By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026For conservatives, virtue is "whatever the people who are born to rule desire." Hence Frank Wilhoit's definition of conservativism, "exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." 48/ 19716
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026It's not a crime if the president does it. It's also not a crime if your boss does it, or if a monopolist does it, or if ICE does it. It's not a crime if the IDF do it, or if the Epstein Class do it. "Taxes are for the little people": pluralistic.net/2021/06/15/g... 49/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 15 Jun 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2647
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026The attack on antitrust was an attack on the *rule of law*, the campaign to put everyone back in the their place. It's a piece of the effort to establish a new hereditary aristocracy, and every hereditary aristocracy requires heredity serfs (that would be *us*): pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/t... 50/pluralistic.netThe End of the Road to Serfdom – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 17115
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026And animals are for eating. The dominance hierarchy is NATURAL. It starts between our TEETH. Care for the squirrel and befriend him OR eat him and all his friends. That's the fundamentals of a human brain. A love OR a profit valence. We CHOOSE how profitable (cruel) to be and society responds. 010