William B. Fuckley
@opinionhaver.bsky.social
Endowed chair of the Tocqueville-Rand Freedom Enterprise Markets Innovation Center (disputed). Bound but not protected, I lie but I do not pretend. 🚰 🏗
I did not think this was necessary to specify, but in light of an angry dm I just received, I would like to clarify that the region along the CA-AZ border is a perfectly safe place. It is not a lawless buffer zone. Posts to the contrary from this account were fiction. I apologize for any confusion.
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I did not think this was necessary to specify, but in light of an angry dm I just received, I would like to clarify that the region along the CA-AZ border is a perfectly safe place. It is not a lawless buffer zone. Posts to the contrary from this account were fiction. I apologize for any confusion.
something I've noticed with right wingers is that they don't really understand like what tradeoffs *are* they just kind of generally fetishize the aesthetic of Hard Men, Hard Choices, so we get idiot playacting at Hard Choices like committing war crimes to stop .000000000004% of illegal drugs
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
something I've noticed with right wingers is that they don't really understand like what tradeoffs *are* they just kind of generally fetishize the aesthetic of Hard Men, Hard Choices, so we get idiot playacting at Hard Choices like committing war crimes to stop .000000000004% of illegal drugs
one of the worst things about being on the job market is when you're waiting to hear back from a place and you get the little adrenaline shock whenever there's an email notification and it's from your gym or some shit like that.
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
one of the worst things about being on the job market is when you're waiting to hear back from a place and you get the little adrenaline shock whenever there's an email notification and it's from your gym or some shit like that.
my most nuclear take is that in an ideal political economy The Groups would just be small political parties that got a couple of seats in some proportional representation system, making all of policy asks, coalitions, etc. much more explicit and comprehensible
I think there are good critiques of The Groups and their modes of doing politics. Important to understand their purpose and not overindex on their opinions given their limited constituencies.
That said, some pundits take on this is essentially “Ignore liberal civic society” which is not tenable.
That said, some pundits take on this is essentially “Ignore liberal civic society” which is not tenable.
December 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
my most nuclear take is that in an ideal political economy The Groups would just be small political parties that got a couple of seats in some proportional representation system, making all of policy asks, coalitions, etc. much more explicit and comprehensible
Deleted previous post because working was imprecise: party of Cuellar getting back into leadership was due to being very well connected with some Latino advocacy orgs and CHC generally, is the (secondhand and this information is worth what you’re paying for it) story that I heard.
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Deleted previous post because working was imprecise: party of Cuellar getting back into leadership was due to being very well connected with some Latino advocacy orgs and CHC generally, is the (secondhand and this information is worth what you’re paying for it) story that I heard.
I guess I do have one more thought on this, which is that we still really don't have a morally coherent way of thinking about what the ethics and obligations of 'poster' as a political category are.
the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem
December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I guess I do have one more thought on this, which is that we still really don't have a morally coherent way of thinking about what the ethics and obligations of 'poster' as a political category are.
a sort of funny thing about Zohran being a mostly normal politician very open to coalition-builidng is that some of his more anti-social supporters are trying to do the football spiking thing to people who are basically fine with him winning.
December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
a sort of funny thing about Zohran being a mostly normal politician very open to coalition-builidng is that some of his more anti-social supporters are trying to do the football spiking thing to people who are basically fine with him winning.
the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem
huh, the rob Reiner post has even some of the most brain melted going 'yeah that's not a good look'. I think it's because it's personally humiliating for them because the party line was 'you'll NEVER see US reveling in someone's death'
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
huh, the rob Reiner post has even some of the most brain melted going 'yeah that's not a good look'. I think it's because it's personally humiliating for them because the party line was 'you'll NEVER see US reveling in someone's death'
I love how PeopleSoft manages to make entering some information in a text field feel inordinately stressful and high-stakes
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love how PeopleSoft manages to make entering some information in a text field feel inordinately stressful and high-stakes
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On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
4-plex going up a few blocks from me. Gonna see about getting a showing when it's done. If we can see 2 adjacent units at the same time I'll bring a lil Bluetooth speaker to test the acoustic performance between units.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
There aren't offset studs between units, so I figure it will perform poorly.
December 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.
Skimming the white wolf wiki because I had no idea who the govt ant-vampire people who show up in the third act of the bloodlines 2 game were, and man the writers of this setting really like the “what if the REAL monster is…humanity”, huh. Personally I think the real monster is still the vampires.
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Skimming the white wolf wiki because I had no idea who the govt ant-vampire people who show up in the third act of the bloodlines 2 game were, and man the writers of this setting really like the “what if the REAL monster is…humanity”, huh. Personally I think the real monster is still the vampires.
A really unfortunate thing about SF politics is that people like the Network State dipshits genuinely are fascist adjacent grifter morons, *and* many of their highest profile detractors are like the most uncharitable caricature of dysfunctional left wings politics possible.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A really unfortunate thing about SF politics is that people like the Network State dipshits genuinely are fascist adjacent grifter morons, *and* many of their highest profile detractors are like the most uncharitable caricature of dysfunctional left wings politics possible.
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one time i saw a guy in a fedora and trench coat leaving a convenience store and was in the middle of thinking “well well well if it isn’t mr internet” when he handed a homeless man a sandwich
December 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
one time i saw a guy in a fedora and trench coat leaving a convenience store and was in the middle of thinking “well well well if it isn’t mr internet” when he handed a homeless man a sandwich
New Knives out quite good. Manages to neither be sneeringly anti-religious nor doing that tired trope where the arrogant atheists are humbled by simple faith. Actual adult treatment of religiosity that’s kind of rare these days.
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
New Knives out quite good. Manages to neither be sneeringly anti-religious nor doing that tired trope where the arrogant atheists are humbled by simple faith. Actual adult treatment of religiosity that’s kind of rare these days.
Every time I return to LA I like to visit the giant vacant fucking lot near where I used to live in Chinatown, right next the $150mn metro station. I lived there in 2015. Ten years, three relationships, two graduate degrees, two presidents later, the lot remains. It will probably outlast me.
If there was any doubt that affordability is not is the platform of choice for Democrats in 2026, LA’s Mayor Karen Bass is making that clear in her reelection kickoff speech.
“LA is not for sale,” she says, to billionaires who are pursuing “public office as their vanity project.”
“LA is not for sale,” she says, to billionaires who are pursuing “public office as their vanity project.”
December 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every time I return to LA I like to visit the giant vacant fucking lot near where I used to live in Chinatown, right next the $150mn metro station. I lived there in 2015. Ten years, three relationships, two graduate degrees, two presidents later, the lot remains. It will probably outlast me.
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Propaganda. We thought that it was gauche and problematic to have government propaganda about public accomplishments and so people forgot about them. People consistently like the military more than ‘the government’ and you know what a large part of that is? They have an advertising budget.
saw fast five way too high early in undergrad after smoking for one of the first times in my life, started crying about all the people who were dying and no one cared about them, they just drove off in their cars despite all the families who no longer had fathers
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
saw fast five way too high early in undergrad after smoking for one of the first times in my life, started crying about all the people who were dying and no one cared about them, they just drove off in their cars despite all the families who no longer had fathers
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It's been a major boon politically & morally that the online left within the United States has been able to elevate and learn from better thinkers than relying on one linguistic professor outside of Boston as the visible signal of imperial skepticism. Better critiques, always present, easier to find
December 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's been a major boon politically & morally that the online left within the United States has been able to elevate and learn from better thinkers than relying on one linguistic professor outside of Boston as the visible signal of imperial skepticism. Better critiques, always present, easier to find
To hope? Perchance to dream?
Trump is now running an astounding (even for him) 90 minutes late for his scheduled 3pm bill signing event
December 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
To hope? Perchance to dream?
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
I think it was a huge mistake to make our society so car-dependent. But man. The Discourse today is a good reminder that when it comes to roadways policy, otherwise progressive anti-car people quickly become some of the most pro-carceral, anti-civil liberties people on the planet.
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.
given that the industrial product being created is just bytes, what's the main reasons there can't be like just ~100 massive data centers in areas where it makes sense in terms of local power, few neighbors, etc? Are there high level physics/cs reasons where being physically proximate matters?
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
given that the industrial product being created is just bytes, what's the main reasons there can't be like just ~100 massive data centers in areas where it makes sense in terms of local power, few neighbors, etc? Are there high level physics/cs reasons where being physically proximate matters?
Anti-Vaxxers should be homo sacer, but I actually sort of don't know if this is true. there's a definitely a kind of person who will take reactive action but views proactive measures as an imposition or tyranny.
We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anti-Vaxxers should be homo sacer, but I actually sort of don't know if this is true. there's a definitely a kind of person who will take reactive action but views proactive measures as an imposition or tyranny.
The Land Speeder and Land Raider are called that because of their discovery by tech priest Arkhan Land. Bring this fact up on dates to impress them with how well read and cultured you are.
One of my favorite brick stupid 40k things is that the Ultramarines aren't "ultra marines," they're called that because they are from a place called Ultramar
Glad the Ultramarines are finally getting to be in a game
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Land Speeder and Land Raider are called that because of their discovery by tech priest Arkhan Land. Bring this fact up on dates to impress them with how well read and cultured you are.