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17 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What I'm struggling with here: "hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue," but our military can't even hypocritically blame some underling & hang them out to dry over this. We've entered that zone where the mask is off & everyone knows the score. Like the banks after '08.
The military is the last institution that the public largely still trusts. I will be keenly interested to see if the events connected to the AFG withdrawal have affected that polling.
I just get really, viscerally affected by horrors involving kids -- kids in cages (under every president), droning to death of kids with their families, medicalizing healthy kid bodies in various ways... just a whole panoply of kid issues send me into fight-or-flight mode.
Anyway, I would ironically feel less apoplectic if there were some token attempt to whitewash this or offer up a scapegoat, or appoint a do-nothing commission, or some other CYA thing to get mad over etc. But we're past even that, which is impossibly grim.

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17 Sep
Lotta folks I follow dunking on this thread, but not only is Rufo on to something here, but there's even some horseshoe theory in this. Guess who wrote the following:
This is from @PennyRed's recent rant against free speech (lauriepenny.substack.com/p/where-were-g…). Penny & Rufo don't agree on much, but they do agree on this: we are not in a fight over abstractions, & to keep pretending we are is to consign yourself to irrelevance.
Like Rufo & contra Penny, I support free speech to an absolutist degree. I support classic liberal norms re: due process, reasoned debate, civility, etc. But that stuff only works when everyone shares a certain level of moral consensus re: Big Questions. (The founders knew this!)
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27 Aug
The problem for the military that this video highlights is the same problem all institutions have right now in the age of social media -- universities, professional guilds, orgs of all kinds: you can't have randos in your ranks speaking to the world on behalf of your group.
In an earlier, saner era, no member of the military would be able to spend institutional creidibility by donning a uniform & address the general public on whatever random matter. No MD or nurse would be able to spend hospital or uni credibility by doing the same, etc
Any public-facing comms where the person even appears to speak for the institution or is associated visually in any other fashion with the inst. would have to go through a press office & be vetted, & delivered by trained professionals.
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26 Aug
Back before "Biden is sundowning" was a GOP talking point, it was a thing a handful of lefties talked about during the primaries, sometimes privately & sometimes on Twitter. I'm sure all the tweets have been deleted tho. Anyway, @jshieber is our bet still on?
@jshieber How many people besides me remember this chatter from the primaries about how people close to Biden knew he was in bad shape on the campaign trail? This was definitely A Thing, especially before his poll numbers picked up.
@jshieber There were some tweets from some larger accounts to the effect of "when are we gonna talk about how our frontrunner is sundowning. This is the thing everyone knows but is scared to discuss." I actually developed my impression of his problems /from lefty chatter/.
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26 Aug
Both the dogs we recently rescued are super mega cute & we're now having second thoughts about letting someone adopt one of them b/c we kind of want both. It's nuts tho because then we'd be a five-dog family (2 outdoors + 3 indoors). 😮
We're pretty sure the one standing up (girl, ~2yrs) is the mother of the one laying down (boy, ~10months). She's extremely attached to him & protective of him.
The current Stokes menagerie contains:
- 5 dogs (3 existing rescues + the 2 new rescues)
- 2 bunnies
- 3 horses

That's a lot of critters, at least for me it is.
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26 Aug
Not surprising, given that they've been running full out and their order book is way backlogged. I should've seen this coming when Apple mentioned they'd see shortages in high-end semis affecting their product availability in the fall.
Most of the HN thread on this is lazy "blame crypto" takes from butthurt nocoiners, but this is a great comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283146…

That last sentence is exactly what I worried w/ my talk of a possible "semiconductor industrial crash" months ago. jonstokes.com/p/significant-…
This line specifically: "the guy who posts here all the time saying he works for the company that makes the machines that makes the chips and they can't make more machines because they don't have the chips that go in them." Circular dependencies abound.
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24 Aug
I want to say something that I think is important & overlooked about the low vaccination rates in some southern states, like my home state of Louisiana:

It's widely known that in these states, folks don't trust government & won't vote into being a robust public sector. But why?
The std answer is that they're all a bunch of racists, & they don't vote for public sector benefits because THOSE people might also benefit & we can't have that. (This is the line, say, @MonicaBPotts, feeds the yankees in the NYT.) Racism is real, but it's not the whole story.
The bigger piece is that the governments in these states are terrible, so nobody has ever had any experience with even functional government, much less good government. And unlike in, say, CA, there's no massive wealth to paper over the dysfunction & graft with taxpayer dollars.
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