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Jeff introduced the term "destroy", Matt affirmed "absolutely, lol" Matt has proceeded to reject liberal pluralism, which suggests a preference for Hobbesian total war prior to the Treaty of Westphalia & its principle of sovereignty.

What do you think happens when a nation is destroyed?

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I think MSF advisor Bouchet-Saulnier, linked above, makes a reasonable argument based on centuries of experience. Sovereignty is at the core of liberal internationalism.

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guide-humanitarian-law.org

The liberals who built the UN took a different view. Art 2(7) "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state" guide-humanitarian-law.org/sovereignty

Sovereignty | The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law

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In response to destroying Saudi, you said "absolutely, lol" You appear to be advocating for the destruction of many nations.

Jordan, India, New Zealand and many other nations have separate political rights for minorities. Tossing another 1.5 billion people into the fire?

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How many of the current states in the UN do you advocate should be destroyed? What sort of world would emerge from all that violence?

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I have bad news for you about the UAE.

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I try to distinguish the joke of a US green party from European Greens, but it's getting hard.

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Median UK income is about 10 times Russia's. Poland is about twice Russia's.

tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 02/10/2026

Or use them as a foil.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 02/10/2026

Jesus explicitly rejects Old Testament retribution in the Sermon on the Mount. Knowles is rejecting Jesus.

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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So yeah, everyone has seen space boot camp. You've seen and read space wars. You have not read "Haunted war hero becomes resident advisor for freshman dorm from hell and makes friends with adorable space capybara." And you should, 'cause the whole thing is a lot of fun.

Cover for Life After Hell.
Art by Lee Moyer.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Keynesian beauty contest. "we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be."

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"to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes" The agreement of the people involved is what matters.

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I understand that you oppose a two state solution, you side with Likud. No need to beat a dead horse.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 26/09/2026

Yes, he supports land swaps. The concessions you pretend didn't exist in Oslo.

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Golan is making a joke about his opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Maybe you support them, who knows?

A glance at OpenSecrets, looking at cost of fundraising, shows that the DSCC is raising more than it costs.

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I get it, you don't like Carville. He's raising tens of millions in these final days to help flip the senate, why choose to trash him at this critical point? Bonica's work is misleading at best, the party committees are not scam pacs. He timed it to do the most damage to this midterm.

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That is part of the disinformation. DSCC fundraising is efficient, it's not a scam pac.

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Dems are being outspent across House and Senate races. They disagree over where to put the money they have.

Those Carville texts are for flipthesenate.com, the DSCC fundraising effort putting money into new senate opportunities rather than campaigns like Talarico's which have plenty. This misinformation makes it harder for us expand targets. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Senate Democrats are split on spending big in deeper-red territory. House Dems are pushing deeper, according to a POLITICO analysis.

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Val @yogival.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Heading to Barcelona next month for Mozfest to host the 2026 Winners Showcase - Protopian Prize Fiction Contest 🔮🕊️ @r-emrys.bsky.social @lizbarry.bsky.social @glichfield.bsky.social Lmk if you'll be there! 😍 @mozilla.org @metagov.bsky.social events.mozillafoundation.org/e/mozilla-fe...

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 24/09/2026

What trends are you referring to?

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The DNC is not mentioned. During the biggest Democratic opportunity in 50 years the DNC is broke and not a factor.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 23/09/2026

In my experience what you call "thinking" is the post-hoc rationalization of my internal thoughts. I have to suppress or distract the conscious aspect to think through a problem. Like the shower effect.

tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 23/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV made the strong version of this argument. This is an example of why I don't take libertarians seriously, they avoid the religious implications of their arguments & don't engage with the post-modern alternatives. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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VP Kamala Harris: I'm here to support Dr. El-Sayed because I know he will be a champion on this subject. We have one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world, so it raises the issue of hypocrisy when there are leaders who walk around every day talking about family values.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 22/09/2026

That's what she gets for helping El-Sayed motivate base voters in Michigan.

tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 22/09/2026

All mathematicians stand in the shoulders of giants.

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It's a Manhattan joke. I was an NYC transplant w/a car.

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His reasoning is clear: "Mutual assured destruction."

Transplants in NYC are the people with cars.

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Ask Turing himself: "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted." His prediction was wrong, as we can see in this thread, "And yet it moves"

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nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu

Heidegger's "Question Concerning Technology" might give you a different impression. nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/heide...

So I think we're still looking for the third thing. My education is limited to Plato, Aristotle, Acquinas, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Habermas, etc. I haven't read as much analytic philosophy, not to mention other traditions. I don't know where to find the third thing.

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Seems like German Idealism is solidly 2.

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I'm struggling with a historian being ignorant of how personalist regimes work. Granted, it's unusual for the US, but even here back channels have a history.

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Very Heideggerian. Aristotle's Organon, & for me Categories specifically, underlie my understanding of CS & set theory. I don't find his Metaphysics as useful. Aquinas & Kant are better in my view, with less Zauberung.

tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 20/09/2026

I don't think Greek Animism is a way to understanding. The modern rational world, & LLMs, follow disenchantment.

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Confabulation is a very human thing.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 18/09/2026

e.g. Yudkowsky, MacAskill probably shouldn't work with & inspire that guy.

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tiburke @thomas.burked.com · 18/09/2026

Sure, but many of these people are ideologically incoherent. Much of the predictive framework appears to be BS.