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@DefiyantlyFree Perfect post!

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@tracybeanz No! You are awesome! Your posts are positive.

It’s hard to balance “the job” of screening X posts so many of us are “slowing down” our screen time.

I still check X because it’s the best way among all the terribke lies to triangulate the truth … but it’s noticeably harder.

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@shipwreckedcrew Yes. Subject only to the “mostly” fair election constraint.
Hopefully Susan Collins and her supporters are alert this season!

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Perfect post!

The whole point of the first amendment in the Bill of Rights … is that it comes along with the other amendments that continue the Bill of Rights.

Any practice of any “religion” that is inconsistent with the Bill of Rights is not protected from legal consequences.

“Honor crimes” remain “crimes” whatever the “reason.”

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Thank you and your amazing wife for the uplifting and positive posts!

Standing against all that is dark also requires a standing for all that ks light. You married a special lady and it’s great to continue to get these photo posts as your own way of championing all that can be beautiful in life.

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Thank you for the favor of your further discussion … and I’m definitely impressed with your interest in this topic.

I’m going to agree that your defense of John Rawls is interesting and well explained.

In case you are curious - and there’s no particular reason you should be… here are a few framing comments that do not explore or challenge TOJ itself, so you may want to skip them.
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To me, context of physical observation matters more than “ultimate” theorizing in ideal constructs… which in my mind is at best interesting and at worst a dangerous and seductive temptation. In physics, it’s often still useful because there is a “checksum” that reality offers in thought experiments to guide most questions past infinite recursion in terms, definitions, and subtle nuances. Math research is almost wholly in this domain but the extreme scope control, definitional rigor, and required consistency keeps this approach productive.

Efforts like TOJ - divorced from actual historical consequences of various belief systems - are universally used to diminish the bright lines of Western Civilization.

My encounter with TOJ was in undergraduate study at Yale University, where it was presented as the basis for
1) discarding traditional Judeo-Christian theories of origin and morality and,
2) most importantly to my professors and the liberal (not yet insane) culture at Yale - applying political power to ensure “their” favored outcomes. Interestingly, “Marxism” was always the “best way.”

The comment that promoted my original post was the idea that you could be “American” without rejecting “Marxism.”

Legally, that is obviously true, but the clear intent was to promote the nativist view of America - which sounds a lot like any random association of individuals.

The American Founders had very strong, well thought out beliefs - grounded in historical observation of many surprising and anti-theoretical principles. The strangest principle was that practicing theocracies were uniformly never theocratic. They were always a-religious power structures masquerading as “well meaning” theocracies.

So, if you have read this far, I respect your interest in the TOJ, but dissent on the general enterprise itself.

Rather than a thought experiment on “what people might choose” behind a veil of ignorance - it’s also interesting to examine what real people actually did choose and the outcomes of those choices.

Michelangelo, Bach, DaVinci, Einstein may or may not have agreed on much of anything - but the actions and cultures that produced Western Civilization have exact causation.

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I wouldn’t dare!

Who would ever challenge - let alone enter - any Maven of the Theoretical in his hall of reflecting mirrors ?!

To each his own.

I vastly prefer the surprisingly profound practical philosophers - especially the American Founders - who at least have the merit of showing factual outcomes.

Admittedly, the pursuit of “ultimate” origins and destinations is a passion for some.

In my experience, the world before us is infinitely more interesting than a “Theory of Justice” - especially one which could only have provoked a cheerful belly laugh from the American Founders who would then return to more serious matters.

Anyway, thanks for the reply and have a great weekend!

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@ConceptualJames Hilarious ! It’s not easy to achieve an error so exactly wrong !

This is so reminiscent of the crazy thought-experiment of John Rawls. A bunch of people, randomly collected, with no thought of any underlying meaning or purpose used to “instruct.”

[parker9365 @parker9365]

@ConceptualJames had the overmastering observation.

We are all conditioned to accept a false theory of “contracts” in how foreign policy is conducted.

There is no “end” in geopolitics. There is only one fact: endless calculation of interests and benefits on every issue and the adversary’s understanding of covert or overt violence enforcing every “agreement.”

Amazingly this lesson is taught everyday and ignored everyday.

“I cut the grass today and so now I can sell my mower.”
“We caught the criminal and so now there is no crime.”
“We fought the war, so now we can disband our military.”
“Our sales are number 1 , so now we can layoff the development team.”

@ConceptualJames reminds us that Trump views Authority as high agency. Trump’s entire life experience is that every deal requires constant monitoring and adjustment of position if circumstances change - and in his life - they always change!

DJT isn’t relying on an “agreement” that will “end” the “war.”

Trump has structured an incentive and punishment structure.
Foreign policy requires a belief among all parties that deviations from mutual interests has consequences.

The truth is that there is always a “middle way” between absolute loss and total victory - it’s just that it takes agency, like every other part of life.

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It has to be significant.

There are two theories:
1) Democrats and Republicans are in the normal electoral “struggles” to win “elections” and … “boy it sure is close!” Look at the polls and what Polymarket is predicting! Wow! Look at the “outcome” in NYC!

2) America is in a struggle to regain self-governance in actual elections that have actual votes from actual people who live in the affected community and care about their community. In other words , actual “citizens”

What if the NYC “outcome” would have been identical no matter what because the elections weren’t “elections.”

I think the amount of election fraud and the communist takeover is the struggle that DJT could be referencing.

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@ConceptualJames Brilliant and exactly right!

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@WassonWatch @ConceptualJames @JDVance @MegynKellyShow You are awesome. Different people have different roles. I think brinksmanship is best reserved for actual conflict.

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@NikDavidYaron @thatsKAIZEN Great post - it’s hard to find a good analogy because it is so obvious that when people prohibit sensible fraud protection and auditing in any system - they always have a reason.

Thanks for your nicely worded post!

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@amandafortini @walterkirn @countyhwy Thanks for the repost! I missed this… Purchased!

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Thank you! This is a perfect cleanse and really a nice photo!
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Also continued thanks for all you do to help defanging the idiotic woke right antisemitism operation before it got too embedded.

Of all the post modernist idiocy- I never would have believed that weird misogyny and obvious antisemitism would need to be condemned and shamed in our party.

Thanks for all you do and for the, er , “emphatic” spirit you bring to the debate!

[parker9365 @parker9365]

To the post modernist … it’s a perfect system - only the collective opinion matters. The better “stylistic conformance” the better its “relevance.”

Before I chanced across a lecture by @ConceptualJames , I could not conceive that this was a serious belief system.

To people who spend every waking hour striving to understand “real” things … it turns out that idiocy metastasizes. Idiocy must be fought upfront - everywhere.

This will seem strange - but your misfortunate pit bull attack is a direct consequence of post modernist idiocy metastasizing into even pet ownership!

[parker9365 @parker9365]

Thank you - on behalf of so many of us - for your unwavering promotion of the Good.

You and your friends and supporters have been wonderful at early forewarning and ultimately defanging the weird and idiotic woke right operation. The Massie defeat included absolute proof that your strategy of building X firewalls through leading prominent accounts to recognize early on the absolute necessity of proactive rebuttal and shaming on the anti-semitism operation was not only moral - but also very effective.

In the midst of all of this - your humanity always shines through. Your early supportive dialogs with @JoelWBerry and @SethDillon and most especially your informed and sensitive defense of @charliekirk11 and the amazing, strong, and wonderful @MrsErikaKirk show a love of all that is “the Good.”

Time to head over to the New Discourses support page!

You and your friends are awesome!

[parker9365 @parker9365]

Perfect Post!
Everybody can be wrong at times, but the most important test is the distinction between

“sincere truth seeking” versus “friend/enemy distinction”

Dan rarely - but occasionally - backs a position mostly because it is supported by his friends.

Dan tries very, very hard to base his decisions on what is actually true. Friendship and loyalty are always important, but things like plunging gleefully into the latest taqiyya propaganda “op” to invert the meanings of words and historical events is - at the very least - unforgivably stupid.

Massey is too intelligent to be given a pass on his words. He knows exactly how dangerous it is to perpetuate and foster these prejudices.

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Sasha you are awesome and I now admit I may have been wrong about Megyn and @ConceptualJames was - or is - likely right about her.

I have consistently hoped she would work her way through being unfairly vilified in the early days before she made any significant missteps, but she has been doubling down on every misjudgment ever since and it’s just staggering to see her descend so far into everything her critics predicted.

I still have some small hope left, but it’s hard to watch her do this to herself and the many people she was gracious to and helped.

Thank you for your incredible authenticity!

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@shipwreckedcrew Perfect post!

No person can use his religious belief to exempt himself from the other provisions in the constitution and any constitutional law.

This is such a simple concept.

“Absolutist” hyperbole is so boring.