| @willwilkinson I don't understand how you've held off on changing your bio to "the Last Tolerable Libertarian Besides Radley Balko" (Max Read) | |
| @robinberjon Isn't that why you keep me around?
If you're specifically interested in questions of legitimacy where governance institutions are concerned, @willwilkinson has written rather extensively on the subject. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: When you say proposals for a fairer, more representative, more equitable electoral system are "divisive," you're saying… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The "I'm just serious about condemning violence whenever it occurs" crowd is in fact only serious about obscuring massiv… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: We have officially failed the "peaceful transition of power" test. There's no way around that. Trump and his congression… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: I can imagine no better illustration of the actual meaning of "mob rule." A literal mob incited by a lawless, outgoing p… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: What a travesty. The GOP is determined to brand itself an agent of lawless chaos, enemy of the Constitution and out-of-c… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Radley's pointing out something very real. As a matter of cultural and political reality, libertarianism reliably functi… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The bad faith is obvious, but the self-dealing contempt for principle is worse than that. The D complaint is that a part… | |
| @willwilkinson Putting that fine arts degree to good use, Will? (If not, source/credit?)
tbqh if Biden gets elected and pulls a Taft with Obama, that would be quite awesome. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: That militia types were always on the side of right-wing authoritarianism was never well-concealed. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Taboos around these opinions were protecting liberal values of equal social standing, equal citizenship, and equal right… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: I think (1) and (2) are related. Social media has been a powerful engine for the normalization of white nationalism, "re… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: People from less powerful and well-represented have always thought too much bigotry was considered in-bounds. And it's n… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Disagreement about where to draw the boundaries, where to build the fence, isn't a disagreement about the value of free… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Acting as if internal Times dissent to publishing a transparently dishonest call for an authoritarian crackdown on polit… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Police across the country seem to be willfully inciting violence, effectively rioting against public demands to hold the… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Americans won't get their heads around the fact that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was/is completely unjustified--… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Warren is miles ahead not only in terms of issue identification, but also detailed, credible policy response. With every… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: It's blindingly obvious that many who complain about the threat of PC to free expression are just offended by free expre… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: They don't HAVE to shred the Court's remaining legitimacy by declaring war on the relevance of truth, installing an inte… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Scores of men on my feeds have made a version of the "If Kav is denied a SCOTUS seat, who among us is safe?!" argument,… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The MSM is not remotely "liberal" in this respect. If we care about equality, refuse to tee up racial animosity, or to a… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The media bears some real responsibility for the racialized politicization of Mollie Tibbett's murder. Missing persons c… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: That that using technocratic competence as the standard of qualification is a gatekeeping move implicitly hostile to rep… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: It's crazy that there's not a single GOP senator who wants to be a beloved world-historical hero who goes down in the an… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: I remember. I protested outside the White House.
Charges of hypocrisy are empty. All that matters is doing the right th… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The media has been horribly guilty of Orwellian obfuscation about " immigration detention centers." In plain English the… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: City property owners who think they're entitled to defend "the character of the neighborhood" are the liberal version of… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: It's not that hard: "Breaking! The corrupt president is in big freaking trouble, so he's started a war. Let's talk about… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Can sophisticated people really be such simpletons, so credulous, so easily enlisted into a murderous con? I'm sickened… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: What the hell is wrong with these cable news people? The tomahawks start sailing and they're suddenly amnesiac about the… | |
| @patrissimo @willwilkinson The implausible logical leap here is Peterson's, between what C-16 actually proposed and his bizarre, alarmist interpretation of it. See the first section of @aaronhuertas' excellent article: https://t.co/mB01JdhsbQ | |
| @patrissimo @willwilkinson @jordanbpeterson The same view? Are you saying your dad opposes the extension of human rights protections for trans people, and/or refuses to afford trans people the dignity of their pronouns? | |
| @rafuzo @willwilkinson @imogenbinnie Art of the Metaobject Protocol came in second… | |
| @willwilkinson Nevada by @imogenbinnie. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: I wrote... Why does Donald Trump demonize cities? Because they show that the liberal experiment works. https://t.co/ibgq… | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The point of Trump's lies is to create a widespread sense that an open, pluralistic, multicultural society is dangerous. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Muslim refugees pose no more threat to public safety than typical Americans. There's NO problem that justifies exclusion… | |
| "There is no partisan[…] divide on the urgent necessity to maintain a baseline level of decency in our political culture." — @willwilkinson | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Legislative supremacy is a really good idea. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: When, in 2008, Obama said it's time to close Gitmo, I believed he meant it. #EconSOTU | |
| RT @willwilkinson: I blogged... Secret government: America against democracy | The Economist http://t.co/XRowNvdjfD | |
| RT @willwilkinson: If I could push a button and give a chunk of a dictator's money to an innocuous pop star, I'd do it. | |
| @gnewburn so would I! Hint hint @willwilkinson | |
| RT @willwilkinson: If Lin and Tebow get gay-married I will serve Christ humbly for the remainder of my days. Lord, I need just this one ... | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Please let us now begin "disrupting" the mind-deadening use of barbaric MBA-speak like "disruptive." | |
| @willwilkinson the amazon link in there is broken. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Go Packers! Beat Rapists! | |
| @willwilkinson wouldn't everybody? | |
| @kevinmarks Have you read @willwilkinson's excellent stuff on status hierarchies? | |
| RT @willwilkinson: The Rand Paul debacle spotlights the way the link to populist conservatism sullies libertarianism while obscuring it' ... | |
| RT @willwilkinson: Vigorously enforcing unjust statues because they are, after all, on the books is not the rule of law. | |
| @Canthros that's awesome. Oddly, I've technically known @willwilkinson longer than I've known you, though you beat him IRL by a year or two. | |
| RT @willwilkinson: "My team's legislative agenda is failing" /= "our politics is broken". | |
| @willwilkinson you're letting your inner Canadian out. | |
| Institutions are a kind of social technology[…] Effective global coordination is the cold fusion of institutional [tech]. - @willwilkinson | |
| @willwilkinson that drawing's a surprisingly good likeness of you. http://bit.ly/bo6dr | |
| At a certain point, the differences between a sovereign monarch and a monopoly landlord becomes semantic.—@willwilkinson http://bit.ly/cv1Gj | |
| Apparently @willwilkinson and @cindyli are both in San Diego this weekend. Enjoy! | |
| Vicious nonsense | |
| Happiness and income | |
| Money and happiness | |