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It's funny how cartoonishly bad Old (2021) is considering the graphic novel its based on, Sandcastle, is genuinely pretty moving? What a complete mess.

to better nurture their young 🤨but go off

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...

I take it all back u will be punished

that girl in the photo is about to sprout wings to soar and so are u

bc it went from a trap to a threat

this is what killed David Lynch

tbf that's all early digital revolution content. U gotta make the services appealing before you lock down the system and start extracting. I'm looking at you, Gamepass.

oof very much that

oh its big, dumb, and freaky i know it

tbh I remember using Hulu in highschool, rip. Also Hulu has lowkey been one of the sneakier better services for content, I hope this doesn't change their production pipeline at all.

US medical care is expensive, rationed, and often not patient-centered, so it's not surprising to me that people seek alternatives. See also: "wellness".

We've shifted risk to individuals, who are responding by acting like people, and tech corps are taking advantage of them. It's a systems problem.

Idk I just post

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I like the glowing sense of pride in the second. A proud mother

oh no

maybe this is expressing a type way too hard

YouTube video by Gianmarco Soresi A Happy Trail to Nowhere with Emil Wakim

and let’s just throw Emil Wakim in there, holy shit

showing gay men the existence of Gianmarco Soresi is like showing ppl the video from the Ring

give her the gun

I would buy a Labubu Rifle

snakeman on the train

I think ppl forget she’s 27. Like if she’s a zoomer that’s def an elder zoomer.

Digital Necromancy in the Age of AI Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligen...

I wrote about the horrifying use of AI to resurrect the dead as hollow simulacrum puppeted by the living and why we should reject normalizing this as it dehumanizes the living and desecrates our humanity.

www.thedissident.news/digital-necr...

he said he fell and really hurt himself and ya'll are mocking him...

why is the president on the roof

some of ya'll are in denial about this #truthbomb