Seth has blocked me. But you all should see this anyway. Aside from Seth's prior admissions that he sees "metamodernism" as a way of "lying things into being" (see his post-Hillary nomination piece from 2016), his post-hoc justification for lying to you
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1343279624780976132?s=20
Is that he's just "brainstorming". But it's easy to do that without abusing your trust and lying to you about what the law *is*. When Seth says things like "a pardon is invalid if it's obstructing impeachment" he isn't "brainstorming" - he's making a foundational claim about the
law that is simply false. It would have been easy enough to come clean and say "I'd like it if we reinterpret the relevant provisions to mean...", acknowledged the contrary precedent, and reckoned with it. That's someone arguing for a change in the law
That's not what Seth does. He just lies to you and says that his wishes are what the law *is*. Same for the claim that the pardon Clause explicitly gives Congress the standing to challenge a pardon
And then he tosses shade at the people pointing out that he's lying, insisting that were only doing it to gain followers. I really couldn't give a damn about gaining followers. But it says something about Seth that he thinks that's a motivator for anyone
Bottom line - beware of people willing to lie to you, and who think "social media popularity" is a thing worth chasing
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