Gaius Mucius Scaevola

"Gaius Mucius Scaevola is the nom de plume of a well-regarded academic expert in American political thought and political philosophy."

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

Since Islam is the religion of peace, it is not Islamophobic to deport every terror supporter.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@JamieMetzl Too late.
https://t.co/aIBIsADVL5

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@Tom_Rowsell @Richard1st85 @MorgothsReview Or they can just Pim Fortuyn Farage.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

Liberals don’t have beliefs. Beliefs depend on arguments and evidence.
Liberals are meatware LLMs trained on the New York Times.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

I would take this a couple steps further and argue that a key reason libs reliably fail to model the theory of mind of those they disagree with is the hegemonic institutional power they enjoyed for almost a century, starting with what Walter Lippmann described in Public Opinion in 1922 all the way through ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice’ Obama-ism.

From the seat of elite institutional power (the media, academia, government, the arts) libs looked out unidirectionally and had great power to regiment public opinion with supervisory and regulatory discretion over the manufacture of ideas and ideology, particularly in the postwar period where certain ‘explanations’ became sacrosanct in service of narrativizing the teleology of Progress.

People make fun of libs for eliding ‘explanations’ and ‘justifications’ but… that’s just something you’re going to do if you have power: You will select ‘explanations’ that are at minimum ideologically compatible and prohibit those that are not. Libs worked within the framework of this institutional advantage for so long that they just took for granted their discretionary power to decide what ideas should even be considered and along these lines rejected the notion that an accurate account of ‘theory of mind’ should be freely granted unless there was some advantage in it. (Why cede that power?)

This institutional advantage started to break down seriously about a decade ago and libs realized they were losing a stranglehold on narrative-making and ideological production. A key reason there was so much hysteria over ‘platforming’ was an awareness institutional capacity to manufacture and direct consensus was breaking down.

So a big part of the issue here is that libs haven’t updated their software to account for the new circumstances on the ground. They still think it’s their job to provide ‘regulatory approval’ of different ideas and ideological factions and not only do they not have any interest in understanding those they disagree with, they are working off the idea that just by providing an accurate account of those they disagree with they are unnecessarily ceding power and authority.

This is ridiculous of course. That ship has long sailed and many elite institutions are running on fumes. But many libs will be loathe to give up the pretense of their authority absent some cataclysmic crack up, and what that would entail given their still holding fast to delusions of grandeur after more than a decade of Trump stomping through and turning things over, I do not know.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

I would take this a couple steps further and argue that a key reason libs reliably fail to model the theory of mind of those they disagree with is the hegemonic institutional power they enjoyed for almost a century, starting with what Walter Lippmann described in Public Opinion in 1922 all the way through ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice’ Obama-ism.

From the seat of elite institutional power (the media, academia, government, the arts) libs looked out unidirectionally and had great power to regiment public opinion with supervisory and regulatory discretion over the manufacture of ideas and ideology, particularly in the postwar period where certain ‘explanations’ became sacrosanct in service of narrativizing the teleology of Progress.

People make fun of libs for eliding ‘explanations’ and ‘justifications’ but… that’s just something you’re going to do if you have power: You will select ‘explanations’ that are at minimum ideologically compatible and prohibit those that are not. Libs worked within the framework of this institutional advantage for so long that they just took for granted their discretionary power to decide what ideas should even be considered and along these lines rejected the notion that an accurate account of ‘theory of mind’ should be freely granted unless there was some advantage in it. (Why cede that power?)

This institutional advantage started to break down seriously about a decade ago and libs realized they were losing a stranglehold on narrative-making and ideological production. A key reason there was so much hysteria over ‘platforming’ was an awareness institutional capacity to manufacture and direct consensus was breaking down.

So a big part of the issue here is that libs haven’t updated their software to account for the new circumstances on the ground. They still think it’s their job to provide ‘regulatory approval’ of different ideas and ideological factions and not only do they not have any interest in understanding those they disagree with, they are working off the idea that just by providing an accurate account of those they disagree with they are unnecessarily ceding power and authority.

This is ridiculous of course. That ship has long sailed and many elite institutions are running on fumes. But many libs will be loathe to give up the pretense of their authority absent some cataclysmic crack up, and what that would entail given their still holding fast to delusions of grandeur after more than a decade of Trump stomping through and turning things over, I do not know.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).

So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.

The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.

This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.

Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@rossoneriswede @Gerdundula1 @epkaufm Colonialism is progressive people moving into land occupied by backwards people and bringing the power and benefits of progress.
Immigration is backwards people moving into lands held by progressive people and bringing the costs of backwardness.

[Governor Kay Ivey @GovernorKayIvey]

Y’all ought to come back in the fall to see just how we do Saturdays in Alabama.

Glad you enjoyed your visit, @FreddyLA7!

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Two of the UMich Anti-Israel activists charged today talked about putting a victim’s “entire family” on a “hit list.”

“Let’s get [V-4’s] kids,” one said.

One of them, a med student, talked about poisoning another victim, and the other suggested burning that victim’s house down.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@Keir_Starmer Would healthier for the police to let the Belfast constitutional mob get on with their work.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@Keir_Starmer Henry Nowak is what happens when decent people stand back and let the police work.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@Alexarmstrong @MrHreviews Violence in defense of murderers should not be equated with violence in response to murders.

[Phoneix reloaded @PhoneixReloaded]

Isnt it strange that the victims families always make these statements exact same scripted speech.

This is because the police send their nudge unit to intimidate the families and force them to make this statement.

Not only will the police not lift a finger to protect the British people but they actively target them, there is no low that they will not stoop to they are even threatening mourning families at their weakest time.

The far left are disgraceful and disgusting animals.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@leicesterliz Salus populi suprema lex

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@rossoneriswede @epkaufm 1. settler-colonialism is progress misliked.
2. I am not sure how handing over Eire or All-Ireland to African and Muslim invaders owns the Prots.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@rossoneriswede @epkaufm One can distinguish between violence on behalf of free government in Belfast and violence directed against it as with BLM.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@Heccles94 https://t.co/7fgLY1AQIZ

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

What is going on in Belfast is not random violence, it is what the British in a freer and more enlightened era called a "constitutional mob," acting with carefully controlled and targeted violence against policies intended to harm them and imposed on them against their will.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

@robblackie https://t.co/7fgLY1AQIZ

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

What is going on in Belfast is not random violence, it is what the British in a freer and more enlightened era called a "constitutional mob," acting with carefully controlled and targeted violence against policies intended to harm them and imposed on them against their will.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

Platner is a former Nazi fanboy and SS cosplayer, who now demonizes Jews and cheerleads for the murder.
So no, Platner is not a literal Nazi, he is something far more dangerous.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

The immigrants and their families who are targeted are innocent only in the same sense that the people selling tax stamps in 1765 Boston are innocent.
The way to end the violence is to change the policy.

[Gaius Mucius Scaevola @GScaevola]

What is going on in Belfast is not random violence, it is what the British in a freer and more enlightened era called a "constitutional mob," acting with carefully controlled and targeted violence against policies intended to harm them and imposed on them against their will.