Tacherus
11mo ago
It’s not at all plausible to you that there’s the possibility of more people and she doesn’t want to tip her hand? I’m genuinely asking here, I don’t have a strong position on this, but it’s not obvious to me that it’s evidence of anything on its face.
Tacherus
11mo ago
The weirdest people in the world talks a lot about this not in the context of inter-generational responsibility but as intra-kin-group responsibility, which of course overlaps quite a bit.
The book argues it’s a new and modern take that individuals are accountable at all as opposed to the idea of you getting beaten up because your cousin did something dumb, which was much more common historically.
Tacherus
11mo ago
I don’t know personally how true this is but I heard recently in an interview that the 25th is not designed to forcefully remove a president. If the president is aware and capable enough to resist at all it wouldn’t work. I hadn’t heard that before and it changed my view of some of this stuff.
Tacherus
11mo ago
You don’t end a cultural civil war by being nice to the other side. When your side is in power you enforce new cultural norms and hope they stick.
In this case aren’t they the same thing? How is swinging back enforcing a new cultural norm?
I agree strongly with this. In practice I think part of the difficulty is “oh I didn’t realize it before but now I get it” is a very common narrative but can be difficult to tolerate.
See the non-stop rampant accusations of “you just didn't care until it affected you!”
Maybe we need to accept chad_yes.jpg as a valid response….
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