Rob L.

Aquatics 🏊‍♂️ hiking 🥾 & politics

[Rob L. @rklight]

I’d always heard Susan Sontag’s “the white race is the cancer of the world” remark. Never seen whole context before. Remarkable that this really is the hard core of today’s Dem Party ethos. From Anton’s “The Stakes.”

[Rob L. @rklight]

@ainyrockstar @jungefreiheit @husafell_stone never fear or despair

[Rob L. @rklight]

Friedrichstraße station, Berlin

[Rob L. @rklight]

@titusfilm Also, I might add, it’s amusing how vERY riGoRoUs analytic “philosopher” pom pom wavers for Martha Nussbaum can’t see what is plainly in front of their noses. “No state interest in preventing sibling incest marriage” is actually tantamount to saying it’s ok:

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

@rklight @MattKaramazov Oh boy.

Your claim: "Nussbaum claims that incest marriages should be licit."

Her actually claim: "It is *not clear* whether the state has a strong state interest in outlawing sibling marriage."

Yeah, that's a mute from me. Utter buffoonery.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@titusfilm Just remembered- Neumann told me once that Jaffa & Strauss referred to Arendt as “a cafe intellectual.”

[Rob L. @rklight]

@lisa_4_la @ProdigalThe3rd Dems can rationalize all this because they believe in “Progress.” Anyone to the “right” of where History is progressing has effectively no right to exist, as Harvey Mansfield once nicely pointed out.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@VaubanBooks https://t.co/aGtJV3WYKr

[Rob L. @rklight]

@VaubanBooks Don’t be fooled. Marx, Engels & epigones in letters wrote about liquidating whole peoples. And Leninism & Stalinism do follow from Marx-Engels. Link to Tom West’s full essay below in next post. Preview: https://t.co/CMkEJ0Oi5F

[Rob L. @rklight]

@PolkRespecter @dissenting_prof @AuronMacintyre Indeed. And many Straussians (if that term has any real meaning) do not really espouse it; and if they do (Jaffa) that is because of an acute understanding of the political/theological problem Christianity introduces. Christianity is not law (nomos) based…

[Rob L. @rklight]

@jess_ann_pin And all you’re confirming by this is the truth of patriarchy- it will always exist. Women seek out most dominant, capable men. So it runs gamut from barbaric to civilized forms.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@jess_ann_pin @83OatDorsia @IterIntellectus And that precisely has to do with the positivism you espouse, i.e., nature has no purpose; so nature should not inform sex roles in any way. This is in effect what you say:

[Jessica Pin @jess_ann_pin]

@jclimacus5 @rklight Men and women are real biological entities that exist.

The ideas we associate with the words “man” and “women” are constructs.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@jess_ann_pin @83OatDorsia @IterIntellectus How is ur habit of having had multiple FWB guys in ur life
“compatible w/ societal goals for a nuclear family & sustainable birth rates”? BTW, I actually strongly agree w/ you re “man whores.” But we no longer live in a world of creating ladies & gentlemen…

[Rob L. @rklight]

@captive_dreamer https://t.co/JQDAdwZDId

[Rob L. @rklight]

Grew up LA 70s & 80s and this hits hard. Every word is true.

[Rob L. @rklight]

Grew up LA 70s & 80s and this hits hard. Every word is true.

[Mister Knauf 👹🌎 @daniel_knauf]

I grew up in LA in the 60s and 70s. It was, in a word, bitchin. Great weather. Clean cops who took no shit. Hollywood. GM pumping out GTOs and Camaros in The valley. Uncontested freeways. Unbridled hope. Things were good and getting better.

Just watch an episode of Dragnet and you get the vibe. Hard working middle class WWII and Korean War vets making enough to pay a mortgage on a 4 bedroom, 3 bath slice of paradise with a built in kidney-shaped pool.

Mom stayed home, kept hubby and the kids squared away. A few Moms worked, but only to earn a few extra bucks for the nest egg or because they really liked their jobs.

Low crime. No litter. Clean streets. Beaches. Ski slopes in the San Bernardinos. George Barris building Batmobiles. Norm’s Diner. El Cholo. Musso & Frank’s.

Nice place.

That’s long gone now. And it’s never coming back.

I’m from a land that no longer exists. Unless you were there, you’d never get how good it was. Honestly. It was the best place on Earth and we all knew it.

Over the years, the goldbrickers from the Eastern seaboard rolled in. Bunch of greedy fuckers squinting at the sun and strutting around like they owned the place. Or they popped for their spawn to go to UCLA or USC and upon graduating dug into SoCal like chiggers. And of course they wrecked everything with their capped teeth and their bullshit NY/Chicago/Boston/Philly liberal Democrat political skullduggery.

Should’ve built a wall, all right—on the eastern border.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@Will_Tanner_1 Oddly it left out the horrific plague of mom jeans

[Rob L. @rklight]

@TobiFrenzen @marcosagusstinn But the “Mittelstand” has been getting wiped out by deindustrialization; closing of nuclear, no Nordstream, etc.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@FistedFoucault Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, The Right Stuff.

[Rob L. @rklight]

@johnlawrence51 @FistedFoucault Yes

[Rob L. @rklight]

@johnlawrence51 @FistedFoucault Very true