Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026who does this sound like? does this sound like the woke left--which is if anything hyper-moralized? or does it sound like today's GOP, which is opposed on principle to the *very idea of criminality* every consequence is a "weaponization" of the justice system. nixon himself "rehabilitated." 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026first time i noticed what an extraordinary vocalist Baldwin was 000
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we've done a lot of dunking on libertarians on here and I have wanted to point out for a long time that while very many *libertarians* revealed themselves to be authoritarians or useful idiots, libertarianism has been *extremely vindicated* in a number of key ways 7195
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The is blood-boilingly wrong from Jason Stanley. I haven't actually worried about academia during this entire process, until now 000
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026pretty remarkable given everyone has canceled their subscription a few times 010
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026this is like the tenth time we've done *this specific and stupid discourse* 211039
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026what is being "probed"? this is more like a lobotomy 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026lol, backing into *something* here @jacobtlevy.bsky.social 110
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026over in hell, elon is extremely mad at "Tom Holland" what online media and (almost certainly) musk don't know is: he's very much mad at the wrong tom holland 020
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/06/2026wtf is this www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... 210
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026God this book is so good. A little something for the liberal romantics: 020
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Cover image for future editions of Gasset's REVOLT OF THE MASSES 110
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026theory peeps: imagine the view described here. do you recognize this view? if so, what would you call it? 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/04/2026lol, look at the next paragraph though "it was a lie to justify power, and it's stupid anyway" 110
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026here's marx (to engels), utterly beside himself at the death of his close friend and ideological bedfellow, abraham lincoln here too is engels' response (he means "Johnston" in the first sentence, not Johnson) 000
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026unrelated. from a review of metaphysics obit of Rawls margaret fox spends fifty years and four kids married to this man, only to get referred to twice as his "partner" 000
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026it's difficult to know how to react to something like this 150
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026one thing the trad wing is obviously right about? architecture and spaces in general it boggles the mind to think of all the money and resources wasted in creating spaces like this--a space no one would want to be in, and no one would want to endure without looking at their phone 120
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 22/01/2026someone described this as the Temu UN and, yeah 020
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026what an utterly sensible thing to say--and, of course, something totally unrelated to what the article claims to show! unfortunately for the author, this smells a little like "culture," which is MAGA's bag, so we don't get another word about it 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026lol if only some country or two had adopted some of these silver bullets--would make a comparison useful 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026this is a false distinction but whatever. the point is: if you can write this paragraph without once considering that quality of life has UNAMBIGUOUSLY IMPROVED in almost every imaginable way, then you are just talking. declining birth rates WITH increased quality of life--this is the entire puzzle 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 31/12/2025This is getting dunked on, but she's right. Bluesky is no place for adult conversations Bad people can often be very interesting, but Trump isn't some fucking Iago. He's bad in the most venal and predictable ways, and his total thoughtlessness makes his venality depressing rather than edifying. 100
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 12/12/2025among Nietzsche's quotable bits is the line from TWILIGHT to the effect of "a man who has a why to live for can endure almost any how." this was popularized via viktor frankl's use of it in MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING. but frankl deprived us of the rest of the aphorism--one of N's best digs at Bentham 010
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/12/2025rich kids getting extra time on the ACT is, in fact, a problem. 120
Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Peter Viereck's reflections on the McCarthy and post-McCarthy 50's GOP are often surprisingly prescient; here perhaps more humorously than elsewhere 110