Drymdd

Abstract things, and real things. Politically haphazard. Views liable to change.

Trying to live a human life of internal significance.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

My current thoughts on the ethics of abortion. 🧵

This will mostly be for my sake, as I want this recorded somewhere. My views on this change frequently, so consider this a snapshot of a semi-stable set of views that I have recently reexamined.

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[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[august smith 🛸🔴 @augustjsmith]

never stop to appreciate a flower. and NEVER say hi to your mailman. every time you do you lose you 5-10 seconds. add those up over a year and you've wasted 4 minutes that you could have spent dropshipping bootleg indonesian juul pods to sixth graders.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

@tenobrus Have you read this? Jackson's "Mary's Room" thought experiment is load-bearing in consciousness discourse. https://t.co/8sCsbZTmv0

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

> staff writer @ thefp

Every time

[felpix @felpix_]

i too can go to a university bookstore and only pick the books by conservative authors with conservative viewpoints

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I think about this weekly.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

@corsaren He's just who I go to when I start getting pushed in the direction of mysterious hidden intangibles like souls. A lot of his stuff on pain, love (discussed in Zettel), etc. extends to consciousness.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

@jhendersonYT Have you read "Leisure and the Basis of Culture"? Contains what is in my view an unmatched 'definition' of education.

[the little seamstress 🪡📚 @wren_and_paper]

As a blue-collar worker, I've been doing this very thing in my own little schedule by reading the whole St John's College Great Books over on Substack! (And going back to my languages study, too.) Here's to autodidact culture! 🎉🎉📚

[Paul Drano @averageenjoye13]

every far right “”intellectual”” inevitably tends towards this point. They can quote Evola or namedrop concepts they dont understand or that sound impressive like the friend/enemy distinction or “ordo amoris” but when you boil it down its caveman “me hit you with big rock” shit

[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

“These powerful young men, impudent by nature or ambition, maintained a din of applause day & night, showering divine epithets on Nero's beauty and voice. They were grand & respected as if they had done great things."
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

[Zena Hitz @zenahitz]

I continue to see and hear terrible higher ed news, but I am persuaded that there are only two solutions to all of our woes:

1. Intellectual zeal. Without it, nothing works. That's what holds us together.
2. Love your neighbor as yourself. Build real communities.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

I will vote for the party that does not gleefully threaten to strip Americans (born in the United States!) of their citizenship for criticizing the government

[Jared Henderson @jhendersonYT]

When fewer and fewer people read anything at all, and when even college grads have stopped reading for pleasure, the very last thing we need to worry about is ‘performative reading’

[James B @piercepenniless]

Graham Linehan is an unpleasant character whose pathological loathing of trans people has destroyed his own life. His online presence is a sordid gutter of monomania. Detaining him at the border for this is stupid, illiberal, counterproductive & authoritarian.

[tech_khan @codex_americana]

I'm subscribed to a lot of Democrat substack/medium columns and I'm in awe of exactly how out of touch they are with where their party is at, and what their party stands for.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

lmaooo

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

@worst_account I more or less agree but this does rely on acknowledging that the rich behave poorly, something many don’t believe.

[🌶️🏜️Rook🐉☄️ @Griot2325]

I’ll vote for any presidential candidate who makes Japans camera shutter sound laws a thing here in the states.

[Drymdd @Drymdd]

@liron Is it bad philosophy because it’s false or probably false or for some other reason unrelated to its truth value?