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I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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We're bringing brand new horrible meaning to polycrisis
theophite.bsky.social rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · May 29
at the current rate of throupling every polyamourous person in the media will achieve singularity by the end of june
mcnietzsche.bsky.social MC Nietzsche @mcnietzsche.bsky.social · May 29
God I wish I could go one day without having to learn about some new psychosexual sexual drama involving these people. Elon, Miller, Bari Weiss, Ezra Klein, it never ends
May 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Waxed jacket season is joever, maybe forever. Gotta move somewhere cold so I can wear a coat.
November 7, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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It's waxed jacket season babyyyyyy let's goooooo
November 10, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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[clippy pops up]

hello! it appears that you are claiming to be playing devils advocate but in actuality this is what you believe. would you like to not?
October 25, 2023 at 9:48 PM
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I love eels with guns, maybe my most toxic trait. Not even the gospel of Chris Fleming can save me.
October 17, 2023 at 2:00 PM
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She zuck my berg until I threads

I'm sorry
September 20, 2023 at 4:08 AM
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Deadlifts and a 5k? Back is fine, no concerns whatsoever.

Sitting on a rainy bleacher at a minor league ball game? Bent over and hobbling to the gate, must commit seppuku.
September 10, 2023 at 1:36 PM
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My cousin called me "sauce boss" today. I have achieved peak masculinity.
September 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM
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Spite buying doc martens to impress strong women
September 9, 2023 at 2:25 PM
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Man I could really use a nice swim right now. It's too hot out here. I wanna go for a nice dip in the sea and get my skull ripped off by a leopard seal so I never have to sweat again.
September 5, 2023 at 7:30 PM
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September 3, 2023 at 3:50 PM