Luke

2002?

Wisconsin has already had statutory voter ID requirements since 2011. The referendum just constitutionalized it, insulating it from state courts.
Not good and not a real change to the status quo.

what a weird and parasocial request to make of someone

Time to Topple the Fourteenth Amendment - Chronicles The Fourteenth Amendment is not a beatific and integral part of some mythical “Second Founding.” Indeed, it undermines republican government.

chroniclesmagazine.org/view/time-to...

I think we are talking about very different things. Shelby Cole does not knock on doors.

people dont get hired to work elections because they, like, win elections. they get hired based on what connections they have—to donors, to candidates, to existing staff, etc.
If this was a merit-based industry you would see massive leadership turnover every cycle, but we do not see this.

Nazi wojak saying: "Don't you lay a finger on the transgenders. They're pare of our Western culture."

Shocked that this is a non-zero constituency.

Interwar Japan was my first thought.
"In my view it is loyal not to obey the [Taisho] emperor’s word if we deem it to be disadvantageous to the state." (Bix 2001)
De facto independent departments/underlings that are ostensibly controlled by the Imperial Autocrat—oops I mean Unitary Executive.

Airbnb I may have to think harder about.
I will say that most of my experiences with them have been negative, fundamentally arising from the anti-centralized regulatory structure. Very hard to resist overcharging and extra fees applied maliciously.

I agree the Uber problem is primarily labor-side. It’s burrito taxiism, essentially. As someone who lives somewhere without taxis, Uber has value, for sure, but it is exploitative in-practice and relies on the dishonesty of “independent contracts” which I take fundamental issue with.

Like it’s giving the “right wingers describe crimes vaguely” meme.
“Oh so it’s illegal to charge money to give someone a ride in my car?”
Yes! When there is an existing regulatory regime for this, and you do not abide by it, that is a crime!!

I mean, they are both blatant skirting of existing consumer/worker protection schemes. Criticize the cab/hotel regulatory regime, sure, but I don’t think just ignoring them is good, especially when it requires you to lie about what your industry is (Uber isn’t a cab! Airbnb isn’t a *real* rental!)

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I'm taking a seminar on postwar liberalism right this semester and we just read Shkalr, Berlin, and Cherniss. All this value pluralism shit sounds great on paper but I just do not have it in me to say "my political rivals [the GOP] are valid interlocutors and deserves respect" with a straight face.

Broke: politics is the art of the possible. in a world of finite resources, people of good faith will always disagree about the best path forward

Woke: the other guys are insane corrupt Nazis

I'm not really sure what to say to that. I'm not voting for Fukuyama for president, I just think he's a perceptive thinker who can help us better understand history and politics. You don't have to think a person is a saint to read their works productively.

Much more complicated than that. It’s a snappy provocative title leading actually good analysis. Not 100% correct as prophetic vision, but still pretty damn impressive.

mr chief justice and may it please the court, the economy sucked shit during the Founding era ergo it must by legal necessity also suck now. thank you, i welcome your questions.

A former video games journalist who got involved in right-wing online politics starting in the 2010s? Did he get radicalized by GamerGate?

Actor Joe Alwyn also played Adolf Eichmann's Nazi son Klaus in OPERATION FINALE (2018)

John Ganz on twitter: "left wing intellectuals on right wing intellectuals: wow look at all these fun weirdos, i am gonna make a special scrap book of their ideas...omg do i have a crush? right wing intellectuals on left wing intellectuals: look, these guys are all jews"

It's less the transgression of social norms that gets them off, it's the transgression of YOU.
The point is to make YOU feel unwelcome and unsafe, to put YOU in your place in the social hierarchy.
They don't want 'freedom' they want to hurt people.

Straussianism is best conceived as a method of reading texts, not a set of normative ideas.
In addition to esotericism, they have a certain idea of The Canon and a commitment to Natural Law and transhistorical truth-seeking as its self-ID'd goal.
That said, Claremont is just all that but evil(er).

“The Chinese government does it. Ergo, it is bad” pbs.twimg.com/media/GMGFku...

News to me, could you expand on this?

Trump's Neo-Fusionism Using Rothbard vs. Francis to Understand the Administration

To wit: open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

The assumption implicit in Cliston's thread is that the people Republicans target are not actually people.

I think Fukuyama was more right than wrong. His problem-diagnoses are very perceptive! His wrong-ness is mostly confined to edgy Hegelian nomenclature and milquetoast recommendations.

It's all a team sport for Harper. This is the only way it can make sense to think that Bouie's (correct!) statement means he is pro-police violence(???)

There are the Woke Elite and there are the Noble Truthsayers. Any criticism towards members of the latter team is the same as joining the former.