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Ben Burgis
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host @gtaa_show columnist @jacobin adjunct philosophy prof TMBS crew for life "Philosophy for the People" Substack every Sunday: https://t.co/sAfLaJr1Dp
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Feb 4, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 I'm a John Martin Fischer compatibilist, more or less--or maybe a @chaospet compatibilist. So more Frankfurt-y than Lewis-y in the sense of de-emphasizing the "could you have done otherwise?" question in favor of thinking about whether the right sort of causal chain produced a decision in the actual case, but:
Dec 4, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 Conservatives say many ridiculous things about the Taibbi tweets about Twitter censorship because conservatives say ridiculous things about everything. It's who they are. But: The news that Twitter quite so routinely rubber-stamped censorship requests from powerful people, including importantly *both* the 2020 Biden campaign and the Trump White House, does actually strike me as pretty outrageous and newsworthy.
Sep 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Whole thread is worth reading if you want to know what Ana’s actual views are on subjects where some of the silliest scolds on the online Left have been mad at her about (though she agrees with them on the bulk of the underlying policy issues) but this part is worth highlighting: If you hint that you kind of sort of agree with the Right on one half of their talking points, conservatives will trip over each other rolling out the red carpet, Because encouraging people you think might be traveling in your direction is how you act if you actually want to win.
Sep 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: Prerecorded a great conversation with @micahuetricht this afternoon on the work of Barbara Ehrenreich and why her loss is such a massive blow to the socialist Left. We're going to play it on tonight's @GTAA_Show, possibly along with some videos from Ehrenreich's lectures. Before that, the GTAA crew and I will be celebrating the glorious ascension to the throne of King Charles III, talking about an Oklahoma teacher who was pushed out of her job (and is still being demonized by statewide officials and harassed by grassroots conservatives) for...
Jan 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
(Thread) Tons of good stuff coming up on tonight's @GTAA_Show:

@scotthortonshow is going to be the main guest, going over some highlights of his debate on America's forever wars with @BillKristol.
Jan 9, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: Quite a bit of my Christopher Hitchens book is devoted to my best attempt at philosophically and historically rigorous interrogation of the positions and arguments of both Hitchens and his critics (e.g. Larry Taunton, Douglas Wilson, William Lane Craig and Martin Amis). So, for example, I give Hitch himself a hard time about the contradiction between his professed allegiance to a materialist theory of history and his insistence that "religion" per se "poisons everything."