Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Wake Up by Roderick T. Long
“Think of the gigantic proliferation of Superhero movies” In fairness, Iron Man (2008), the movie that kicked off the MCU, is about a flippant weapons manufacturer who, after being forced to experience the devastation that his weapons cause…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Hard Domination of Everyday Life by Wake Up | Policy of Truth
[…] academic life. It’s a commonplace of the American workplace that it’s governed by at-will employment. Any employee can be terminated with or without cause, with or without notice—and many are. Bret […] LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on “Whataboutism” by Wake Up | Policy of Truth
[…] to engage in some unapologetic what-aboutism, an activity I’ve defended at length in a previous post. Adjacent to this what-aboutism is some so-fucking-whatism. Let’s concede that Woke 1.0 had nine […] LikeLike
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(Policy of Truth) Wake Up
True to form, Bret Stephens has an essay in yesterday’s New York Times in which, following AOC’s claims that “Woke 1.0” was “crazy,” he reiterates her point, then offers up a list of nine of Woke 1.0’s victims, and demands restitution for them. The common denominator of all of these victims is that they’re writers…
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(QC RSS v2) Fur Affinity
if moray got bit by a tick she’d get slyme disease
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on A Rabbi’s Zig-Zag Learning Curve on Israel/Palestine by fandomtest
A rabbi being honest about the winding road to understanding Israel/Palestine is rare and refreshing, since most public figures either pick a side immediately or stay silent. The zig-zag framing feels more honest than the confident takes we usually hea…
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(The Comics Curmudgeon) Ominous developments
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger’s The Enthusiast is that novel! It’s even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Crankshaft, 8/19/26 The last time Crankshaft and Harry Dinkle started an adventure together, Crankshaft looked real cherry but…
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(Policy of Truth) If Looks Could Kill
“Jason Arday’s hiring at Cambridge shows us that higher education needs to take a hard look at the structural problems at its core!” And what does Nathan Cofnas’s presence at Ghent show us? Any structural problems there?
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(QC RSS v2) Voicing Fears
it’s actually shaving cream
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(xkcd.com) Perseids
This is a syndicated post, originally published by xkcd.com at xkcd.com.
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