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https://twitter.com/robkroese/status/1898876844021096566In both, a turning point when colored kids at Hudson’s edge & audibly notice that it flows both north & south, bc they’re at exactly the point where it changes direction. Etc. & Obama wrote it at Ayers’ dining table, after Ayers began mentoring him—1st thing by O with *any* style
https://twitter.com/Slatzism/status/1896318921285706119“Wow they were able to work for a living & they were willing to move around & they partnered with an enlightened empire & other third worlders were ‘tricked’ into staying in same old poverty by their lies like ‘money’ & ‘property’ during good-faith attempts at development—so sad”
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https://twitter.com/Awwrnold/status/1893485891324117355What happened in the Germanic lands during the 1600s? Basically just the 30 years war, as far as the modern world is concerned. About 50% population loss over three decades. Total upheaval of all relations. If you were there would you back local leaders who twiddled their thumbs?
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https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1876290509418942931All ordinary faiths do this to some extent: “our theology is just the water in which we swim, but all of those diverse alternatives are united by not being us.” The pernicious element here is that eg anticapitalism has no content besides hunting for witches it can find anywhere…
https://twitter.com/CEBKCEBKCEBK/status/1859101606379126860In my view this is mainly because academics used the veil of ignorance as their “state of nature”—just as Locke used his investments in settler-colonies, Hobbes used his court’s involvement in total war, the church used its involvement in the secular, etc.
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https://twitter.com/nathancofnas/status/1858584612160602362The Communist Parties had all the human capital, art, functioning institutions, real organizations, & coherent messaging that was left behind the iron curtain. But reformist wings within them either got purged or pushed pointless reforms… & after 1989 they just became Rawlsians!
https://twitter.com/CEBKCEBKCEBK/status/1857152507689984362His essay “The Straussian Moment” is about how in the 40s of a century, a brutal 30 year European civil war ended with an agreement that we’d just pretend to not notice the visceral differences between different nations. Westphalia, sure—but also Nuremberg
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https://twitter.com/Indian_Bronson/status/1797969443764736394Fauci was head of NIAID (appointed by someone appointed by someone appointed by the president, without senate approval). To fire him, Trump had to prove specific “malfeasance” before the MSPB (an independent agency whose members have similar tenure protections from the president)
https://twitter.com/BiermanPhilip/status/1857209515151933952This only works if the contractors still think that the media can psyop congressmen & bureaucrats into psyoping us into letting them buy more F-35s… but what matters now is just posting online well enough to get Elon or Trump to sincerely think something sounds like a good idea.
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1851646763347632437Your organs don’t each get one vote, because they have to coordinate on helping you reproduce, or else they die within one generation, & that’s why they specialize instead of becoming tumors. Ditto for husband & wife: like letting left & right hands vote.
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https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1848655213240193484An elite global monoculture that shapes these kinds of norms has way more power than any government or interest group—& it’s homogenized us into something that’s drifting away from fitness as it loses competitors & chases novelty. Defend the freedom to express group-level disgust