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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 14h

Idk I don’t feel strongly about this either way I’m just kind of skeptical

J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t necessarily object but while I think civil judgments may work I’m skeptical that anyone who works at ICE is ever getting a criminal conviction, and a failed prosecution is potentially worse than none in terms of creating martyrs and inspiring vengeance

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 14h

I do worry about having various cabinet secretaries, tech oligarchs, children and stepchildren around in public life for decades. They won’t go away. But there’s not a workable way around it, I don’t think

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 14h

I think the impulse to want these people never to hold any kind of power again is right—“lock them up” is a shortcut, and automatic bar. But I don’t think it’ll work (not least because I’m sure they are immune)

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 5d

In a world full of sorta conservative people with editorial roles in legacy media that far exceed their talents and on which they do not depend for income because they have (or have married into) dynastic wealth so the job is really more of a hobby, she’s a sorta conservative person with an editoria

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 9d

I haven’t listened yet I’m just basing this take on a few screenshots like this and a 5-second clip I heard this morning on a podcast but I know I’m right

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 9d

No longer experiencing any pressure to cryptically hint at having a politics, to cater to lonely nerds, or to underwrite her over-educated fanbase’s projections of intellectualism, her latest is a concept album where the concept is “Ke$ha but unironically (and less fun)”

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 9d

The worst people you know feel emboldened by the Trump II cultural moment to use slurs with relish. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, feels emboldened to stop being a quirky cipher and lean into being aggressively basic

victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 9d

you gotta have someone in your life who will take you aside and tell you no

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve seen the charts of global infant mortality and stuff so I accept that this is not the worst time in human history, but I do think it is possibly the most embarrassing time in human history. Dignity and self-respect nearing all-time lows

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes a fine is just a fee

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 12d

CEO of gambling website is pro-gambling, believes in markets for everything, proposes that the social value of sports betting (notably not even pretending to be a market) is: people want to do it. Good stuff.

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 14d

I want to believe that Davante Adams really does have his own personal Taco Bell

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 15d

It’s wild to me how these discussions proceed as if it had turned out that Kirk’s killing was plotted by a local DSA chapter. “Political violence is violence against us all” ok well if you define it broadly enough to include this then… is it?

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 18d

The parallels with Harris seem to me under appreciated. Fancy elite lawyers who leveraged identity-based self-narratives into political brands, total political chameleons with no charisma, selected for high office by popular party leaders who wanted to please an identifiable segment of their base…

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 18d

For a while the consensus seemed to be that Vance had no juice, then there was this trend where the savvy thing was to say that the left dangerously underestimated his appeal, but the man simply has no charisma so that always seemed too contrarian to me. Anyway

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 18d

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NYT focus group with young Republicans: Do you think JD Vance would1 be a good next leader of the party? 1 person raised a hand.

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 19d

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 19d

I mean specifically the phrase “normative priors” is what I first heard from law people. Philosophers love to dress their hunches up in a coat and tie but have too much respect for the fact/value distinction to use it that way I think

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 19d

It’s metastasized for sure but the jump from philosophy to law is when I suddenly started hearing it all the time (could be coincidence)

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 19d

It used to drive me nuts when online rationalists used it as “beliefs” with a tophat but when law professors started talking about normative priors I achieved levels of irritation previously unimaginable

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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 21d

Gen Z men are NOT ok