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David J. DeVore

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Ancient Mediterranean historian, Cal Poly Pomona. History, the human past (those 2 aren't the same), politics, some baseball. Views here not of my institution.

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Kind of an urgent issue to get scholars thinking about.

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I'm a historian; I'm well aware of the uncertainty inherent to counterfactuals. One can, though, know important actors' tendencies and game out what they are likely to do in reaction to a different choice. That's exactly what Dr. Rauchway is doing--& I think he has a plausible point.

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Counterfactuals are literally contrary to fact.

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Possible. My understanding is that VP choice is worth a bonus of about 2% on average in the VP's home state. That qualifies as "too large to deny". (And Graham was also well-known as a centrist, for what it's worth.)

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True! But that doesn't mean the country wanted a third Clinton term after the drama of his second term.

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Does anyone know when the #NAPS2024 program will be available on patristics.org? The program has been delayed and time is starting to get a bit short for some of us to request conference reimbursements.

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Kacsmaryk was nominated to the bench far earlier for a reason.

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Not least since experts/elites/authorities often disagree among themselves, which shows the opposite of groupthink, whereas "experts/elites/authorities are always wrong" in practice serves to predetermine a conclusion before any consideration of evidence.

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Thank you for posting this, Carrie. Sadness multiplies.

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👍

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I saw your original post & tried. Muting ofc is an option.

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You're talking past me. Nothing I said contradicts consequences at all. 👋

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The distinction bet "democracy" from "representative republic" is usually an excuse to reduce democratic sovereignty.

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And the coup failed, & Congress closed the loophole the plotters tried to exploit. Ofc they'll try again but if we keep voting them out (& the Federal bureaucracy, esp. the military, doesn't help them), they'll lose (& the military didn't help them last time & won't this time).

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Ah ok. I'm a union member so👍.

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Huh?

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The popular vote though has never been decisive in American democracy, which (like most democracies around the world) isn't a majoritarian democracy).

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And the voters will again be able to reject fascism in November.

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Power isn’t necessarily pursued by attention seeking & public action. It’s often sought by public quiet.

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With about a third of the vote, not even a plurality, in a very different electoral system.

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The Fascism would be the policies enacted once in power--which are being promised. But you are right that bureaucracies are another check.

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But it didn't decide it won't uphold the law. It clarified which institution decides on this law. (I'm not sure I disagree, but this isn't an undemocratic decision.)

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Huh? The most important part of the system is democratic voting. And that hasn't happened yet.

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Seems to be the price the liberals are paying for eliminating presidential immunity.

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Correct. But he has taken consequences for his business fraud & (indirectly) for his sexual assault.

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Ancient historian here. Nope, Jesus.

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Largest university system in the country, unless you count the SUNY system, which unlike the CSU includes community colletes.

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First week for us at Cal Poly Pomona.

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Cal State faculty is going on strike in 2 weeks. I just spent today moving furniture out of one of my 15 rooms!

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Yup. And to be sure, it’s a humanity problem, not just an academia problem.

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[shakes head] I've known people that's happened to as well--mostly women. I even know someone who had a committee member (now a superstar btw) demand her data & refuse to sign off on her dissertation bc she wouldn't hand it over--a more blatant case than Gay's.

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Oh for sure. I know students who had professors who said "over 15% on Turnitin is unacceptable." I wanted to tear my hair out! I've had 60% papers wo plagiarism (bc all overlap was in quotes) & 1% papers w plagiarism; twice I even caught plagiarists when Turnitin returned a 0%.

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And violently. Ofc violence can be careful.

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"Whether you judge the language overlap as sloppy or plagiarism or nothing is a different subject." Tacit admission IMHO. Word-plagiarism *is* the heart of the matter. Appropriation of others' words matters. Theft of a mere tree out of a forest is still theft. (& wasn't a reply to me but no matter.)

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Again, WADR, disagree. It's 20 consecutive identical words wo attribution, & no, it's not simply common academic phrases (which are rarely more than ~8 words long).

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Bc my objection is to word- more than content-overlap, & all academics must hold ourselves to the same standards we hold our undergrads to. WADR to political scientists, the verbal overlap in the example violates undergrad standards--as the poli-scientist himself tacitly admits in his end tweet.

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Oh fantastic! Congratulations, Dr. Sancinito!!

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And he's never won >47% of the vote even as an incumbent.

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Academic standards, not the opinion of the author, are the criterion to meet. Reproducing phrases common to a discipline is ok. The example above isn't just a single phrase but a sequence of phrases. And the example 👇is more than phrase, almost verbatim, wo citation. twitter.com/BretDevereau...

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Fair! But even that excerpt cites "the social-justice model of higher-education", when social justice is central to Gay's academic agenda too. Anyway, sorry for hijacking.

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The point I'm making is correct.

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Canon's choice on withholding condemnation. That's not the standard we hold students to, & a PhD & tenure aren't an automatic get-out-of-sloppiness free card.

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Terrible analogy, WADR. The better analogy would be, government agencies can conjure money into existence--which they can't. (Printing money is the Fed's job, not any bureaucratic agency.)

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No it doesn't--it withholds judgment in the end. I break from my colleague Dr. Devereaux there, WADR.

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