mcford.bsky.social
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This goes for decent people that know the boot is bad too.
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Way too many people are concerned about how people with the boot on their neck express their displeasure and not enough concerned with the boot.
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Golf anyone?
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Lottery. Make it a lottery: mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/30/w...
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Also the exact opposite is true. At many schools, international students subsidize domestic students.
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They are in Texas and can’t find a single person with like a sun tan?
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Yes. The religious orders are better at academic diversity than the diocesan priests that all study theology.
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"An attempt at decency and kindness for all people is met with a backlash so severe it allows a certain group of people to do in public what they always said in private."
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How many topics has this been said about over the last decade? And then the GOP voters and politicians just vote against their long expressed beliefs?
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And yet that doesn’t stop them from doing whatever Trump wants. And/or electing people they disagree with on those issues.
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Can you name a coalition splitter of any type for the modern GOP? Trump hedged on abortion during the campaign and didn’t matter. The GOP wins power and then does whatever it wants. The left airs its dirty laundry before the election and then loses.
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Social media makes it different?
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Many boys would take this trade if comes with power girls and money.
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To me it’s not that the argument is unwinable. It’s that it takes way more effort and intent than people appreciate. Tates et al message of girls power and money is appealing. And currently there are a ton of surface cases where being awful has worked out for people!
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We are trying. But we have the much harder argument. Not unlike disinformation. It takes 10x the effort to get the point accross.
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Be good or be rich. Be good or rule the world. The just and moral message can’t compete with 15 year old male mind.
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Never-mind consequences. At the point this behavior makes you billions and you get to be president.
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Teacher at an all boy school here. How do you compete with: Do whatever you want whenever you want? It’s not easy. Being good is harder.
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"You have to dissent in exactly the way I want, or I don't have to listen." Is a pretty common view of the old-school, center/moderates in the David Brooks vain.
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"The soberly and strategically" part also points to an oft expressed view from the David Brooks types that there is a correct, civil and proper way to voice dissent. As if when the boot is on your neck we don't have to listen to you complain if you don't do it in just the way we want.
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Yup. This is the play. Create a fake world/narrative. Say this fake world/narrative is awful and that everything has to be destroyed because the fake world/narrative is awful. Compounded by the media treating the fake/world narrative as legitimate and that the only discussion is about how to fix it.
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Every one of them should talking about how the truth and reconciliation process will work after this is over.
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Those of us lucky enough to listen to the Poltical Gabfest for a decade plus know him to man of character and kindness. It's a shame he isn't one of the biggest names in media.
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Right up your ally, You should write an article and game this out if he comes for the tax status of the Catholic Church. They got some pretty woke views, especially on immigration.
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Such a waste of a cute logo those free staters.
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There is nothing in that comment that implies I have only recently come to this idea.
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Again that is a lot of projection. You have no idea what I believe from a few comments.
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Sure. But it didnt have to be. Is our problem right at this moment too much or too little skepticism of state power?
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That’s quite a projection from one off hand comment.
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If you want to both sides this go for it. But if your central claims that government power is bad because they’ll abuse it. And then remain quiet when that power is used to pluck people off the street because you like guns and low taxes. You are telling us what you really believe.
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If you want argue some philosophical view of libertarianism is different from the way it plays out in US politics I can buy that. But a whole bunch of people that claim to believe in the THE libertarian ideals don’t act that way when it matters.
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@radleybalko.bsky.social has also been doing God’s work.
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The failure of libertarians to pick the right side in this has exposed their whole thought system. A principled libertarian attack on limiting government overreach would be welcome at this time. Put no such thing exists. Libertarian just means selfish.
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Of course there are many causes, but the gaming and sports cultures that dominate young men is definitely one of them. I only win if you lose. I only climb up a rung if you climb down one. If a force you to lose, that must mean I will win. This is no way to form a society, to have a community.
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Working with young people as a teacher the most prominent influence of Trump/Muskism on their acolytes is that EVERYTHING is transactional. Everything is quid pro quo. Every single interaction is seen as a way to gain power. Even if they happen to be nice to you, you now owe them.
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Has there ever been another public figure in America history Who says hundreds of times over a decade "I like X" And millions of pundits, executives, writers and politicians say: "He doesn't mean it, he likes Y". Like who gets that type of treatment and benefit of the doubt? It's wild.
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Trump, for a decade: "I love X. X is important me. We should have more X. I am totally going to do X. I flirted with X the first time." Pundits, for a decade: "He won't do X."
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I like the theory that because of Mercator projection distortion it looks way bigger than it really is. He wants it because it looks big.
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Mock Trial, Debate Team and Model UN in schools all have this baked into them. And it’s infuriating. Kids learn that performance and word play matter more than the truth, facts substance or reality.
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What if, like maybe, what the democrats are doing is mostly fine. But the other side just lies incessantly without consequence and the neutral arbitors/media allows it to happen. Until that is addressed nothing the democrats do really matters.
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Imagine telling a "Tear down this wall" Reagan Republican that The GOP has been made Russia's bitch
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It's amazing to me that companies think they can have it both ways. You are either going to lose business from the Nazis or lose business from the normies. There is no other path. So why not just do the right thing?
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Sometime soon Trump is going to offhand suggest that ADA and/or IDEA should be overturned. And ~10 years ago that would have been an insane idea from any party, since both had overwhelming bipartisan support when approved and/or reauthorized.
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Yes. But usually they avoid any contraversy and I can imagine what Truth Social looks like right now.
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Why did the NFL sign off on it?
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My first thought: The Nazi's will not like this.
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There is an argument the Chiefs were not great this year: Not many points scored. Mediocre points differential. Too many close games. etc.
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Charlie Baker a spineless opportunistic chameleon.
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Get him on Slate Money.
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Can already see the arguments: It's expensive for companies to comply with. It waste taxpayer money when schools have to help certain kids. It's an unfair advantage for a group of people that did nothing to earn it. Politicians and Lawyers are going of this with straight faces and call it Christian.