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Canadian mum, 3D liberal in Babylon
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this high-stress high-stakes conflictual politics... is boring. It's a stressful kind of boring! But it's also day after endless day of "oh christ, what new horror *now*?" What slightly new iteration of white supremacy, executive dictatorship, zero-sum thinking, rank corruption, and plain insanity?"
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And of course, see my review of Palen's book at @liberalcurrents.com! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-centripe...
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(It doesn't actually say that much about how/why Montréal is winning—something I'd read about!)
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"Breaking this cycle requires abandoning deference to planning expertise and holding the entire system accountable for outcomes...It means insisting that expert knowledge serve democratic priorities rather than demanding that democratic participation defer to expert preferences."
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I think that might be up to the right wing more than the tankies, and I'd say they're trying to insult liberals proper with it these days.
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Nothing restores faith in vaccines like firing all the people who said they're safe and effective.
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I got lectured on here recently for being an insufficiently deontological libertarian. The vibes are different, but you can find diversity on both. Otherwise, one skews right, tolerates Nazis, and preens over its diversity. The other skews left, has scolds you can block, and knows it skews left.
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Friends did tell me this but I'm not sure you can believe it enough until it happens.
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@oregonzoo.bsky.social @gettoknownature.bsky.social
@stevewaycott.bsky.social
@woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social
are a good start!
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I wonder if there was a big fight about whether it's better with Miracle Whip.
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*until
darnit
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I actually believe this tastes ok you get to mayonnaise *on the side*.
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And they say Bluesky doesn't have it all.
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(And, of course, because it's so rare there is no evidence that it does either of those things.)
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Libertarians also care about the magnitude of a problem and the costs of its proposed solution. In this case, even if gender-affirming surgery for kids had bad outcomes, it is vanishingly rare. The proposal is to interfere with the healthcare of millions of people to stop a handful of procedures.
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That said, MPS has always been fusionist, and we know that not all the fusionist libertarians, let alone all the conservatives, ended up where I'd have liked.
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I have to review this and talk to some people, but most of the examples QS gives are something like, "He was a member of MPS". At the time? Earlier? Later? Was his work tolerated?
I'm disappointed by connections but don't feel like I got enough information to know it was ever lousy with racists.
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Please let me know what you think. More to come in this series. oll.libertyfund.org/publications...
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Most on here are likely hostile to libertarians—with good reason, sadly—but when I was in that world, many of us believed in it for the right reasons. David wasn’t perfect, but as I mention in a follow-up essay, that proximity to David correlates strongly w/ vehement anti-Trumpism is not coincidence
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Specifically, the ahistoricism diminishes—if not flat out erases—the conflicts that have made America a beacon of freedom around the world.
Indeed, MAGA’s identitarian Christian nationalism is anathema to any reasonable concept of freedom.
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I was aware of it here but I didn't get buried in it until I was pregnant and postpartum so both perceived as a person wanting "wellness" advice for everything and someone for whom normal medicine doesn't have slam-dunk answers.
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It would be more surprising if there weren't a pile of ✨wellness✨ folks in a place with the physical environment of Boulder, but it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to be unaware if you're not in the adjacent spaces.
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I think about this breakdown of Russell Brand's cursed journey (which I expected not to be interested in at all) often.
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Came here to say this.
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We saw The Arkells open for a Calgary band called The Dudes, but The Arkells were called Charlemagne and had only played a few shows. The venue could hold like fifty people. Amazing show.
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You found it: the single instance in which I wouldn't hate it.