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Jeremy Pober
@jpober.bsky.social
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Philosophy Research Fellow at ULisboa. American, recently naturalized German, based in Lisbon. Philosophy of mind and psychology/neuroscience, metaphysics, and moral psychology Dogs, politics history, 90s Simpsons, SNL, some SF/F; 50% sh**posts.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · Dec 15
Is this anything?
Inigo Montoya, from "The Princess Bride" (a late 30's/early 40's man with long black hair and a moustache, dressed in clothes Hollywood uses to signify "olden times") is saying one of his lines from the movie "You keep on using that word--I do not think it means what you think it means." In the movie, he says this to Vizzini, in response to the latter's use of "inconceivable." In this image, he is instead saying it to David Chalmers, a philosopher who has done work on the notion of conceivability.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 16m
Can't decide if this one counts as breaking character...
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 12h
It's a coalition of libs who don't care about minority rights as long as the oppressor has non-fascist aesthetics and leftists who don't care about minority rights because they're class reductionists
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 12h
(Sorry you had to deal with that though. It's weird at minimum)
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 12h
Does your job title imply some sort of martial proficiency? Because a cane is an excellent place to conceal a sword (and every martial arts film fan knows Zatoichi)
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 14h
Yeah but "slut (positive coded) who is kind of gay (positive coded)" is prime universe Dax
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 15h
If that happens, I would pay 1990s PPV money to see it
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 15h
Wait what did they do with Dax? (Honestly can't remember)
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 15h
Scary SOCIALIST Muslim
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 15h
Every time he pisses his pants, he can just order Vance to shit himself and he'll do it: problem solved.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 15h
It's because he somehow found every person in America who is more of a little bitch than he is and then hired them so he'd look like less of a little bitch standing next to them. Decent strategy for such a little bitch, tbh
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 16h
If he's genuinely a full-on groyper and not just a racist fascist, then he has to hide the specifically groyper parts
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 16h
Is he taking cues from the dog?
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 16h
Maga jews will also want to pretend it didn't happen so I'm betting on that option.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 16h
I don't think much is changing. Groyperism is still too toxic for an elected to be associated with. Heritage will either pretend this didn't happen, or, if they insist on dying on the hill, get replaced because coming up with bankrupt justifications for racism and fascism isn't rocket science
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 17h
It's supply and demand. Their whole thing is writing shitty justifications for racism and fascism and there are lots of people out there capable of writing shitty justifications for racism and fascism.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 17h
Maybe I'm wrong but that seems like an overstep on their part. Fuentes is toxic to anyone outside the perpetually online right which is why electeds won't have anything to do with him. Heritage seems to be betting that they're indispensable but think tanks are as cheap as their ideas...
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 17h
Did Tucker say a new quiet part out loud or something?
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 17h
What is she talking about?
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 17h
Wait did someone say something today that they haven't already said a hundred times?
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 18h
Right no I'm not saying the march will cause people to notice: I'm saying that when the march gets that big, it's indicative of a cumulative shared frustration which, at that point, normies notice.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 18h
I think that's what 3.5% of the population marching (latest No Kings was a little above 2%) is supposed to indicate? So even if there's no singular cause that would do it, there can still be a vibe shift when nearly everyone knows someone who is being really fucked over.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah I guess the main difference is that they willfully misinterpret Islamic texts whereas they don't even bother with Jewish ones: they just handwave and go "yeah it's in there somewhere" (rightly) assuming no one is gonna read thousands of pages of rabbinical criticism to check
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 23h
I think Trump might know it. In Trumpspeak, "I want to but I'm not allowed, too bad" means "I either don't want to or know I can't, but maga really wants me to want to/wants to think I can, so I can't admit it.

If he were trying to change there'd be tweets of "VERY UNFAIR!! SCOTUS MUST FIX!"
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d
Reporters (every day): are you seeking a third term

Trump: the constitution says I can’t run again, unfortunately

Reporters: but you could run for vp?!!!

Trump: sure but people wouldn’t like that, it’s too cute

Reporters: there have to be other ways sir. We will find them for you, stand by
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 1d
In Crusader Kings, you don't even need to imagine
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