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Dr Eleanor Janega@goingmedieval.bsky.social |
Every member of the commentariat class who spouts this stuff is just telling you that *they* never formed a moral opinion for any reason other than to look good. They are incapable of humanity, and therefore think that holds true of everyone.
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@positional.bsky.social
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oh yes, only the progressives are human.
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At the Edge of Columbia Plateau
@thomasbelfield.bsky.social
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To say and do anything for money is the very lowest of life. Even lower is when the actually believe their own bullshit. It's crazy and we should not allow them to inflict this shit on us.
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NYERinWESTCHESTER
@andrewaltenburg.bsky.social
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Hmm Nate Silver who owes the fact that he can be out and still have a job… to those who spent the last fifty years protesting for equal rights. Uh huh
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Alex
@tinypurpleguy.bsky.social
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Yep - people like Silver can't imagine doing anything for any reason except to look cool. All the ethics of roadkill.
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Tim Just Tim
@timkrauss.bsky.social
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This is EXACTLY why Trump thinks everyone is corrupt criminal cheating and gaming the system because that's what he does He cheats in elections so he is assuming EVERYONE is They are telling on themselves
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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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Lemoine is pure, undistilled contrarianism - I have argued with him repeatedly but I still couldn't tell you what he actually believes
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もえろ！イナズマキック!!
@lmfsilva.bsky.social
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This is just a rehash of the "they're only doing it to meet boys/girls" I recall from the Iraq war and financial crisis protests.
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Mark Finch
@katzenfinch.bsky.social
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During my time in college I was acutely aware of current events because we were discussing them in class and own our own outside the classroom. Being incredulous and appalled was a byproduct.
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antiprohibitionist
@antiprohibitionist.bsky.social
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The student bodies of the fifties and earlier were immune from peer pressure or threats from above and supported the status quo based and genuine conviction arrived at upon extensive individual reflection.
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r
@recombobulating.bsky.social
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The idea that nobody really cares about anything and everything is a conscious performance in the aim of selfishness and greed is so fundamental to the hegemony.
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(=_=) Hype Tornado /Capt. Nemo///
@joulesbyrne.bsky.social
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Like this is happening because "anti-genocide" was on sale at "Hot Topic" last week.
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Dara O'Reilly
@daraor.bsky.social
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Because they're able to, for money, adopt and argue for any position you can imagine, they assume that the holding of opinions is something only assumed for advantage. It's an extension of the university debating society "This House Believes" bullshit.
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@alladar.bsky.social
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Was Nate Silver always a right wing parrot, or was some online leftist mean to him once?
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@vanillin.bsky.social
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Well, they are students. University, famously, is a place where no one learns or thinks about anything! (/s although there are those who’d prefer it to be true.
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Selindrila Shoras
@selindrila.bsky.social
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Can we also take a moment to just point out, protesting genocide does look cool. And that's primarily because it's a GOOD thing to do xD like these two are not mutually exclusive. But also protest genocide it's just the right thing to do.
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Graft's Social Media Experience
@graft.bsky.social
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Nate Silver is a reply guy that somehow managed to make a career out of it and when he lost that career has been trying to reply guy back into it.
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Professor Mr. Lizzie
@mrlizzie.bsky.social
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but can’t it be moral and cool? Lots of moral things kids could be doing, how they channel their outrage is shaped by what their peers are doing, e.g. what seems ‘cool”. I may be an old person now but I was once a young person protesting SA apartheid, that was both right and cool.
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We're Skroob
@pseudonymble.bsky.social
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Their lives have been dedicated to accepting the status quo, then building a resume & persona that is appealing to the authority it represents. They can't conceive of genuinely holding any view that doesn't serve a career. Ironically, they think they beat kids' peer pressure by subsuming adults'.
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Andy J. T.
@ajtra.bsky.social
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So, if I take a deep dive into the topic "Genocide", I might conclude, that I actually support it?
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Edwin Spooner
@dwinle.bsky.social
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As a mature person, I have just formed an opinion of Nate Silver, which is 🤬🤬 🤬🤬 🤬 🤬🤬🤬🤬 Which I think would be the opinion of any mature person no matter their age.
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Evo Daily
@evodaily.bsky.social
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Very well put. Age has nothing to do with intelligence, political opinion, morals, values or common sense. They really are just reflecting on who they were when they were young and they totally have the narcissistic view that everyone thinks like them.
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Sinan Kose
@thesinankose.bsky.social
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Also even if students have come to "being against genocide is cool" without command of the finer details good! They don't need to be genocide scholars for that to be valid.
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@waltfrench.bsky.social
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AFAICT, forming moral values out of some synthesis of your social groups’ (yes, we may align w multiple) beliefs is EXACTLY what we all do. Cf, Nazi Germany…anywhere, really Seems that Nate is sneering due to his usual anti-democratic belief that those values count for less because they aren’t his
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𝕜𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕞
@kuriva.im
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I am reminded of this discussion of Pete Buttigieg and the concept of "false modesty". Sorry for the wall of text
www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-...
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Call me Umma - Outside Agitator
@ummagummibear.bsky.social
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Nate Silver is about two steps away from being sucked into the same vortex that has consumed the Dilbert guy and the Tesla guy.
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Darrel
@dlaw51.bsky.social
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Nate has been in free-fall for so long, i'm surprised he hasn't passed through the center of the earth and started falling in the opposite direction.
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Dr. Earhart Sampson, PhD🌎
@earhart.bsky.social
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Nate Silver cannot admit he's wrong.
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Ranylt Richildis
@ranylt.bsky.social
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Judging others by one's own example is such an exhausting, ubiquitous human reflex. We call it "telling on yourself" these days because, yeah. It often really does.
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Ashley Lane
@aalaneuk.bsky.social
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I have a moral philosophy PhD, so I think I can say that the moral principle against genocide and killing children is not too difficult to reach, even if there’s no peer pressure.
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ADK
@andrewdk.bsky.social
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Nate Silver really telling on himself here
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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈 - 🌹BLOOD REMAINS🌹 out NOW!!!
@cathypegau.bsky.social
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Yes, Nate Silver, protesting genocide is *just* like wanting to have the latest pair of jeans or sneakers 🙄 Mr. Silver is as morally deep as a puddle.
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NIH Bear
@nihbear.bsky.social
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It’s some of each, and also: peer influence does result in informed opinion formation as well. So if your peers take a moral stand, even if you join them to be “cool”, you may well develop informed moral positions.
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