Splendor Formae

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

Important ideas, a thread:🧵

"They want, not a fixed and permanent order, but a loose and flexible order, yielding without the least resistance, to their passions, caprices, or supposed interests." - BROWNSON

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@ValerioCapraro wow

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@TracesofTexas wow

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@austeni @JamesMartinSJ Wow. Just, wow

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@Alex_T_Young @DouthatNYT It's almost as if every faculty member who isn't a complete woke moron is getting slowly squeezed out by the frauds and the fools

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

Spoken like someone who has never had a moment of dissent from the reigning dogma in his entire life

[Robert E Kelly @Robert_E_Kelly]

The blithe, assured tone Douthat routinely uses in discussing academia is just infuriating

He’s got no idea what’s he talking about. Progressive ideology & our ‘meritocratic class anxiety’ are not in fact our dominant concerns. That’s what you think if

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@Pave2112 @Robert_E_Kelly If Robert really thinks that ideological censorship isn't pervasive in every field, he's an utter fool

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@Beaverdalemom @Robert_E_Kelly Trying to deny the pervasiveness of ideological censorship is just ridiculous at this point

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@wanyeburkett He's the Peter Singer of Twitter

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

Transgender Starbucks Employee screams at woman for misgendering him, then proceeds to violently assault a man filming the altercation.

Is this an acceptable way for staff to behave @StarbucksUK ? ☕️

[Variety @Variety]

Richard Dreyfuss defends Laurence Olivier's blackface performance of Othello: "Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a Black man? Is someone else being told that if they’re not Jewish, they shouldn’t play [in] ‘The Merchant of Venice’?" https://t.co/PeksyoSLOp

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Actor Richard Dreyfuss says Hollywood’s new inclusivity standards make him want to vomit. Good. More actors, directors and producers need to speak up. Not all great stories are diverse. Not all true stories are diverse. Forced diversity hurts everyone.
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[AnechoicMedia @AnechoicMedia_]

The focus on white-on-black crime is morally justified by belief things are bad because of evil intent, not harm.

Crimes whites do are "motivated", "hateful", etc, while blacks are mechanistic actors without agency. Thus even their predation proves them to be victims of society.

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

Some might say that Neely himself failed in his duties to society

[Marc Krupanski @mkrupanski]

Also, the fact Jordan Neely was apparently arrested 42 times previous to his murder is a testament to the ways in which our system absolutely failed him, and us.

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

@JohnWHawthorne @chipgoines @KevinMKruse I wonder what the per capita numbers are...

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

"The individual alone is powerless. Individual will and memory, apart from the reinforcement of associative tradition, are weak and ephemeral. How well the totalitarian rulers know it." - NISBET

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

Important ideas, a thread:🧵

"They want, not a fixed and permanent order, but a loose and flexible order, yielding without the least resistance, to their passions, caprices, or supposed interests." - BROWNSON

https://t.co/O1V7SosxBr

[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

"Philosophical conservatism is the major source, historically, of sociological interest in the social group, status, integration, social function, and processes of disintegration and insecurity." - NISBET

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[Splendor Formae @SplendorFormae]

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[New Left Review @NewLeftReview]

'Why would a self-proclaimed libertarian support the restoration of absolute monarchy?'

Marco D'Eramo on the paradoxes of Peter Thiel:

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[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

There are numerous issues with the idea that Asian culture explains Asian-American achievement like

1. Measurement invariance
2. Asian adoptee high achievement
3. A lesser-known problem: measured family culture doesn't line up with the explanation.

Via Sue & Okazaki (2009):

[AltAzn @Alt_Azn]

All of sudden the woke shitlibs who don’t believe in “carceral solutions” want the Walgreens security guard in SF, the NYC subway marine and the guy who stopped the TJ Maxx shoplifter arrested and in jail.

What happened to “restorative justice”?

[The European Conservative @EuroConOfficial]

"What I mean by ‘cyborg theocracy’ is the moral and political order which emerges from the belief that we are most emancipated when our condition of freedom is underwritten by technology."
In conversation with @moveincircles
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