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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 16h

Ah, yes, the vague and non-responsive attempt at being funny to try and get out of the hole you've dug yourself into. This is of course typical of all professionals who know what they're talking about. Well played, good sir, well played.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

I really hope you're just trolling LOL.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

Pointing out that you can't both support communism AND the Constitution means I don't know what I'm talking about?

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

Which has helped bring us to where we are now...

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

Because we have increasingly rights-violating government, which everyone from the "Constitutional Professor," and his students seem to support...

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

So, you're a "Constitutional law prof and historical political scientist" in the US, and a supporter of communism, or something?

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

It doesn't need to be added. Once you have a rights-protecting government in politics, capitalism is the default in economics. I think political scientists and professors should know basic stuff like this. The fact that they don't explains how we've arrived at our current predicament in politics.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 17h

What do you mean no "billionaire lords?" It sounds like wacky leftist talking point. As "Constitutional law prof and political scientist" you understand that the function of gov is to protect individual rights, advocate a rights-protecting republic in politics, and capitalism in economics, right?

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 1d

But sadly, is it really all that different to the "plan" of mainstream Western experts in foreign policy?

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

It violates rights, it's unconstitutional, it's immoral, and it doesn't work in practice. IOW, literally *everything* is wrong with it.
Suggestion Israel is committing genocide is MAGA-IQ level stuff.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

Capitalism is the economic system that you have by default when the government is restricting to its proper function of protecting individual rights, AKA liberalism. The choice is liberalism (which means capitalism) vs authoritarianism in all its forms, Christian Nationalism, socialism, etc.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

We have nothing but authoritarians across the board in the mainstream. MAGA vs blue-MAGA. But the US is founded on the ideas of individual rights, and rights-protecting gov, which means capitalist economics.
Instead of advocating for liberalism, The Bulwark seems to be siding with one of the MAGA's.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

This candidate advocates socialized healthcare and thinks Israel is engaging in "genocide." This is as delusional as anything from MAGA, so I call those who support this blue-MAGA.
The Bulwark positively presenting this guy means while they oppose Trump, they have no idea what to actually support.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

I agree that socialists that want to redistribute other people's wealth are neither "progressive," nor interested in helping anyone. These are just blue-MAGA, and this appears to be The Bulwarks big plan to counter MAGA.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 2d

Israel is prevented from defeating Hamas once again. The Iranian regime has still not been toppled. Hezbollah hasn't surrendered and will rebuild. This is yet another inexplicable failure of Western foreign policy but the writers at The Bulwark seem to have missed the real issues completely.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 3d

So is The Bulwark just embracing blue-MAGA instead of red-MAGA, or something?

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 3d

Social media = private companies and so cannot affect anyone's free speech anyway. But I don't see how curation will change the general incompetence of our political intellectuals. You either have anti-vacc wackos, or anti-fossil fuel wackos. There are no rational actors in the mainstream anymore.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is a "plausible theory" in the same way that cargo cultists think building runways on their pacific island will bring back modern goods from the sky.
Tariffs need to be opposed because they violate rights.
Western political intellectuals are beyond parody at his point.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

Which is why the General’s words are empty. You can’t fight wars by only targeting military. This didn’t work against Taliban, Japan, Germany, etc. NATO cannot win any wars today because it treats warfare the way you treat a peacetime legal dispute. Our enemies actually take war seriously.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

So? Waiting until Article 5 needs to be triggered would be a massive self inflicted failure of foreign policy, not to mention that this war is entirely the fault of the West’s incompetence in foreign policy. Ukrainian’s are dying so Western experts can pretend they’re avoiding “escalation.”

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

If that was true then NATO would just do so now, but NATO couldn’t even destroy the Taliban. Unfortunately the West has no real foreign policy, and approaches war as if it’s a peacetime legal dispute.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

Every branch of gov failing to do it’s job means we have a lack of expertise in politics, not that the design has failed.

delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

Putin wants to avoid NATO crushing him, and the best way to do that is to act aggressively so that the delusional pacifist/Just War Theory advocates that dominate Western foreign policy back off.

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delserv.bsky.social @delserv.bsky.social · 4d

It’s bait only if they are *not* shot down. The moment NATO declares war Russia is finished. Putin knows this, but Western foreign policy experts are breathtakingly incompetent, so he knows how to play them like a fiddle.

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