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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Not you, of course. You fantasize about violent retribution every day, little man. You will die on the losing end of that, whether you pursue it or not.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Then stand down and let the courageous lead the fight. This is not a time for silence. Our very democracy is at stake.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's never a bad day to hate Donald Trump! Courage!

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You heard me. I do NOT sugar coat the truth. Period.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Courageous and noble people must fight for our very democracy, and we must focus on those who would steal it from us. If you are not up for the fight, then stand down. Let the best of us lead.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

And you own your own hatred and lust for retribution, which live in your head daily. I wonder who has the greater emotional burden.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

"Little marco"? You're an extraordinarily small human being, Dr Feldman, and it's informed all of your rage against the world since you noticed, as a young boy. You have a high IQ. Congratulations. But your rage defines you.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

You may just be wish-casting that the GOP goes full white nationalist. That is obviously a political loser, an electoral non-starter. Be careful not to wish for what you simply wish to be true. There may be some intelligent operators who realize the faulty terrain they'd be battling on in that case.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The idea that skin color is a useful proxy for merit, is race essentialism. It encodes for any number of assumptions that may not hold, and often do not hold, in practice, as higher status minorities are used by higher status institutions to check their boxes.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

And a race essentialism noise. I'm sure you can play all the hits, but you are devoid of anything interesting to say.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

That's a meaningless relativism noise. In any given profession, I'm sure any skilled practitioner will have their own nuanced view of what it takes to be good. Few will list skin color as a contributing factor for or against.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

No, you can't. I indicated that each job would have its own definition of merit, and very few skilled professionals would add "diversity" to their list of qualities that contribute to professional merit. But that is an advanced idea, beyond the cartoons you think in terms of.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Now I see why you think nobody can answer these questions. You're just not smart enough to understand anybody's answers.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I think anybody who devotes themselves to a vocation will have a significantly nuanced and educated opinion that will far outstrip your cartoon idea that they can't define merit, and moreover that they have never thought about it. I suggest it is you with the impoverished thinking on this subject.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Nobody's ever thought about what it is to be good at one's job? Interesting take. I think most people consider what it is to be good at their own jobs, and from there, they can formulate an informed opinion about whether the DEI officers at their company, would help to promote those qualities.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"She did not touch him" - narrator, as woman can be clearly seen touching him.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Looking like this is not the case. The assassin shot a cultist (in fact a cult leader), but was not in a cult himself.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What on earth are you talking about. It was an antifa assassination.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

You probably have no idea how simple that test is, and they give you the answer key before you take it.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yet they are all more physically attractive than you are.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Beautifully put. Rachel is deeply troubling.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Trite and unactionable ideas can be true. That doesn't make them meaningful.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The most interesting thing about this idea, is that a preeminent public intellectual is not embarrassed by how trite it is. The left is trapped in virtue signaling on this issue, and has no ideas beyond completely empty ones.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

And Rachel Maddow works for them, willingly. It is time for genuinely principled people to show their principle. Maddow should quit. Immediately. If you disagree, then you are complicit. And you disgust me. Period.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

That is exactly what it is. Trump demanded they not have Black employees, and thus the purge. It is heart breaking, and disgusting.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

She was free to walk away. Instead, she chooses to work for racists. I hope your principles are more intact than hers are. If not - you share the blame, and you disgust me.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Joy Reid, a beautiful, strong, Black woman, was fired for the color of her skin. Period.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

No. Just no. Anybody who voted for him is tainted in my eyes, and I cannot simply "choose" to forgive. Fine, if they want to join our side now, ok, but they will never be acceptable to me. My virtue is not for sale, and it is not so cheap.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Looks like war propaganda. I would be careful with that, because it is not often used appropriately.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Disappointing that Fauci's letter mentions the government agencies that concluded a higher likelihood for zoonotic, while not mentioning the agencies that concluded a higher likelihood for lab origin. And nowhere has the phrase "lab leak is not plausible" ever appeared, other than Proximal Origins.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Nobel prize winners but not smart enough to read the room.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What was Donald Trump doing at the time? Selling autographed copies of Catcher in the Rye?

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I offered a very reasonable interpretation of his own words. Humans are allowed to interpret in ways that change literal wording, that is how communication and understanding works.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I read the article, yes. He is worried about reputational damage, or damage to his own self esteem, by staying. He realizes that he loses a large platform by leaving. So you tell me, where does concern for his country enter into his decision?

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If those are the three best bullet points you have, I am not too worried about Tulsi.

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It makes so much more sense to keep writing editorials there about how disgusted you are with some of the paper's decisions. What exactly is the sense in deplatforming yourself from a job which was not even a full time commitment?

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howardrock.bsky.social @howardrock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024