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probably also Muppet Christmas Carrol and Aladdin

This feels like the kind of argument they would have made in the Federalist Papers in the sense that it puts more emphasis on the interest of each state independently rather than on the interests of the faction a majority of the state belongs to

Everyone born after 1980 should learn history from someone who hates Reagan

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

we have a poor sense of time, I probably do it once every few months

"I know you put me on BlueSkeet all the time because I'm funny and quotable" - also my partner

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And the threat to democracy is the flower *of that*. Reconstruction isn’t about breaking the South, reconstruction is about freeing the slave and barring the door to reenslavement. The failure of reconstruction creates hazards for democracy but is not in itself a hazard to democracy.

The lust for hierarchy arises from living in hierarchy. The tolerance from totalitarianism comes from being totally empowered over a subset of your neighbors. So the root is the subjection of Black people (this btw is why we say Black bodies—a liberal gesture at the freedom of the spirit)

The unfinished work of reconstruction was and is Black political equality (which btw is NOT Black liberation, so the third reconstruction is in truth already a bit of a misnomer—again we ALL think in the direction of our own interests).

that completes the work of “breaking the slave power” in its modern incarnation as MAGA—but keeping MAGA from breaking our system of justice becomes a higher priority than behaving as though we live in a world with a justice system that is compatible with Black selfhood. Does that make sense?