partpartisan.bsky.social
Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is.
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“The villain lived in a flawed world where bad things happened so that means they’re not the villain.”
I mean, everyone else does too? Your grandma responded to that by baking you cookies and sneaking a twenty in your birthday card. People have options.
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Presser is over, crowd is still here. Popular chants include “No kings, only trains” and “Bring back Pete”
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Favorite BSG storyline/episode?
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If we lose our Republic, a large part of it will be that people decide the risk of being seen as cringe outweighs the slide into autocracy.
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As with both, the answer to this tension is "Grow up. Be nice to people. It's not hard. Jeez."
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This tension is also at the core of Rand's philosophy regarding taxes and her whole "um, charity is bad, actually" shtick.
"If giving to charity is good, then that means demanding that people give to charity must be good. But forcing people to do things is bad, so giving to charity MUST be bad."
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AnPrims are an important coalition partner in the fascist movement.
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Mainstream perception is that you're either an atheist Democrat who's only Jewish by blood, or you're Ben Shapiro.
Honestly, I'd rather have the general public think we're all Kabbalist Mystics than Haredi.
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Of course, before anyone says, "You can't even honestly defend Jefferson and Washington on those grounds, they clearly _knew_ slavery was wrong and did it anyway." I see you. You're heard. I know. Skeets are only 300 words though, okay?
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Like, this isn't a George Washington or a Thomas Jefferson situation where you can fall back on "B-b-but, he was a product of his times!!!"
This guy lived in Philadelphia in 1864. To be a "product of his times" would have been to fucking hate slavery and be willing to die to end it.
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Anyway; one of the fun things about Orthodox Judaism, despite what its adherents pretend, being a reactionary invention of the 1800s is that you can find the specific guy who brought it to America and go "Huh, he was alive during the Civil War? I wonder what his thoughts were on it?"
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I feel like top rope never has this problem?
I've never felt like an idiot for working on a route for hours in top rope, vs bouldering which feels like it's got a much more elitist gym-ratty culture.