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    1. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      13. Assuming Biden wins in the fall it's gonna be hilarious watching him and the gang try to impose their vision of normalcy on *all this*.

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    2. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      14. Everybody thinks the big downside risk of the woke nuts taking over is something like the Cultural Revolution, but no, it probably looks a lot more like the Great Leap Forward.

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    3. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      15. Restating the above: the real danger of woke nuts is not how they might persecute ideological enemies, it's how they might fuck up the economy during an attempted reorg.

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    4. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      16. Given state of things, I recommend getting your hands on a rifle and convincing all your friends to do the same. It'll be nice to have that guarantee of political agency lying around, trust me.

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    5. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      17. The point of guns has never been recreation, it's been self defense in both the micro and the macro context.

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    6. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      18. Communications systems determine the scope of polities, weapons systems determine their character, social systems determine their longevity.

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    7. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      19. The civil unrest we're seeing has a lot more to do with the elimination of sports than a lot of people would like to admit. I shudder to think what will happen if football doesn't come back this fall.

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    8. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      20. Personal moral disorder is underrated as a driver of unhappiness.

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    9. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      21. Kindness is somewhat overrated by people who think that there is no acceptable alternative mode of interaction and wildly underrated by people who confuse it with coddling.

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    10. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      22. Relatedly: Linus Torvalds is blameless in all things and can do no wrong.

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      mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

      23. Evolution is in some sense just one big rolling extinction event.

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        2. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          24. Most academic "science" done today is the product of high-output low-impact research cartels finding ways to spend their grant money.

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        3. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          25. The vast majority of "experts" who are cited in the press are actually just administrators who might not even deal with indentured grad students anymore.

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        4. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          26. The scariest thing about the university system collapsing is that we don't have a replacement waiting in the wings because that would be impermissible in a university-dominated culture. The collapse itself is long overdue and well-deserved.

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        5. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          27. Though I use it a lot, I'm skeptical of the word "institution", which seems bound up in industrial bureaucracies that clearly no longer work.

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        6. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          28. Proust questionnaire answers are only interesting when viewed longitudinally.

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        7. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          29. The "replication crisis" is a very self-serving frame for institutionalized social science to critique its bullshit production process.

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        8. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          30. Clausewitz famously said that "war is the continuation of politics by other means", but I think that that's inverted. Politics is war by other means.

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        9. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          31. Most of the evidence of Sino-Roman relations is underwater. If maritime archeology were somewhat more sophisticated I think we could build a much, much more interesting picture of Eurasian antiquity.

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        10. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          32. Culture moving more slowly than technology is an artefact of modernity. Premodern societies had astonishingly complex cultures that could change a lot despite underlying agricultural occupations remaining static. Catastrophe brings change, and we know they had a lot of that.

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        11. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          33. We know way more than we need to about the fall of Rome and way less than we need to about the Bronze Age Collapse.

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        12. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          34. Sinophobia and Russophobia are very real strains in Anglo politics, but far nastier, far more open Anglophobia is a central strain in Chinese and Russian politics.

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        13. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          35. Russia is the successor state of the Golden Horde and mostly still behaves like it.

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        14. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          36. https://twitter.com/mattparlmer/status/1220239002999099392 …pic.twitter.com/V1tuDtrBBV

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        15. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          37. Systematic, large-scale voter fraud happens all the time in the US, usually in the form of dead or demented people voting absentee in Democratic primaries.

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        16. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          38. Fraud is, by its nature, difficult to detect directly, but it's not hard to see when you look at demographics. Either Detroit or Chicago have many times the proportional number of politically engaged centenarians than Okinawa or something is fishy.

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        17. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          39. The "there are almost no convictions for voter fraud" line reflexively trotted out by Democrats is correct, but only because we spend next to nothing on election integrity and investigating or prosecuting voter fraud.

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        18. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          40. This is unfortunate, because the primary victims of voter fraud are Democrats running against big city political machines. Early-20th century-style fraud on a scale significant enough to tip general elections at the state level doesn't happen much anymore.

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        19. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          41. 0.999... = 1

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        20. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          42. You are obligated to hit like on videos that you enjoy, but not obligated to subscribe unless you enjoy three or more of a channel's videos.

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        21. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

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        22. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          Let's see, who and or what have we not flamed yet?

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        23. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          43. Lorne Micheals is personally responsible for making mainstream of American comedy devolve into a series of inoffensive chuckles.

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        24. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          44. The hardcore blue routine trend of the post-2000 era was an equally lame reaction to this.

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        25. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          45. Joe Rogan is a much better interviewer than he is a comedian.

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        26. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          46. "Starship Troopers" is one of the greatest scifi novels ever written, and the vast majority of people don't understand why.

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        27. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          47. "Starship Troopers" is not about militarism, that's just the topsoil that the movie burrowed into. The bedrock of the story in the novel is an examination of human nature in extreme circumstances, all the way down to how soldiers become attached to working dogs.

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        28. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          48. Western society will pay dearly for its hostility to family formation.

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        29. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          49. Electronic music is having a moment again, and I think it's because we're all in need of a soundtrack for the future.

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        30. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          50. If life is going to increasingly resemble a Gibson novel, we owe it to ourselves to at least dial in the A E S T H E T I C S

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        31. mattparlmer  🪐‏ @mattparlmer 21 Jun 2020

          51. If you're not closely following the homefab (mostly 3d printed) firearm world, you're missing something truly earthshattering.

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