Jason Malfatto

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@MattBruenig Thought about it. Not gonna happen. Ever.

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@Leigh_Phillips Especially if we follow the broad brush strokes of conservatives, who paint anyone who disagrees with them as socialists.

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@drvolts The full article is more nuanced, however, given the role that oil & gas plants still play in the region, recent nuclear plant shutdowns, and the growth trend in electricity demand.

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@xriskology @mpigliucci I thought of you while reading this article as it brought me back (more than a decade!) to some of your blog critiques of transhumanism...your thoughts then seem more relevant today than ever!

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@drvolts Oversimplified accounts of both Western and Eastern philosophy to be found here. Besides, if the self is metaphysical in the way we find it in Platonism and Advaita Vedanta, for example, then natural science can neither prove nor disprove it.

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@MattPolProf That's an interesting take, but probably raises more skeptical hackles than G.A. Cohen's defense of Marx, which eschews the LTV altogether.

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@Matthuber78 @centristratking Of course, because third-party presidential candidates almost always lose. Primary challengers often lose too, but without the risk of a "spoiler effect", which I suspect is the real elephant in this room.

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@ContraPoints I'm a GenXer (b. '69) and you pretty much covered my memories of liminal spaces in your segment on "dead malls", so for a more recent memory I recommend the Light Tunnel: https://t.co/6ECtS6Z6Mx

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@MattPolProf According to Lloyd Gerson, Aristotle was in principle a Platonist, despite some minor disagreements. Neither was a materialist in any metaphysical sense.

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@BuddhistEthics It's worth adding that Sweden achieved this decoupling via nuclear power. It's unclear if that can be sustained without it (e.g. via a renewables-only approach). https://t.co/ofP5I1e09y

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@ellieanderphd I'm all for popularizing philosophy such that even non-academic "lovers of wisdom" can feel comfortable identifying as philosophers. The cringe then arrives if one identifies as a sage.

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@MattPolProf also check out David Bentley Hart, the only Orthodox Christian and (last I checked) DSA member of which I'm aware

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@MattPolProf Are the institutions and hierarchies (e.g. their basic structures, to use Rawls's term) not themselves founded in ideas (viz. bad ones from a leftist radical perspective)?

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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Tell the New York Times: Give Your Employees the Contract They Deserve!. Write one here: https://t.co/vWkHTT2nBJ

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@BuddhistEthics Many social activists understand this is what they're up against, particularly in the labor movement, which historically relies more on collective leverage than on moral appeals to the wealthy.

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@GurusPod Big fan of @vervaeke_john, but I think you gave him some good skeptical feedback here.

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@MattPolProf @ChadNotChud I was thinking the same (more or less) that Rawls sounds very Socratic here (with perhaps a touch of Christian virtue).

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@sunraysunray Re: "a mythically conservative working-class": this begs for qualification so long as voters can hold "conservative" views on social/identity issues and "progressive" views on the economic issues you listed.
Anti-woke politics capitalizes on this split.

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@JuliaCarmel__ @nonbkpipeline @SaneEnergy @NYCDSA_Ecosoc https://t.co/C8kZXTl2Bz

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@Leigh_Phillips I made some time for Bookchin in the late 90's/early 00's. He raised some interesting points but in the end I could find no sustainable use for them, neither personally nor politically. Bernie, otoh...