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Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

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It's not "unexpected", as anybody who has been carded at the store for buying any number of things (such as spray paint) for years could've told you. It's just expanding the in-person surveillance to online.

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www.wiley.com/en-ie/Post-C...

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No surprise that the arguments in this totally fail to address the core argument for oppressed minorities to buy guns collectively: the point is to increase the cost to your oppressors of severe escalations in your oppression or extermination. defector.com/dont-buy-a-g...

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Anyway buffoonish hack Ed Martin probably won’t approve charges against right-wingers. So if you’re in DC, deciding what level of force to use against a Trumpist, consider they can kill or assault or rape you without being charged or with the promise of a pardon, and act accordingly.

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Regular White House reporters would never do anything this courageous.

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Oh, I got this one: It's about how in 6th grade, they used to bully people for being fat, or nerdy, or smart, or dumb, or gay, or for being girls, or being Black, or for being immigrants, and then at some point somebody made them stop bullying and now they can again. It's Henry Bowers' masculinity

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anocracy Example: maybe the US?

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Me to alleged libertarians who won't stand up for the most basic and fundamental lesson of The Wealth of Nations.

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Wow, it's almost as though the threat of deportation helps unscrupulous employers exploit people.

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Zizek is often wrong, but occasionally insightful, and I'm reminded, as I watch the cruelty of Christian nationalists inflicted on innocent and defenseless people, of this point he made in an essay titled "If there is a God, then anything is permitted" www.abc.net.au/religion/sla...

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If we close our eyes and can’t see Ebola, it can’t see us

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My personal website has been redesigned and updated by my friend Radhika Morabia. Check it out! kevinacarson.org

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

The rise of Curtis Yarvin is a good example of the value of expertise and the problems when it's dismissed. People with philosophy and history training recognize him as an intellectual fraud. But he was able to convince enough VCs and software engineers who didn't have the chops to see his errors.

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Washington gridlock is a myth given how easily they banned TikTok, caffeinated Four Loko, the Laken Riley Act etc etc. They just literally hate us and want us to be miserable/die.

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Naming a proposed law after a dead person, particularly a child, is fundamentally a demand that everyone be credulous, unquestioning, and obedient.

submitted 62 days ago • 47 comments

"America is not a country where people have ever had equal opportunities for social mobility." Read @mattpolprof.bsky.social's review of @musaalgharbi.bsky.social's book: We Have Never Been Woke.

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David Lynch belongs to the ages…

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Another book for my reading list: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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It is often thought the first move toward a Religious Right was Falwell and evangelicals. In fact it was William F. Buckley and it inspired a harassment campaign engineered against Ayn Rand over her atheism. Buckley was also quite tolerant of anti-Semitism, which was also used against Rand.

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It's so bizarre to have a pending presidency that is on the one hand all-in on cryptocurrency, widely imagined as the triumph of the virtual world over the grubby material one of borders and nation-states and banks, and on the other apparently committed to Manifest Destiny territorial expansion.

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An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/an-ar...

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Also, this: maggiemcneill.com/2020/07/20/l...

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A “resistance” that has made its peace w/ genocide A “resistance” tht has made its peace w/ mass incarceration & prison enslavement of Black Americans A “resistance” tht has made its peace w/ capitalist exploitation & ever-worsening inequality A “resistance” that has made its peace w/ endless war

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In case anyone’s interested: author.to/DanUst

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I saw a few people describe Curtis Yarvin as "dumb," despite his reputation as the far-seeing philosopher-king who's inspired Peter Thiel, JD Vance, & many on the New Right. So I did some reading and, well, yikes, "dumb" is an understatement. He's just Lou Dobbs w/ bigger words. For example...

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"This process of becoming a human text generator drove Malzberg, as himself admitted, half mad. It informs all his best work, giving them an authenticity of lived experience." @jeetheer.bsky.social on Barry Malzberg: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

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