Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 3hEveryone knows it's the linesman's job to hold Xhekaj's arms behind his back while Wilson takes swings 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 15hYeah like, the idea he banged his head being tackled to the ground seems less improbable than a bullet grazing his head at exactly the right angle to be bloody but harmless (if we consider the Trump campaign's statements irrelevant to determining the truth, which we should) 050
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It's just a weird side issue to get caught up in. Secession is just something nation-states don't like. Like if only France had continued trading with the CSA, and the UK had respected the USA embargo, would Lincoln have suddenly been ok with secession? 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I disagree with the way you're centering the role of British support, which was never more than lukewarm, as if the Confederacy wasn't mostly created by Southern landowners for the continuation of slavery. Treating chattel slavery as a side effect of a British scheme doesn't make sense to me. 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think the idea of Lincoln engaging in a "War of Northern Aggression" is such a common Lost Causer thing that people are on high alert for it, even though it's not at all relevant to your point about "making war" 000
Reposted by Surfeit of PalfreysCharles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text) 561300335
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Yeah, it's sort of a cultural question. Like you build a strong defensive team by making everyone work, but does it get harder to make Demidov backcheck if there's a guy like Laine who's only there to score goals? It's a bit taboo to admit publicly that players have roles I guess. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yeah absolutely, and the fact that being asked to pursue an authoritarian crackdown didn't prompt her to do so, but being personally criticized did, speaks to her character 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Even if a bluffing threat was convincing but didn't work, why not try to limit their capacity to continue the killing? 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think this might be the thing where people assume that big guys must be good defensively 111
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah she chose to prioritize her health benefits over the lives of the people she wrongfully prosecuted, then retired when it was clear that following orders wouldn't save her job. 110
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I totally agree that it's terrible that she was put into the position, I should add! 010
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Your argument is that it's understandable that she'd do the wrong thing rather than lose her job etc. I think that's reasonable, although I have less sympathy given that I'm sure she can get a private sector job and has earned decades of solid money, but it's not relevant to what we were discussing 010
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026That doesn't actually answer either question. Aline first said that she had no agency, then said that she did the right thing by doing sketchy things for Trump. I questioned her inconsistency, then her belief that staying was good. 110
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Didn't she vouch, and talk to jurors outside of court? 030
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Again, why did you say that she had no agency when you're now saying that she made the right decision to stay? And separately, why do you think doing competent work for Trump is better pushback than publicly quitting when he asks you to prosecute peaceful protesters multiple times? 1280
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And that's a choice she MADE. She had agency, and chose to use it to serve Trump. You might think that's understandable, or common, but she HAD a choice. 050
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah I think Discussing Film put the E on Old to indicate that they didnt actually mean Old English, just Old-Timey, but they're a pop culture thing and didn't want to alienate people with "Middle English." I wouldn't take it so literally 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After pursuing dishonest prosecutions. She could have quit first, but chose to do that for the Trump administration 180
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026She could have quit, or refused to do what they wanted. 3481
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Too bad you teamed up with Republicans to keep the Trump regime going 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Buckingham Palace will be moved to Ottawa 020
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Even here, the Columbian exchange had massive effects on lives around the world, many of them good. American vegetables, for instance, drastically improved lives of people in Europe and Asia, increased life expectancies. More direct link than Atlantic slavery. But Columbus was still bad. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That's my point, the only plausible answer is "I dont know" 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yeah, it is, but mainly because it's a terrible way to examine history. If someone conclusively proved that the Atlantic slave trade somehow the extinction of the human race, it would still be bad because slavery is bad. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That's why courts don't ask the question "was the ultimate effect good or bad" they ask "did the person do the crime". I think we're in perfect agreement on what a reasonable question/discussion would be, it's just that you think YouGov asked that question, and I think they didn't. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Absolutely, i'd definitely tie the 100 years war to the conquest, but this is also biased because we know about bad stuff that did happen then bad stuff that never happened, right? Like what if the Conquest prevented the 120 years war between Denmark and England? It's just a bad question from yougov 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yeah, but that's because the phrase "poor decision" automatically implies a focus on the aims of and consequences to the decision maker. If I said William invading England was a poor decision, you might be confused because he succeeded. 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm not giving Brutus "a pass" for murdering Caesar when I say that the ultimate effects of a pivotal 2000 year old coup are complicated. 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We can just say "the Norman Conquest was brutal and had bloody consequences" and "Columbus was a bad guy", not "the ultimate effect of Columbus' voyages on world history was bad". Why make the questions so open-ended? 200
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026When you're asking about the "ultimate" effect of an event, you're inherently comparing it to the alternative if that event hadn't happened. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The word "ultimately" in the question is pretty clearly pointing to long-term effects. Why would you use that term and say "British history" without any additional caveats if you just wanted to poll people about whether the Harrying of the North was good or bad? 140
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Do you not consider Muslim Americans to be part of "all Americans"?! 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The event had clear profound long-term effects: it brought England decisively into the French sphere and out of the Danish/North Sea sphere. Would that have happened anyway? Like the Conquest created the English language, but if England still spoke a Low German-ish language in the Reformation? 100
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yeah that's why it's a dumb question lol. You're basically writing a different question to avoid answering "I dont know", but why do that? Even immediately we don't really know – what if Harold had harried the North trying to root out pro-Tostig factionalists? Or invaded Scotland, idk? 241
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's a negative *event* in that it's a war where people died, but its overall *effect* is so large over a thousand years of history it's impossible to say. 270
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 06/09/2026But you're NOT an anti-vaxer. Your problems with the medical establishment don't necessarily have anything to do with the problems of anti-vaxers, because if they did you might be an anti-vaxer. 1230
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Actually if you criticize a 100k unnecessary and deadly vehicle you're alienating the white working class, but if you criticize cheap transit for students and delivery drivers you're taking the liberal elite to task 020
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Backfired is such obviously pro-Trump language. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sorry, I was really commenting on EN and the original comment more than yours, you just ended up accidentally doing what they did haha 010
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The willingness of EN and the general audience to immediately pivot to semi-related grievances is super interesting. Like any vague anti-internet "authenticity" argument can be brought in 230
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Haitians are being cleansed from this country and your choice to end the shutdown and refusal to discuss abolishing ICE is partially responsible. 000
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 24/08/2026So Jonathan can just be ignored but Cofnas deserves to be debated at length. I wonder why. 020
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Give me a salary and critique me in peer review for my geocentrism theories, then 020
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026There are a limited number of jobs in university, why do you want to give them to pseudoscientists instead of scientists? 01370
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026See they probably aren't because of their strong anti-racist views 080
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'm glad I'm not alone in just being confused here. I'm wondering if Sky is treating spreadsheets as ~beta male~ tasks, implying that Ben is contrasting spreadsheet people with masculine manual labourers? 020
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Finally someone brave enough to say what we're all thinking. 011
Surfeit of Palfreys @surfeitofpalfreys.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yeah I think it's totally fair, mostly just unfortunate. I think it's hard because if even "it's not my job...", which is pretty neutral language, sounds (to Joel and others) like you're definitely trying to be a dick, then it's hard to think of good language to express the idea 000
