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Author of “Ethos” - an exploration of the birth of “patriotic” indecency (MAGA) between 1979-2020 - delivering advanced weapons and smuggling drugs for “freedom fighters” - supported by ~100 historical references - all viewed through “slips” in space-time…
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It would be great to see/hear you debate Tom Nichols on the topic of “consensus” - he doesn’t buy it, despite what appears to be something of a consensus these days.
So far so good…
Probably - everything except for Alice…
There’s a flight leaving at dawn/dusk on Schrödinger’s Airline.
Das israelische Militär hat nachweislich über die Zahl der getöteten Kämpfer in Gaza gelogen - laut seiner eigenen Rechnung seien 83% der verifizierten Todesopfer Zivilisten.
Apparently Bibi can get anything he wants at Trump’s restaurant…
Strange, but I know exactly what you meant to write and agree.
Fi faen i helvete!
He has written that “as a longtime academic” he has “watched the eruption of anti-semitism on campuses” and “an academic group of genocide scholars is not moving” him on this. So - apparently, from his perspective, (these) academics are likely anti-semites and cannot be trusted (on this topic).
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
Put a hat on its head and a grimace and…
For some “perspective” this guys profile says he’s an “aspiring reeducation camp counselor”.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
And this is the powerful right wing Svengali that Anonymous is always talking about?
The Russians are trying to kill the leader of the EU. Right now wake the fuck up people.
Quetschekuche in Bayern…
"Putin now insists on a permanent cease-fire as Russia plans a new offensive in Kharkiv Oblast." Surely the NYT would realize how incoherent that statement is? But Netanyahu can say anything and the NYT will gleefully publish it, so long as it prolongs the genocide.
“…criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” www.state.gov/defining-ant...
The far right (KKK, Aryan National, Evangelical Christians) have been the most dedicated anti-Semite’s - you don’t find many of these in academia (my multi-decade experience) but what you DO find are attentive minds critical of “Israel” (not “Jews”) and the seemingly unlimited support from the U.S.
1/26/24: the ICJ declared Palestinians had a right to be protected from acts of genocide, calling on Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent such actions and allow the entry of desperately needed humanitarian aid into Gaza. 9/1/25: (1.7 y) where are we now on “prevent” “allow”? 👍?
A 2020 article that shines a light on the definition difficulty - think “Trump FL boat parades”: “Trump’s supporters in the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton… those in the “middle class” (that catch-all label used to describe everyone between the rich and those living under the poverty line).”
Then obviously we need to call in Dr. Strangelove.
Accurate…
Crypto is paralytically stupid. I am in!
Your intuition is accurate - stick with it.
Agreed - like Vegas but wicked humid and less alcohol.
This article is worth a read!
This is perhaps the most thoughtful and well written discussion of a complex topic I have ever read. …”’the culture wars are over, and [conservative Christians] lost.’ The goal was no longer to fight over control of the institutions, but to destroy them rather than let them fall into enemy hands.”
Maybe a brief optimistic H.W. spike in 1988, followed by reality (drop), with optimism returning with Clinton in 1992?
I have had similar experiences and am in concert with you: let stupid people do stupid things (as long as they don’t hurt anyone but themselves) and the corollary you identified: what goes around comes around.
Long term MAGA damage:
Unsurprising…
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With friends in Gaza I don’t care what it’s called as long as it stops. Notwithstanding that, this just in: “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
If it’s a real human, that human’s FB profile indicates it is likely a MAGA life form (50+ yo, white, poorly educated, lives in a MAGA Confederate state (outside of a blue city - so likely resentful), etc.
Ha! It took a moment to travel back in time - brilliant!
The deep meaningful answer to this important question requires a profound empathetic ability. To paraphrase a movie line: Believe me, you don't want MAGA inside your head… clip.cafe/the-silence-...
And this just posted seconds ago: bsky.app/profile/spyt...
These refugees were turned away in large part because of the efforts of Sen. Robert Reynolds, a southern D (now known as MAGA) from NC and his buddy Gerald Winrod who started the antisemitic paper “The Defender”. MAGA has always been at the forefront of antisemitism (eg KKK, evangelicals, etc.).
Thank you for a 2024 data point with which to compare 2025 prices, rather than 2022. Prices have still increased because of the insane policies of the orange idiot (ground Beef 4%); however, I would caution Ds to mock (like GN) without distorting/lying. The opposition must be better than that.
Not the end; perhaps a “sabbatical”?
And MAGA states are MAGA states despite these deeply damaging effects because _____________
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely - there is seemingly no end to their violence…
Lots of Dunning Kruger in this data rich article…
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes: www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/01/cons...
Accelerated entropy…
Fragile whyte incels big mad
“Chief Judge Schiltz commented on the “soulless, mechanical nature of Mr. Lazzaro’s crimes…adding that the only two people Mr. Lazzaro showed any remorse for were “himself and Jeffrey Epstein, who Mr. Lazzaro called ‘his brother.’” www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/a...
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I guess if imported prior to 2020, then that would be technically correct (and an old cigar)…
Richard A. Greyson: “ETHOS”
All I see is a “clash” in your own headlines and perhaps an attempt at clickbait. With this article, you have clearly indicated exactly who you are and have lost the attention of an open-minded Independent. Well done. You should be very proud.
Not only in China…
And, as in South Africa, “Truth and Reconciliation” at some point in time “afterwards”. There are millions of enablers with whom some sort of “reconciliation” must occur.
Prof. N., a well-deserved cigar ; however, from my visits to Cuba during the Obama years, it appears to be an expensive item of south of the border contraband, but I’m sure you used a Creative Commons shot to “reflect” your activities and that’s not your hand. Notwithstanding the above, congrats.
You see, I look at her and, while she is clearly hypocritical, I feel sorry. She grew up amongst falling bombs in Lebanon, was injured by shrapnel at 10 yo, graduated from HS and completed a 1-year course in business administration at a YWCA in 1984. She is damaged, poorly educated and ignorant.
I am in alignment with you - I wish more were as well.
Prof. Nichols’ “School of Athens” spent multiple days discussing this very topic. In addition to “intent” (e.g., see Wannsee), the rate at which you exterminate people seemed to be important as well (e.g., see Rwanda, killings/hr). Both difficult to digest if you have people you care about in Gaza.
D-K: my favorite peer reviewed journal article - it helps to explain SO much, especially in these twisted times. Seemingly everywhere you look: Unskilled and Unaware.
“”Yes”, replied Schrödinger.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
In 1986 this song came on the radio and a friend of mine looked at me and said: “some of my parents closest friends are Huey Lewis and the News”.
If I squint I see (1) Vietnam “drop” (with a flattening at the end of draft), (2) a Central American (eg Contra Conflict) drop, (3) a 2000s GWOT drop. Wars, and their attendant costs ($ and lives) with only brief pauses might be significant variables?
Aha, instead of confidence in the scientific method as applied by experts (i.e., totalitarian religion according to Kennedy and the Christian right), we should adopt a “belief” system propounded by the unskilled (aka Kennedy) , and this is a favorable replacement. Smells like gaslighting to me.
His biggest challenge will not be connecting with Mainers, whether D or I or R, it will be with the DNC given they cannot abandon their oligarchs - they are the left wing of the same mutant pigeon the right wing is attached to - both beat to the drum of billionaires. (PS.I'm an oyster-eating Mainer)
Germany lost both world wars in part because it was confronted by powerful alliances while its own allies were “terrible”... The key of the United States has been that it has maintained arguably the most successful alliance system in history since 1945. And Trump is throwing all that away.
The hits just keep on coming…
some Old Testament wisdom
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
An exorcism? bsky.app/profile/grey...
OK - here’s another new one for my lexicon: bsky.app/profile/gtco...
Define "live" (e.g., ingest, inhale/exhale, excrete, or perhaps you mean e.g., self-actualization and that sort of stuff...)...after all, Gary IN has been ranked "The most miserable city in the US"...while life forms may remain they may not be "living"... www.businessinsider.com/most-miserab...
Priorities and decency: “…the $17.9 billion the U.S. sent Israel in military funding in 2024 to murder Palestinian children could have instead paid for free or low-cost healthcare for one year to 6,228,253 children in the U.S.” www.notmytaxdollars.org
The times they are a changing…
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I guess I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue…
Look! He HAS been outside at one time (or maybe this is AI?):
Sound familiar? He boasts about cravings, he blesses the greedy His ways are always prosperous; he sneers at all his enemies. He says to himself, “Nothing will ever shake me”, “No one will ever do me harm.” His mouth is full of lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue. Psalm 10
Oh great - we now get to swap our pleasant liberal Canadian neighbors for a roll of the dice, with at least a 50% chance of a neo-nazi/christian nationalist/racist/ignorant/hoser…another turd dropped in the US punch bowl. We will miss you Canucks. Come back when this nightmare is over.
My favorite: “The dude who called Trump ‘America’s Hitler’ before becoming his vice president is now supporting the infringement of our first amendment rights…[I’m] going to burn a flag just for you JD.”
This looks pretty deliberate - like a Zionist drone operator “having fun” and trying to kill a kid: bsky.app/profile/grey...
A single day in the life of…
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The DSM must have a sound explanation/etiology for this.
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
Newly arrived outsider to BS - my immediate/continuing impression is there are an unusual # of people posting cat photos/cats in their profile. Whether this is a reflection on the relative IQ of BS (or weirdness!) or not, I’ll leave that to you. (PS I have a Coon cat but would never post a photo)
“Zealot” by Aslan…historical Jesus?
Lean but extant.
Crap - not available in the US (where we really need it).
Trump: "They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honor." Europe:
