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Patrick Crotty

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Physics prof. Basic philosophy: Data > Theory, Facts > Narrative. MAGAs, bigots, doomers, people with a hammer-and-sickle in their nym, and other obnoxious rabble get instablocked. Posts are my personal views and I don’t speak for any institution etc.

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MAGA is shit, I’ll never respect MAGA, I hate MAGA, I look forward to MAGA going the way of the Know-Nothings

09.03.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*that* i agree with

09.03.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TBF we probably did lose something. Committing massive works like the Vedas or Homeric epics to memory presumably develops certain cognitive skills to a higher degree than would
have been needed by literate peoples. But it seems clear the tradeoff was worth it in that case.

09.03.2026 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So…what exactly has been accomplished?

09.03.2026 20:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He’s running in Texas, not Massachusetts.

09.03.2026 17:52 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Assuming this isn’t a bit — I can guarantee you Senator Talarico would be a lot better for women than Senator Cornyn or Senator Paxton. Among other things, Talarico supports abortion rights.

09.03.2026 17:50 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“We“ is doing a lot of work there. I don’t accept any of this shit, never have, never will.

09.03.2026 17:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shut the fuck up, Canadian.

09.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you’re posting from the land of the Le Pens, I’d maybe ease up a bit on the smugness

09.03.2026 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

cool, another canadian doomer. it’s been almost three minutes since the last one i saw, was wondering where they‘d gone

09.03.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When you’re back in charge next January, please strip this asshole of all his committee assignments.

09.03.2026 16:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, let’s alienate Saudi Arabia when Iran is blocking the Strait of Hormuz and oil is north of $100/bbl.

Good thinking there, Lindsey.

09.03.2026 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, we’re totally not on the precipice of a 2008-scale economic catastrophe, no sirree

09.03.2026 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You’re an annoying, obtuse, self-righteous person and I’m blocking you now.

09.03.2026 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder what the verdict would have been had the ICE agent fallen while dodging the sandwich, hit his head on the curb, and died.

09.03.2026 16:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’re both crimes. If while in the process of committing a crime, your actions, even inadvertently, cause someone’s death, you deserve significantly enhanced punishment. And that’s been the standard in legal systems since roughly the High Middle Ages.

09.03.2026 16:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“How dare you tax my tiny little mind with hypotheticals that illustrate the broader point”

09.03.2026 16:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, actually it *is* a crime. Assault. And if the person at whom the sandwich was thrown tripped while dodging it and fell down, hit his head on the curb, and died, the thrower would appropriately be in very deep shit with the law.

09.03.2026 16:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I said until age 30, not for 30 years.

Suppose instead of toilet papering his house, they’d been spray-painting swastikas on it? You’d still be like “no biggie” if one of them ran him over?

09.03.2026 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Is it too much to ask that people make at least a nominal effort to read through a thread and understand people’s positions *before* jumping in?

09.03.2026 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If they accidentally back over someone *while in the process of committing another crime against them*, it‘s a tad different.

09.03.2026 15:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If this guy has any ambitions for the Senate or White House, they’ve already evaporated.

09.03.2026 15:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

lol, he blocked me

09.03.2026 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cool. Tell that to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

09.03.2026 15:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Unless you live in her House district, no she does not still have your vote. Talarico won the primary and she conceded and endorsed him.

09.03.2026 15:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

👆acct created an hour ago

09.03.2026 15:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

JFC. How about you and the rest of the Fox and Friends crew sail unprotected through the Strait of Hormuz on Rupert Murdoch’s yacht, fucknut. Then and only then will you be marginally entitled to lecture anyone else about it

09.03.2026 15:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It’s a very good thing for the survival of American democracy that you don’t live in TX, then

09.03.2026 14:57 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤦‍♂️

09.03.2026 14:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why? Just because he’s a believer? So was Biden.

09.03.2026 14:54 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0