@nyansandwich @drethelin @nydwracu Motte & bailey. Used as claim abt nature of USG going back to FDR, not 'today's mainstream discourse'.
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@schakalsynthetc Dude is endlessly motte-and-baileying and moving goal posts and sniffing imperiously at anyone who'd pin him down. -
@St_Rev which is interesting because that's a well-known and well-studied intellectual type, and characteristically reactionary -
@St_Rev ultimately the only constants are an urge to grouch, gainsay, qualify and complicate & a near pathological refusal to be pinned down -
@St_Rev which is a type I admit I often find very likeable, or at least relatable, *personally* but intellectually it's a total dead end -
@schakalsynthetc The kind of temperament sometimes associated with Talmud study. -
@St_Rev ya, I've had the thought that I probably would, if nothing else, at least have been content with my lot in life if I'd gone that way -
@St_Rev who knows, maybe I'd have hated it and rebelled somehow. counterfactual is counterfactual. -
@schakalsynthetc I'm on Feynman's side WRT that. Fun is fun and skill is skill but some skills aren't worth developing. - 3 more replies
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@St_Rev well, almost all extant political systems have significant common ancestry. this makes for a playground for the unscrupulous.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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