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Ryan Griffiths

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‘And No One Cheered’ is the best book title ever because it’s about us and power.

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Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 11d

‘Vote for me and I’ll do as you say and violate some Charter stuff using a Charter clause,’ is that liberal or democratic?

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Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 16h

If the Jays make the World Series I’ll listen to a game or two on the radio.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 17h

It’s odd that he doesn’t already live in a country that approximates the dream of the dark enlightenment more nearly than the US does

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 20h

What’s it called when one’s presentation of one’s writing screams ‘bigots will persecute me for what I mean.’ Like where the point of veiling the views is not to hide them but shame anyone for persecuting them? Like, Hume.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, is that the reason? Real ermine? That’s cruel.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 1d

I can feel what it must feel like for him to make that mistake. One of those ‘who took my phone. You bastards always play games with it.’ ‘It’s in your pocket.’ ‘Ok. But still it’s awful what you do with my phone.’

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 1d

The old ones are better because the new ones are better.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Sorry, traditionalists, but the new robes are sharper.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 1d

If Party B enacts policy X only bc Party A enacted policy Y, that’s maybe backlash or reactionary. But if Party B is just for X and Party A is just for Y, then that’s just normal.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 1d

When the state was new statecraft and principle were clearly distinct.

Now, ‘I’m for freedom of religion,’ ~means ‘the state shouldn’t X.’ We then ask, ‘on what principle?’

In the 18th cent ‘freedom of religion’ was the principle, and it was religious, and implied ~nothing about statecraft.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 2d

Ohhhh, the thing about nostalgia is…

No, no, I know what you mean.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s too hot.

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 3d

The Bronx is in New York. What’s the ‘borough’ the Jays play in? Distillery District?

Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 3d

The worse things get the more important is dusty history of political thought. Normative theory rises, too, but less. Why?

In HPT you often find that big good ideas beget horrors.

In any case, here’s my theory of why we’re good but this one thing is making us bad.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

/3 Because, if you didn’t know, prosecutors CAN obtain summonses to tell people to come to court to face charges, and who gets those and who gets arrested is a story of privilege, race, petty vindictiveness, and everything else bad about the system. But I digress.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 4d

And I thought America took the Rawls hagiography too far.