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Elliot
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · Aug 14
Today's poem: Heather Christle, "Perfect Song"
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h
it’s the tiki magic
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3h
Great thread.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 4h
THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h
hams / calves / abs ✅
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h
he’s surrounded by yes men who are enamored with his power and willing to play whatever fantasy games he dreams up.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h
like i know the average american is pretty thick, but this just looks like the Vice President is trying to cover for someone who was handed a paper bag full of cash as a bribe.

(and it looks like that because that’s exactly what it is)
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h
Vance is terrible at the non-denial denial. He needs to go back to Nixon Bootcamp and learn how to change the subject without making yourself look like an idiot.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
*Ken
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
😂
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
(sometimes is kind of a lie. just had this thought for the first time ever)
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
sometimes i think my life is a perpetual performance meant to impress no one real, but a future, idealized version of myself whose approval i am desperate to secure.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
this is a pretty good sales pitch
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 4h
it’s not always there. and sometimes it takes a few passes to pick up on it (the musical analogue in my mind is listening to mahler… may sound like sonic mush at first but after a while your ear starts to get it)
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5h
something people don’t really take much note of is that prose also has a rhythm, can be almost metrical, and the placement of stresses and pauses, the use of various stylistic devices, (chiasmus, parallelism, the mighty tricolon) creates a musicality that draws the reader in and makes words sing.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5h
Today’s poem: Hart Crane, “My Grandmother’s Love Letters”
#lunchpoems
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5h
it’s not a competition but you are crushing it with this series
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5h
maple bacon long john
and a flat white with skim
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 6h
Fully funded! You guys rock.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 8h
Reading The Plague was a great experience for me in high school. Toss $5 this guy’s way if you can spare it.
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Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 2d
I know there's a million worthy causes to fund but may I suggest this teacher in Maryland who wants to buy two Albert Camus novels for his AP students? Please and thank you?

www.donorschoose.org/project/2-no...
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
Yeah, there's truth to that. Also the whole framework of a debate or argument means that each person's narrative "role" in the activity requires opposition to the other. We tend to treat disagreements like games with winners and losers.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
There are positions I hold now that five or ten years ago I would have viciously mocked. People do come around, but always in their own time.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
I have often changed my mind, but it's always a day or two (or months, or years) later. Arguments are interpretive tools you're making available to your conversation partner. It's their choice whether to use them, but the tools stick around, and someday they might remember them and use them.
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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · 7h
Just a reminder that pretty much nobody changes their mind in the heat of a debate or under intense scrutiny. People go away, mull over things and slowly change lanes like they're sailing an oil tanker!

Don't ever expect to win someone over in the moment with facts and logic.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
And he wants to grasp the big picture in part because he wants to drive a narrative that will make him important to people in power, get him a seat at the table, etc.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
Instead, what he's always talking about is figuring out how to put a finger on the civilization-scale currents he thinks are driving events. "What's going on? What's the big picture?" He can't see particulars, he can only reason in sweeping generalizations.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
What really matters to him isn't particularly advancing Christianity or reforming the church or spreading the gospel or whatever (he raised both his kids as secular jews, his wife is liberal and non-religious).
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
He has little evident commitment to theological tradition as authoritative or worthy of interest (aside from patristic literature). If he's a reform of the reform guy, it's not because he wants to re-integrate pre-1962 traditions. He doesn't seem to give a shit.
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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h
pose a threat to one of the core orienting certainties people have in life.

Go through his columns and try to find him speaking clearly and with conviction about a theological question that isn't just a reaction to current events, motivated by culture war loyalties. You won't find much.
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