Archibald Goodhead

"Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart." – Emil Cioran

Banner painting is Sirin and Alkonost, by Viktor Vasnetsov.

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Our ability to be miserable cunts is what separates us from the animals. #humanity

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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa

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@TheAtlantic @elainaplott I suspect a lot of her critics once supported Sarah Palin.

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The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not.

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Dust

In this human life, we make a game of ridding ourselves of time’s evidence.

By Maya C. Popa

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Trump Admitted to Sharing Classified Intelligence from Israel to Russia

https://t.co/6g7nE4uWpw

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Prediction for #TrumpPresidency # 28: It will be discovered that the Trump Admin has leaked state secrets to #Moscow.

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Trump Admitted to Sharing Classified Intelligence from Israel to Russia

https://t.co/6g7nE4uWpw

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FLASHBACK: Trump shared classified intelligence from Israel with Russia - and admitted to it.

Israeli intelligence feared it would end up in the hands of Iran. https://t.co/5ZyJbVILqC

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Prediction for #TrumpPresidency # 28: It will be discovered that the Trump Admin has leaked state secrets to #Moscow.

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@ELTAuthor @sunny_hundal Thanks. I will check this out later when I have more time. I see Haidt's name there. I've read his work before.

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@ELTAuthor @tom_mccausland @sunny_hundal But people have to want to change. They must also be willing to take personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions and beliefs. No silver bullet can be devised which will penetrate and alter the weltanschauung of conservative voters unless the do it themselves.

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@ELTAuthor @sunny_hundal I don't dismiss all studies out of hand, but since I cannot know which studies you mean, and if they were done competently, then they don't override my direct observations -- which is that conservatives have no special insight into liberal motivations. Often they're just wrong.

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@tom_mccausland @ELTAuthor @sunny_hundal The "it's not my fault that I have to vote the way I do" argument is old hat among conservatives.

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@ELTAuthor @sunny_hundal I don't care what the studies say. IMO, and broadly speaking, I see absolutely no evidence that the Right has any special insight into the raison d'être of liberals or liberalism, and I've grown weary of the urban myth that they do.

But yes, liberals are tactically naive.

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@ELTAuthor @tom_mccausland @sunny_hundal But your POV implies that it's the fault of the Left for not persuading the Right to change its mind. Common approach to blame the Left for the Right behaving they way it does. What's wrong with the Right engaging in a little self-reflection every once in a while?

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@ELTAuthor @sunny_hundal You can say precisely the same thing about conservatives: they are not good at empathizing with people outside their tribe.

This type of shortcoming is not unique to any one group.

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@susie_dent @MooseAllain I had to look up the word "dittography," but I'm unsure how that fits here. Isn't adding an extra vowel during pronunciation something like the opposite of phonetic clipping or elision? It's almost like adding a diphthong to the word.

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Daily Mirror, 1923

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@Aguszymite @youngjoanna1 Yes, I understand that you were born female. But trans women don't have to be exactly like cis women in order to be treated and respected as women. It's okay to be different. Being exactly the same as cis women isn't the benchmark for validating the trans experience.

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@Aguszymite @youngjoanna1 Suggesting there is no "woman essence" in no way invalidates the trans experience.

And just because you don't know what it is like to have gender dysphoria, that doesn't mean that what they feel is invalid.

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@newrepublic This is how the KGB acts. Trump's learning from his buddy Putin.

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@AmerIndependent All their words are empty. No principles whatsoever. Mendacious one and all.