Nathan Pinkoski
@NPinkoski
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Writing at https://t.co/bjKQrwC4mm; Columnist @compactmag; Fellow at Institute for Philosophy, Technology, and Politics
Joined September 2024
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Or rather, it shows they don't define democracy by participation in government via suffrage, but by ephemeral values or outcomes that could be fulfilled by the rule of many, few, or one.
The idea that the US today is somehow "less democratic" than when only property-holding white males could vote or when half the country had seceded is embarrassing. Immediately puts the scholarship of anyone sharing this under question for academic fraud/ cognitive impairment.
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Like Obama, his views on the subject have been "evolving," as he reflects on the implications of "infinite dignity."
Did God also judge Americans who supported Bill Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s anti-immigration policies, or did God just start doing that in the past few years?
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Also interesting to see that McConnell repeat National Review's own talking point. McConnell: "The nation should not have to worry that the intelligence assessments the President receives are tainted by a Director of National Intelligence with a history of alarming lapses in judgment" National Review: "Gabbard has an extensive record of poor judgment...of a piece with her other bizarre strategic misjudgments...There is nothing to suggest that Gabbard has the experience or judgment requisite for this job."
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RT @AAICambridge: Pondering tech & humanity? Only a few weeks left to apply for #TheMachineHasNoTradition summer seminar taught by @NPinkos…
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RT @AAICambridge: @NPinkoski @moveincircles @JonAskonas @NPinkoski 's recent @firstthingsmag article is a great read on the future of today…
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Canadian nationalism: happily sell yourself to the Raj and the Middle Kingdom, but go bananas over your Southern neighbour's tariff threats
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A great bishop.
This is lovely. But marry first and love your babies' mom too.
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RT @ToryAnarchist: A bit more—CIA supported the Non-Communist Left not because there was no other alternative to Communism but precisely be…
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This is why McLuhan's comments on the coming of a "global village", pace progressive paeans on globalization as a harmonious cooperative, were in reality a prediction of a deeply disquieting future.
This is true and very bad. "A more oral culture"—i.e. the end of the age of literacy—is not just weird and different but a regression to something more primitive.
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Congress after the managerial revolution: legislators act as managers, skilled at deflecting responsibility unto others and avoiding it themselves. This is the ethos of the uniparty.
It's worth pointing out that the rot being exposed at USAID has been willingly funded by bipartisan congressional majorities for decades.
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A great primer on what the release of the last JFK files can reveal:
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RT @g_shullenberger: Side note: before becoming a CIA torture instructor under USAID cover, Dan Mitrione was a cop in Jim Jones’s hometown…
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Well, that's a promising start for a new account
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RT @feelsdesperate: Enthusiasm for Nixon revisionism is a pretty good heuristic for identifying high quality right wing accounts.
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Make Europe fund the BBC agai--ahem, more than it already does
Incredible
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RT @TPCarney: Raising children, if you do it, will be the hardest thing you ever do. But if your aim is high enough, it’s the *easiest* pa…
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Too much winning
Love to see it. After a four year ban, Amazon has returned my book to their cyber shelves. Am grateful to all my friends and allies who pushed for this to happen.
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