Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
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Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
Common doesn't make right.
No, I'm not scared. I've explained what I'm saying.
@NevetsEel1 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
It doesn't infer that. I'm making no claims, express or implied, about what the founding father wanted or didn't want.
Judging by many of the responses I got, people read all kinds of things into what I wrote that I didn't say or mean. Take what I wrote literally and soberly.
False, I think Abbott should be free to practice religion in his private life all he wants. I tolerate that. I just don't think he should be using his political platform to spread religious memes.
@Dust92 @RoyMCohen @GregAbbott_TX
You do not get to demand people keep their religious views silent.
Again, when did I say that?
@NevetsEel1 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
When did I make historical claims about what the founders wanted and didn’t want?
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
I’m saying he shouldn’t quote bible verses on his political platform where people come to read about his politics.
Elsewhere, and separately from his political platform, he can quote bible verses all he wants, I don’t care.
@Dust92 @JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX
It means church shouldn’t meddle with politics and politics shouldn’t meddle with church.
Abbott using his political platform to tweet religious memes meets church meddling with politics.
No, that’s not what I’m pretending. You need to understand my position better before you can argue against it.
RT @CrimeADay:
Textually speaking, it’s ok if it’s not your cat. twitter.com/justreaddathin…
@JeremyW33138778 @DSmerkous @GregAbbott_TX
You're drawing distinctions that don't matter. Abbott shouldn't tweet about god or "the lord" or whatever you want to call it.
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
That doesn't imply that Abbott shouldn't be able to quote bible verses.
@ReneBon69069180 @GregAbbott_TX
Argument from intimidation doesn't work on me.
@JeremyW33138778 @DSmerkous @GregAbbott_TX
Why couldn't David deny god? What you consider evidence of god's presence others consider evidence of something else.
He used a platform he frequently uses to tweet about politics to share his religious beliefs. It's conflating two things that should be kept strictly separate. He's free to worship, but people might too easily think his politics and religion inform each other.
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
U dont want abbot to be able to quote bible verses.
Quote where I said this?
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
Your "LatinX" thing makes me think you're a woke leftist FYI.
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
When did I say I want to get rid of the constitution?
And what do you think I want "with this"?
@RuthlessLatinX @Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
When did I say it didn't?
@RuthlessLatinX @Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
I'm not a leftist FYI. And I'm not saying he shouldn't be able to say it. I'm saying he shouldn't say it; that he should keep religion on his doorstep.
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
If that really is the original meaning, "separation of church and state" has come to mean something that goes both ways. Religion should stay out of politics. Abbott should keep it at home.
@JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX
all sessions of the Senate have been opened with prayer
Is that true? If so, that's messed up.
@CryptoApologia @GregAbbott_TX
LOL you've gone full Christian.
Again, as I wrote to several others, when did I say he shouldn't be free to worship?
@EricPhi21786598 @Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
Good to know.
@Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
Also, when did I say he shouldn't practice his religion?
@JeremyW33138778 @Dust92 @GregAbbott_TX
That's not what separation of church and state is, no.
@JoelGeo55746880 @GregAbbott_TX
Others have made this point. My response: twitter.com/dchackethal/st…
@SSEG_KingCosta @GregAbbott_TX
Well, maybe so, but that's not the meaning I am using. Note that I didn't say anything bad about Christianity. For all you know I might be a Christian.
What you're doing, expressing intolerance of the free exercise of religion
That isn't what I'm doing. I'm not saying Abbott shouldn't be religious. You're arguing against claims I didn't make.
@ReneBon69069180 @GregAbbott_TX
No, it goes both ways. Religious ideas should not be advocated by politicians.
I can appreciate someone who takes ideas seriously.
What if someone is a Christian and wants to fight against Satan, except he just doesn’t think politicians should use their political platform to spread religious memes? Does that still make him Satan?
@TheHistorian19 @GregAbbott_TX
LOL what a powerful, condescending mic drop. You’re not convincing anyone that way.
I didn’t say he’s trying to establish a mandatory religion. You’re arguing against points I didn’t make.
@JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX
Yes, actually, it does mean that.
@SSEG_KingCosta @GregAbbott_TX
What do you think its new meaning is?
@JeremyW33138778 @GregAbbott_TX
I didn’t say that he wasn’t. I’m saying him using the same platform he usually uses to make political announcements blurs the line between state and religion. It’s unprofessional of a politician to do so.
@Reecespuffs14 @HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
Would you feel the same way if it was Islam he practiced instead of Christianity?
So anyone who thinks politicians shouldn’t use their platform to spread Christian memes is or at least supports Satan? Is that what you’re saying?
@isth1srealL1fe @GregAbbott_TX
LOL. “Anyone who disagrees with me is evil.”
@RuthlessLatinX @GregAbbott_TX
He put the source in his tweet.
Prophecy -> pessimism -> undervaluing achievements. twitter.com/RealJamesWoods…
@HickeyAustin97 @GregAbbott_TX
He speaks as a politician to people following him as a politician. He makes political announcements using this profile all the time. You know what’s going on here.
Why not? A good government gets smaller, not bigger.
It completely automates error detection: it shows you how many words you mistyped and allows you to practice them. It also shows you a replay of your typing speed.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Most people who practice Islam would never do this. Why are we focusing on the 30% or whatever who think it's OK, and…
Seems like you’ve been signing a lot of laws lately. Do you ever get rid of laws, too?
@OfficialGaryS @liberty_deity @DeGuerre_Nom
Isn't that a problem with conservatives, not with the graphic?
RT @dockaurG:
🧐But but the “cases”, the scariants, the “delta” scariant! A break from your regularly scheduled state-sponsored fear-mongeri…
RT @DavidDeutschOxf:
It is indeed false. twitter.com/SwimmerBold/st…
RT @NASAPersevere:
Mapping out a path in my search for signs of ancient life: after my first campaign to the south, the long term plan take…
RT @CrimeADay:
21 USC §676 & 9 CFR §319.180(a) make it a federal crime to sell overly fatty hot dogs.
Gender doesn’t exist, therefore the gender wage gap can’t exist
Lösung: die Rente gibt es für jeden sobald er mag, wenn er für seine eigene Rente sorgt, nicht für die anderer, und wenn kein ineffizientes Staatsorgan damit beauftragt wird.
RT @michaelmalice:
the last time you people didnt understand the concept of private property you ended up selling Manhattan for a bunch of…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Fauci is the science, and the science is Fauci.
Enemies of Fauci are enemies of the science!
Fauci is the science's…
Presumably imperfectly self-replicating programs. Wouldn't be a computer you'd wanna use.
"Discounting Future Knowledge": blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/discount…
Yea. And, assuming those “federal tax bill” numbers are correct—which I doubt—why not lower the tax burden for “wage earners” instead of raising it for those oh-so-greedy evil rich people?
That should enable wage earners to “spend on basics” themselves.
"Many people decided that this was the end of the world, and that therefore attempting any further earthly improvements was pointless." (from David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity)
Who thought so: medieval Europeans during the Black Death or 21st-century environmentalists?
Yeah, malaria plays real nice out there in nature. twitter.com/normonics/stat…
RT @TheBabylonBee:
Governor Gavin Newsom Announces He's Using His Emergency Powers To Wish For More Emergency Powers babylonbee.com/news/gov-gavin…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years." - Steve Jobs, presenting first iPhone at MacWorld…
Yeah, first there was only a bubble of explicability in an ocean of senselessness (the Haldane-Dawkins argument), now that ocean is at least explicable too, but still finite.
Yeah that looks like SF not Cupertino.
RT @realchrisrufo:
National Propaganda Radio strikes again.
It's like a headline from 1981 saying: "Republicans across the country are de…
Mensch:innen. Das mit dem Gendern muss sie noch üben.
RT @amasad:
Imagine sending someone a deep link to a breakpoint with the program halted and all the state ready to debug.
You'll restore access even for Nigerians with conservative and/or anti-lockdown views? twitter.com/Policy/status/…
Good example of academic obscurantism and its translation (thread): twitter.com/AlexEpstein/st…
Sounds like you’re aiming to regulate it. If you really wanted the blockchain to expand, you’d stay out of it.
Doesn't it cost more money to stay in those places?
Formatted like that it’s not so bad. Reads just like nested conditionals.
Can't find that account. Got a link to the tweet?
RT @AurelianofRome:
@SwipeWright
People are just making up words to give themselves titles that they believe are prestigious.
Unless you’re in politics and complain on people’s behalf.
RT @CrimeADay:
21 USC §§331, 333, 342 & 21 CFR §§110.110 make it a federal crime to sell canned spinach with caterpillars in it if the cate…
Say the birds' algorithms for detecting and nudging small asteroids nearby have reach to also detect and nudge big and far-away ones. Say it's because big far-away ones look like small close ones. Birds evolve group behavior to fly out in huge flocks to nudge big asteroids.
Yeah could be. To be clear, I don’t claim that what I’m proposing would happen in exactly that way. But isn’t it sufficient to show that biological evolution could lead to organisms that deflect asteroids in principle?
Not a sacrifice if the bird doesn't die.