Jake Correia

Twitter is a dating app so slide into the DMs | Politics: “East? I thought you said Weast.” | 🏳️‍🌈✡️| Educator, Amateur Classicist | YIMBY

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

It's almost like the possessive pronoun serves a useful grammatical function.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@hecubian_devil I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

What about the innocent people who'd die simply for picking blue?

When your own life is at stake, it's easy to reason that anyone who would want to save the people in the cage would only sympathize because they share the same moral values as the people who ended up in the cage.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

Blue is the easy answer here when the people in the cage are featureless. I reckon a lot of people IRL would hesitate if the ten people looked like CECOT inmates, regardless of their moral character.

Pretty privilege is real. Morality is often a cover for a disgust response.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

You see a blue button and a red button on a cage with ten people in it. Everyone in the world must press a button.

If you press the red button, you live.

If less than 50% of people press blue buttons, all blues die, alongside all ten people in the cage.

Which button?

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Every member in the U.S. Senate agrees we cannot allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

I’m baffled why so many are unwilling to support the only action to achieve that.

Empty sloganeering vs. commitment to global security — which is it?

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

@j_bos6171992 Refollowed!

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

For all Trump’s faults, Xi Jinping is literally ten trillion times more authoritarian in every single possible way. He literally runs a brutal totalitarian police state which forces 5 year olds to learn “Xi Jinping Thought” in school.

Imagine being so mind raped by Trump’s Truth Social shitposting that you would side with an actual brutal totalitarian dictatorship run by a communist Marxist Leninist party

[Martin Skold @MartinSkold2]

There’s a bigger issue, which is that policing actually is socially constructed, and there are dark implications with this.

For policing to be policing, it has to be accepted as legitimate - the public has to believe that the person in the funny uniform with the badge represents legitimate authority and is properly enforcing proper rules.

Once that starts to slip, policing starts to look like warfare - one group of guys with guns against others.

It can happen purely quantitatively: Get enough criminals or enough lawbreaking into one space and the crime becomes the norm; the police are not representing a legitimate status quo but are one of several possible futures.

Or, as the Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld put it: “Once the legal monopoly of armed force, long claimed by the state, is wrested out of its hands, existing distinctions between war and crime will break down…”

But it can work purely on the ideas side as well - people can come to think of the police as a hostile force rather than the enforcers of their community’s rules.

As to that, we’ve largely run this course: For probably 30 years the left has rhetorically tried to blur and then eliminate the distinction between legal and illegal immigration; for the last five or so it has attempted to blur the distinction further by designating illegal immigrants as “asylum seekers” and by giving them false IDs.

Increasingly over the same time it has rhetorically come to deny a difference between citizens and non-citizens -at all-, essentially saying citizenship is “a piece of paper,” and designating as benighted any insistence that the US government should prioritize its citizens in any way.

This makes immigration enforcement, in the eyes of the left, including impressionable young people to whom the above categorical distinctions have never been emphasized or even laid out, inherently illegitimate.

It isn’t an attempt to enforce laws designed to benefit citizens and ensure their way of life (or if it were such laws are a priori illegitimate); it’s just armed men arresting people for (seemingly to them) no reason.

Ie, it’s war, and this in turn, in the eyes of subscribers to this, justifies further breaches of laws and norms, if they are even to be acknowledged.

Van Creveld actually had advice for counterinsurgents - those fighting wars on home soil, ie - that is relevant: Get it done quickly, before people have forgotten the difference between the sides, before they have forgotten what it is about, before they are sick of seeing it, and before opposition can coalesce.

Alas, that isn’t (yet?) on the table here - the administration believes it can deport about 1.5 million of the 10+ illegal immigrants (or 20 million? or more?) Biden let in, in its four-year term. It’s anybody’s guess who comes after, but four years is already a long time for people to come to conclusions, and for things to escalate.

If that doesn’t change, it’s a national identity crisis, with policing increasingly losing its trappings as its legitimacy is called into question.

[Uri Kurlianchik @VerminusM]

Maduro has forgotten the #1 rule of geopolitics, recorded by Thucydides almost 2,500 years ago: " Rules exist between equals. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

The core problem is that “Western imperialism” is an ideological construct, not an analytical category. Every policy by Western state is seen through a colonialist lens, regardless of context, intent, or empirical effect. Once that premise is adopted, the normative conclusion follows automatically: opposition to the West is, by definition, anti-imperialist, and whatever actor positions itself as the counterweight becomes morally exculpated.

But this structure is incoherent. You cannot build a consistent theory of imperialism that treats the Western powers as uniquely capable of domination while relegating Russia, China, or any other authoritarian state to the status of misunderstood regional actors. That move doesn’t rest on evidence; it rests on an outdated dependency-theory inversion in which the moral valence of an action is determined entirely by who performs it, not by what it actually is.

The war in Ukraine is the clearest demonstration of how untenable this is. Large parts of the Western left recast Russia’s invasion as a “defensive” response to NATO because the framework requires it, while Ukrainian leftists, who confronted the reality of occupation, had to break with that narrative because they see Western actions as helping Ukraine in its struggle for independence and freedom against Russian imperialism.

You can’t square that circle. A coherent anti-imperialist must judge behavior, not simply invert the moral polarity of the Cold War and find a new patron saint.

Better yet, ditch the normative labeling of “Western imperialism” that distorts your analysis and move to a more coherent definition of “imperialism” instead. You don’t have to be (and shouldn’t be) value-neutral, just consistent.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

This annoys me because it's just Luddite fetishism.

Even if the product isn't identical, who cares if it tastes the same? Why does it matter if it behaves like original butter when cooking?

This doesn't even touch the philosophical questions around defining the One True Butter.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

God forbid we use the marvels of chemistry to avoid the hassles of industrial husbandry.

No, we must preserve butter's sanctity! Who cares if the new stuff is chemically identical? We mustn't call it butter unless the milk came from Ol' Bessie, just as the Founders intended.

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Disgusting. They are combining hydrogen, carbon and oxygen to create fat molecules then manipulate that to taste like butter. Why do this when we already have butter?

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

No matter how much you think you do, you really don't hate journalists enough.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Survivors of Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah struggle to recover https://t.co/5ME29bqRZR

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

@tracewoodgrains By Jove, I think this man might have sussed you out!

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

like honestly people are mad at Trump for going after higher ed

and I’m mad at everyone for not going after higher ed enough

they keep research around as a hostage puppy while they lavish honors on all their pet commies

rotten to the core

https://t.co/DJTPDr42ZS

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

so inspiring of Cambridge to give an honorary doctorate to someone who aided and abetted murderers and suicide cults because she’s the good sort of extremist

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Today someone broke into my car and stole my wallet and bank cards. They spent $900 before I cancelled my cards.

Lee Kuan Yew was a great man. We should kill criminals.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

FWIW, none of this is a criticism of Pete. I like the guy. He's the kind of politician who understands the value of professionalism, pragmatism, and ambition in a public figure.

[Jake Correia @tempest_thunder]

Pete Buttigieg is the kind of earnest over-achiever who has wanted to be POTUS since he was 5 and has spent his entire life building a personal resume towards that goal.

There's no way in hell that man has ever come within 10 ft of downloading Grindr onto his phone.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

My strongest conspiracy theory is that every politician who says they met their partner on Hinge is lying. Pete met Chasten on Grindr. Zohran met Rama on Raya.