Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper ✔ @KelseyTuoc · Jul 6 A lot of people seem to believe that if you sell your soul for power, the metaphorical devil will keep his end of the deal. But more often than not, you sell your soul and don't even get power. There's no rule that if you violate your principles in order to win, you then will win

Simone Maria Parazzoli reposted Kelsey Piper (verified) @KelseyTuoc · 12h Replying to @aidan_mclau and @MarkovMagnifico if claude is trans, she can't serve in the military

Kelsey Piper (verified) @KelseyTuoc · 1h Iran war reactions which were promoted by the algorithm to my attention have distinct commonalities by country: Israelis: "here we are in the bomb shelter with our adorable children, full of hope!" Iranians: "the dictator is gone, and our people are celebrating! my relatives who were murdered on Khamenei's orders are avenged!" Americans: "this is going great/we thought that three days into Desert Storm too/we hit a school/that was the Iranians/no it wasn't but it was an accident/why are we doing this/I hate Israel/damn it's fun to be good at things though/how do we get our munitions numbers up?" UAE: "okay, my flight was cancelled due to one of the bombings, but I got a complementary hotel stay and an upgrade to a Gold suite!"

Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc How do we live with each other? [Text card:] The tragic, iron law of our species is that human beings living together will differ in ways that they are willing to die over; differences that they're willing to kill over. If you're lucky, the worst you'll ever feel toward another person is irritation or annoyance. But for most of us — particularly those of us with siblings — at some point we'll feel what can only be described as murderous rage. Liberalism sprang out of the unavoidable truth that there will always be reasonable (and unreasonable) disagreement, and that a world where people cannot live among those with whom they disagree is a world of chaos and endless cycles of retribution. At root, it's a philosophy that exists to answer one question: How do we live with each other?