Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024Just ran into the most thin-skinned college professor I've seen around here. Also had no idea why statistics are useful to people, which is fine, but you don't get to not understand it and be arrogant about it. But it happens when your day-to-day is students. 020
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024You responded with a condescending retort because you're used to students. Bye! 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024It is also true that McD has served at least 10 hamburgers today, but it's not a useful measurement. Usually, when you give a range, you give one that provides some insight. That's what makes it useful to report the range. 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024Where are you getting the guy who is ahead in the polls has a 1 in 4 chance from? 100
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024The rule just can't be, the law is X, unless you get enough people to be violent for you. That's just the rule of the jungle with more steps. 051
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024The response to "we'll be violent if you lock him up" is "yea, that's scary, but you're also violent if the coffee siren doesn't say Merry Christmas, so we've decided just to fight back." 1102
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024It's really easy! And totally arbitrary! Another arrest would do it, let alone 3 more felony arrests totally 100 charges. Threatening public officials? No question. No legalistic "well he didn't exactly say..." No, you just get locked up. And that's wrong! And it's also wrong to exempt one person. 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 31/03/2024Do people realize how easy it is for ordinary people to get their release revoked? 100
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024his intended subject was “Democracy, Autocracy and the Threat to Reason in the 21st Century. Well, we got to the third one, anyway. 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024he also disparaged the former president’s professional background, exclaiming: “He’s a property developer, for God’s sake!” You guys, he's just a failed art student! How can he be smart enough to be dangerous? 090
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024A lot of religious texts just talk about real things in symbolic ways (which is why Hugo's use of religion as symbol for reality is so powerful). For instance, the Antichrist is shrouded in mysticism, but it's just really about a guy like Trump. 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I used to teach very basic crytography as part of my math classes, so I want to understand what happened, but there's no way I'm going to. I'm so glad I'm not teaching that anymore and getting questions on it. 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024Have your met our Lord and Savior, the Garbage Plate? 140
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I wake up most mornings in a rage that Ds in control of both chambers took no steps whatsoever to not seat/expel under 14a insurrectionists in their ranks. Big mistake to have chosen leadership based on seniority rather than seeking wartime leadership. We needed a war cabinet. 240
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I believe the phrase is bearing a cross and draped in the flag. 090
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024And on the other thing, she dumped me a year ago and I can't shake her out of my mind and it's really bothering me. 110
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I think you're right about that, but the biggest strand will be a less buffoonish fascism. But that aside, that's not quite what I'm worried about. I'm worried about what lies beneath the power. If we control everything, but 35% want us dead and are violent about it, how does it work? 120
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024Yea, I agree. They're so post-truth that it doesn't matter that such a push entirely invalidates their primary anti-Biden argument. And their power is no longer tied to electoral outcomes. And they just threaten judges who won't go along anyway. I don't know what success looks like anymore. 020
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024If everything wasn't either broken or in fascist hands, there would be a ton of easy fixes. But... 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024Right. I just don't know if we can. Is there any precedent for not going fascist when it's 30-40%? 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024But then, I'm feeling down in another way, so maybe my pessimism is just reflecting that. 310
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024I feel like we already lost. Even if Biden wins in 2024, which looks harder to do every day, does it matter? When this much of the population wants fascism, and this many will threaten whoever he wants threatened, how do we work as a county? 130
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024There's a certain logic out there that says, well, stupid libs care about preventing fascism, we don't, so nominate our person and the libs will vote for them, but we don't give a shit so we won't vote for a lib. Hostage-taker logic. 000
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2024God, not everything is about you...but this particular thing? Yea, that's about you. 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 29/03/2024Yea, not arguing, just bemoaning. I had hoped these 4 years would be the time for so much, partly because no way they win either Chamber in 22 after That. I'm an idiot. 020
Reposted by Joshua KatzMicah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2024the thing with caving to bigotry, besides being unconscionable, is that it actually makes things worse for you politically it signals to people that the bigots have a point - and if that’s true, well, why wouldn’t they go with the people screaming about it the loudest if it’s such a problem? 49017
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 29/03/2024From your lips. Problem is everything is partisan and we can't risk losing any election for the foreseeable future. So it's like growing a beard while employed. 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024When I taught HS, I'd ask students their hopes, etc. A few, not many, would say "business." I'd ask what business. "Business." Okay, I get you want to go to Wharton or whatever, but to do what? What's the long-term goal? "Business." I never got it. 190
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Which fully includes Jan. 6. Biden is one thing (and really bad bc he was VP), but they've now thoroughly normalized the veto power over elections in case we ever try that shit again. 050
Reposted by Joshua Katzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/03/2024you could even look at everything coming out of the right since 2016 as an effort to prevent an obama from ever happening again 1152040
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Obama both a) was us breaking the contract they imagined we had, where "they" can vote, with suppression, but not be in charge, and b) a thoroughly traumatic experience for them that broke their brains and left them unable to participate in society rationally. You need to acknowledge both. 000
Reposted by Joshua KatzI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/03/2024Yep the next time they want to make a Black person the editor of the Harvard Law Review they’re going to have a *long* conversation about optics and politics etc. and they’ll probably have to spend some resources if they follow through. They’re raising the cost of accepting Black people in spaces. 734440
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Had to scroll back up to see if it's fake, because I remember when they poisoned a guy making Wizard of Oz. 010
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024When I was in law school, a clerkship was the thing, and a Supreme Court clerkship the ultimate. Not just for the types who knew the AmLaw rankings by heart, but for the real nerds. It's hard to imagine that type even wanting one anymore, gotta be all people looking for $400k from JD or KE now. 110
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Then you jump over the podium (whatever) and point your finger right on his nose (being polite here) and scream it again. 100
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024This is what we all need to be doing. Not because they'll be shamed, not at all, but because there are people out there who can be convinced. 070
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024What they ignore is that if anyone wanted to engage in terrorism to shut down transportation, it would probably be the sorts of people who engage in terrorism to shut down power grids and who regularly plot to shut down transportation in other ways, i.e. the right. 031
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Just take Trump off the general election ballot close to the election. When people say the Supreme Court said not to do that, scream "Purcell" in their faces. 130
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024Agree. It can't be the current GOP, but yes, we need a second party, and we need a realignment overall. I'd ban the current GOP, personally, but not to have a one-party state. 210
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 28/03/2024"Christie may seem anti-Trump, but he's still a Republican/conservative." That's what we want. We want conservatives to recognize the danger. I don't understand gatekeeping opposition to fascism. 250
Joshua Katz @jalankatz.bsky.social · 27/03/2024We need more people voting for Biden for this specific reason. It's not enough to support Biden, and it's not enough for Biden to win. He needs to win because of what Trump is, or else we'll continue to live with this sword over our heads. 020