Equal parts Akrasia, Awe, & Ataraxia; The Canon = Arendt, de Beauvoir, Rorty, MacIntyre, Nietzsche, & Fukuyama; YIMBY Enviro; We navigate flux, not fixed stars.
Every transformative mass movement destroys bodies. No cause ever has been, or ever will be, pure. To deny this, to believe that YOUR cause, unlike all others throughout history, is so righteous as to be exempt from the banality of error & exuberance fueled cruelty,... 1/2
@fatprop@jessesingal Normalizing violent things and doing them openly makes violence more common and breaks down the entire structure of society. Or are you one of these edgy geniuses who thinks things like norms don't actually matter because you don't know how human behavior works?
the way the concepts of white/male privilege roll the basically definitional fact that it is better to not be oppressed together with the substantive question of how dominant classes directly benefit from other people’s oppression doesn’t seem helpful
BREAKING: Senator Perdue just cancelled our final debate.
At last night's debate, millions saw that Perdue had no answers when I called him out on his record of blatant corruption, widespread disease, and economic devastation.
Shame on you, Senator.
@Redistrict@UMassPoll This opinion would also be held by Bernie supporters/ leftists, not just Trump supporters - so this number makes sense. Talking heads on all networks show disdain for big left-wing ideas like M4A and radical action on the environment.
@lastpositivist Speaking as a person of Italic descent, I appreciate your efforts to avoid appropriating our heritage. But you must continue to interrogate your choices. For instance, do you ever use hand gestures to communicate disrespect to others? That's not for you.
Nothing makes me question socialism more than reading the moronic replies of my fellow leftists to the great @briebriejoy - can you imagine sitting in a workers' council, having to listen to these idiots speak? Jesus, it's my faculty meetings all over again.
@NiceMangos@iyad_elbaghdadi They're speaking to a specific group that pays attention to them. Lots of otherwise liberal/ left people have real problems with the extremes of current leftist discourse. These people are simply telling their audience that those excesses are not good reasons to vote Trump.
Agreed: This is an awful abuse of the science of implicit bias. (Certainly the founders of the IAT have long argued against using their method this way).
Speculating here, but it seems like one reason for resistance to new lockdowns now is because of the indefinite duration of the spring lockdowns, and states/countries could build credibility by setting clearer deadlines & criteria for when new lockdowns end (and abiding by them).
@kjhealy I would gladly exchange these people for a completely random selection of foreign immigrants. Each and every one. Pretty confident my group of random foreigners would be smarter, less obese, and less cruel - just statistically.