"I agree that we should never forget the victims on that day, but we should also Never Forget the way their deaths were cynically used as a pretext for disastrous and murderous war …”

#ARMoxon #NeverForget #NeverRemember #NineEleven

https://open.substack.com/pub/armoxon/p/never-remember

"At this the home team’s coach nearly lost his mind. I used to have ten players on the Court Supreme, he screamed. And then I was forced to play with eight. Of course the lead would shrink under those circumstances.”

#AffirmativeAction #Basketball #SCOTUS #HomeTeamAdvantage #Allegory #ARMoxon

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-court-supreme

“[…] so it all came spilling out and Louis CK’s movie, which had already been shot, was permanently shelved, and all the work he had done was tossed, and so was the work of hundreds of other people, and I noticed that for many, the loss of all this value was framed as something that was being done *to* Louis CK rather than something that Louis CK had done to everyone else.”

#ARMoxon #Abusers #BillCosby #LouisCK #LOST

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/what-is-lost

"Refusing to look backward is almost always framed as unifying and positive, while looking backward and reporting on what we see is almost always framed as divisive and negative. We’re not interested in unity with victims, it seems. Unity is a gift we save for the perpetrators.”

#ARMoxon #DonaldJTrump #PatRobertson

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-national-current

Anyway, threading here blows, but the thread I just partly boosted is worth reading.

@JuliusGoat has an excellent way of analyzing deep and complex topics and breaking them down with easy to understand language, examples, and metaphors.

He is absolutely worth a follow: One of the best from #Twitter, now here.

#ARMoxon

A. R. Moxon starts with something the Grifter said when he’d recovered from covid (with the help of medical treatment unavailable to the general public): "I could be one of the diers.” Moxon spins out an interpretation of that, connects to other moments of recent history, and arrives at his conclusion: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: that conservatives can kill whoever they want, however they want.”

#ARMoxon #DonaldJTrump #Conservatism

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-die-ers

A. R. Moxon on the need for “foolish proposals”.

#ARMoxon #UnitedStatesPolitics #AgainstSupremacism

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/a-foolish-proposal

More defamiliarization in action: A. R. Moxon’s “A Good Guy with a Dinosaur”. #111Words #ARMoxon #AGoodGuyWithADinosaur #Dinosaurs #GunRights #GunControl #Defamiliarization https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/more-defamiliarization-in-action-r.html

"These were the sorts of things that dinosaur owners would say at their dinosaur owner conventions, which were hugely popular events put on by hugely wealthy captains of the dinosaur industry, events which were heavily attended by the city’s leaders, and to which no attendee was allowed to bring dinosaurs.”

#ARMoxon #Dinosaurs #GunControl

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/a-good-guy-with-a-dinosaur

'It’s almost gotten to be boring, the degree to which people believe that what they refer to as “free speech” should not only allow them to say whatever they want (which it does), but should also prevent other people from understanding them to be the sort of person who says those things.’

#ARMoxon #ScottAdams #FreeSpeech #Shunning #Shaming

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

"People who follow recipes intend to make the dish.”

#ARMoxon #Woke #TransRights #AntiRacism

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/they-know-exactly-what-theyre-doing