jacobtlevy.bsky.social
Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Chair of Political Science, Associate member of Philosophy, Coordinator of Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill.
Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center.
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I feel like it would be a service to get the first "Okay, Boomer" out as mockery before the ones who'd say it earnest get here.
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LOL
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It seems possible to me that the reporter mis-transcribed and that it's logarithms she doesn't understand. That... might be a little better? Maybe?
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“The law matters except when the president decides he’s a dictator for reasons” was an approach entirely predicated on two normal pro-democracy political parties that would police their ranks & weed out fascists from leadership. That doesn’t exist anymore. It was all norms & duct tape, in the end.
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These blanket loopholes do nothing now but legitimize fascism & arbitrary behavior. The norms & duct tape that held together the polity are gone, shredded by a far right authoritarian party & its Dear Leader. If we make it through this, every single one of these dangerous loopholes needs to go.
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Sounds like Elrond sent too many of the Emergency Decoy Hobbits in the main party.
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this would work in many a typical fantasy setting. the PCs are told to escort a MacGuffin somewhere to deal with the crisis and keep getting pulled into adventures despite their best judgement - eventually it turns out those adventures were the real campaign!
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"I know what you're thinking. "Did he sing six 'Ring a dong dillos' or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself ..."
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oh my.
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Glorfindel leads an ancient, 'one-last-mission and I'm gonna retire in the west' suicide squad of D-list Bombadils and strayed genius loci in the "Expendabilmarilion".
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No— is something like that the setup?
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The question shouldn't be whether violent protest is justified, but whether it is effective. And the research is clear on that: non-violent protest is far more effective. The most effective protest, in fact, is when the states is violent but the protesters are not.
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Your party is the Fatty Bolger party, looking to find just enough survivable trouble to keep some of it off Frodo’s back.
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“Be Right Back” did it for me.
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Never post
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I think the current season night be... the best season? In my opinion Eulogy is pretty clearly the best episode of the series.
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Giamatti was brilliant and I agree it was up there, but to me it suffered a bit from coming after the thematically related “Entire History of You” and “Be Right Back”— the latter is probably my #1 pick, followed by “White Christmas.”
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I think it adds a LOT more world building to both the real world and in-game universe that makes the story beats much more compelling. Like theh showed the actual game as a "EVE Online + Fortnight" mashup, in the original episode it wasn't actually clear what the regular game was like!
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Inadvertent, I assure you…
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Very nice.
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I'm sorry that happened. I remember this quote from C.S. Lewis fairly regularly these days.
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The current season is… not *less* creepy and upsetting.
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Yes
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Anyway:
I was a rare person who really didn’t like the original USS Callister episode of Black Mirror. I thought it was hamhanded and lazy.
Liked the sequel episode this season a lot. I wonder whether that’s a change between the episodes, or a change in my reaction to the world being satirized.
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/2 The sort of people who support Trump will be absolutely thrilled about violence against Angelinos and Californians, whether immigrants or not. They will cheer it the way Americans cheered Kent State. They will cheer it they way they cheered Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Entirely agreed. And I was supportive of the much stricter approach in Quebec up until everyone had had two doses of vaccination. It was the return to lockdown many months after that, in 2022, that drove me around the bend.
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more than 4 unrelated people gathering in a private house as late as *March* 2022.
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Yeah— I intellectually understand that Michael is right about what Macedo & Lee are claiming about the US, and yet my gut keeps pointing me the wrong direction because of what things were like in Quebec. We had lockdowns on and off for a year, a curfew as late as January 2022, and bans on...