Scott Beckett (@scottbeckett) — Bluesky Profile

4 months ago

The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

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4 months ago

a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe

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5 months ago

One is directed by John Carpenter and starts Christopher Reeves and the other is Children of the Corn

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5 months ago

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Spielberg has a history of this

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5 months ago

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5 months ago

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

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6 months ago

Attn @recdiffs.bsky.social

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6 months ago

a man with long hair is saying `` i would do anything for love but i wont do that '' ALT: a man with long hair is saying `` i would do anything for love but i wont do that ''

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6 months ago

“I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards!”

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6 months ago

Well the thing is she had the experience to know that without some serious acid for balance, that sweetness was just going to become cloying.

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6 months ago

The Washington Wizards cannot be said to be at the forefront of many sports developments, but they might be leaders on this front.

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7 months ago

At Springfield Mall outside DC ours was called Chesapeake Knife & Tool. I remember it fondly.

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8 months ago

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc.

There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation.

There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:

The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

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8 months ago

I forget who but someone on this film said Hackman was the scariest actor they ever worked with, even in this role.

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8 months ago

Counterpoint:

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8 months ago

See also: war.

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9 months ago

Crazy that LGM is twice as good as Momofuku for 1/3 the price

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10 months ago

Hey, you got your peanut butter in my chocolate!

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10 months ago

Do you use headphones for listening to sleep? As a side sleeper I’m on an Arthurian quest for headphones I can sleep in.

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10 months ago

Cinematrix No. 395: April 25, 2025 Can you name an Oscar-nominated movie starring Willem Dafoe?

Vulture Cinematrix No. 395: Apr 25, 2025

I got 5/9 Correct
Score: 1348

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Play at:
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#VultureOchiGrid

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11 months ago

JD Vance wearing a big green coat and looking like a confused asshole in Greenland

Bro definitely is a The Thing

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11 months ago

If you don’t like Contrapoints videos we probably can’t be friends

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11 months ago

“During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one track in the mix, it was then that I carried the beat.”

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11 months ago

I think Fujis are the best, most consistent daily driver.

Granny Smiths are incredibly tart and always crisp. You will know immediately based on your reaction to that description if you are a Granny Smith person or not.

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1 year ago