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19 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Done and DONE.
If this doesn't get 'likes' I'm complaining to the manager.
Incredible. Still only a few likes for a meme that has something for everyone: Neoliberals with a sense of detachment; anti-neoliberals; people who aren’t sure what ‘neoliberalism’ means.
Alright, nineteen 'likes' and four retweets seems fair. I am content.

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New OBZ! Some delicate color here - lest one think Nietzche feels only contempt for these derpy denizens of the town. Do not these spots of color indicate an earnest wish on Z's, hence N's, part that the organ grinder not merely have his organs ground? 1/ onbeyondzarathustra.com/copy-of-gdfd-p… Image
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[I'll bet those lines crossed your mind, too.]

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Kerr BOTH thinks we should be talking about it as a thing that could be good AND that we are only permitted to use a word for it that implies it couldn't be good, 'court-packing'? C'mon, pick a lane. 1/
The D's need a philosophy of the judicial branch to counter 'originalist' argle-bargle from the right. 'Originalism' is a rhetoric not a philosophy (well, it's a bad philosophy, but so are most rhetorics.) But it's been hugely successful. 2/
D's need to counter that, undesirable as this is, the SC is now thoroughly politicized. Maybe it's all the fault of that darned Earl Warren, but, whatever, in recent decades the right has seen to it that its 6 R-appointed Justices are expected to be reliable partisans. 3/
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Anti-court-packing rhetoric ratchets up a notch NR. Some of this is guilty projection. NR has to get behind R's; R's are increasingly behind the Jan 6 insurrection, so, in all decency, you gotta try to peel some 'thuggish treason' off your team, stick it to the other team. 1/ ImageImage
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Hoo boy, kicker here is he doesn't say he checks resumes for evidence the student is a legacy admit at whatever top school, and downgrades accordingly. Even though he complains about legacy admissions as hypocrisy in the letter. 1/
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I read the news today o boy. Six Dr. Seuss books cancelled. 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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