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Stephen Pimentel

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Stephen Pimentel

@StephenPiment

Researcher and writer: @palladiummag, @unherd, @im_1776, @AntigoneJournal, @FDRLST. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.

San Francisco Bay Area

Joined October 2012

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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Apr 29
I spoke with @wolftivy on the ancient Greeks for the @0xthestudents.
The Students
@0xthestudents
Apr 29
Why should a student of the 21st century read Plato and Aristotle? @StephenPiment explains how Greek philosophy helps us to see past the conceits of our own era. 0:01:16 - Should you read the ancient philosophers? 0:04:24 - The first thinkers on regime foundations 0:23:40 -
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Apr 6, 2025
“I think I can explain Hegel, but I still don’t know what POV means.”
Katherine Everitt 💥
@katherineveritt
Apr 5, 2025
POV: I’m explaining my favorite paradoxes in Hegel
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Oct 22, 2022
UFO sightings are an Anglo-American phenomenon.
Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Oct 21, 2024
The lawfare against @elonmusk, as gleefully described by the New York Times:
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Jun 9, 2024
If you don’t understand this chart, keep staring at it until you do.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Apr 22, 2022
In the United States, about 40,000 people were lobotomized, with the procedure reaching its peak of popularity in 1949. Crazy how there can fads for radical surgical procedures that we later view as unneeded and harmful.
Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Oct 5, 2024
Much of modern life.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Dec 27, 2023
“Degrowth” is a euphemism for poverty.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Dec 6, 2023
Replying to @PopBase
Taylor Swift is less insightful than ChatGPT.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
May 16, 2025
Replying to @BritHugoboom
“Right wing is when your body functions properly.”
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Feb 8, 2025
Replying to @bronzeagemantis
Sent by the gods. Some beatings are acts of a higher love.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Dec 1, 2023
Listened to Lex Fridman interviewing John Mearsheimer. The chief thing it convinced me of is that Fridman is a dimwit. Constantly repeating platitudes. Highly brainwormed.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Oct 23, 2023
Winston Churchill's chief strategic goal was the defense of the British Empire. If one looks at the British Empire in 1910, when Churchill was 36, and compares it to the UK at the time of his death in 1965, it is unambiguously clear that he failed in this goal.
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Stephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment
Dec 1, 2024
“Smelling good is racist and sexist.”
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