So I see TED invited Bill Ackman and Bari Weiss?
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Dan Hon (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:54:16 JST Dan Hon -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:54:08 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @danhon Yes, TED is another right-wing event; they have been for quite a while iirc
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:59:04 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @alexch @danhon these two people are as centrist as a my cat is vegan
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Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 23:59:05 JST Alex Chaffee @thomasfuchs @danhon centrist idealists are mostly just polite conservatives
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:04:38 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @alexch @danhon Yeah... I agree with you and I don't think "centrism" actually exists. It's libertarians cosplaying as nice people.
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Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:04:39 JST Alex Chaffee @thomasfuchs @danhon sorry, I meant the organizers, not the fascists they invited for false balance
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:19:06 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @alexch @danhon There's no functional difference between centrists and fascists, other than one is literal criminals and the other one says we should do some of the things the criminals say.
I do not agree that "all men are beasts".
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Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:19:08 JST Alex Chaffee 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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Queen of the Crone Age (qotca@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:28:57 JST Queen of the Crone Age -
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William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:28:58 JST William Pietri @alexch @thomasfuchs @danhon Makes me think of this classic:
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:30:43 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @alexch There's no functional difference between the crime that happens at end is the same.
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Alex Chaffee (alexch@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:30:44 JST Alex Chaffee 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 🙂
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