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Tom Cornell

Tom Cornell

@Captain_Fortran

Husband. Father. Father-in-law. Grampa. Best vocations EVER! Physicist. Materials Scientist. Systems Engineer. Lover of Truth & Faith & Reason.

Behold the Universe! شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2023
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@wokal_distance "We are not a nation of laws and we never have been.  We are a nation of political will and always will be." - @SteveDeaceShow . "Them laws ain't gonna execute themselves." - *Yours, Truly*
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Wokal Distance
Wokal Distance@wokal_distance·
This is not Rufo just aimlessly trying to be a dick. he is attempting to show that the methods of the Elizabeth Corey types have failed because they don't understand that the problem is not a matter of communication or persuasion. The right is having power politics done to them by the left, and Rufo's point is that you can't fight power politics with persuasion. It is impossible to reason with power politics for the exact same reason that it is impossible to reason with a punch in the face. You cannot appeal to the better nature and intellectual honesty of a person who thinks that all intellectual engagement is merely masks for power and all justifications are merely rhetorical moves in a discursive struggle for political position. Again, academics simply refuse to engage with Rufo's theory of change, what he is trying to do intellectually and politically, or his normative and strategic justifications for doing so. If academics want understanding, perhaps they could, you know, ask him (or me! we worked and work together!) about what is being done, why it is being done, and what the normative and strategic justifications for doing so are.
Thomas D. Howes@ThomasDHowes

I get Rufo going after people like @McGillPatterson and me, because we're provocative and invite it, but Rufo has now been nasty to Elizabeth Corey, Rachel Lu, and Kevin Vallier???? They're nice people.

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Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@wokal_distance ***"Listen and understand. That [demonically possessed party] is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead."***
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@ProfMJCleveland Yeah, we're looking at the result of a 385-390 year, 3rd level, Sunspot / Solar Activity cycle and we'll see what REALLY governs the major heating & cooling cycles of the planet. (**And we're powerless to stop it...**) ref:  phys.org/news/2015-07-i…
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Margot Cleveland@ProfMJCleveland·
The forecast for next week: three days of global warming followed by climate change.
Margot Cleveland tweet media
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Steve 🇺🇸@SteveLovesAmmo·
I wonder how many bots and catfishes here on X posing as Conservatives were paid by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Val
Val@TrumpsHurricane·
Florida has got Beaches 🏖️ Georgia has got Peaches 🍑 What does your state have ??
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Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@BskiMike22802 Calculation based on a quick DuckDuckGo Assistant query for US Population - The current population of the United States is approximately 348,766,554 as of 2026.
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@BskiMike22802 Washington's conjecture: 1 Representative for every 30,000 - 348,766,554÷30000 = 11625.5518 call it 11625 Representatives See also Madison's Original proposal for 12 Amendments, Article the first... I *LIKE* IT! Every American citizen ought to know his representative.
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@Timcast "...and just to show you how dangerous nuclear power plants are, we're going to sabotage one..."
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Tim Pool
Tim Pool@Timcast·
conservatives announce rally liberal group pays nazis to show up liberal group says "see conservatives are nazis"
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Knowbody
Knowbody@PertectedSpeech·
@realsashastone Yep. The other nine commandments would be good to pass on as well.
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Sasha Stone
Sasha Stone@realsashastone·
Do we really have to now teach a whole generation that you're not supposed to steal?
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@Jeff_Miller_CO "It insinuates itself into Christianity's teachings, people, and ideas, while rejecting its most important truths." ( 20 Answers: Islam , Andrew Biezad, 2015, Catholic Answers, El Cajon, CA 92020, p. 59 )
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Tom Cornell
Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@Jeff_Miller_CO "St. John of Damascus (676-749) and Bl. Peter the Venerable of Montboissier (1092-1156) ... both said that Islam was the culmination of all Christian heresies."
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
Everything about the Left is fake. Once you understand it, everything make sense. >Eat the rich... from your mansion >Save the planet... from your private jet >Everyone is racist... while you fund the racism. >Billionaires are evil... unless you fund our candidates. >Words are violence... but my violence is actually speech >Wrong pronouns are assault... but burning a courthouse in a protest is mostly peaceful >We love immigrants... unless you send them to Martha's Vineyard then we call ICE too >Democracy is sacred... unless we lose, then it was stolen by Russia, misinformation, or Elon >Diversity is our strength... unless you're a Black conservative, then you're a race traitor who needs to be destroyed >Tax the wealthy... while your foundation, your trust, and your three LLCs are structured specifically to avoid paying a dime of it >Capitalism is oppression... posted from an iPhone, on a platform worth a trillion dollars, while wearing merch sold through the your merch store linked in your bio It's all fake, it's all performative and should be endlessly mocked into oblivion. Give them zero comfort. The doctrine is always designed so the cost lands on someone else. The cashier pays for your protest. The suburban parents pays for your sanctuary city. The trade school kid pays for your student loan forgiveness. The taxpayer pays for your foundation's tax shelter. The working mom pays for your gas stove ban. The factory town pays for your Green New Deal. The girl on the swim team pays for your pronouns. The cop's widow pays for your bail reform. It's a massive, evil, cost-transfer operation that pretends the evil they are pushing, is moral. ...and it's just evil
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LoriMcSmith@oSugarfoot·
@MikeBales And I need you more than want you & I want you for all time. From the song Wichita Lineman sung by the late Glen Campbell.
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Tom Cornell@Captain_Fortran·
@MikeBales I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died. He stopped lovin' her today. I could've told you, Vincent - the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you. Hello, Operator? Oh could you help me place this call?
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 UPDATE: 10 INJURIES with 2 in critical condition in Baton Rouge after a shooting at Mall of Louisiana, police say "Two groups of people got into an argument in the food court and started shooting at each other."
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Steve Baker
Steve Baker@SteveBakerUSA·
@RevolverNewsUSA Really? You filtered your narrative through Politico’s inaccurate screed? If you want a better version … call me. Oh. You left out the part where Kerkhoff failed the polygraph and that her law firm claims she doesn’t have a unique gait (limp.) Do better.
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