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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 14h

it will be amusing to see hegseth actually go down. many of them, even the worst, will probably get away. so it goes. but not him. he will go down. magnificently. and it will be amusing

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 19h

my heart goes out to chris. hope he gets his house back

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 19h

i think this describes me, and so what!?

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 21h

another good reason to do it is that for morale reasons dems also need to prove to themselves that impeachment still exists and is something they can do

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a deep root of tyranny and totalitarianism is mankind’s heatseeking missile like drive to find true contradictories, and insist knowingly even so that the will demands “both at once,” and so it shall be. thiel is the incarnation of this drive upon the earth.

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

talked to a priest a who said it was becoming a big problem at the seminary that the fathers-in-training were GPTing their sermons. uncanny and horrible, and yet, no surprise catholicism would fit well with a robot who always tells you the right answer (that’s what thomas aquinas was, essentially)

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

weird racism is suddenly “back,” but what changed fast once can again. double-edge of social media world’s goldfish memory & loss of any sense of history is the battle is never lost or won. we can never rest again till media reform; neither can they. a horrible fate, here not without a bright side

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the midcentury liberal project, from carlin to larry flynt, to eradicate every social taboo that even faintly suggested censorship, was one with the midcentury liberal project to rehabilitate nietzsche, heidegger, schmitt in the academy. all came from a place of the most beautiful, tragic innocence

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bubbalicious @jortscity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

blueskyist (derogatory) blueskyan (complimentary)

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Soon I will be more powerful than you can imagine.

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the marxist (bad, vulgar) / marxian (good, smart) distinction is good. we should try it with other things. christists and christians. see? works great. straussists and straussians, nietzschists and nietzscheans. bing, two for two. fascists and fascians. nope, ok, shut it down, back to the lab

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it would be wrong to say that when marxists say “theory” they always mean persuasion and when they say “praxis” they always mean killing but it would also be wrong to say this is never what they mean

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i disagree. i think it’s specifically political despair, recognizable from a million accounts of life under tyranny from everywhere in the world for thousands of years. this isn’t a psychiatric thing

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

historically it’s basically an accepted theorem of political psychology that tyranny more or less literally means the death of hope among the populace

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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is kinda what it was like in 2018 tbh, everyone looking at signposts that should indicate good results but no longer believing good results are possible

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is an amazing realworld satire or monkey’s-paw-version of searle’s chinese room

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what if pikachu were president……. alas

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dkhunter, Reluctant 🇨🇦 Nationalist @dkhunter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing is what other choice do we fucking have lol

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

i don’t care how much fancy math you can do, if you take open racism as a sign that someone is epistemologically sound then you are a fucking idiot

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

today’s nietzscheans, like all nietzscheans, are fundamentally men of ressentiment

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's just not a paradox! The reason we tolerate the intolerant is basically as a flex, because we can afford to, because we trust the strength of liberal institutions If that stops being true and they become a real threat, we both can *and should* fuck 'em up

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

in particular, the notion that the no true scotsman fallacy is a fallacy is an irrationalist myth. logic permits you to iteratively define things

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a good propaganda tool is adding the word fallacy to various adjectives that describe logically non-fallacious premises you happen not to like. no true scotsman fallacy, genetic fallacy, naturalistic fallacy, it’s all just saying “trump derangement syndrome” over and over. — and oh baby, it works!!

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the genetic fallacy is only a fallacy where the specifics of the genesis have no causal influence on the completed product or adult organism but AI safety is not exactly like this

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a small thing it took me a long time to realize and that most people seem to have backwards is that, purely from a selfish perspective, appreciating good things and people is actually more enjoyable than hating on things and people in general

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

heidecker is something else, man. another level.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Trump [may] belong [to] the era of Marius and Sulla, the men who brought force and corruption into Roman politics on a scale nobody had yet seen...If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

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America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome

The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable

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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 28/09/2026

it's time

Muted words: Choosin' Texas, Ella Langley, Hasan Piker, James Carville, soccer

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

from my experience, they are sometimes shocked at first, but if you stick the landing and don’t budge in response to week-2 whining, it ends up going great

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

put!! more!! languages!! on!! duolingo!!!!

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Jules @nodanaonlyjules.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bet he feels a lot better after that

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bubbalicious @jortscity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now this may be uncouth of me to say, but I believe a careful analysis of this situation impressions upon the reader that Republicans are fuckin' stupid assholes.

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

at the present time, i believe this is the Big Thing to aim for. people are waking up to it. but it should be posted more in the world. it needs to make it into policy promises by politicos

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why did the islamic republic leave the name of the strait of hormuz as the name of the foremost zoroastrian god. anyone know? seems weird

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

why are @gelliottmorris.com’s numbers consistently like 2-3 points lower for trump et al. than nate silver’s ones? is there a one sentence answer to this? it’s always almost exactly the same spread between them

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Phoebe ↙↙↙ @pcberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The smoothgroin left wants to deny this lived reality

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, also Gender in International Relations (Tickner, 1992)!

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another is Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Arrighi & Silver eds, 1999.) And I've yet to go through them but next up: Multilateralism Matters (Ruggie ed, 1993); National Interests in International Society (Finnemore, 1996); Ideas and Foreign Policy (Goldstein & Keohane eds, 1993).

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some others were Empires, Systems and States (Cox, Dunne & Booth eds, 2000); World Economic Primacy: 1500-1990 (Kindleberger, 1996); Legitimacy in International Society (Clark, 2005); The Retreat of the State (Strange, 1996); The Sovereign State and Its Competitors (Spruyt, 1994).

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So the one that triggered this thought last night is Contending Images of World Politics (Fry & O'Hagan eds, 2000), which critically engages with some of the post-Cold War themes (end of history, back to the future, balance of power, etc).

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Root Beer Man @root-beer-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i can say with absolute confidence that a trump who was truly going down would be extremely stingy with pardons

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Very Greek tragedy thing about LLMs is that they simulataneously provide clear evidence that writing is extremely important to cognition while they also cause people to stop doing it.

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