Jonathan Kincade

And the editorial standards at WaPo continue sinking.

Proud em dash overuser since 2008

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Conservatives love touting their adherence to constitutional values, but this wholesale abandonment of those values only shows a willingness to do whatever is necessary to keep their boots on throats. I don't think they truly believe antifa or terrorist are among those protesting. It's all pretext.

There are issues with contemporary leftism (different convo)-- because, again, nothing can be best--but not nihilism. Everything can be rethought in a world that is always shifting. Critique can be an act of LOVE, when done a certain way, and to not engage in it shows a lack of care and stewardship.

The correct answer to people protesting your administration is "that is your right, in our democracy, as indicated by the 1st amendment." Anything else misunderstands the spirit of democracy. I'm not convinced that this isn't just about a narrative for their base. That's what is nihilistic about it.

Everything is "best" or "greatest" and any hint otherwise makes them cry. Critique, the idea that something could be better for anyone and everyone, shatters that self-image. It's a Lacanian field day on display.

Mike Johnson, Trump, and their an ilk can't stand free speech. That's why they have to strawman protest, and paint the world in nihilistic terms. They cry like children whenever anyone has a critique. Instead of responding to the critique, they disparage people.

the whole point of mass protest is to demonstrate overwhelming opposition to the political direction, at a scale that can't be cracked down on

dress comfortably and stay away from anyone inciting violence, but don't let clout chasers scare you into losing sight of how the basic concept works

I definitely feel more than a little scorn people who just leave their bikeshare or scooters in the MIDDLE of a sidewalk or somewhere else that is inconvenient for literally everyone passing by but the rider.

The punk ethos has always been about mutual aid and community. We *know* our systems and institutions will fail us; that’s why we’re punks. “Pick someone up in the pit” is much more than literal, and especially when we’re most down in the shit, we need to remember that.

Two shots from a series titled "Burdens."

As a photographer, I use the thirds composition a lot and have to remind myself that other approaches exist. It's just a really easy way to make a photo look pleasing but doesn't always lead to something captivating or provoking.

What are some of your "bad habits" as an artist in whatever medium?

I overuse em dashes and have to shave off many to sharpen their impact. As a fiction writer I often sit back down to a manuscript and find I slipped into present tense at and point (which is a screenwriting thing).

Also, these "kids" are 30. I'm 35 y'all. Am I a kid too?

None of my chats has ever looked like that in my life. I was a really stupid kid once, but not stupid enough to confuse a joke and an insult to someone's humanity. I can't even, with the mental gymnastics people perform to explain away something they should just acknowledge is fucked up.

People who post about Charlie Kirk's demonstrably hateful approach to understanding the world problems's apparently deserve to have their lives upended, but closeted Republican bigots are just "kids making jokes" in a telegram chat.

The hypocrisy is ASTOUNDING. It's ok for ice to racially profile people, which has led to constitutional violations, attempts to redistrict for Black voters isn't ok and DOES violate the constitution.

The original, not three

This is such a big point people miss. I have an edition of Wittenstein's Tractatus that separates each page of the text into three columns. One for the original Austrian and two others for three prevailing English translations. They are subtly but significantly different!

That's fascinating! I'm not a moral philosopher but I would think shame is so fertile a concept for inquiry. Lack of shame seems to involve an internal posture in which ones episteme supercedes the world. As a fellow Heidegger scholar I'm wondering how that's informing your approach.

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Exactly. Shame as a political tool is useful and corrective--and something we have that stops short of physical violence.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

God may be dead but got replaced by science. Knowledge may be concentrated in "scientific method," but people neglect that way they refer to science it in a manner that often mirrors religious practice.

Also, standing in queues.

As a result, certain political positions, and the corroded morals behind them, can attest to being "equal" to everyone, despite evidence demonstrating otherwise. Yet, evidence and argumentation rarely matter in the face of those who have already decided what they believe to be true.

Admittedly, some of this malaise seems related to the fact that political and social reality no longer have a locus we can return to. We don't know whether we can believe what comes across the Internet and it's diminishing our ability to discern what happened and what hasn't.

This sort of logic seems to apply to so much in our political moment--especially when it comes to the court's preference for the administration. Look at the data compared to any other administration's approach to litigation and you'll see the number of attempts and successes pale in comparison.

If the Supreme Court thinks everyone deserves "equal protection" under the law, it should be patently illegal to withhold funding, already allocated, from political opponents. The animus is apparent and anyone who doesn't see either doesn't want to, or just sure agrees with the approach.

Could you say more about that?

YES! We need to bring back shame as a way of pointing out untenable positions that use "civility" as a mask of plausible deniability. No bro, thinking I'm subhuman is a nonstarter for political convo.