weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025the moral and intellectual decay of these 'elites' is worthy of late roman times 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 22/11/2025*i’d say it’s the belief that “woman” is a biological category of naturally kind “sex”, which leads to essentialism about social roles and so on 110
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025It's been so hard without his vision, but even more so without his action! 220
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 19/09/2025> аннулирование виз Госдепа в том-то и дело, что юридически это НЕ так, это НЕ нарушение первой поправки. у федералов есть полномочия отказывать в визах, если они так посчитают. подробнее: perplexity.ai/search/mozhet-li-gosdepa-ssha-ne-vyda-j3GuYOtrQZWwRPd4iaHsfA (там же есть все пруфлинки) 110
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 16/09/2025In Sorokin’s The Norm, it comes across as even more grotesque: www-polka-academy.translate.goog/articles/496... 010
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Evidently, it's about Rothbard and his pernicious influence on the foreign policy thinking of many libertarians—it essentially replicated all the KGB's playbooks, and wasn't particularly shy about it. Rockwell, Paul, etc.—this is not a coincidence, but a pattern of this intellectual trajectory. 010
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025academic freedom/freedom of speech is a negative right, which entails autonomy from state regulation of speech. consequently, no governmental body can compel universities or individuals to accept speech they find personally objectionable. 1/2 110
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025In my native language, there’s a saying that matches the meaning of the English one but without any gendered undertone. 1/2 100
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 23/03/2025btw, it seems hoppe now is struck by the woke mind virus... (I hope the musk-trump regime doesn't deport him for this, pfft) 010
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025well, that's just garbage from some diploma mill—might as well take seriously the opinions of those suckers who graduated from drump university or bought andrew tate's courses, lmao 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025And from recent stuff, there’s the collection 'Sartre and Analytic Philosophy' (2024): ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/sartre-and-analytic-philosophy/. Freud’s in there too! 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 01/03/2025for me, as a non-native english speaker, this feels utterly counterintuitive. perhaps it’s because «чувак» ('dude') in russian *might* come from the feminized form «чувиха»—originally a derogatory term for female sex workers. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BA 100
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025And, of course, they don’t even bother hiding that they’re racists/xenophobes, lol. 3/3 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Their thinking is steeped in revisionism and a philosophy of suspicion, which by now has morphed into the wildest support for authoritarian right-wingers & the blatant imperialism of Trump (overall, and Putin too). For instance, here’s what they’re translating: bit.ly/4gVXtl0 2/3 100
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 22/02/2025well, at least his Grok is generally on the side of the forces of good 040
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 21/02/2025elon hit the nail on the head when he said Grok’s the smartest. he really ought to use it more often! #grok #musk #ukraine_war 020
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 26/01/2025well, in putin’s russia, the same pattern emerges: the public grows skeptical of liberal-leaning governance but shows admiration when it embraces displays of power. 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025a russian human rights activist who fled to europe says that trump’s actions remind him of putin’s use of law enforcement to persecute dissenters. in just a few days, us has taken a path it took putin several years to follow. (t.me/NetGulagu/10...) 000
weird @earwicker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025there’s a well-written piece on the flaws in nRx thought (which is to be expected, as its author is a scholar specializing in political philosophy & philosophy of mind, rather than a 'tech genius' with a starter pack of 'X' and /pol/): insolarance-com.translate.goog/nrx-contradi... 040
