan of compassion and taxing rents. Not a fan of oathbreakers or NIMBYs.
Everything in politics is now secondary to preserving our Constitution.
Everything in politics is now secondary to preserving our Constitution.
He’s basically this guy:
February 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
He’s basically this guy:
If anything you’re giving them too *much* credit. (Not that I blame you - I give people a lot of benefit of the doubt! But they’ve run me dry there.) Refusing to engage in good faith is a key marker of fascism, which is bullying as a theory of state. Remember Sartre:
January 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If anything you’re giving them too *much* credit. (Not that I blame you - I give people a lot of benefit of the doubt! But they’ve run me dry there.) Refusing to engage in good faith is a key marker of fascism, which is bullying as a theory of state. Remember Sartre:
I just read the Wikipedia intro to Afro Pessimism and I feel like this:
January 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just read the Wikipedia intro to Afro Pessimism and I feel like this:
“this is still a two-party system”
January 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“this is still a two-party system”
Or, as @zachweinersmith.bsky.social put it:
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Or, as @zachweinersmith.bsky.social put it:
The problem is that, while right wing academia has been subjugated and made to serve the Republican Party, left wing academia frequently has incentives entirely at odds with those of the Democratic Party. It is in their professional interest to sound like this:
December 19, 2024 at 4:24 PM
The problem is that, while right wing academia has been subjugated and made to serve the Republican Party, left wing academia frequently has incentives entirely at odds with those of the Democratic Party. It is in their professional interest to sound like this:
Governor, you may well get my primary vote in 2028, but…
December 12, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Governor, you may well get my primary vote in 2028, but…