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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      here is a long thread about how the federal government can end run the Constitution in just about any way you like bringing this up For No Particular Reasonhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1276663566427283456 …

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      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      theoretically the text of the constitution prevents the federal government from punishing you for all sorts of things, at least when its not getting calvinballed by creative supreme court rulings however in practice there are plenty of ways for it to force interesting outcomes
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      I didn't touch on Operation Chokepoint here but I should have and I imagine that specific approach will continue in salience

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      similarly, licensing regimes where (i) a license is required by the government, and (ii) licensing is handled by private entitieshttps://www.reason.com/volokh/2021/01/08/new-ban-on-harassing-speech-or-hate-speech-anywhere-any-time-by-national-association-of-realtors/%3famp …

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      in many ways I see our country becoming less "free" in some broad sense. i am not sure of the extent to which this is a reversion to some tacit historical norms--you could hardly call the Puritans "free" on many important dimensions--rather than a lurch in a novel direction.

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      i may actually write an essay about this and post it somewhere once I've digested this further. i think this trend is often noted or intuited but rarely analyzed. in advance of that, one thread that weighs heavily on me is the role of norms in governing freedom

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      lots of the norms that existed for the majority of the 20C were thrashed by new behavioral modes enabled by the internet. the tabooing of pornography is one; I suspect there were many others, less obvious.

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      Trump, Obama, Bush, Gingrich, and Clinton also destroyed norms; political ones, of course. as someone observed elsewhere, we are a nation of norms. (perhaps this is what a nation is: a collection of norms) (link to my pinned tweet, ha ha ha)

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      things that seem likely to me: 1. freedoms in some sense are downstream of norms. 2. some norms permit a broader swathe of freedoms than others. 3. norms are frequently socially load-bearing beyond their overt purposes

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 12

      overall I see what is happening now as both a discrete crisis and a symptom of deep social decay not captured by the usual metrics that social scientists like to use as objectives, and I am growing more pessimistic about the near future.

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        1. sam‏ @geometrywarrior Jan 12
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          "symptom of deep social decay not captured by the usual metrics" 💯💯💯

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        1. Kitten  💖 🐈‏ @kitten_beloved Jan 12
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          Agree but on the other hand I've felt like this for the last 15 years or so, so I guess it depends what you mean by "near" future But also, things do happen slowly, then all at once

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        1. Invert Avian‏ @Invert_Avian Jan 12
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          I think your analysis is cogent and getting at a lot of true things, but I also think that your final conclusion applies to absolutely any historical moment in the past 300+ years. Crises and decay of social structures are constants. I consider this whitepill-y

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        1. Password is Taco‏ @pw_is_taco1 Jan 12
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          Password is Taco Retweeted Stuart Lau

          Pretty convinced that we're going to lose to China Not only because the US is so internally divided, but because our democratic, Euro "allies" are actually more amoral capitalist sell-outs than we are:https://twitter.com/stuartklau/status/1349051198398226435?s=20 …

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          Stuart LauVerified account @StuartKLau
          Top members at the European Parliament’s trade committee are quick to ask around privately for more details. Key question here: Did the Chancellor’s office offer a safe spot for Huawei in exchange for Deutsche Telekom’s access to the Chinese market, as previously rumoured? https://twitter.com/AMFChina/status/1349037084552654848 …
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        1. Alfred Differ  💉 💉++‏ @AlfredDiffer Jan 12
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          Our Civil War never ended. This is just phase 9 or something close to that number. Nothing new. Quite old. We will cope.

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