@merkley.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov can you help your constituents? Now is the time to step up however you can.

no due respect to anthony lol

Time to get up and go to work at my job shuffling chairs on the Titanic.

Vulgar Freudianism apology form

constitutional law profs and their students serve a function analogous to heian era court astrologers

Mom, can you come pick me up? The best lack all conviction and the worst are filled with passionate intensity

trenchant legal analysis from a professor of constitutional law lmao

we all watched him start a coup on TV and within four years the supreme court and our entire political establishment decided the fourteenth amendment basically doesn't exist. "legal analysis" in this country is a fucking joke lol

lol one of the priests of the american civic cult is mad at me online

law school really does break people's ability to reason like normal human beings

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn a century and a half of precedent this year and strip citizenship from millions of Americans, and the main response from legal academia has been shock and outrage that people have been insufficiently deferential to the people doing this.

ontologically evil newspaper

president donald galerius trump

TJ Sabula did nothing wrong, our President IS a pedophile protector.

mr dilbert is indistinguishable from john locke

respectfully to philosophers, locke was insane lol. like no you actually can't just declare that you have the right to kill people, whatever the social arrangements you live under??? be for real please

paging @skillfulmean.bsky.social

unfortunately the law is precisely what they teach at yale

that dreadful feeling in Crusader Kings when your ruler is crippled and dying and you're desperately trying to paint the map red before the inevitable

we’re really getting a masterclass in how an entire worldview and professional class is ultimately just about alternating between performances of contemptuous stupidity and studied ignorance in the face of the obvious

no one: ai-slop companies: now introducing hachiko the stapler

nihilist political class

ok i got something but needed to also invoke butler

Assumptions of good faith simply because the person making an obviously dogshit argument is in the same professional club is honestly 40% of why the US is now a semi-democracy

Butlerian Jihad NOW!!!

no one: brahma:

national debt posting from seiu has me feeling like we're ngmi

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

fellas is it being a tankie to oppose war

the fantasy of an apocalypse wherein what was hidden will be revealed and justice finally rendered feels so quaint in a world where nothing was hidden to begin with and demons just thrive and thrive

貓兒房，近侍三、四人，專飼御前有名分之貓。凡聖心所鍾愛者，亦加升管事職銜。牡者曰「某小廝」騸者曰「某老爺」，牝者曰「某丫頭」 The Cat Office employed three or four attendants to feed cats of recognized status. Favorites of the Emperor received promotions: males were styled “pages;” females, “maids;” neutered cats were addressed in the manner of senior eunuchs.

let the ontologically evil newspaper perish

If you have a library card you can do your Wordle puzzles for $0. Same for the recipes section/app. Cancel your NYT subscription, free yourselves

Hey chat generate an infinite nightmare blunt rotation

Theory: the appearance of a furry little guy with a strangely nude face is a herald of the waning of empire

There is something deeply broken about an economy that creates trillionaires while people get buried under the cost of living and 42 million go hungry. The ultra-rich should realize that my Billionaires Income Tax, aimed at ensuring they pay their fair share, represents the moderate path forward.

reading the front-matter to the new translation of capital and i love this marxist version of practice-enlightenment

we gotta stop talking about these people as if they have anything useful to contribute or are operating in good faith. at the very least it is undignified *for you* to pretend that's true

butlerian jihad now

nihilist political class

the three poisons of ignorance, desire, and aversion

real elective monarchy hours

some people realized that this monk going around for alms was *the* angulimala, who made necklaces from the fingerbones of his victims. they attacked him, beat him, broke his almsbowl and tore his robes, destroyed his only possessions. he bore this treatment with equanimity. that's repentance.

the buddha ordained angulimala (pali/skt. "finger-necklace") as a monk after angulimala *repented* for his actions. he killed people and fear of him depopulated villages. he wouldn't have been ordained if he hadn't repented. you gotta fucking repent.