#Legitimacy

DisappointedIdealist

DisIdealist

The problem with taking an extreme rhetorical position which isn’t supported by evidence is that when hitting any process requiring that evidence, rhetoric isn’t enough. So then you need to

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ Perhaps the idea of law and the ideal of the rule of law are illusory. Perhaps there is only politics and power. Perhaps the "legal realists" and "critical legal

Edgar Allan Bitch - Unpaid Shill for Big Tea 🫖

edgar_a_bitch

Of course I can dislike an aesthetic just because I dislike it, but when the dislike is accompanied by wilful ignorance and idolisation of neoclassicism, and starts to shape national

Tobias Schneider

tobiaschneider

French diplomats assiduously deny their policy is a function of the UAE position (instead pointing across the Sahara and the Med). But recent statements just reinforce the perception. Consequence of

Hamzah wald Maqbul

hwmaqbul

Bitcoin:I'm happy to see people make money.Even if I consider it doubtful, my bigger concern is people getting used to making money without adding any value to the economy. Such

levi morrow

levidmorrow

Theodicy and State Violence: Political Theology & Rav ShagarTHREAD1/ Adam Kotsko usefully expands Carl Schmitt's definition of political theology thusly: Political theology deals, writ large, with analogies between the problem

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

How can a just state order people to stay home indefinitely—not bc they‘ve done anything wrong, not bc they’re sick, not even bc they’ve been exposed—but simply bc it’s possible

Marc-André Boisvert

boisvertma

Three general conclusions that I can say about the coup from 5 years of studying the #Mali Armed Forces. (1/4) No magic formula for coup proofing. Mali has tried everything:

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

One interesting aspect of this is this is that there are a number of voices asking questions about who has power to decide who has access to a major platform

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

“We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, &...destroy them.***We will attack the very legitimacy of the Left. ***We will use guerrilla tactics

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veryeli

I HATE talking about Gender but my Gender Experiences are so relevant to the current anti-trans narrative which is concern trolling around teenage transmasculine kids being overindulged and having too

WikiJewSoc🕎🌹

JewSoc

There are perfectly legitimate criticisms of left-wing media like The Canary and Skwawkbox, just as there are legitimate criticisms of The Guardian, the Independent, Vashti, and any other medium. And

Matthew Roberts

MPWRoberts

In other words, saying 'we need to do x' and/or 'we can do x' does not mean (even if one or both is true) government can therefore legitimately do x.

Napoleon Bonaparte

togreatness777

We're making historyDo you think the most turbulent periods that created our world felt calm and smooth?I predict things culminate in the next 3 years before they start normalizing a

Daniel Howdon

danielhowdon

Gonna do a thread I'll occasionally update about things that may/should/may not be live issues in health economics post-COVID-19 because I think that, in every discipline, there's a lot to

Tom Joseph

TomJChicago

1 With Trump is on his last legs, Putin has open positions in his US operation. It's likely a Trump replacement is being groomed. Russia could practically run ads ”Join

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