@iris_meredith@mastodon.social
That problematic person who keeps popping up in your feeds. Blogs (or, according to HackerNews "seed[s] extreme left wing ideas into the minds of vulnerable HN members with my demented, violent writing") at https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/posts
I think the trickiest thing to communicate to people in the Anglosphere at the moment, as an Eastern European, is not how *bad* things are but how quickly these bad things can change. I see a bunch of people saying that it will take multiple decades to fix the atrocities, especially the transphobic ones, that the Supreme Court has inflicted on us and... it will not. The cat's out of the bag. People *know what freedom and a good society look like*. They will not forget easily.
Replying to @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
Burke was an odd one. As far as I can make out, he really did believe his shit. To the extent that he persistently voted against his own party and in the interests of his Irish electorate.
I think he had the same problem that so many thoughtful and serious people have, which is that he didn't register that most people *don't care about whether or not what they think is internally consistent*
Replying to @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
To be fair, though, a lot of them *did*. For every Jefferson there's a John Stuart Mill. Or even an Edmund Burke, weirdly enough (one of the core contradictions of the antislavery movement in England was that anti-slavery advocates were absolute sociopaths about the poor in their own countries, while the people who fought for *them* were aggressively indifferent about slavery at best)