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It is OK to look down on any Republicans you might come across in your life and to think of them as inferior human beings.

When I was younger, I used to expend a lot of energy to not learn anything about normie culture. But now that I'm old, I'm pleased to see that it comes effortlessly.

The Democratic Party's official campaign organs are on pedo-con theory, you love to see it.

Really excited to dig into this latest issue of Block Button Quarterly.

Googling the process to claim my Serbian citizenship. Feels great when elections have good outcomes.

Social scientists have lent our names to calls for electoral system change and rule of law, because of the findings of our disciplines. We should do the same for anti-trans ads, which have dubious benefit and demonstrable harm. My latest at GP/BP goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/social-sci...

There are many trusts, especially in tech and media, that should be broken up as a matter of good policy. The fact that they collaborated with Trump doesn't hurt either.

If we can solve our disagreements within the bounds of liberal democratic governance, then you're my ally in the fight against authoritarianism both in America and overseas.

I started Muay Thai ten years ago and already I feel 15 years older!

🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸 !!!!!! EU, make room for one more.

It's really easy, folks. You're never going to out-bigot the Republicans, no matter what you think that buys you.

Whatever happens tonight, Serbians deserves credit for engaging in the democratic process. That they are continuing to participate despite obvious efforts by the Vucic regime to stymie their rights is an indictment of the culture of defeatism in other parts of the region.

Whether it's a Republican president insulting people's faith or nationality, or whether it's a Democratic president insulting people's preferred upscale suburban restaurant chain, both sides need to bring down the temperature.

Huge lol that Trump is interviewed in the Netflix Mike Tyson documentary.

I hate cars.

The thing about the "forgotten America" is that I would actually like to be able to forget about that part of the country.

Perils incoming....

Shame works.

I think all Americans, regardless of race, class, or partisan affiliation, can all band together and ask "Who is Joe Manchin, again?"

Aside from the environmental benefits, attached single family is also aesthetically sick.

Somewhere, in some law school, there is a person that can write an article whose premise is that every official act of Trump II is invalid because [something]. Then, the Senate can ask the new justices if they believe in Something Theory before they get confirmed to the new packed SCOTUS.

The fundamental divide between those outside the authoritarian right is whether a new election is meant to restore liberal democracy after a temporary interruption or whether it must create a new constitutional order after the old one was damaged beyond repair.

Every society has its dumb, deranged and self destructive elements. But failed societies are ones that design their governments around the desires of those people.

Our constitution does not have a mechanism to discipline a criminal president besides impeachment and thanks to Trump v. US, we also have no way to hold them accountable after they leave. But in this case, following the law is more corrosive to democracy than ignoring it.

It should be noted that 82-year-old Matsui got her seat when her husband died in 2005 after holding the seat since 1979.

The reason I say that it's OK to look down on Trump supporters and to consider them morally beneath you is that they've been hearing him say things like this for 10 years and not once did they decide that it was too much.

You gotta respect a guy who made a boatload of cash simultaneously giving powerful people an excuse to do nothing while concern-trolling anyone who criticizes that advice. It's like if someone told me that drinking beer will make me lose weight while also calling anyone who disagrees fatphobic.

Leaving APSA money in my will to endow a Claremont Institute symposium on race science and eugenics at the annual conference.

Literally everything is better now than when I was born in the 1980s. The only thing that's worse now is that back then, you had to carry around a heavy boom box that ate up expensive batteries if you wanted to make noise in public.

Debating is just charlatanry. There will always be an information asymmetry between the audience and the speaker such that the audience just evaluates what the speaker is saying based on how much it confirms their priors. If it happens at all, debate should take place in written form only.

It's strange that these images are only coming out on some fringe news site and no mainstream outlets have picked them up--especially given how much coverage there was of our withdrawal from Afghanistan under Biden.

Most other democracies don't have as many layers of government as the US does. You also have a robust party system to guide your vote so you can just do the equivalent of "vote blue, no matter who" and be done with it.

I wish people knew how expensive guns are. As a hobby, it's like 10 times as expensive as golf. You have to be riding horses until you're finally spending more on your hobby than owning guns and taking them to the range.