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Aaron Ross Powell
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Podcast host of ReImagining Liberty and The UnPopulist’s Zooming In. Writer. Political ethicist. Buddhist and radical liberal. www.reimaginingliberty.com/about/
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For my social media feeds, it sure sounds like Harris is doing pretty well.

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According to my kids, Trump is polling poorly among their sixth grade peers.

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My eleven year old talking to his mom about the debate just now: "It's kind of like a game show but one of them is an absolute idiot."

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One of the primary ways political psychology researchers have for finding those who might favor state authoritarianism in surveys (where people are unlike to say, "Yes, I'm an authoritarian") is to ask about their parenting styles.

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And then federate.

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I don't know why all these earnest moms and state attorneys general are heroically crusading against the absolutely-real-and-not-pretend acute dangers of social media when they haven't yet solved the absolutely-real-and-not-pretend dangers of Satanists running day-care centers.

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Has anyone made a good native Mac app for Bluesky?

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When Trump's success offered up the possibility of using the state to enact and reinforce right-wing hierarchies and domination, many of those "libertarians" flipped from opposing state power to supporting it. Their interest was never liberty, it was power, for themselves and their favored groups.

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One reason to support a minimal state is because you view the state as the primary mechanism by which dominant groups oppress marginalized ones. But it turned out a lot of "libertarians" want a minimal state because they view the state as the primary mechanism *preventing* them from being oppressors

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Aaron Ross Powell
@aaronrosspowell.com
Podcast host of ReImagining Liberty and The UnPopulist’s Zooming In. Writer. Political ethicist. Buddhist and radical liberal. www.reimaginingliberty.com/about/
1.4k followers377 following1.7k posts