Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social)

Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/

Today I wrote about a good man summarily executed on the streets by Republican death squads, and how, given the inevitable alternatives, even tyrants should hope for a people's liberation from tyranny. https://www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-next-time/

Trump: here's my nobel
Reporter: *nods*
Trump: had to sand the name off
Reporter: *nods*
Trump: big prize, the nobel, maybe the biggest
Reporter: *nods*
Trump: it's isn't "noble" a lot of people don't know that
Reporter: *nods*
Trump: and it won't fit up your ass

HEADLINE: Trump Shows Off New Prize

Let me give you a thought experiment:

Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should.

https://www.the-reframe.com/absolute-immunity/

As a conservative Christian college student, it’s my firm religious belief that the correct answer to every question—in this test or any other, whether multiple-choice, essay, or oral examination—is C, and if you don’t give me full credit then you are taking away my freedom of religion and secret police should take you away to protect free speech.

I wrote about attending No Kings, opposing visions of America, what hating those visions says about those who hate them, the importance being earnest, and the necessity of finding the next step.

https://www.the-reframe.com/america-haters/

did you guys hear that the adult leaders of the hitler youth were using slurs in their group chat

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

https://www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-losses/

We sternly warn the left not to politicize the tragedy caused by our politics.

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursuing everything.

https://www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-trolley-problem/

In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.

If having principles about human rights is a purity test, then let’s have purity tests.

Underappreciated truth for "pragmatic" armchair strategists to consider: Republicans win despite holding unpopular positions BECAUSE they employ political purity tests.

Coherent ideology wins because people understand it. That's the part to copy, not the fucking bigotry and hate.

Yes I guess I would like my leaders to believe in something. Yes I guess I'd like my leaders to do the right thing even if it is hard instead of the focus tested thing because they think it will make things easier. This is a fight; if it's a purity test to want a fighter, let's have purity tests.

The reason Substack pushed a Nazi blog onto people's phones is because—as founder Hamish McKenzie said in his response to Substackers Against Nazis 2 yrs ago—he believes it is valuable and important to platform Nazi voices.

This sort of thing is not a one-off. https://www.the-reframe.com/questions-for-substack/

I wrote about the absolute moral necessity of Congress impeaching a president who represents a threat to democracy, the nation, and every person on the planet—and also about the practical necessity of doing so, because not doing so tells a incoherent story.

https://www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-is-a-duty