Jimmy’s Ghost
@jimmysghost.bsky.social
An Burkean classic liberal who formerly worked for the GOP and now stands against it.
Such a familiar story. We have completely inverted our morality.
Rather than act according to the good, we now believe we ARE the good.
Our hyper-insular culture has created a nation that believes the only good is for it to have its way, no matter what it may be according to one man’s whim.
Rather than act according to the good, we now believe we ARE the good.
Our hyper-insular culture has created a nation that believes the only good is for it to have its way, no matter what it may be according to one man’s whim.
February 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Such a familiar story. We have completely inverted our morality.
Rather than act according to the good, we now believe we ARE the good.
Our hyper-insular culture has created a nation that believes the only good is for it to have its way, no matter what it may be according to one man’s whim.
Rather than act according to the good, we now believe we ARE the good.
Our hyper-insular culture has created a nation that believes the only good is for it to have its way, no matter what it may be according to one man’s whim.
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Pretty sure most of the civ-mil scholars are speaking pretty damn plainly about this stuff.
We may quibble on coup vs autogolpe, but we are ringing the alarm bells.
Not sure more than a few are doing discourse analysis to assess if there is a crisis.
We may quibble on coup vs autogolpe, but we are ringing the alarm bells.
Not sure more than a few are doing discourse analysis to assess if there is a crisis.
February 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pretty sure most of the civ-mil scholars are speaking pretty damn plainly about this stuff.
We may quibble on coup vs autogolpe, but we are ringing the alarm bells.
Not sure more than a few are doing discourse analysis to assess if there is a crisis.
We may quibble on coup vs autogolpe, but we are ringing the alarm bells.
Not sure more than a few are doing discourse analysis to assess if there is a crisis.
Here’s a good start- remove the people responsible for gutting our government and shredding the separation of powers doctrine.
Till that happens, all other conversations are purely academic and meaningless.
Till that happens, all other conversations are purely academic and meaningless.
February 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Here’s a good start- remove the people responsible for gutting our government and shredding the separation of powers doctrine.
Till that happens, all other conversations are purely academic and meaningless.
Till that happens, all other conversations are purely academic and meaningless.
If only millions of people had warned him about who Trump really is.
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If only millions of people had warned him about who Trump really is.
Americans are too cynical to care. And that will be our end. Its sound will be the opposition’s whimpers of learned helplessness as the majority of Americans simply do not understand or care to know the truth.
February 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Americans are too cynical to care. And that will be our end. Its sound will be the opposition’s whimpers of learned helplessness as the majority of Americans simply do not understand or care to know the truth.
The Psychology of Populism describes something similar as the psychology and politics of relative deprivation.
February 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Psychology of Populism describes something similar as the psychology and politics of relative deprivation.
Nobody is prepared to fill the void created by the US.
February 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nobody is prepared to fill the void created by the US.
Absolutely true.
February 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Absolutely true.