@itaisher Hey Grok, what's it called when you brag about seeking to destroy your own government from within?

@yuanyi_z "I refute it thus!" -Samuel Johnson, probably.

"We have DOGE at home."

@GavinCurnow @twlldun Magna Catra

Chess player doing a hit and run in their car, call that en Passat.

Public choice (Buchanan and Tullock-style).

"Philosophers desperately want to convince themselves the world is as simple as A = A. The pity is that's what generations of philosophy students have been taught to believe."

@agraybee "Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors."

@legalstyleblog British Army on the Dnieper when?

I have questions.

Mark my words: DOGE is draining the swamp, yes-- and replacing it with planet Dagobah.

@yuanyi_z They're really in *spins wheel* territory already.

@_night_brain__ 4. It’s not even a mid-2000s shock video site either.

@AndreasKoureas_ The case must be remade every generation, and never doubt the power of persuasion to achieve it. As did Augustine, as did Smith and Ricardo, as did Burke, as did Churchill. The cultural and historical reserves we have at hand to draw on are truly second to none.

@RajaKorman The 1775 Project

So is today like the official 'establish a private colony for personal gain with flagrant cruelty toward the local population' day or?

@AliceFromQueens @micsolana Reality TV star at heart.

(And I do mean building and its verbal equivalent persuading, and not convincing ourselves that things will build themselves if only we give our political enemies a good smashing.)