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David S

@dslakter.bsky.social

Community college philosophy professor. Former Oklahoman, current New Yorker. Kidney collector. There's more to life than books, you know (but not much more). https://philpeople.org/profiles/david-slakter

created July 7, 2023

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Profile picture disc horse bot (@horsedisc.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Violent J is Kat Abughazaleh's Sasuke Uchiha.

2/9/2025, 2:05:20 PM | 23 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not sure they can tell the difference any longer.

3/9/2025, 12:54:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

SCOTUS is self-interested in one sense.

3/9/2025, 12:46:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world . . . but for Trump?

3/9/2025, 12:00:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

She's waiting for that next Q drop.

3/9/2025, 11:59:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

"He says my stupid ideas are great,. actually!"

3/9/2025, 11:49:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

College students are all-in on this bet.

3/9/2025, 11:47:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe this person is a statistical outlier, but the point is about the model experience and how it explains people's attitudes toward polyamory, not that such views are based on strong evidence.

3/9/2025, 1:20:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Same.

3/9/2025, 1:13:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

This article says that Trump is the oldest person ever to be president. Have they already forgotten about Joe Biden?

2/9/2025, 7:53:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz3M...

2/9/2025, 4:20:39 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The trouble with trying to do things the *legal* way is that other people know the law, too. Which is why it's important to have judges who DGAF.

2/9/2025, 4:10:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The guy saying "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" is a villain!

2/9/2025, 4:08:27 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

There are more . . . fun penalties.

2/9/2025, 1:01:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Eh, they'll just learn to categorize everything they don't like as 'propaganda.' I'm currently developing a critical thinking course that focuses on applied epistemology and cognitive biases, as there's evidence this interior-focused approach works better.

2/9/2025, 1:00:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

She's never seen the floor of a frat house the morning after.

2/9/2025, 12:37:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

He only knows the power of positive thinking.

1/9/2025, 6:54:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The lib is never at his weakest than when is mocking you for being a dipshit.

1/9/2025, 3:51:01 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

This is what destroyed the racist coalition in the EU parliament.

1/9/2025, 3:49:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

But those meth heads aren't the *real* Bumfuck.

1/9/2025, 1:17:19 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Should have used '/s.'

1/9/2025, 3:20:10 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Eh, not sure. Lots of pro-Israel orgs would have thrown everything in their arsenal at a Harris admin trying to reign in Bibi. Maybe not enough to help Israel do as much as they want to do in Gaza, but enough to torch Harris's public support.

1/9/2025, 3:19:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Refusing to do more to prevent Israel from committing war crimes is just as bad as encouraging and signing on to make money from said war crimes.

1/9/2025, 3:18:14 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I recall watching a journalist for BBC4 conduct an interview years ago, and was amazed how they would not allow the interviewee to dodge questions the way US journos do.

1/9/2025, 3:15:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Akshually this is all Joe Biden's fault.

31/8/2025, 4:03:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Person Formerly Chained to the HQ of the Company Formerly Known as Twitter

31/8/2025, 3:44:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Still too refined a title.

31/8/2025, 3:42:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Conversely, practicing them correctly without an active defense is susceptible to bad-faith attacks claiming they are not.

31/8/2025, 12:56:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

No thoughts; only poasts.

31/8/2025, 12:08:04 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Libs wouldn't be threatening his family, because many of them know what it's like to be related to Nazis.

31/8/2025, 11:53:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Only if it's on the LAN.

31/8/2025, 1:17:22 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

"The law only applies to Democrats" is still a constant position.

31/8/2025, 12:10:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

All we need is a MVP, bro.

30/8/2025, 6:32:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they should have used something other than a Pinto.

30/8/2025, 3:37:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

They're constantly playing their songs at every sporting event.

30/8/2025, 3:27:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

In John Deere green On a hot summer night He wrote "Time to get rekt, Charlene"

30/8/2025, 3:08:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

SCOTUS should have rotating seats. It works in many other places.

30/8/2025, 2:56:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Should have ordered that rare book from Germany earlier.

30/8/2025, 2:39:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Just look at what Jowett did to Plato's homoeroticism.

30/8/2025, 2:30:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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30/8/2025, 1:57:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

The "Gavin Newsom sucks" to "libs would love Trump if he had better aesthetics" pipeline is not a healthy place to be.

30/8/2025, 1:55:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a GoT get-up.

30/8/2025, 1:05:10 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It seems Elon's not the only one horny for an AI waifu.

29/8/2025, 9:27:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The English call that breakfast.

29/8/2025, 12:14:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

You can always use meteor It's always morally correct
28/8/2025, 10:09:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

My favorite example of this is polls asking whether people supported the invasion of Iraq at various post-invasion intervals.

28/8/2025, 9:34:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

You still don't want your cash cows stampeding on you.

28/8/2025, 9:32:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Strahan Cadell 🇨🇦🇻🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 (@quincunctial.bsky.social) reposted

YOUNG MAN

28/8/2025, 6:31:55 PM | 16 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The only revealed preferences are those given in a poll result.

28/8/2025, 9:13:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I do miss reading actual undergrad writing.

28/8/2025, 1:06:35 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

Vindicated, I am selfish, I am wrong I am right, I swear I'm right Swear I knew it all along

28/8/2025, 1:00:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

No. I should try it sometime.

28/8/2025, 3:03:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Much like radiation in Marvel comics, experiencing discrimination gives some people superpowers.

28/8/2025, 2:59:44 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I just spent two weeks in New England and I was never offered this. They must save it for locals only.

28/8/2025, 2:57:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It's incredible how much worse the situation in Gaza has become, and how much less we see public outcry surrounding it.

28/8/2025, 2:56:55 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

There aren't many people out there who could shoot someone and then the person they shot apologize to them for it.

28/8/2025, 1:02:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted

some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly

27/8/2025, 1:00:30 AM | 13831 1546 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

He's about to wish they were.

27/8/2025, 1:02:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing that the pharmaceutical companies allow RFK to live

26/8/2025, 9:02:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, good old mid 90s to early 2010s.

26/8/2025, 9:01:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I can arrest to the value of fighting back: I was beat up by a number of bullies in school, but never the same bully twice.

25/8/2025, 6:50:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

That category includes at least two current members of SCOTUS.

25/8/2025, 6:09:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

Are we recycling takes from a year ago?

25/8/2025, 11:52:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted

Silly as this is, there is a version of it that would actually reveal something about the person answering: Would you publicly praise Trump if it meant he’d exempt you from the bad policy he’s inflicting on everyone else? That’s an actual measure of principle. And it’s one too many are failing.

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24/8/2025, 7:33:44 PM | 842 166 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascist influencers: "I like the first part, but the second saps my life energy."

25/8/2025, 10:47:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

I've seen some shit, man.

24/8/2025, 6:57:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

In the ads, which I can still hear clearly in my head, they say "With Papa Smurf's special sauce!"

24/8/2025, 6:49:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

If reporting crime is against the law, only criminals will report crimes.

24/8/2025, 6:38:04 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It's a helluva drug.

24/8/2025, 6:29:37 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It's not bougie the way bananas are.

24/8/2025, 5:19:39 PM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The ultimate dream of every communist.

24/8/2025, 5:18:13 PM | 28 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Although the David Brooks type of thought where they were all united in their love of freedom was self-flattering hubris.

24/8/2025, 10:48:32 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

They would have their Bork and their Romney already.

24/8/2025, 10:46:32 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It took 20 years from the end of WWII to convince women that cooking fig app-approved food was oppression.

24/8/2025, 10:39:13 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

One of Campbell's early hits.

23/8/2025, 10:41:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

They'd be lucky to stay that low with just one of those a day.

23/8/2025, 10:39:17 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

If you're already drinking the fancy stuff, the percentage hit is probably much lower.

23/8/2025, 10:38:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture lowtax speedrun enjoyer (@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social) reposted

think tcw has to go post on facebook after this

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23/8/2025, 9:24:32 PM | 3952 466 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, that's why I mentioned how hollow it is. Much as Christianity domesticated the radical elements of the early Jesus movement, fascism attempts to domesticate those in anti-Christian figures such as Nietzsche.

23/8/2025, 10:05:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

The truth of this fact is why I hate seeing stolen valor from leftist posters on here.

23/8/2025, 9:36:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

This is also what makes their invocations of Nietzsche as a fellow traveler so hollow, as the man emphasized taking risks to pursue joy, said that it was better to be deceived now and again than to constantly be on guard against deception.

23/8/2025, 9:33:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It's right to mourn the harm being done and that will be done, but not to despair that none can be prevented nor nothing improved.

23/8/2025, 1:54:11 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, every fucking time the GOP lost since 2008, I told myself "Thank God all the idiots did not doom us all to something worse."

23/8/2025, 1:50:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

If he subscribed to that logic, he would have FEMA help red states. He no longer believes he needs to win a fair election again.

20/8/2025, 9:31:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess it wasn't a good idea to align with all those dudes who claimed real men don't eat soy.

20/8/2025, 9:30:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

The Leather Jacket Speaks

20/8/2025, 5:41:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

But what if there were a 1% chance of one of them committing a crime that should only be committed by Americans?

20/8/2025, 2:15:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Sometimes she appears in photos with unmasked people while accusing anyone who doesn't mask in public of participating in genocide.

20/8/2025, 2:14:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Time to end all those daylight crossings.

20/8/2025, 2:09:03 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn't matter. It won't stop the NYPD from trying to kill him, although it may make them seem (more) insane for it.

19/8/2025, 5:08:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

This only reinforces what I am saying about the problem with hidebound Marxist analyses, within which unions are a progressive consolidation of proletariat power.

19/8/2025, 2:45:29 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

That term refers to a relation to capital that they don't really have, but I take to your point. In fact, it's the way their behavior scrambles certain types of Marxist analysis that causes more problems for the iconoclastic left.

19/8/2025, 2:35:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

Unions and their leadership are motivated only to promote the interests of the working class.* *2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries except

19/8/2025, 2:26:31 PM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

No good sex shaming is complete without finding a woman to fixate on.

19/8/2025, 11:46:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

That's their secret. Everything they don't like is liberalism.

19/8/2025, 11:44:48 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted

one guy even tried to give us a sandwich

18/8/2025, 9:13:59 PM | 11947 1629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

It used to be a man could cut his heel on a pop top. Now you're lucky if it even breaks the skin.

19/8/2025, 11:24:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social) reply parent

This will only remind Jake of how old Biden is.

19/8/2025, 11:23:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David S (@dslakter.bsky.social)

Another self-defeating aspect of this type of messaging is that it means Republicans just need to make beef more expensive - or focus on it being so - when out of power. Because Dems don't articulate other values of liberal democracy.

19/8/2025, 11:09:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view