I am Assistant Professor of Political Theory at a University whose identity I choose not to disclose here
i would opt not to because i think it would discomfort me. i don't like seeing myself on video, for example.
Big JoelI ask my gf, what would you pay to, just for a moment, be in another body so you could look at yourself. She says nothing. She says she doesn’t care. She’d tenatively do it for free. Is that normal. I would maybe pay one thousand dollars for this
fun thing is, due to realities of party infrastructure & inertia, they’re locked into saying “trump good” for awhile even if he’s gone & 75% hated: they can’t correct w/o pissing off the deadender base. only thing that saved them from that with w bush was trump himself, and there won’t be another
Greg SargentTrump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
and w.e.b. dubois, on the whole not a great picker of teams
CalliopeThis is true - and certainly, there *were* firm believers in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Take, for instance, the IJA soldiers who stayed behind in Vietnam to fight alongside the Viet Minh against the French! But the concept was *far* more racialized than US equivalents.
academia is enormously similar to high school partly because most academics went straight from high school to it. what else do you expect them to be good at??
noamAcademia is a bit like high school except social capital accrues to the people who are the best at making nerdy arguments rather than the captain of the football team. It gets used for bullying and domination in analogous ways
US has been spoiled by History in two bad ways. 1: they were the winning & casualty-lite party in a few massive, megadeadly wars that were also (rarity of rarities) just. so they think war is good. 2: they think "civil war" means two states facing off along a clear line, and so do not fear it enough
Sky MarchiniSince we are apparently doing Civil War discourse on this website again, I will reiterate my position that another Civil War in this country would not be civilians fighting the government, it would be an increasingly desperate government trying to stop opposing militias from killing each other 
i think musk buying twitter may be viewed in retrospect as a actually bad for the radical right. trump could mainstream fascism partly bc he never said openly "the nazis were good" stuff. musktwitter lets the freak flag fly all the time so "plausible deniability," which was load-bearing, is now gone
a big mistake (that you could learn is a big mistake from the movies, but i digress) is to assume that men who seem soft and easy when they are not angry, cannot get angry, or that their anger, once aroused, would be significantly softer or easier than those conspicuously 'rougher' to begin with
Patrick WymanLot of inoffensive guys who coach their daughters’ soccer teams strongly considering the politics of blood and revenge, chat is that good for the Republican Party
it occurs to me that the thing about being a thoroughgoing aristotelian is it basically guarantees you suck, but being not aristotelian at all or an aristotelianism denialist is probably even worse... oh. it's a golden mean situation. alas. fucker. he's waiting to pounce behind every corner
gigercatcontrary to what much of this site believes, your actions (in addition to, and more than your intent) matter and will modify who you are. treating people online like shit will eventually make you a worse person IRL. in order to be good you have to practice at being good.
he's a monkey's paw curl on this book, basically
Tina MelquistIDK about that. If Trump taught us anything, it’s that saying things that a lot of people are thinking but are too restrained to say can actually be a winning political strategy.
i think about half the time or more the terms “pro-AI” and “anti-AI” currently index politically relevant hatred of the couple of main silicon valley guys, or perhaps firms—in other words, are misnomers for being pro- or anti- a handful of human beings
William B. Fuckley'pro-AI' and 'anti-AI' are basically meaningless as labels and anyone putting particularly great stock in them is increasingly unserious imo. it's a bunch of shit in a bunch of different dimensions. I am extremely anti-AI in education, I also think it's a clearly useful tool in applied settings.
“in republics there is greater life, greater hatred, and more desire for vengeance; the memory of their ancient liberty does not and cannot allow them to rest”
Josh Marshallthis is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.