grantbabcock.bsky.social
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Don't forget high school football mascots
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The double-reverse Washington Monument strategy.
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I want cheap, halfway decent reading glasses from Walmart AND expensive delicious mangoes from the local farmers market.
I don’t expect the little retailers to do big-retailer things, or vice versa.
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On the other hand, 1999 no longer feels like perpetually ten years ago to me.
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Or as others have put it, in a constitutional crisis it is essential to make the conflict legible, to deny the illusion of normalcy. That's what congressional Dems have been failing miserably at, I don't expect them to get much better, but it's what they *should* be doing.
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Do they not *know*, or do they not *care*? And isn't demonstrating that they are willing to break the law part of the point?
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The fact that communism is *in theory* impossible, at least as described by Marx and his followers, is so important to understanding it in practice. You either accept that you can't draw a four-sided triangle, or you just keep trying harder and harder as the bodies pile up. (2/2)
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Yup--if it was "good in theory," that would be one thing. But as Mises and Hayek conclusively showed, it's *not* good even "in theory." (1/2)
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I really miss the guy who wrote "The Structure of Liberty." Shame he died.
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*Especially* "the children"
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/2 FIRE’s litigation work remains principled, even-handed, and crucial to defending the First Amendment. No notes on that. But its advocacy and rhetoric increasingly mix up defending people’s right to speak with defending their character and credulously carrying their water.
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Thanks so much, and great running into you at the con!
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The lesson for career Republicans is that there’s no real safety inside the Trump tent, because eventually you either need to refuse an order and face immediate retribution or obey an order and risk eventual disbarment or imprisonment.
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/2 The generation-long tolerance of the Gitmo concept — that there are people who, by the state’s fiat, are unpersons without rights — is a stain on America and a failure by both parties. That helped build Trumpism.