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Deep State Dave

@dcgomez1.bsky.social

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Retired FBI agent and former BSU profiler. Naval Postgraduate School M.A. in Security Studies. Gonzaga PhD student researching authoritarian leadership. Colorful raconteur and cranky old man. Bull Moose conservative. Where have you gone Teddy Roosevelt?

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Nov 10

Our job today and tomorrow is the same as it’s always been—to be good, to be wise, to stand up for what’s right, to resist what is wrong and evil. Nothing changes that. Nothing exempts us from that. Nothing prevents us from doing that.

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 22h

Or…or… or old philosopher sweater alert.

Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23h

Words of the day: Kantian deontology. I Kant say i truly understand it, but it’s going in my final paper. @queertasting.bsky.social

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been away for a while. I hear that Bluesky is blowing up over something Ezra Klein said or did. C’mon people. This is Bluesky not Twitter. Keep it civil or go back to X.

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 19d

The scariest thing is I now know how to spell Nietzsche without looking it up or using spell checker.

Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 19d

And now, in my other class on Leadership, not ethics, I'm reading Nietzsche's Will to Power. It is no wonder that a lot of philosophers look like this 👇. Not you, of course, Diva. Not you! @queenofthinair.bsky.social

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the back seat of a car and smiling .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the back seat of a car and smiling .

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 19d

I finished my short paper on Bentham and utility based on the reading of Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789). Then we had a Zoom lecture, and I found out Bentham's views are just a prelude to reading John Stuart Mill on Utilitarianism. Down another rabbit hole. #WhenDoesItEnd 😅

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23d

OoooH. Now I have to read it.

Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23d

I am having fun. The professor is an Irish philosopher who did her dissertation on Heidegger and technology. She keeps her lectures entertaining. It's just the pace of readings and papers. #WelcomeToDoctoralStudies

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23d

I have to do a presentation on Book 3 for my immersion in October. I wanted to do Marx's Communist Manifesto, but a classmate asked me to trade. I'm forever the nice guy. Maybe I'll read Book 1 and incorporate it into my final paper.

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23d

I also need to read Bentham's "On the Principles of Morals" for a short reflection due by Thursday. This philosophy stuff is a KILLER! It's hard to fake the readings. Even ChatGPT is confused. @queenofthinair.bsky.social

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · 23d

Well, we've moved on from Kant. I'm reading Plato's Book 3, and learning about the "Noble Lie" and deception as a tool for stability. It's almost as if Plato predicted the current political situation in the U.S. Or maybe some ethical truths are universal?
@queenofthinair.bsky.social

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hey look. Maybe I should ask the POTUS for help. He seems to understand Kant.

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Sep 1

I have notes, and vocabulary lists. I have questions to answer on good will and the hypothetical and categorical imperatives, and it’s only eeek one of class. Why didn’t Kant just write in simple, direct English? Oh yeah, he was German. You warned me @queenofthinair.bsky.social

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am afraid I have fallen down the rabbit hole of moral philosophy in my new class on Leadership Ethics. I have read the preface and first two sections of Kant’s Gounding for the Metaphyics of Morals at least 10 times in the past week. @queenofthinair.bsky.social

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 27

I can hear the conversation now: “Be all that you can be, the recruiter said. The guard will teach you a skill, the recruiter said. If you do deploy it will be right here at home where you will be helping people, the recruiter said.”

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Aug 26

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Aug 26

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s important to see that Trump didn’t have to push these people too hard to become fully fascist thugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

Rep. John McGuire on the FBI raiding John Bolton's home: "I'm glad they're going after him."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 22

You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Aug 17

This is like saying it's counterproductive for coaches to yell at their own players

MaryBeth Hastings @mbhastings.bsky.social · Aug 17

It is so freaking counterproductive to yell at Dems every time the Republicans do shitty stuff.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Aug 16

Not a word about this from Democratic leaders today

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 16

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🍁Dr. John E Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · Aug 16

Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD

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Diva of the Dark 🎃🫶👠👑🥩 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · Aug 16

I desperately hope anyone in command is proactively thinking about how to protect their people from moral injury.
#OnObedience #EthicsofCare

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Art of the Weasel! 🦦

Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social · Aug 16

This betrays both our allies and our national interest. God help us all.

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Trump Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 16

Is Scooter working for the State Department on their advance team now?

TT @tathompsonks.bsky.social · Aug 16

They are so incompetent

Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · Aug 16

“Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees”

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 12

I forgot you still have a toddler.

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Deep State Dave @dcgomez1.bsky.social · Aug 12

She looks real happy to be there instead of in Northern VA with her kid.

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · Aug 12

The origin story for a villain

What histories best explain the damage the U.S. is inflicting today?

Understanding we became the baddies requires a combination Pizza Hunt/Taco Bell approach.

The origin story for a villain

What histories best explain the damage the U.S. is inflicting today?

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