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ergopraxis

@ergopraxis.bsky.social
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Liberal of the Kantian variety. Legal, moral and political philosophy. He, she or they are all fine. An it only to my friends. 🌐🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴

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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 6h
It's jarring to witness the conflicting institutional logics. You're at the hands of The Prison and people are slowly torturing you, doing their best to murder you. You are transferred to The Hospital, and the doctors do their best to save your life and ensure you're not in pain.
The washington post: Breaking news: Christa Pike is alive, in critical condition “and receiving lifesaving medical care,” her attorneys said, after Tennessee officials tried and failed to execute her by lethal injection the previous night.
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 6h
My take on criminal treatment is that solitary confinement, the death penalty, and life without parole are all obviously unjust. Eventually, even the worst people should have a chance to a free life again and no one should die in prison. As a gifted soul once put it: get over it.
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 6h
GIRL MISIDENTIFIED AS JANE DOE! SUE MICHAEL TRACEY, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!
Kratos looking up at the sky, arms wide, calling on the god of war to destroy his enemies, and offering his life in his service in return
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 10h
The cornell case is not rape because substance use inhibited the victim's capacity to validly consent. The victim did not give consent to at least 5 people, and legibly expressed she withheld it to her assailants by trying to hide, push them away etc
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 23h
There is obviously a coordinated smear / delegitimation campaign against the girl that was assaulted by those frat losers and I would be surprised if this is not because at least one of the accused is well connected.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How Gender Criticalism has moved on from “We just have legitimate concerns” to cheering on those who killed a trans person.
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you tank a lethal injection you should be free to go
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional.
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's basically also Israel's regional strategy, right? They don't want there to be functional states, really, because functional states would have the ability to counterbalance them? Of course you also can't make peace with a failed state, but hey
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
it's actually quite striking to me how much the illiberals are starting to argue, quite directly, "we want a fragmented chaos on our frontier, so we can dominate it more easily" feels like decadent roman empire frontier management tbh here's one about canada:
defenseanalyses.org
The Centrifugal Strategy
Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Late-stage HGTV @helvetiadelendaest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
did you see the post from ft's us foreign affairs correspondent?
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bibi is far from the first war criminal to speak at the UNGA. He won't be the last. I'm not sure I remember anyone actually bragging about their war crimes at the UNGA though.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
In today's speech, Netanyahu appeared particularly eager to defend settlers in the West Bank, whose state-supported violence against Palestinians and international observers is extremely well-documented by reporters, activists, and international human rights groups.
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Netanyahu's UN speech was a full-on defense of Israel's settlements
“Peaceful settlers, honorable people” are being smeared, Israel's prime minister said.
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
kind of funny when people talk about "finding a peaceful solution to the ukraine - russia war through diplomacy" *now*, *after* the russian invasion, *during* the ongoing war. Like, the violence has already started. No settlement can really amount to a peaceful solution anymore!
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The arrests didn't simply "happen", like a rain shower. They were ORDERED.
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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity.
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
why don't the dems just support trans rights and vote-shame the centrists? they'll probably change their minds more easily
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i support the first amendment but bari deserves this
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Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The fact Viktor Orban can spend every election and local election banging on about 'gender ideology' and still not make Hungary even as bad as the UK shows you how awful it is here, and how terrible we are as a country towards trans people.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An entire politics and worldview animated by a lively terror that somewhere, somebody might be eating a free cheese sandwich
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Accept they're not free really are they? The cost the tax payer, when giving children a breakfast can be achieved for 50p at home. The cost to the tax payer is far far higher per breakfast than
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mungiu's "Fjord" imagines itself to be "anatomy of a fall", but it is still nothing better than a middle-brow, more insidious "god's not dead". Preposterously manipulative evangelical propaganda for child beating with an identitarian paintjob to conceal its rotten core
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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 03/09/2026
It cannot be emphasised enough, it cannot be flung in the faces of the likes of Matt Yglesias often enough, this "popularist" nonsense they're advocating for is politically illiterate and a cowardly unwillingness to simply say what you believe.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I know I'm just preaching to the choir here, but I cannot get over how much mainstream discourse on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 insists on framing it entirely as a theoretical or abstract philosophical issue, instead of a conflict over whether a state should be allowed to deny self-government to 33% of its population.
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Mathonwy, Lady Gravenstein 🍏🎃 @mathonwy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is fairly typical of converts like him to bring his deranged American Protestantism into it because they are utterly damaged by their former soteriology and eschatology and often don't shake it and accept their new religion's priorities and doctrines
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Mathonwy, Lady Gravenstein 🍏🎃 @mathonwy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As someone raised Roman Catholic, blithe is understating it! A Catholic's priorities are not supposed to be some deranged American Evangelical Protestant apocalyptic nonsense. A Catholic is supposed to observe the sacraments, pray, and practise charity and virtue. That's the earthly concern.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m not Christian, so maybe there’s nuance I’m not getting, but JD Vance seems surprisingly blithe about maybe meeting the antichrist or summoning the end times.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A pattern that I find genuinely fascinating in these debates is that the "popularist"/moderation/centrist/etc crowd seems to be sincerely offended by the idea that a politician might have genuine liberal principles.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People don't realize this, but you're only a jewish entertainment figure if at the end of the movie you turn to the camera & say "i am a social conservative now" & then specify you're the exact kind of religious social conservative Shapiro is
Ben shapiro calling jewish people that supported ruffalo in the recent open letter "ham sandwiches". They are not kosher, you see. They did a treif. Major self-crit time.
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I sure do hope we're not merely matter that accidentally slipped into a configuration that allows it to self-organise to the point of conceiving of itself as living until it is deconfigured. That would be pretty disappointing, all things considered.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm not quite sure how to process the fact that we've had a over a decade of screaming at the left in the UK on behalf of making the ideology this guy represents basically illegal to criticise.
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ergopraxis @ergopraxis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I didn't realize Barenboim the elder had been awarded palestinian citizenship by the PA. Kind of touching.
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@michaelbarenboim.bsky.social interviewed by @hahauenstein.bsky.social: "Of all countries, Germany should not be in breach of the genocide convention." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmS...
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Michael Barenboim: In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish
YouTube video by Nullpunkt – mit Hanno Hauenstein
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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The US president is just a dictator. They go to war, they impose tariffs, they do almost everything unilaterally, with little to no meaningful oversight. And it didn't begin with Trump.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"The government has offered a chilling message regarding protected speech—speak out against Israel or in support of Palestinians and we will revoke your visa and deport you."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:
Screenshot from Niemöller's Wikipedia entry, which reads:

"I find myself wondering about that too. I wonder about it as much as I regret it. Still, it is true that Hitler betrayed me. I had an audience with him, as a representative of the Protestant Church, shortly before he became Chancellor, in 1932. Hitler promised me on his word of honor, to protect the Church, and not to issue any anti-Church laws. He also agreed not to allow pogroms against the Jews, assuring me as follows: "There will be restrictions against the Jews, but there will be no ghettos, no pogroms, in Germany."

I really believed, given the widespread anti-Semitism in Germany, at that time – that Jews should avoid aspiring to Government positions or seats in the Reichstag. There were many Jews, especially among the Zionists, who took a similar stand. Hitler's assurance satisfied me at the time. On the other hand, I hated the growing atheistic movement, which was fostered and promoted by the Social Democrats and the Communists. Their hostility toward the Church made me pin my hopes on Hitler for a while."
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Milo Yiannopoulos deserves to stay here, as does everyone. Of course he does. Leopards eating his face, yeah yeah, but it is DEFCON 1 horrific that we're now doing lèse-majesté exile for Laura Loomer.
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