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Andrew Sabl
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Taking a mental health break from the socials for a while.
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Political theorist (professor, University of Toronto). Realism, liberalism (and realist liberalism), toleration, privilege and opportunity, Hume, political ethics, democratic theory—and politics, humo(u)r, puns.
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Andrew Sabl
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Taking a mental health break from the socials for a while.
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Parker Molloy
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That's not, in fact, what this is all about x.com/nikkimcr/sta...
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Brendan Nyhan
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What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Andrew Sabl
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I’ve come to think Biden should leave the race (in favor of Harris(. But this interview is silly. Stephanopoulos keeps asking, in effect, “how do we know you’re not incompetent?” “What will you do if every senator comes and tells you to get out?” “Why aren’t you admitting that you’re toast?”
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Andrew Sabl
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So far no questions on issues at all. It’s all about his capacity.
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Andrew Sabl
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Alas, this is so obviously true that there’s only one reasonable explanation: he’s not doing that because he can’t do that.
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Andrew Sabl
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Well, could also mean “bloodless if the left doesn’t resist the dictatorship, thus forcing us to open fire.” Not much better.
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Andrew Sabl
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Agreed. I saw somewhere on here quoting local news: “air you can wear.”
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Andrew Sabl
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That Trump is an authoritarian, a racist, a rapist, a fraudster, a liar, and intellectually incoherent is treated on this site as a sufficient reason to ignore Biden’s age. But it also seems a pretty good reason to want a Democratic candidate who can *beat Trump.*
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Andrew Sabl
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Golly. I’d have bet dollars to doughnuts the young ‘uns woulda known that.
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Andrew Sabl
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This backs up my general speculation: the anti-RN front apparently formed in the face of Macron’s opposition.
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Andrew Sabl
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Fact check: false. Growing up in California, we used to drink it all the time (even made our own). East Coast Americans are sadly ignorant of many crucial orange-related matters. Pity them, but don’t slander the rest.
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Kelly Hereid
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2023 Canadian wildfires produced CO2 emissions that were *quadruple* the global aviation sector.
But because it's a physical hazard they don't "count"
Physical risk 🤝 Transition risk
HT @hausfath.bsky.social
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Amy A
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it’s so funny how in America you call it an elevator but in the UK it’s a lift and also when a candidate loses they concede
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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪
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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here." Two tachyons walk into a bar. The punchline comes before the joke You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?
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Amy A
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any excuse to post this one, happy 4th!!
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Andrew Sabl
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Actually, it’s so that people could tell he was Captain Britain. (Wait—don’t tell me that was supposed to be a secret?)
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Andrew Sabl
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So, I agree with respect to the *Grounding* and other texts usually assigned to undergraduates. But the fill range of his social and political writings paint a different picture. To be sure, moral philosophers often admire those of Kant’s works that are least admirable!
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Andrew Sabl
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Kant was ferociously intelligent (and much more widely read and nuanced than the canonical “philosophy” texts suggest). However: his moral judgments demonstrate that intelligence and originality aren’t a cure for social prejudices.
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Andrew Sabl
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No surprise that Kant favored canceling the vicious. But remember: Kant’s account of vice included masturbation, promiscuity, oral and anal sex, and of course all same-sex sexual activity. Cancelers are fallible. The most enthusiastic cancelers are, like Kant, the last to admit that.
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Andrew Sabl
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Yes, and few of the people in La Nouvelle Renaissance En Marchandise (or whatever the party’s called this week) weren’t career politicians anyway. If you’re going to leave politics fairly soon, may as well leave with honor.
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Andrew Sabl
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I don’t know enough about Attal to guess at his motives—but good.
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Andrew Sabl
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This is also a huge reason that so many political journalists don’t understand why the replacement *must* be Harris. They live for political drama, thrive on it. Most less-involved are the opposite. They want certainty, and see “bickering” as a sign of chaos. If it were done when ‘tis done…
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Andrew Sabl
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COORDINATION is indeed the big reason—and probably the most important PoliSci concept that’s hardest for laypeople to grasp. Deciding which of several plausible candidates to run would take time and energy that the party does not have and generate bitterness that the party can’t afford.
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Andrew Sabl
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No one AFIK is noting one possible reason so many Macronist candidates are dropping out in favor of an anti-RN strategy: Macron has turned Right-appeasing, but his candidates haven’t. They signed up for Blairism. In a crisis they’re choosing not to sail where Jupiter has been steering them.
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Andrew Sabl
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Whoa.
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John Scalzi
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One of my favorite things to do, paraphrased: Me (to "AI"): Recount the plot to [one of my books] and name five major characters and their roles. AI: [Generates bad plot, correctly names only the protagonist, all other characters and their roles made up] Me: That's wrong, you know. AI: I know.
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Andrew Sabl
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By the way, if Harris is the Presidential nominee, the VP candidate can’t be Newsom (because they’re both from California). Since Newsom is both duplicitous and deeply unserious, that’s another point in Harris’s favor.
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Andrew Sabl
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*This*, not fantasies of a contested Convention producing a candidate who’s universally popular, free of weaknesses, and for some reason accepted by Black people in spite of Harris’s having been sidelined, is a useful question for fans of Whitmer, Pritzker, etc.
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Andrew Sabl
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Thread. Strategic candidate withdrawals, to block the French far-Right in the runoff, have been much more extensive than many expected. Good news!
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Andrew Sabl
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For a Czech politician, in contrast, it would be no big deal.
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Jacob T. Levy
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At the risk of being tiresome in reposting my own writings on the separation of powers and executive accountability, since prominent scholars are now in the news saying "habeas corpus will still be OK"— Montesquieu's insight was precisely that it won't be.
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Jonathan Cohn
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"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...
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Andrew Sabl
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“Conservative” thought on presidential power makes a lot more sense on the assumption that the president’s main job is not to enforce domestic laws and regulations but to fight wars (on a hair trigger) and put down domestic dissent by force.
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Wyatt Sinclair
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I was reading an article this morning about how the Swedish Navy is starting to put QR codes on the sides of their ships. This lets them Scandinavian.
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Dr. Holly Walters
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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Andrew Sabl
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😯
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Andrew Sabl
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To a lesser degree, true of Jews too. It’s easier because Jews (unlike women) are more marginal figures, often not present at all. But boy, before 1945 almost every story in English that *does* have a Jewish character casually portrays him/her as money-grubbing, sneaky, dishonorable…
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Laura Helmuth
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A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪
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Andrew Sabl
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Alas, Trump as would-be authoritarian President could easily bring about in reality the level of crisis that he claims is already present (in what seem, to more liberal-democratic types, peaceful conditions). On some level, Schmittianism isn’t a theory. It’s a program.
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Jacob T. Levy
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The Constitution says that in cases of impeachment, "the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law." It does not except the president. But what impeachable offenses aren't covered by the new doctrine of immunity?
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Quinta Jurecic
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now he is seeking a second term knowing that whatever he does, any criminal prosecution will be hung up for literal years in court if it ever gets off the ground in the first place. what do you think he is going to try to do?
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Andrew Sabl
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Through my work I know plenty of past arguments for limiting the badness of monarchs’ immunity from the law… [—One can always indict underlings —The monarch can do limited damage with his own body, w/o involving others] …and it makes me SICK that this knowledge is no longer irrelevant.
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Andrew Sabl
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🙂 thanks.
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Andrew Sabl
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Link? (I promise to send you no email, weird or otherwise.)
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Jonathan Ladd
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More voting for the lesser evil in 2016 literally could have stopped this.
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Jacob T. Levy
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Been saying for years: Netanyahu is at best callously indifferent to the diaspora and happy to ally with those who hate us. At worst, he thinks it’s a positive good to make out lives worse so as to encourage Aliyah. Ethnonationalists believe that like belongs with like.
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Taniel
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JUST IN: Polls closed in first round of France elections. Two main French TV estimates (combines early results & exit poll) show strong far-right. Far-right bloc: ≈34% Left bloc: ≈28-29% Macron bloc: ≈20-22% What does this mean? What'll happen? Follow this thread ⬇️
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Andrew Sabl
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But what mole could fool Mycroft for long? Moriarty?
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