csburton.bsky.social
a large man trying to summon an even larger man
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tell him things like 'oh, that sounds very plausible, sure.' Apparently it was the wildest stuff. Also he would have someone else call and answer with 'please hold for Speaker of the House Gingrich.' This was around 2013 or so
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When I was in grad school a professor's phone rang once in a legal history seminar and he goes oh, that's Newt Gingrich, I'll call him back... we thought he was joking but apparently he would just sometimes call and share crazy theories about WWI. Professor wasn't a ww1 person at all and would just
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Writing well is always a wonderful space for imaginative empathy - unless a character is literally a type of self-insert then you should be wondering about the experience of someone who is different than you! And a story full purely of self inserts is probably not that captivating.
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But if you happened to need a great discount on a lotta caskets for perfectly normal reasons, that sounds like a great deal!
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Probably a massive oversimplification, but I really do wonder if it's as simple as in the real world, there would be clearly good and bad things, like war crimes are bad, but if it's all just takes you can be reasonable and shocked forever. It kicks you out of morality.
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The dead Israeli and Palestinian people here are very much collateral of a falling apart of an attempt to manage a colonial relation through divide and rule politics. It's not dissimilar (which is not to say identical) to other equally ill-advised efforts, including America arming the Mujahideen.
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It's a fairly deep-seated difference! For example, another difference that comes to mind is in many countries judges are a merit-based civil service profession, while in the US they are elected officials or political appointees. Looking at our supreme court, maybe we could learn something...
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We (collectively) are going to absolutely eradicate ourselves by being stupid, aren't we