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Walter Shaub Jul 31
This isn't an ontological thought exercise. If they've got a nasty infestation of PONCs, you can see why the 1st Amendment traumatizes them.
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Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub
If there's even the slightest chance I used "ontological" correctly, you can join me in imagining a PONC tweeting "I'm asked therefore I am"
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Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Maybe knows. She has the best words, tremendous words.
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Alexandra Petri Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub
when I saw "pests" I was wondering if you were building to an entomological ontological question
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Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
Yes!!! You get it.
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Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes
If they were short questions would you call this an ephemeral entomological ontological question? Or just another malapropism?
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Alexandra Petri Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub
although after this fulsome thread I am starting to wonder if I truly know the meaning of any of these words
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data_libertas Jul 31
Replying to @petridishes @waltshaub
Those are WORDS!?!?
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Walter Shaub
This began as a fantasy about seditious little questions that confound authoritarian instincts. It's late and I have to go tuck them in now.
7:02 PM - 31 Jul 2017
Walter Shaub Jul 31
Replying to @data_libertas @petridishes
Thank you This has been the highlight of my year.
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data_libertas Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub @petridishes
Mine too. Now I have to drop everything and painstakingly parse through these passages to propound a precise summary of this palillogy.
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data_libertas Jul 31
Replying to @waltshaub @petridishes
You Kant put Descartes before the horse, man.
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