My impression is there's massive judgmentalness about smokers yet no gloating about the illnesses that result. Alex, am I understanding correctly that this is your impression too? (sorry to be slow but I am just now especially, pretty tired)
Nate Holdren
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Hey bluesky. Historian. In decline. Views expressed here are those of a future insightful majority.
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thanks bud!
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im sorry but you don't get to put a big "transphobes welcome" sign on your political party and then cry about it when trans people tell you to go fuck yourself
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this reminds me, last week I finished this press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
I have quibbles that mostly amount to 'why aren't other people marxists like I am' and 'wish this author was a fellow theory nerd' but its very good, made me think about the widespread social presence of moral dilemmas
Bordering on Indifference
How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its work
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puts me in a mind of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQb...
Propagandhi - Ordinary People Do Fucked Up Things When Fucked Up Things Become Ordinary (Audio)
YouTube video by FAT WRECK CHORDS
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If you were to try to operationalize this view in policy it would be destructive and that policy is basically what attorneys and execs at McDonalds and the gun lobby want.
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it's also wild because I'm sure a lot of the people jumping on this are also people who are like 'the president needs to respect rights, due process matters' when a lot of the time the due process for determining if a consumer injury was out of line or not is precisely the law suit.
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Well said.
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ty Eireann! I saw yr thread, some of it's a lil over my head (especially rn, I'm sick, mostly watching trashy movies, taking a break to pop in here), it's very interesting, I wanna read it more closely when more all there mentally and if you write something long form on it please send it to me!
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yeah 100% this, idk where it comes from but 'they must be punished' seems like a really widespread sensibility rn. it's been a really long time since I read it so idk but it reminds me of the Carl Schmitt I read in grad school, reduction of politics to relations of violence b/w friends and enemies
