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moral panics re "woke," "political correctness," etc were designed to make: 1. counter-cultural commitments to relational egalitarianism & mutual consideration seem like stodgy, censorious conformism; 2. degenerate commitments to bigotry & complacency seem like high-minded tolerance & defiance

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The right abandoning the idea of society as a communal project requiring civic virtue leaves a real opportunity for left-liberalism to move into that space.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

submitted 2 days ago • 150 comments

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

submitted 6 days ago • 903 comments

I wanted to share some background on the recent correction to Hall & Thompson's 2018 paper. This correction has significant implications. The conventional wisdom that moderate candidates perform better in general elections is not supported by the data when properly analyzed.🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Stop caring that so and so influential person has read the classics or so and so has a philosophy degree. If they are actively evil, they should merely be held up as examples of how knowledge doesn’t automatically convert to virtuous living and can even further inoculate such a person from it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship

submitted 14 days ago • 146 comments

I think we would be doing a lot better if right now Kamala Harris was holding a post called Leader of the Democratic Party pending a leadership election that she might or might not be still in the running for

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

We should have some kind of body of people we elect to control the government’s budget and write laws.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

One of the most underrated cultural divides in America is between people who know and care what motion smoothing is and people who still don't. The anti-smoothers went for Kamala by 20 points, minimum.

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 22 days ago • 5954 comments

RANDOM USER NAMED 420BIRTHDAY88: “They’re spending $100,000,000 to make all white children look like Caillou. If you’re white, Biden said you have to be Caillou.” ELON: “Wow. Pulling funding from science research right now.” PRESS: “Elon vows to end hundred million dollar Caillou conversion plan.”

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

it is very important to distinguish the desire for justice from the faux-radicalism premised on resentment at one's personal interests having been thwarted in some way, because the latter is where 'horseshoe theory' is actually 100% true

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submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

Yea this is always worth remembering. Anyone have updated data on tech workers political donations? Last I checked it was 10:1 for Harris.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

you have to recognize that a lot of the bone-deep panic among conservatives these last couple decades is based on them slowly losing the culture war

submitted 30 days ago • 43 comments

[guy who made a billion dollars secretly feeding you lizard meat] I think I speak for all honest hard-working Americans when I say we need to shut down the Department of Checking What Kind of Meat That Is

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

I'm a one-issue voter and it's "we absolutely need to let banks do mortgage fraud again, it's important." So this is a pretty big day for me.

submitted 31 days ago • 56 comments

Once they convince us of the necessity of leaving people behind for the sake of expediency, they’ve won. We build our resistance out of bright-line inviolable principles of tolerance, constitutionalism, and decency. No one gets left behind

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

the One True Lesson you learn from talking to policy makers is that most folks vastly over-estimate the importance of grand masterplans in changing world, and underestimate the role of improvisation, misunderstandings, office politics, blunders and unexpected discoveries in actually shaping outcomes

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

So many people can’t find work because they haven’t killed the right person.

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

They're as unable to conceive the tiger they have by the tail as Trump's other support. Maybe more so, because they're more intelligent & able to rationalize

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

10% of people evidently

submitted 42 days ago • 18 comments

so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh

submitted 42 days ago • 91 comments

Is flag offends you, I’ll help you pack 😤

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

Note that everything described here was covered EXTENSIVELY in the Colombian and Brazilian press and media. You just have to hear it from me because apparently even New York Times Latin America correspondents don't read or listen to those.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

The greatest mistake the framers of the Constitution made was assuming that Congress would jealously assert its power against the executive, instead of gleefully giving it away because they would like to have status without responsibility.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

child abuse begets authoritarians, who then see the world as a place where abuse is not only justified but necessary. that's why they keep using physical child abuse as metaphor!

submitted 46 days ago • 53 comments

There is no one who lives their life in a hotdog suit trying to find the guy who did this more thoroughly than Cocaine Mitch. I’m glad he’s living long enough to see the world he has wrought

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

law school professor voice: You can't just claim that the Torment Nexus is normatively wrong. Left-leaning people like me should assume good faith by those suggesting the Nexus is constitutional & engage with their arguments.

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

Wherever you get a "remember what they took from you" schtick "what" always turns out just to be childhood, and "they" are just the passing of time.

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

The thing about reddit is that they basically, in a semi-decentralized way, saw themselves becoming a chud website and... stopped and reversed course

submitted 47 days ago • 77 comments

Let me be clear. Generally, law profs & PhD historians get along swimmingly. We fill in the puzzle together in the best ways. I love learning from legal scholarship. But originalist law profs? It's like you exist solely to insult our discipline and the work we do. Oh. And you're wrong. All the time.

submitted 47 days ago • 48 comments

there's this weird trend on here that wants to downplay the civic memory of American anti-fascism for godforsaken reason instead of harnessing it as part of the American civil faith

submitted 49 days ago • 40 comments

Very stupid kind of cynicism where since reality isn’t a Disney movie where the grand heroic gesture Ends Everything there’s no point in anything, how dare you think better things are possible you fool, you child.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

edupol means no good graphic designers work for Republicans so I foresee more “official government agencies using cringe AI art with the wrong number of stars on the flag” in the future

submitted 49 days ago • 16 comments

DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡 REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

mr. president. we cannot allow an e-girl gap.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

in chapter 35 of the count of monte cristo we get some extremely violent discussions of various forms of capital punishment and two extravagant monologues on revenge, but possibly this is the wildest statement

submitted 53 days ago • 28 comments

When you compulsively turn everything into a grift so you can bleed money from your supporters but also don’t really understand what a meme is conceptually:

submitted 53 days ago • 115 comments

Damn did u defeat woke mind virus at least, u know that thing other people have that brainwashes them into having bad things happen & they can’t even notice bc they’re focused on the wrong dumb things. i hope so bc there are too many women in Dragon Age games, there weren’t that many wemen back then

submitted 60 days ago • 5 comments

It genuinely feels like we're experiencing the biggest swing right across the media since 9/11, except instead of being for a wartime president with a 90% approval rating, it's for a guy who won the popular vote by 1.5% with a 50% approval.

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments