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~~post-hoc~~ post-Hogg rationalization
I tried to read it Frenchily
I watched a recent interview in which Weiner defended congressional stock purchases and insider trading. His argument was that it isn’t how congresscritters get rich; that they get rich through connections instead.
So his new angle seems to be: “I’m a politician, I know the game, and I will use my experience for good and not evil”
Nitpick, but Tallinn has two n’s
Oprah has been charged with involuntary manslaughter
Yea, it’s not great. I believe he had in mind a certain objective measure of societal development, in terms of the advancement of the productive forces. An aroma of racial science persists; but I don’t think he was exactly saying that certain peoples are biologically under-evolved.
A TikTok creator with ~100k followers blocked me because I left a random comment disagreeing with their take on Trump’s new portrait. Wasn’t even that interesting tbh, I just thought it was weird that they blocked me for having the gall to not clap and cheer just because they said Trump Bad.
It’s especially annoying because it’s the kind of person who constantly preaches open discourse as the solution to our problems - but in reality they only want that if it means their views get to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
Not likely while they have nukes.
At least Putin is a liberal. One could make a coherent argument that Putin belongs in the category, the same as any other liberal world leader. But objectively Mao does not belong in that same category.