ergopraxis
@ergopraxis.bsky.social
Liberal of the Kantian variety. Legal, moral and political philosophy. He, she or they are all fine. An it only to my friends. 🌐🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Logical end conclusion
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Logical end conclusion
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The claim that palestinian militancy is caused by "the humiliation of the system of security checkpoints" is *apologia* portraying the occupation as something tolerably mundane. Palestinians are not indignant because checkpoints waste their time or strangle the oPT economically (which they do)
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The claim that palestinian militancy is caused by "the humiliation of the system of security checkpoints" is *apologia* portraying the occupation as something tolerably mundane. Palestinians are not indignant because checkpoints waste their time or strangle the oPT economically (which they do)
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Abolishing the right to appeal criminal cases?
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Abolishing the right to appeal criminal cases?
Do human beings share a common ancestor with apes, or are they their own secret thing? Ummmm, truth nuke: Humans don't share a common ancestor with "apes" because humans *are* apes. They share an ancestry with *the other, non-human* apes. Huge difference.
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Do human beings share a common ancestor with apes, or are they their own secret thing? Ummmm, truth nuke: Humans don't share a common ancestor with "apes" because humans *are* apes. They share an ancestry with *the other, non-human* apes. Huge difference.
It's really funny how naturalists succesfully cajoled religious fundamentalists into a position where they feel compelled to deny evolution as a condition for religious faith, instead of simply incorporating it into their worldview as a 10D move in the game of divine providence.
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It's really funny how naturalists succesfully cajoled religious fundamentalists into a position where they feel compelled to deny evolution as a condition for religious faith, instead of simply incorporating it into their worldview as a 10D move in the game of divine providence.
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U.K. court un-divorces linehan in recent ruling
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
U.K. court un-divorces linehan in recent ruling
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did michael scott write this
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
did michael scott write this
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No one knows what they're doing and they're responsible for tens of millions of lives
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
No one knows what they're doing and they're responsible for tens of millions of lives
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
Governor Hochul on Elise Stefanik doubling down on her claims that Mamdani is a “jihadist.”
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
Video: Kathy Hochul via X (@KathyHochul)
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I really did not have “Kathy Hochul understands this political moment better than almost anyone else in the Democratic Party” on my bingo card but here we are
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RFK Jr is the inevitable result of a political dynasty.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
RFK Jr is the inevitable result of a political dynasty.
Reading "Why Liberalism Failed" and really enjoying it. It's surprisingly easy to go through
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reading "Why Liberalism Failed" and really enjoying it. It's surprisingly easy to go through
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woke is back baby awouu
Mamdani hypnotized Trump, MTG resigned, woke 2 rises
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
woke is back baby awouu
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Let those among us who never went clubbing in a decommissioned church throw the first stone
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Let those among us who never went clubbing in a decommissioned church throw the first stone
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Bari Weiss' free press and Kathleen Stock coming out against abortion, seems like the trans critical types aren't very good at feminism.
Bodily autonomy seems like a big one to me. I dunno, just a guy.
Bodily autonomy seems like a big one to me. I dunno, just a guy.
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Bari Weiss' free press and Kathleen Stock coming out against abortion, seems like the trans critical types aren't very good at feminism.
Bodily autonomy seems like a big one to me. I dunno, just a guy.
Bodily autonomy seems like a big one to me. I dunno, just a guy.
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I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.
![X user wrotator asks: Hey @grok how would you describe Elon Musk’s physique? How about his mind? And his relationship with his kids?
Grok answers: Elon's intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields [buying websites, electric car companies and spacecraft and destroying them]. His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands. Regarding love for his children, he exemplifies profound paternal investment, fostering their potential amid global challenges, surpassing most historical figures in active involvement despite scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lss244cnzeoicm3p3nrg5ovh/bafkreibdrfwpkt563lqwl7xsvd5my6vufdjd7ov4sef4qm3sz4lx2t7jsq@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.
It's shocking, but stealing peoples' valuables at the border and forcing them into military camps makes it *more* difficult for them to integrate into local social and economic life. Mahmood is typically enacting a policy platform of ethnic cleansing directly at odds with cultural integration.
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's shocking, but stealing peoples' valuables at the border and forcing them into military camps makes it *more* difficult for them to integrate into local social and economic life. Mahmood is typically enacting a policy platform of ethnic cleansing directly at odds with cultural integration.
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My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.
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neoliberalism is class warfare. in the UK, workers' power was obliterated by thatcherism and no government had made any serious attempt to reverse this. we've been on the receiving end of coming up to half a century of class warfare.
November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
neoliberalism is class warfare. in the UK, workers' power was obliterated by thatcherism and no government had made any serious attempt to reverse this. we've been on the receiving end of coming up to half a century of class warfare.
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why is it only "class warfare" on the increasingly rare occasions that the rich have to pay into the society whose workers make them rich in the first place.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
why is it only "class warfare" on the increasingly rare occasions that the rich have to pay into the society whose workers make them rich in the first place.
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Whoever made the post-Brexit joke that maybe all the other countries in the Children of Men world were still normal, and Britain just voted to live like that, has made me want the prequel.
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Whoever made the post-Brexit joke that maybe all the other countries in the Children of Men world were still normal, and Britain just voted to live like that, has made me want the prequel.
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Labour is no longer the party of trade unions or the NHS. It's time for unions to stop funding them and for voters to vote Green, to actually support a properly funded and staffed NHS.
NHS staff still earn less than we did in 2010.
NHS staff still earn less than we did in 2010.
'Don't tell me you don't want to be out on strike - because that is exactly where you are. Own it.'
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
As resident doctors walk out again, Wes Streeting calls out the 'reprehensible and cartel-like behaviour' of their union.
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Labour is no longer the party of trade unions or the NHS. It's time for unions to stop funding them and for voters to vote Green, to actually support a properly funded and staffed NHS.
NHS staff still earn less than we did in 2010.
NHS staff still earn less than we did in 2010.
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We can talk about the way that "the Fall" was traditionally portrayed as an apocalyptic civilizational collapse has been undermined by modern scholarship, but there is pretty undoubtedly a process of Imperial deconsolidation, with everything that implies, and I don't think it helps to ignore that.
The Roman Empire didn't FALL, it's just that the Western half underwent a gradual process of transformation that entailed political fragmentation, endemic violence between invading military elites, severe drops in life expectancy, living standards, and population density, and economic contractions.
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We can talk about the way that "the Fall" was traditionally portrayed as an apocalyptic civilizational collapse has been undermined by modern scholarship, but there is pretty undoubtedly a process of Imperial deconsolidation, with everything that implies, and I don't think it helps to ignore that.