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   Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:54:16 JST Let The Right Hon In

   So I see TED invited Bill Ackman and Bari Weiss?

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     Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:59:05 JST Alex Chaffee

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @danhon centrist idealists are mostly just polite conservatives

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     Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:04:39 JST Alex Chaffee

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @danhon sorry, I meant the organizers, not the fascists they invited for false balance

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     Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:19:08 JST Alex Chaffee

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @danhon

     definitely, but if we’re moving on from the “pithy quip” phase of the conversation, i think it’s more complicated than that — we are all cosplaying as nice people to a large extent, all men are beasts playing dressup, we all have ideological blind spots, etc — but that doesn’t excuse them smoothing the path for provably unrepentant monsters

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     qotca (qotca@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:28:57 JST qotca

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     • William Pietri

     @williampietri @alexch @thomasfuchs @danhon

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     William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:28:58 JST William Pietri

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     @alexch @thomasfuchs @danhon Makes me think of this classic:

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     Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:30:44 JST Alex Chaffee

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     but isn’t that a functional difference? appeasers have different motivations and behaviors than aggressors and therefore need to be dealt with differently

     and dude, if you don’t think you’re a beast, then i don’t know what to say except i respectfully disagree back atcha 🙂