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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 4h

I have mostly gotten over my high school dismissal of continental philosophy but I still do think it’s the case that the culture around continental philosophy on the internet is extremely annoying and cultish in a way online analytic culture largely isn’t.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t fully agree with it but I do think postmodern readings of Hayek are genuinely tracking something interesting about his thought.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 6h

I am more and more convinced that if we cannot think through this than liberalism and the cosmopolitan moral project is dead.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 6h

The state is not a God who can remake society at will. Institutional design is important but it cannot by itself do the hard work of actually winning hearts and minds to a liberal worldview and values.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 6h

I am begging and pleading with people here to take civil society and social norms seriously as determiners of political outcomes.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 7h

Also like why does everyone assume local here necessarily means small town?

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12h

Like second reconstruction required a lot of groundwork in civil society to get off the ground and was still faced and faces strong resistance even after the Civil Rights Movement got legislative backing. And that’s in a country were only a significant minority to plurality are dyed in the wool

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12h

I think the bigger issue is that if a super majority of the population holds regressive views no matter what the structure of the government is it’s probably going to reflect those views or be irrelevant.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12h

On the one I agree with social anarchist critics that they don’t give enough thought to how these assemblies would be captured by culturally rw forces at the same most of those same critics then never turn around and think about how this also applies to large centralized states either.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13h

I love winning arguments.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13h

is about whether it is true that only the state can provide this good to an acceptable degree so your argument that I can’t judge the state for Trump being an idiot then only works assuming your conclusion is true hence it being question begging.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13h

more like choosing between rival safety and organizational procedures at this reactor whereas for what you are arguing the state in these metaphors is the car and the plant which in the logic of the metaphors are required to achieve the result. The thing is though our substantive disagreement

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13h

out obstacles in the form of bad government actors to the consistent provision of that good. My assertion is that the question of government vs anarchy for the provision of the good of international trade is more like choosing between the different kinds of race cars or for your new metaphor

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13h

You are begging the question. Of course to do a thing the thing needs to be done the point of disagreement is *if/how the thing can or should be done*. My point was that if we are defending states abilities to secure the good of international trade then it is in fact legitimate to point

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14h

failure states then in a counterfactual anarchy. Of course you can dispute that but either way my point stands that it is perfectly above board for anarchists to point to something like Trump destroying the global trade order in the name of idiotic machismo as an argument against states.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14h

bad outcome I would never deny this nor would I deny that any feasible anarchy won’t have localized failure states, I’m not pollyannaish about this. The point is that given the wildly asymmetric access to coercive force required by states you are going to have much more severe and wide reaching

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14h

argument against states. You can’t just assume good government actors as the default and treat bad government actors as aberrant both always have a potential to crop up in the system. Of course anarchy is not different if you only have immoral and incompetent people you’re also going to have

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14h

and crash that will result in my death. It seems quite obvious that, while both of these outcomes are bad and a result of my lack of finesse with the car, that car A is superior to car B because it mitigated my incompetence. So yes I can obviously point Trump’s incompetence and insanity as an

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14h

I’m going to answer the rest later but I do want to isolate this point. To go back to the metaphor above let’s say I have the option to drive two race cars A and B. Let’s stipulate that if I drive car A poorly and crash that will only result in me breaking an arm and if I drive car B poorly

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

addresses the substantive issues people who advocate those kinds of arrangements have about modern and historical states.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I want to make it clear I am not trying to water down anarchism here I’m just trying to head off the move that tries to define anarchism out of existence by saying that e.g. market anarchist polycentric legal systems or social anarchist federated communes count as states anyway as if that

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

diplomacy and soft power then you really should think that anarchy could work better than you think. The phrase “state-like” also seems potentially question begging against the anarchist as it doesn’t pick out by itself any of the aspects of modern and historical states that anarchists find salient.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Also if you’re going to admit (and I see no rational way to deny this) that the US led international order worked as well as it did for as long as it did because by and large the US didn’t try to exercise the kind of control that would be expected by a true global state but functioned off

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

that caused another nearby critical node in the global trade network to be severely restricted is our current state of affairs can you see why I think the anarchist has a point that this is unsustainable?

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I mean given that currently a critical node in the global trade network is being heavily restricted by a group of state backed pirates that were partially able to capture it because the state that upholds the global trade order decided to start a completely pointless war

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Smh that Claude has not put out the triple fires of passion, hatred, and delusion.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

rare in world historical terms and very susceptible to collapse).

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The difference is that I’m both more optimistic about the ability of those things to be provided without states and more pessimistic about states abilities to consistently provide those things (it should never be forgotten that the relatively beneficent liberal democratic states are both

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Like it seems very possible that this isn’t sustainable even with states because if this requires a system with only one or two guarantors what happens if one or both them decides “fuck it we don’t want to do it”?

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would have two responses to this one would be that I wouldn’t be so quick to discount the idea that we couldn’t have gotten to this a different way and two would be even if we do I think we should maybe question how stable and sustainable that order is given current events.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

but the point still stands that they were able to exist without a true final authority)

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Given that those supply chains are able to exist in a context of international anarchy already this strikes me as one of the things that’s relatively easy to imagine persisting without states. (Yes I know these supply chains are currently under threat because of that same anarchy

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think the problem is lesa what do you replace the state with because there are a lot of plausible options the bigger problem is how do you create the conditions so that any of those opportunities aren’t strangled in the crib.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I got off for the opposite reason which was that constantly seeing nazi posts made me want to do ToS violations to those users daily and that was bad for my soul.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Broke: Is Claude ensouled? Can it go to heaven? Woke: Does Claude have Buddha-Nature? Can Claude put out the triple fire of Hatred, Passion, and Delusion and become an Awakened One?

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I remember watching a Youtuber a few years back who had the line that Fire Emblem games were designed on accident and damn if that isn’t even more true for Pokemon.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The conflict I feel between wanting people to drive slower on the interstate vs opposing nanny state shit and also recognizing the US relatively high car crash rate is still pretty low in absolute terms.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The funny irony in this is that in the actual literature on social trust ethnic diversity doesn’t change much one way or the other but things like secret police and general authoritarianism are shown uniformly to destroy social trust.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“To the ICE agent who took away my mother: I hope it was worth it,” wrote Samuel Gonzalez Terrones before taking his own life. This is the reality of what mass deportation looks like. Not only impacting those who are detained but also leaving a path of destruction for the family they leave behind.

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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide

Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to bear.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is a part of me that thinks that as long as life sentences exist, capital punishments are relatively more humane but then remembers the existence of delayed executions.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I participated in it at the time but in retrospect “mucho texto” was a deeply evil and anti-intellectual meme.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To be that guy Romanus IV Diogenes wasn’t a blood relation of Constantine X Ducas he married into the imperial by marrying Constantine’s widow (which part of the reason Manzikert ended up being such a disaster because it triggered a coup and civil war by the rest of the Ducas clan).

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The biggest argument for the importance of philosophy is how many people who are anti philosophy cannot answer a basic self refutation argument.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad should not be that far apart.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite from Yud specifically is “billions of people experiencing mild discomfort from a speck of dust getting in their eye is worse than one child being horrifically tortured“ just creating a thought experiment perfectly designed to demonstrate the separateness of persons objection and just

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is something kinda awesome about p(doom) people biting the bullet on every reductio meant to motivate a rejection of utilitarianism.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s something very pathetic about like 10th generation Irish Americans who have very strong opinions on The Troubles.

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Drunk on Being @yarnnilats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean I think the social libertarian case is strongest with normie voters the question is would dems have credibility to make that case? They should still try it anyway but I have my doubts.

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