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Iowa. Root beer floats. #YNWA. If martin buber and EM Cioran had a baby and it married Italo Calvino's punk rock estranged kid, and they had a kid. Middling. Former licensed attorney, video store owner and floor layer.
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Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
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I guess in iowa, Rs have a loooong track record of appointing inexperienced state public defenders who hate indigent defense as a spoils gig and letting homeschooler sandy salmon take point on public ed bills
R are anarchist cliches in ways real anarchists never were, lol
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Theyll try loyalty oaths in academia first, if anywhere, just because even if they lose - and oath caselaw says they would - theyd win infotainment, reality tv wise and thats really all they care for, kill the clock, extract money, distract, repeat
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He needs bluecheck $ and has an antiwoke book coming out. Like he isnt going to pump twitter polarization for sales
"Good faith" is meaningless if your in marketing prep mode
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Ok erika
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A world of repetitive acronyms. My spouse had never seen it, so we just watched it, was on my brain : )
Thanks for clarifying!
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The newsweek op-ed that at the time hadnt happened yet, the other notable google result was this deal in a free speech incident database that, its a free speech database, selectively omitted details of why st.vincent exercised their free association rights. Or silenced, wrote an op-ed lol
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St.Vincent, obviously, freaks out and says yeah, we dont want you back and from now on we are going to ask speakers what theyll say
He goes on to write a full "carver is worthless and stole the limelight from white scientists" op-ed in newsweek
When i went to see what he was up to, when i found...
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I live where we have a george washington carver day "weekend" because he went to school here before ISU, and we like that. I like Gwc. Ok. So far so good. A hillsdale professor a few years ago gave a speech at st. Vincent college saying carver was without merit and only celebrated for being black...
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Like, erin brockovich pge?
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Alas the heart still goes on!
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Like, if a dude namechecks both baldwin and murray, thats fine, but im going to need some clarification "you mean youll write across a broad spectrum of fiction and nonfiction OR youll just say omniamerican cliches for the next two decades"
Do i need advil for your future writing
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Baldwin/charles murray, he went more murray. And i dont mind tussling w murray intellectually in a vacuum, guy had range at least, but his proverbial progeny is insufferable. Any online account thats "omni" anything. Chuck didnt say read one book then quit, lol
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The fact that jamelle is rufos opposite and rufo "attacks" anyone who isnt rufo - jamelle being opposite rufo *might* be a rational opposition - make a better man wonder if the center itself is playing a particular part and that this is still all good for rufo. Rufo as mere right is a plus for him
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So youll have this weird situation where they want more power to stop "illegals" but that status will swell under Trump and voluntary emigration will bottleneck and itll all be worse, demonstrably on paper than before, but more power is what theyll demand
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going to be crazy because xenophobic people forget the details of immigration. Like immigrants emigrate from the u.s. in big numbers too or like here, anti-immigration policy can create - increase - illegal immigration. Youll see them make the numbers skyrocket then ask to fix the thing they made
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Then you eat the horse. Then you make the horses young foal watch. Then you get a new exotic animal to kick your head.
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Back the blue? Not like that.
Constitutional sheriffs! Not like that.
Federalism? Not like that.
Empty party with no values, whether you like those values or not, at least it was an attempt at principles.
This isnt even hypocrisy, its start point is valueless
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Thats on purpose. These far center newsletter mills need to be seen as big umbrella DEI critics cause thats what trips triggers, flags the algorithm, sells. Realistically, they cant concede DEI critic IS too broad, and they are case by case writing a small sliver. They dishonestly cape dei critic
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Term limits arent a magic bullet but i think we all get tired of the same people in there for decades too. Pat Grassley having a lifetime nepo seat if he wants it is dumb, whether its pat grassley or a pat harkin. Dynasty seats.
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Nazis are your wonderwall. Like, obviously you will be playing wonderwall. For this skeet, champagne supernova also = j6 coup-ers.
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Reminded of this book by her quote, this books title was etched in my brain as a "non-traditional" philosophy undergrad wandering the library stacks, bored of whatever i was supposed to read (look, it was kant) and perusing books based on title pizzaz, 2007ish
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Shes going old school, regency if you like. Somehow conservatism went from the printing press is poisoning the poors to university is poisoning everyone. For marketplace of ideas people, their market seems to be full of infection and poisoning.
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Ive always wanted to do notes that way, but im a lifelong margin writer
It occurs to me ive read tons of your work, have done your annual paid stack subs before, but i dont own your book 😂
The obvious thing
Those margins are going to get it
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Im not language policing, im language mutual aiding
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Like, this article briefly namechecks John McWhorter but does not do justice to that it is McWhorters *entire* gimmick.
The left is endlessly hypothetically fanatically whorfianizing your life, its the op-ed prompt that is always feasible and fits anything. The accusation evergreen.
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In a pretentious form, it is, ahem, the infinite content creation magic of using whorfianism accusations as an endless op-ed premise machine
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Honestly never heard the brown bag thing and sometimes people just say sack lunch. Its efficient.
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I read a term on here, the far center, that i like alot to describe them. The op-ed salary center.
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Hes got a contracted anti-woke book coming out.
Because in 2025, thats his attempt at relevance.
What else do you do w a cultural criticism degree, a paris residency and you already wrote two autobiographies, lol
Finger on the pulse of cherry picked anecdote
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Its no different than the old racists getting off on railing against "woke racism" or people who love corporations hating "woke capitalism" only
Hypocrisy has been the moral majority norm without ever needing to associate it with a left label. They. Have. Agency.
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Good reminder its gonna be in paperback in march
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"That hyberbolic strawman is pretty full of straw"
It implies a not too woke, not too little woke, just right wokeism and these grown ass men need to give up their impossible goldilocks bs
No amount of woke is ok to its criticism. Its not excess at issue, its existence
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One of the chapters is "What should children tell parents?"
Where E.B. White, creator of Stuart Little pictured thus, writes "Children who allow their fathers and mothers, to whom they owe their very existence, to go on wondering about sex, are derelicts to duty."