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On the other hand, this thread is very fair. What this gets at is that the issue is the social acceptability of expressions of personal contempt, in face-to-face, or professional

Yep. That's the argument. And the counterargument from @billscher. Let's game it out. R's want to maintain the fiction that their 6-3 partisan lock is just for extra safe 'balls

There is a lot of debate about whether the Dems should attack Amy Coney Barrett for this-or-that. That's a mistake. They shouldn't attack her at all. She's not the issue

There is an admirable nihilistic evacuation to @JayCaruso's argument that - ok. Let's work back and through. Caruso is making the point that @RadioFreeTom doth protest too much in the

"The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom,

Maximinimalist aesthetics permits simple, plain forms, amidst lavish ostentation and outright froo-froo; but it mandates plain be framed, beside ornament and bric-a-brac, in such a way that simplicity is most

Why should anyone regard the results of this election as legitimate?https://twitter.com/bhaviklathia/status/1247779289849671680 This thread got updated to be less dire. But still too dire for it to be deemed a functionally

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/ We've moved from 'troll' means someone who spews in comments to 'troll' means Dale Carnegie, but working for Russia. W

I'm a big Nietzsche fan. I regard him as, first and foremost, a brilliant psychologist of philosophy and morals. But one of his biggest, most seemingly culturally-consequential claims always struck