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At some point you have to actually decide you have the conviction to stand up for your own beliefs and refuse to entertain every contrarian out of a misguided sense of impartiality that isn't truly impartial. You have to actually believe you're right to be righteous.

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There is a failure mode in liberalism, I think, where it goes hunting for the perfect set of rules and structures that will always, permanently and inevitably lead to Good Outcomes, and thus get rid of the messy and uncomfortable work of actually having to have and do good politics.

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We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

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And so they'll go on wrongly assuming that Rommel was a 'noble warrior' and that sure, the SS was bad, but the Wehrmacht were mostly just 'serving their country' That matters for how they understand both the WWII period but also how they understand their role and its moral implications *today.*

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