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Former federal civil servant. Current instructor of Computer and Information Systems. Multiple affiliations but I do not speak on behalf of any of them through this account.
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What does Turkey do if Iran's ~10 million Kurds try to establish their own statelet? It's surreal how little political discussion there is of this stuff!
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"Beaten To A Pulp In An Alley By The Debt Ceiling", by Chuck Tingle.
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I don’t know that politics is *entirely* like this, as the size of one’s tax bill or whether one can get healthcare are more pressing for most of us than abstruse points of theology. But if you look at radical swings on even core political beliefs, it sure seems similar.
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Rather, they join the group for social or practical reasons, then gradually learn what key beliefs they’re supposed to espouse. And then retcon their reason for joining as having all along agreed with those beliefs.
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And lord if they are all breathless credulity call me. I can do slides and critical info lit with a couple days notice. Bonus I can even work in the AcRL framework if I have to.
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I went all the way to banff and all I got was owned by the central banker guy
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In the midst of daily debates over whether the president needs to follow the laws and court orders, it's absolutely wild to me that everyone's just like, "So it goes! Let's pretend that law says something totally different."
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Sure, I get that we've all decided we'd rather have TikTok.
But, the facts remain that Congress passed and the president signed a law; the Supreme Court upheld that law; and Trump just decided, "Whatever."
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/3….short, of course, of the unpleasant, deadly, and very hard Jeffersonian win scenario of disposing of the armed thugs, the government actors sending them, and the political and intellectual elite that wrote the plans for their thuggery.
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/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…
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I taught a data engineering class using digital humanities examples which involved reading across a large BL collection. I mailed the team before the class out of courtesy to check my class didn’t accidentally DDOS. I hope this trend doesn’t result in blocking academic or public purpose crawls.