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https://twitter.com/hannahdcox/status/17915481479586818952. What this means in practice is that you must be committed to the secular liberal order, but the “good” kind and not the freaky “woke” kind.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/17901516797378441522. This idea that we would set aside religious belief in the public sphere, run things based on a utilitarian ideal of doing “what works” is not really working anymore. These public agnostics were fine with people keeping their religion in the closet as a private satisfaction.
https://twitter.com/mitrahispana/status/17893211246998327162. Just so everyone is clear, the definition of equality that I use is that for two things to be equal they must identical and interchangeable in any way that you could describe, analyze or categorize them. It means absolutely identical in all ways. Why so rigid?
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/17885567714113171962. There are multiple layers to this. Lyman argues that “racism” is on the rise as a signaling mechanism to indicate to others that a person is willing to take on unpopular opinions and hold the line. That they are down for the fight.
https://twitter.com/realsimonlaird/status/17872874088173568592. These types of takes reveal more about the reader’s biases than they do about the actual text of the LOTR. This story isn’t about Christianity or paganism. It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of the technological society.
https://twitter.com/dandarling/status/17883328604594341802. This dovetails with the belief in maintaining the freedom of the individual, the individual’s free will, their ability to choose the gospel freely.
https://twitter.com/rothmus/status/17845945388388066122. Did you realize that the banks make most of their money on the first half of an amortized house loan? And the most of that in the first five years? Most people move every seven years. That means you are never actually buying a house. You are giving the banks money.
https://twitter.com/neilshenvi/status/17151569213288081392. By accepting the regime framework that good people work to end racism, this creates a necessity towards developing “solutions” to end racism. If you challenge the premise, you are a racist and a bad person. If you challenge regime solutions, you are bad person.
https://twitter.com/sargon_of_akkad/status/17841413541230390962. A is not supposed to bully a woman. He is not supposed to make her cry.
https://twitter.com/kaschuta/status/17822182604667619652. This tension is why women are drawn to the indirect and veiled use of violence operative in the democratic “rule of law” and proxy style use of power operative in administrative state styles of governance, rather than the the direct use of violence.
https://twitter.com/quantpunch/status/17824089847516367952. … all societies must adapt in times of crisis. So a small pocket of liberals are necessary to draw from when needed, but if your whole society liberalizes you end up in social dissolution.
https://twitter.com/konstantinkisin/status/17822230073871116962. The real energy comes from the religious right and the religious left (what Kisin calls the “woke” left and right). The center is dead and believes in nothing but the system itself, maintaining it for its own sake.
https://twitter.com/greeneman6/status/17820456195629304192. Twitter gives you direct access to other people, including many of the well known and successful media figures. But more important than access, is it allows you to spar and do verbal combat with them directly.
https://twitter.com/joelwberry/status/17813892197236698142. Berry is politically uninformed enough that he isn’t aware that this is the same basic posture towards the world that Fascism takes. Sweep away the present order and instantiate the heroic past of the nation when its ideals were pure and its men heroic.