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Jun 10 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
as long as we're sending insane ideas to @JDVance

does the federal government have to enforce laws everywhere or can it announce it won't?

because one funny thing the administration could do would be to deprioritize the enforcement of most federal laws in sanctuary states >“congrats, california, you're now libertarian af. no OSHA, no IRS audits, no EPA. enjoy.”

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Jun 4 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
hmmm sure ok i'll bite

the rheinweisenlager don't seem that bad tbh

i havent looked at the wikipedia page and wont, just going to attach some commentary and notes on context the rheinweisenlager were a bunch of concentration camps in the original sense where surrendered wehrmacht soldiers were held for several months in 1945

the camps were run by the US, apparently, and that's important
Jun 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my only yarvin story is that we met in a temporary teahouse and he spent an hour watching my kid while moon and i took a break, and he sent us off with advice on early reading for her

it's a small thing but it was a welcome kindness for us, bare acquaintances i'm also happy to say @selentelechia is making great progress
May 17 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
"travel" is fake

no one except lord myles has "adventures" when they travel

you are staying at a hotel, paying large sums of money to have a far worse experience than you could have in your own home and a far softer experience than you could have by spending a weekend in jail "i love to Travel" why have you failed to establish your home as a place of serenity and joy, to the extent that you feel psychically uncomfortable there and strive to get away from your life whenever you can, viewing it as the highest good?

you are not well
May 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is definitely a failure mode of boy scouts. ive never experienced it but conventional wisdom is that it falls out of an institutional failure mode called an "adult led troop"

in this paradigm a scout troop is like a classroom where scouts just passively consume "activities" what you want to do is foist as much responsibility for direction, planning, and execution on the boys as bodily safety and laws permit: the so-called "boy led troop"

here, the adults are just present for logistics and for keeping things from getting too out of hand
Apr 6 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
ok i have a theory of what happened during the awokening

it came to me while i was discussing the religious character of the prohibition on sucker punching ("what's intolerable is not that the punch lands, but that it refuses to acknowledge the altar" spoiler) Image
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Image male homosocial societies are bound by a number of precepts and principles that guide honorable behavior in a given context. these are separate from "general" religious commandments and from philosophical ethics
Apr 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
look i think the tariffs are retarded but to the extent this is actually evidence of anything its probably evidence *against* SH causing global trade to collapse who cares nothing matters everyone is mad

enjoy arbys
Mar 31 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
publicly registering that i was wrong in my speculation about this. and i'm delighted to eat crow here

i didn't think parliament had it in them.

what's the intuition for why this happened? lol they seem to be throwing the black guy under the bus

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Mar 27 • 18 tweets • 11 min read
grateful to cyan for writing this out

want to add that this also fails because it doesn't actually match the Ghibli style. in fact, the character design is repellent; this is separate from the subject matter

did they even know they were posting slop? compare and contrast Image
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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
vibe Image its actually fairly good as a commitment device binding on future administrations because this decreases the value of illegal immigrants for all subsequent administrations and it removes the "they pay taxes argument"

obviously it is also rather unsavory
Mar 10 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
i think its reasonable to call this a revolution in the sense that trump doesnt adhere to elite norms nor even middle class norms. and its not clodius pretending to be a plebe, its a pleb not even pretending to be a patrician

throw the mandate of heaven in the trash etc until the first trump term a surprising amount of the president's ability to influence the country was derived less from his potestas--that is, his formal powers--than from his auctoritas, which was closely tied to his dignitas

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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
how do "realists" explain Churchill specifically it seems like yeah you could probably come up with a strategic _rationalization_ for his behavior after the battle of france but the guy was clearly not working on that plane and had just been that way for decades at least

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Mar 5 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
i think this is probably right and i think something large and bad will happen. everyone is just waiting for it, even.

because we can't keep going like this.

every election cycle is just another circle around the drain i suppose everyone's just going to be pillaging the fisc as the end gets nearer at an increasingly rapid pace

what asset allocation solves this do you think
Feb 24 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
turnabout is fair play and the old regime has richly earned it. but i wish we (america) hadn't become like this

what's the path to redemption where left and right aren't just basically competing to destroy one another rather than fulfill our manifest 1KYAE destiny? i think this is probably the most obvious solution (one side needs an unambiguous and durable victory) but i haven't seen a coherent platform from the right about what that looks like in a positive sense
Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
the kind of journalism where you speculate wildly about others' internal psychology has it seems wholly displaced the journalism where you just ask people why they think things

i guess its easier, and safer, to speculate. and who could disprove your claims, really? since we're speculating my guess is that one could explain a lot of young men's shift to the right by observing that they were forced into suffocating and politically anti-male spaces run by leftists for their entire childhoods and they probably resent that to some degree
Feb 18 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
consider the following types of law
1. Constitutional provisions
2. Congressional acts
3. Common Law
4. Administrative law
5. Normative "law" (guidelines)

the US has all of these. arguably more but we'll ignore those.

today it is helpful to understand these separately these bodies of law, the manner in which they interact, and the process by which they are changed and enforced comprise america's small-c constitution

the trump administration's actions seem to me (caveat emptor) to be comprehensible as an attempt at constitutional resettlement
Feb 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
elon musk dropping children into homes where he will never be a father is outrageously vile idk what else to say its easy to hate the outgroup. but are you brave enough to hate the ingroup
Feb 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
the way things are going i will bet that the DoE is going to break the accreditation agencies and force them to de-accredit (discredit?) schools that have dei programs

this would be an indirect way of controlling universities because they'd face the loss of student federal aid gpt is initially positive about the feasibility of this but then starts hedging Image
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Feb 13 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
i have actually been thinking abt this

i dont think trump is really anything like hitler but it's helpful to explain why, and there is something comparable about the times in kind if not in quantity

i am *not* knowledgeable abt weimar and expect to often be wrong in this thread this picture by george grosz came out in 1926

it's titled "pillars of society" which means that this painting is a pictorial delivery of The Aristocrats

his victims represent various social and political factions in weimar Image
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Feb 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
the year is 2025. "Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft" research fellows are inciting the assassination of specific Americans on the timeline under their real names

i'm trying to think of historical analogues to the present madness. pre-revolutionary russia i guess? "the right wing is losing their shit" i think and then---

anyway this is probably actually a federal crime @ethancpaul. in case you were curious

and i know what im talking about, as the worlds first gigafelon Image
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Feb 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
oh no has anyone considered how dangerous it is to let information technology professionals operate a server without bureaucratic oversight

i mean what if the chinese were to get their hands on those OPM databases is this actually illegal? idk

i have mixed feelings about this tbh

breaking laws is first order bad

yet it seems silly to try and stop people who work for the executive from helping him run his bureaucracy; perhaps these are bad laws