tom-effing-paine.bsky.social
Professionally philosophical, highly historical, avidly antifascist, gleefully gaming, merrily movieviewing. ATX.
Scalawag fighting the long Civil War.
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Free idea for federal employees:
1 - I supported and defended
2 - the Constitution of the United States
3 - against all enemies
4 - foreign
5 -- and domestic. 🇺🇸
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the #TeslaTakedown momentum is really showing up in the art, we are taking leaps and bounds out there
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They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.
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But they're not the same! Camacho identified a *real* crisis and found the world's smartest man to help him with it! Camacho > Trump/Musk
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Well, it's sure... something.
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I've found that when you point out what Trump *says* to his supporters, they regularly say that his words don't matter; only his actions. However confused that is, any effort to persuade has to start with where the audience is. There's reasons to downplay the noise and focus on the violence.
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I think that we're all disoriented when an idiot is so effectively destructive. *Shouldn't* it take some sort of care and planning to pull this off?
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Hmm. And just *how* stern will the words be?
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But we're not sad about that, because it isn't true here, because here, we're larger than Alaska.
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We have a tendency to think that (loosely) the evil empire is highly structured with a distinctive center and a periphery, and we want to identify the center so that we can take it out with one big boom at the end of the movie. But it's a network — not without lumps, but flatter than we think.
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It's better if you pronounce it "doggie".
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Texas could kick Alaska's ass with its panhandle tied behind its coastal bend.
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Everything is bigger in Texas, including Texas. Granted, outside of Texas, Alaska is larger than Texas. But inside of Texas, Texas is larger than Alaska. Einstein proposed both Special and General Relativity, but he disregarded Texan Relativity.
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Is that a nautical banana or an Imperial banana?
It had damned well better not be one of those metric bananas.
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When you realize that just one of our states is larger than the entire world plus Canada and Europe, it sort of takes your breath away.
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Most Texans can't even make it to the state Capitol to protest, and we're only a little bigger than France. Twenty million of us protested in 2020, and if we had all done it in one place, it might have made more of a difference, but we're just too damned spread out.
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The more you scream about (((George Soros))), the more DOGE-y you seem.
And absolutely pronounce it "doggie". "Elon has sent me on a doggy mission!"
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You won't eat *anything* that's like play-doh!?
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I think that you mean "charcuterie"?
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Mr. Musk can fall under more than one description at a time.
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I feel like "lowering the value of Teslas hurts the Tesla guy" is pretty straightforward, even if the exact causal mechanism escapes most of us.
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People are stuck trying to prevent themselves from being liable for absurd bullshit that it would never cross your fundamentally decent mind to try to hold them liable for.
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I suffered for my art and I see no reason why my readers should not suffer beside me.
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If you actually want to talk about this, then my answer is "the economic calculation argument".
(But we'd have to agree not to discuss a conservative redefinition of 'socialist', adopted by many self-described socialists, according to which "government = socialism".)
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I picked a great time to be designing a new version of Introduction to Philosophy:
"Introduction to Philosophy by Way of the Concept of Gender".
(On the other hand, I absolutely relish the prospect of getting grilled about the class by authoritarian twits.)
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Anyway, I see a lot of "tough on crime" rhetoric from people who know that it's bullshit when Republicans use it to justify the carceral state, but who somehow can't see it from themselves. You can hold people responsible for their mistakes without being eager to punish.
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You think to leave the room, but right outside, there's a lot of angry people who want to shriek at you about how evil you were for going into the room.
Do you stay or do you go?
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I'm just lamenting the difficulty of organizing at the present moment. The people that we want to hear from are having trouble getting their message out in a way that they didn't a few years ago.
Just lamentation! No criticism of anyone expressed or implied.
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Agreeing that FOX is sort of an epicenter of evil, they have this whole extra-FOX ecosystem.
Or, like, *is* it actually FOX doing the main work and the rest of the smaller fash media is just along for the ride and having some mysterious illusion of relevance?
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Re-education camps for a third of the American population is definitely something to talk about where the fash can go "Look! The libs hate and want to kill us! We are right to fear them and want to kill them first!"
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No, you're defining arguing with someone else.
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You've made the world a better place with this. Thank you!
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The good ol' days when you could post an event on Facebook and get a thousand people to show up two days later are, sadly, gone. People inclined to activism don't seem to have settled on a usable social media pattern yet since Twitter went dark and Facebook went old.
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Pardon me, ma'am, you appear to have misaddressed this remark.