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Dec 26, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read Read on X
got distracted from granting boons momentarily and started reading old Bloom County cartoons

society has become stagnant since the 80s

discourse is closed

here are some comics that were nationally syndicated in the 80s

see how far we have fallen

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race and politic's
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corporate wokeness
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treatment of donald trump that was marginally funny. almost. almost. Image
gender wars

i think everyone ends up owned Image
@nitguptaa won a pulitzer in 87
thoughtful treatment of the aids crisis Image
if you want a touchpoint for how free you are, go look at media that existed thirty or forty years ago and compare how expressive it is relative to what exists today

how much is permitted now that wasn't then? and, vice versa

in this specific case the exercise is depressing
have a related exercise in mind for this gem which @selentelechia picked up for me for Christmas which was probably $3 used and is one of the best things I got this year Image
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Feb 18
the kind of journalism where you speculate wildly about others' internal psychology has it seems wholly displaced the journalism where you just ask people why they think things

i guess its easier, and safer, to speculate. and who could disprove your claims, really?
since we're speculating my guess is that one could explain a lot of young men's shift to the right by observing that they were forced into suffocating and politically anti-male spaces run by leftists for their entire childhoods and they probably resent that to some degree
it was very easy for me to type that out but i haven't demonstrated anything and i dont believe its worthy of oh i dont know an entire article in what was once a venerable pillar of american print media Image
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Feb 18
consider the following types of law
1. Constitutional provisions
2. Congressional acts
3. Common Law
4. Administrative law
5. Normative "law" (guidelines)

the US has all of these. arguably more but we'll ignore those.

today it is helpful to understand these separately
these bodies of law, the manner in which they interact, and the process by which they are changed and enforced comprise america's small-c constitution

the trump administration's actions seem to me (caveat emptor) to be comprehensible as an attempt at constitutional resettlement
bad high school civics courses will teach students that congress passes laws, the president carries them out, and that the justice system interprets and enforces them

more or less

this is the theory but really it's an outdated map of our constitution in several ways
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Feb 15
elon musk dropping children into homes where he will never be a father is outrageously vile idk what else to say
its easy to hate the outgroup. but are you brave enough to hate the ingroup
i love this moral clarity but it doesnt follow through on the policy implications of its premise

get in loser we're gonna subsidize deadbeats. theyve earned it
Read 4 tweets
Feb 15
the way things are going i will bet that the DoE is going to break the accreditation agencies and force them to de-accredit (discredit?) schools that have dei programs

this would be an indirect way of controlling universities because they'd face the loss of student federal aid
gpt is initially positive about the feasibility of this but then starts hedging Image
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Feb 13
i have actually been thinking abt this

i dont think trump is really anything like hitler but it's helpful to explain why, and there is something comparable about the times in kind if not in quantity

i am *not* knowledgeable abt weimar and expect to often be wrong in this thread
this picture by george grosz came out in 1926

it's titled "pillars of society" which means that this painting is a pictorial delivery of The Aristocrats

his victims represent various social and political factions in weimar Image
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grosz was the sort of guy who volunteered during ww1, became disgusted with the german state, joined the communist party briefly until he realized they were totalitarians, and emigrated to america in 1933 to get away from prussians (and eventually became disgusted with america)
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Feb 6
the year is 2025. "Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft" research fellows are inciting the assassination of specific Americans on the timeline under their real names

i'm trying to think of historical analogues to the present madness. pre-revolutionary russia i guess?
"the right wing is losing their shit" i think and then---

anyway this is probably actually a federal crime @ethancpaul. in case you were curious

and i know what im talking about, as the worlds first gigafelon Image
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@ethancpaul regarding the intelligentsia Image
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