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Tobias Decking

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

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What a week, huh? all Wednesdays @whataweekhuh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Captain Haddock looking very frazzled, saying, “What a week, huh?”
Tintin leans into the frame and says, “Captain, it’s Wednesday.”
Snowy is very excited about the drink he has found.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Figuring out the new pope by hitting F5 on the pope wikipedia article.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

At least there a bit of touching.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The lack of stove touching is quite disappointing.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

That China is willing to sell social media entities to Elon Musk is reason enough for me to ban chinese social media entities. bsky.app/profile/pear...

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The screenplay goes a bit overboard with the metaphors. bsky.app/profile/bnon...

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A funny thing about the SKorea martial law thing is that it happens during local nighttime. There is going to be someone over there who went to bed, waking up some hours later to a different political reality and wondering wtf just happened.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Found US money. In Germany. My luck for today is used up.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Petition to put women above the law since "no man is above the law" and women arn't men.

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I mean if most undocumented people are Trumpers then I'm fine with kicking them out

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Everyone is talking about the fucked up information ecosystem, so let me add my 2 cents: We must reckon with the possibility that freedom of speech and freedom of the press as it is practiced in the USA and elsewhere is fundamentally flawed or a mistake.

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Tobias Decking @decking.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Maybe picked the worst day in history to make my account.

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