Marco Valerio

Real U.S. person.

[Zachary Elwood @apokerplayer]

Sharing this because we’re losing our minds a bit right now. I’m seeing this kind of thing frequently. People r seeing monsters under bed. Covid & cabin fever & Trumpism fears aren’t helping.

People get things wrong sometimes, & social media is a terrible way to communicate.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@mtaibbi "Have a dialogue."

Not "discuss" or "debate," which are nounless, transitive, and could, heaven forbid, achieve something. Better to be in an interminable state of "dialogue." Usually accompanied by a delicious dash of reprimand: "We are long overdue to have a dialogue about..."

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

YOU GOT THIS.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@KrisenaComposes Ever try poker?

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@Kevmath @bettyQs Thank you. I was able to talk Governor Sisolak into waiting until midnight to reclose the bars ;-)

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@Kevmath @bettyQs Thank you. It is actually today :-)

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@KellyRDay19 @FlightAstral @gmiller @nytimes How am I supposed to make one without the ratios? You're wasting our time, Doctor.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@RachelBock9 Not so sure about (2). Unencouraged and untrained to take charge of their own lives, men *will* succumb to women who volunteer to do it for them. It's a bad bargain, but a bargain all the same, doubly satisfying the man's desire for a leader and a mate.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Yes, millions of us whose families died in gulags only complain because we love slavery. 😂😂😂

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Aristotle argued that women were defective humans and some folks were natural slaves.

Yet, I teach Aristotle and label my own views broadly Aristotelian. It is possible to appreciate what is true and good while discarding what is false, people.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Supposedly we live in this nightmarish fascist hell-state, but roaming bands of left-wing activists can just topple whatever historical statues they want seemingly without consequence

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@KellyRDay19 Kelly, to combat the bigotry of your tweet, I am announcing the creation of #CartoonDay, where we help end the stigma surrounding cartoons. #MeToon

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

My local coffee shop is “reopening“ tomorrow. They installed a small window for takeout. But the point was never the coffee. I enjoyed sitting inside, hearing people talk. I liked being surrounded by strangers all seeking some kind of refuge, like me, with coffee as the excuse.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@jason_howerton @redsteeze You were on a Twitter hot streak, what was the point of ruining it with this take...

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@BartlettFred @JonahDispatch @EPoe187 Actually, I got a rock.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@EPoe187 @JonahDispatch Don't try to take this away from me, Professor. Getting served by Bo Winegard is an important prelude to getting dunked on by @MrAndyNgo and side-eyed by @clairlemon, and then my YEAR will be complete!

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@caylanford @EPoe187 @JonahDispatch How is the fanaticism "given?" Again, I think you are inferring definitions where none are or need be. I guess I'm a semantical minimalist. Let "ideologue" mean ideologue; we have other words for "changers" and "remakers." "Activist" comes to mind.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@EPoe187 @JonahDispatch Did I just get served by Bo Winegard?

Well, my day is complete.

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@caylanford @EPoe187 @JonahDispatch Pretty sure that is an unreliable definition. Is there anything in the root words ideo or -logy that suggests fanaticism? If anything, ideology ought to basically mean "the study of ideas."

[Marco Valerio @Agentmarco]

@EPoe187 @JonahDispatch Since he appears too modest to do it himself, I’ll be the one to point out that, in his Tyranny of Clichés, Mr. Goldberg makes a memorable case for rehabilitating the word “ideology,” to go from “inflexibility” to “consistency” in thinking. Hope I have this right, sir. Big fan.