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Brandon Turner

@bparsonst.bsky.social
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Political Science, Clemson University

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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
who 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."
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
looks like I'm canceling my NYT sub after all
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
first time i noticed what an extraordinary vocalist Baldwin was
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we'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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
kristen-bell-what-if-this-is-the-bad-place.gif
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The is blood-boilingly wrong from Jason Stanley. I haven't actually worried about academia during this entire process, until now
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
pretty remarkable given everyone has canceled their subscription a few times
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
this is like the tenth time we've done *this specific and stupid discourse*
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
who holds this view?
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
the endorsement was in a Democratic primary
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
mystic reactionaries: have some self-respect
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
what is being "probed"? this is more like a lobotomy
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
lol, backing into *something* here @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
over 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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
comparison's sake:
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
wtf is this www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
God this book is so good. A little something for the liberal romantics:
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Cover image for future editions of Gasset's REVOLT OF THE MASSES
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
theory peeps: imagine the view described here. do you recognize this view? if so, what would you call it?
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
lol, look at the next paragraph though "it was a lie to justify power, and it's stupid anyway"
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
remember who you are, lib
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"premature"!
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🔥🔥🔥Bulwark headline guy🔥🔥🔥
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
here'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)
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
unrelated. 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"
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
/squints/
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
you're right--NYT reporting DoJ let her go
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
lol of course
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
it's difficult to know how to react to something like this
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
richard rorty:
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
one 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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
someone described this as the Temu UN and, yeah
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
what 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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
lol if only some country or two had adopted some of these silver bullets--would make a comparison useful
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
this 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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
This 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.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
this is for an auto part that costs $180
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
among 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
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
meanwhile at the Heritage Foundation
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
rich kids getting extra time on the ACT is, in fact, a problem.
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
literally the next page
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Brandon Turner @bparsonst.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Peter Viereck's reflections on the McCarthy and post-McCarthy 50's GOP are often surprisingly prescient; here perhaps more humorously than elsewhere
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