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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 12h

My point is mainly that when I learned about Socrates in history class, we didn’t hear a thing about the 30 tyrants. It just seemed like he was punished for spreading some harmless ideas, when the reality was that he was punished for his relationship with people who did awful, violent stuff.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 12h

They assumed that the members of each branch of government would have inherent interest in protecting their own power above partisan loyalties. Which was a stupid assumption that fell apart almost immediately.

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I suddenly become a lot more pro-killing Socrates when I found out that the youths he was accused of corrupting weren’t just little troublemakers, but like the key participants of a plots that overthrew the city’s government and did a bunch of executions of political enemies.

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Here’s the letter I referenced. It’s a good read. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ma...

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The opposition to direct democracy isn’t so much worrying about majoritarianism, which Madison thought was, in fact, good, but rather worried about the people being stirred up and making bad decisions in fits of passion. The layer of representatives was meant to allow for more measured deliberation.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 14h

Oh no no no, that’s not quite what I was saying. I included in my 2nd reply the below letter from Madison arguing IN FAVOR of majoritarianism. But thinking that the legislative majority should represent the majority of the electorate is different than supporting direct democracy.

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My favorite piece of founder literature is Madison’s letter on majoritarianism. founders.archives.gov/documents/Ma...

founders.archives.gov

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 14h

This is the biggest thing to know to inoculate people against the idea that the founders opposed our modern idea of democracy; that when they sometimes spoke disparagingly about “democracy”, it was about Athenian democracy specifically.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even better: using earbuds. Then you don't have to have any sound leaking from the other end of the call.

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Oh, don’t like this. At least, I think Uber Eats and DoorDash are really bad and I don’t know if this is different.

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It was actually watching TYT that converted me into leftism in 2016. Don’t worry, I don’t like them anymore.

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I mean, my preferred candidates are still leftists like AOC, Mamdani, and El-Sayed, but like I enthusiastically supported Biden in the general in 2020 and Harris in 2024.

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I was a Republican growing up as a teenager, and 2016 was the first election where I could vote. My libertarian-self was disgusted by Trump and intrigued by Bernie, so I jumped from hating Clinton from the right to hating Clinton but from the left. I mellowed out later and became blue not matter who

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The Delaware River too ocean-like in Philadelphia for Philadelphia to count as landlocked.

Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not so strict about it really, but what I'm really trying to get at is that if we are basically having a live conversation, where both of us are looking at our phones and responding back and forth immediately, it would just be easier to be talking to each other.

Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’d say Trump Coin is probably the worst. He’s made over half a billion dollars with it.

Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Less marriage and more like part of a harem. Both his kids with Grimes and his child with Ashley St. Clair overlap with the birth dates of Zilis's kids.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

talkingpointsmemo.com

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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The majority government, cobbled together by three parties who together have a majority, *should* be a blend of those three parties’ policies, with a slant towards the parties with the higher vote share.

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Some of their policies get enacted in exchange for their support, yes. Is it better for all of the 35% party’s policies to get enacted with no input from the other parties, just because votes were distributed in such a way that they received a majority in parliament?

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It's not disproportionate. If you want to form a government, you have to convince representatives who represent a majority of the voters to agree with you. How is that more disproportionate than saying a party that got 35% percent of the vote gets to rule because of vote distribution across parties?

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I disagree. Proportional is the perfect system. The reason you're giving for saying it's not is simply a rejection of the will of the voters who voted for that extremism. I want an electoral system that represents the will of the voters.

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Thank you. As someone who works with Salesforce all day, all I can think of with that acronym is Customer Relationship Management lmao.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think this election shows that increasing gasoline prices is political poison. It would be even more so for Dems than Rs. Doing things that make oil more expensive (like blocking drilling) just won't work politically in the US. Climate policy needs to be focused on positively building green.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is exactly what that accountant in The Dark Night was wondering about Wayne Enterprises' R&D division.

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly I wasn’t expecting to see him live this long after he announced a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis in May 2025, but apparently the treatment has gone pretty well?

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Aliensinnoh @aliensinnoh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I end up texting back forth with a person more than 10 times in 10 minutes, I’d prefer for that to be a phone call.

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I don’t think it is a waste of time to give Jensen Huang a chance to publicly show his ass. He usually exists in contexts where he’s not challenged and so the public doesn’t get to see how out of touch he is.

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Learning from one of your videos about how the computer is relied on for the catalytic converter to work, I suddenly decided that I definitely wanted cars to have computers in them. Especially the car that’s idling in front of me at the light.

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I mean I don’t think it was on purpose. Vance was chosen because Trump’s idiot sons loved how “based” he was.

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This wasn’t like an interview where Klein was agreeing with the guest. His podcast previous to this interview was just him doing a monologue about how there should be much heavier regulation on AI, starting with banning recursive self-improvement entirely.

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Luckily for us, Vance is so sauceless that I’m pretty sure no amount of media glazing can make him president. The only chance he has at the presidency is if Trump dies in the next two years. Which would actually be bad; Vance is worse.

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This is why it is essential for the next president we elect to be a firebrand on this stuff. They should make it embarrassing for congressional dems to say stuff like this and to oppose institutional changes.

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