Erik Doucette

Music|Law|Classics; views are my own.

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@maklelan I was just joking with my partner (Catholic) that she’s lucky they even got included given the religious affiliations of those who made the list. LDS never stood a chance.

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@LukewSavage The “maybe” kills me.

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@keithdorejel Now, what are the chances that she’s a foreign asset?

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@PodSaveAmerica I think the main detractor theory is still mostly correct. It’s not that they buried the autopsy because Gaza was all over it. They just stopped doing it when they started to get feedback that Gaza was a big issue. Does incompetence really, credibly, explain the autopsy debacle?

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@RepMGP @samhaselby You realize you can be all blue collar, folksy, and smart all at the same time, right? “Government won’t let you have good apples” can go right in the moron bin along with “they won’t let you peel bananas.” Do better.

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@MatthewSitman Wonderful! Perhaps I’ll keep my powder dry. To your question: I’m inclined to say a book about Strauss as an entry point prior to reading his works (my typical m.o.). But perhaps there is a text of his that one should wrestle with de novo instead.

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@MatthewSitman If you were to recommend one text that actually digs into Straussianism for someone who has listened to you speak on it at length, but who wants to get their hands dirty, which text would that be?

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@JosephPatrice The cert petition was always stupid. But it was inevitable because the Dems realize they have to do something, but they don’t want to go so far as to defy the court (which they should just do, for the record). Now they can say they tried.

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@McFaul We can’t defend Taiwan. That much is clear from John Culver’s recent WaPo interview. China has superior capabilities in everything except submarine tech. In the event of a war, our first move would be to withdraw completely from the theater because our assets are sitting ducks.

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@DougHenwood We’d rather flail around and take as many people with us as possible.

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@TheRealJChubby Especially true in light of the public acknowledgment by John Culver in that WaPo interview that almost all of our Asia/Pacific assets are sitting ducks and that our first move in a war w/ China would be to completely withdraw and then try to fight our way back into the theater.

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@McFaul Us continuing to float Taiwan is the single most destabilizing thing in the Pacific. Taiwan can’t defend itself and we can’t defend it. That scenario is a fantasy. Taiwan will have to integrate, and it might as well start figuring out how that is going to work.

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@samhaselby I like that the framing is one of petty grievance (he called their generation “coddled”) rather than one that emphasizes how his research, if we can call it that, is mostly garbage barely fit for airport paperbacks.

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@TVietor08 @mattduss Don’t you get sick of this attitude from Dem leadership? It’s not enough that he wants to tell you to shut up about the damn report; he also has to tell you that by focusing on the report you’re harming Black voters. They aren’t the problem. You are!

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@keithdorejel For real though, I don’t think he’s ever actually said “patients” in the context of his patients. He has talked about them in the context of the medical system generally and how it mistreats them. To my knowledge, he has never even implied that he was a licensed physician.

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@samhaselby It makes you want to pull your hair out.

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@RealJoeRolette @BrianaRoseLee It doesn’t count if you’re an establishment figure running against a DSA/DSA-adjacent figure, obviously.

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@RadioFreeTom @Timodc I hate to disagree with Brit, but I think that’s actually how all wars of aggression are judged.

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@derJamesJackson @hasanthehun Is the dictate that any symbol that invokes Russia is prohibited? And that is because of the current war?

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@_ZachFoster Oh, so they did go through with bulldozing the convent. Cool. Because I thought that marking it for demolition was a mistake. Guess they really meant to do it the whole time.