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Partisan
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Whatever the opposite of an enlightened centrist is. Citizen of the Greatest Nation in This or Any Age (Washington State). Counter-Zionist. 🌐🔰🏗🌃🚋⛈️🌲✡️📈🗣
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · Oct 17
Hey. Nice to see ya.

I'm Partisan. I'm an Econ//Linguistics student in the PNW.

Foreign Policy|Developmental Econ|Urbanism|Politics|D&D (4E)|Magic (CEDH)|40k (Ynnari)|Stormlight|日本語ok(ちょっと)|And likely some other stuff.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 2h
No no, it’s not antisemitism, it’s just that these rootless cosmopolitan Jews lack an authentic connection between blood and soil and are thus an alien people no matter how many generations they live in a place
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Johnny Staccato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 5h
you’re right, colorism means this red-haired European is from the middle east
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 4h
Every person in this photo believes that Elon Musk's PR trip to Israel means he definitionally "can't be antisemitic."

But they're happy to call their fellow Jews "jihadists" for daring to listen to a pro-yeshiva politician just because he said Bibi is a criminal (the median Israeli opinion).
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h
Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4h
These are people who are protesting against a synagogue, and yet have somehow convinced themselves the other side are the antisemites.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 10h
Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 4h
Many a Dvar Torah recalls this as "Jews denouncing Jews."

And yet there are many in our nation who are eager to denounce each other and declare their neighbors, kin, and kids "self-hating Jews" or "un-Jews" over not showing sufficient loyalty to a secular state on the other side of the world.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 4h
The Talmud (yoma 9b) records that the destruction of the Second Temple was divine punishment for the "baseless hatred" expressed by Jews who "ate and drink with each other, but stabbed each other with verbal barbs."
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
"You coulda changed the gun into steam" is an objectively correct indictment of Dr. Manhattan. It is ~also~ something that Blake is only saying to try and deflect blame away from himself.

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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
Like, here's the whole book, folks!
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
Dr. Manhattan is a failure. But it's also not *totally his fault* that he's a failure; because NO ONE could ever be in his position and NOT be an abject failure.

But at the same time, Watchmen is about the narratives people craft for themselves; the ~excuses~ they make for their bad behavior.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
To me — as much as I think Moore is a crank — I also think Moore's politics are ~deeply important~ to understanding Watchmen's (really great) themes.

Moore's an anarchist. The story is fundamentally about how power should NEVER be concentrated into the hands of individuals.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
Like, here's the whole book, folks!
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 10h
The thing that irks me is how all Watchmen discourse is:

"Well, I think {Rorschach, Ozymandius} is based!"

"Noooo!!!! {Rorschach, Ozymandius} is evil!!!!"

When it's actually transparently obvious that the story is primarily about how much of a spineless coward Dr. Manhattan is.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10h
upset that i cannot post "Adrian Veidt did nothing wrong" as bait now because Peter fucking Thiel beat me to it
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 11h
what kind of Alan Moore fan are you
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
Anyway, we should probably nuke dating apps. People are still waiting for the Uber of dating (which they *assume* was Tinder. But actually, what they need is an app that will organize and throw catillions for them).
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
(For men, these are the users who maximize their match-quantity. For women, these are users who are discerning, as an adaptation against the former hyper-efficient male users)
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
And when I say match inequality here, I'm not talking about inequality between the genders, but inter-gender match inequality, as matches are concentrated into the hands of the most "efficient" users.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
As in any market defined by asymmetrical market power between price-setters and takers, there becomes extreme "wealth" (match) inequality, and certain "firm" strategies dominate others (like: men swiping right on literally every person to minimize the odds of passing over a potential match).
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
But, the institutional knowledge (not to mention just like, the literal institutional reality of corporations in the women's fashion space) developed under patriarchy means that now women have become price-setters in the dating market.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
Notice that the only institutional knowledge about fashion which men have is all about suits — which is rooted not in the historical goal to impress women, but in the goal of gaining employment and wielding economic status over *other men*.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
But, because of this coasting they got to do, now, "men" as an institution lack basically *any* knowledge on how to make themselves attractive to women.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
But now, when it comes to dating, men have writ-large lost basically all of the structural power that let them be price-setters in the dating market. Meaning they no longer get to coast off of "I'm a man with a job, so of course women will compete for me."
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
But, under those patriarchal conditions, women developed institutional knowledge about how to compete in the market for suitors (this analysis views fashion and makeup as an economic 'technology').
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
My pet historical economics theory about The Apps and the modern dating market writ-large is that women were historically forced to compete as price-takers in the dating market due to their institutional lack of power under patriarchy.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 11h
Dating apps represent maybe the greatest case study in market failure we have available to us.

And what's even funnier is that, in spite of the fact that the biggest losers of the apps seem to be dudes, the problem still seems to be ultimately attributable to patriarchy more directly than any other
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12h
A lot of this is just the natural end result of the "optimal" app strategies for men and women combining into an extremely maladaptive process where no one gets what they want.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 12h
A lot of this is just the natural end result of the "optimal" app strategies for men and women combining into an extremely maladaptive process where no one gets what they want.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19h
this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!
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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 13h
The subtext in this piece is how Facebook made boomers insane. The villain here has at earlier times in his life been thoughtful and competent, even as I don't agree with any of his views, and he's thoroughly incentivized to act like a maniac.

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She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.
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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 14h
"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16h
“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
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