#Liberalism

In 2016, a lot of my communist friends were saying "Trump will construct a fascist regime. There will not be a legitimate, democratic election in 2020. He will attempt to
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.@anneapplebaum I’m curious about collaboration in the historical sense around the @NoahCRothman and @mattklewis sensibilities, which seems to me to constantly seek moral equivalency between the indefensible and the inherently
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On non-binary gender legal recognition: let's avoid a binary framework for understanding it. There are broadly 2 positions showing up on my timeline: Trans Rights and Trans Liberation: posited as
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May I recommend Michael Sandel’s Theos lecture, just given, critiquing meritocracy and tracing its ‘moral archaeology’ via Weber back to Luther, Calvin, Augustine, and Job. The full lecture is here
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There's no point of indulging in blame and shame games, cancelling, ridiculing, and writing off people, there's no point. Only thing that speaks volumes and always works is "work".https://www.exchange4media.com/announcemen
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This is an interesting essay—really an applied ethics paper—by @RameshPonnuru and @McCormickProf: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/10/19/voting-for-life/It makes three claims to which I'd like to offer some friendly phil
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The difficulty with claims like this is there is an implicit claim that the feelings represent reality - in this case, that people are self-censoring in a way that represents
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Perfect example of cancel culture — by which I mean 1) forming a mob, to 2) seek to get someone fired (or disproportionately punished), for 3) statements within Overton window.
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Why is the ACLU convicting a police officer without a trial...after there's a body camera video showing the officer only shot after the man turned and raised a gun at
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Some fear that Biden's foreign policy team will be populated w/ "realists"! Others fear potentially too many "liberal internationalists"! Why the fear? Blame over the Iraq War (& not wanting
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Yo dude I’m sorry but at this point what do you think that “exposing corruption” is going to do? Right wingers want the cops to execute too much force because
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Considering I have had quite a following on here for some time, I’ve come to understand that there are a lot of Catholics (many who are in high school and
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It's weird how many people tweeting "congrats to Trump" and implicitly saying they won't vote now that Bernie's out seems to understand that 4 years of Trump *is* going to
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Such a system must be condemned in Christian terms in the strongest possible way. It must be condemned under any system that purports to be just. It must be condemned
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“People in the hood dont wanna think about this” did you ever consider that maybe they just dont want to with YOU? Lol. Maybe it’s your vibe. You be surprised
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So, I want to nip something in the bud right now. I've seen it reported that the LD election review is being used to frame Jo as not developing a
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