JTarrou
2d ago
Staking out the moral high ground when that plot of land isn't in play is a cheap signal. I agree with you about the theoretical advantage of free speech maximalism. I also know that isn't an option in the current dispensation, or probably ever. If we're arguing black-box politics, you're absolutely right. If we're arguing real-world political coalitions in which one group has much more of a censorship apparatus than the other, and both are going ham with what they've got.....then free speech maximalism is just Lions fandom. The adulation of a losing team for the purpose of not having to pick between real contenders.
FWIW, I find myself working through a lot of my libertarian beliefs like this recently.
JTarrou
3d ago
The radical policy choice will be what religion of marauding barbarians your descendants choose to lose to. They'll have fixed the fertility issue, probably in the most straightforward manner.
This is just "Republicans pounce", except men.
I can respect a congenitally disagreeable nuance bro, but that ends the minute they start complaining about the people signaling what they have jumped through so many hoops to countersignal.
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