you can make all of the “logical” arguments you want, but politics is subordinate to aesthetics, not reason — if persuasion is your goal it’s not very “smart” to start with an argumenthttps://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1016423258814664704?s=21 …
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Replying to @nmgrm
Aesthetics is for queers or idiots, all the more reason not to get involved with activism. (for motives other than self-interest, that is)
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the queers seem pretty good at politics these days, im surprised you think the political is a space of reason and not aesthetics — uncharacteristically optimistic
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I didn't say anything about rational discourse, don't confuse the real thing for the liberal *aesthetics* of "reason". Ballistics doesn't bow to the opinions of some french clowns about beauty.
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but what fosters the situations where ballistics are used?
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natural selection
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