Anyone in my network an expert on both Carl Schmitt AND René Girard?
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Anyone in my network an expert on both Carl Schmitt AND René Girard?
I could help you with the Schmitt; not so much the Girard, unfortunately.
This is like watching a Victorian time traveler befuddled at trying to work an iPhone. Just completely lost and confused by all the intervening context of the different era he's now in.
Think of how Roger Stone (himself a lifelong admirer of LaRouche) et al. adapted to a general American climate of anti-antisemitism by replacing “Jew” with “globalist.” It’s all the same idea, though; the same structure.
He is definitely not using “Zionist” in the same way you or I would. The only thing his “Zionists” have in common with ours is that they are a broadly negative force. Like I said, he plays word games and changes some identities around like all fascist movements do.
Many such cases!
This is horrifying. Infuriating. And it is happening in real time, in our name, and using our resources. Every single person who made this possible should get nothing less than the full Nuremberg treatment, and we should accept nothing less than that.
It breaks my heart to say goodbye… Protect each other, remember us, and stop this horror before there’s nothing left of us 💔
Jews become “monetarists,” “Zionists,” or, most bizarrely, “the British”) to “throw off the hounds,” so to speak, and to opportunistically appeal to their particular cultural context. Every fascist movement does this to a degree, but LaRouche took it to the next level.
Well, very few fascists will come out and say, “hi, I’m a fascist.” Plus, it’s possible they don’t know they are fascists. LaRouche was nothing if not paranoid, and he frequently changed enough of the names and identities around (e.g.,
You can also see it in his extensive outreach to the KKK and neonazi groups. Dennis King wrote an entire book about LaRouche’s fascism, and the bibliography contains references to many, many more of LaRouche’s articles and to specific FBI records confirming his claims.
Hitler’s rise to power, and verified in FBI records. You see it in his article “Creating a Republican Labor Party,” where he calls for labor and capital to unite against “monetarists” (guess who these “monetarists” are), which is fascism 101.
This is usually one of the first facts one learns about LaRouche, so it’s odd you’ve never heard of it. It is both scattered across his voluminous corpus in articles like “Hitler: Runaway British Agent” or “The Truth About ‘German Collective Guilt’”, which argued that Jews were behind
She’s a LaRouchite. LaRouche is an OTR fascist who conceived of his movement as fascist. Ergo, she is a fascist. This is elementary logic.
Yeah, a target weight of 95 pounds
The Red Scare ladies are VERY MUCH on the left, they just have concerns, that’s all!
Okay, I gotta know the name of this doc
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
Fucking RED SCARE?? Well, at least we know now that he has the fortitude to be president
If Foucault were alive today, you just know he’d be a bitcoin bro and best friends with Peter Thiel.
Boom! Good ol’ American Civil Libertarianism.
Also, sports have governing bodies already! Why is ANY Dem answering the question, “but what about the trans kids in sports?” It’s *not a political issue.*
"THE BIG FREEZE is [] radical guerrilla tactics. But I also believe that if we can’t cabin immigration enforcement away now as the known province of white nationalist Nickelback fans who are hopelessly bad in bed and never tip more than 10% that we don’t stand a chance of stopping what’s coming."
If you played me this clip of a Georgia congressman named "Buddy Carter" talking with this accent, I would've called you a hack filmmaker.
why hasn't zohran mamdani condemmed donald trump dying? does he support the grim reaper? the silence is deafening
Oh yeah…that one was a banger!
If Foucault were alive today, you just know he’d be a bitcoin bro and best friends with Peter Thiel.
What talking points is this dark money org demanding these hosts eschew? Not right-wing ones, which hosts weren’t going to make in the first place. They’re demanding hosts avoid pro-Palestine, pro-socialist, left-wing narratives. The framing of this as “left-wing” propaganda is false on its face.
Everyone remembers the Totenköpfen, but the Nazis also had ostensibly wholesome and positive programs like “Strength Through Joy.” You can’t maintain a fascist regime with macho edgelordery alone.
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She doesn’t care, because she’s an antisemite.
You sure that’s what’s leaking out of his pores? It smells more like Brylcreem
Oof…this is gonna hurt in the morning
Many such athletes!
Like I said—it’s the best spin I could come up with
Either it ends up working and we find out who the Bad Guys are, or it ends up failing and it becomes a cautionary tale for governments seeking to use it in precisely this way. This (sorta) win/(sorta) win scenario is the most optimistic take I have.
If this is going to happen anyway, we may as well make it work FOR us rather than just against us.
Maybe they just had an Italian draft it
I think @jamellebouie.net’s take below is basically the correct one, but a (imo) more legitimate complaint is that many of the policies they’re meant to avoid criticizing are policies that the left wing of the party opposes. The end result, then, is harmful to the left, not beneficial.
I mean, this is obviously the correct, humane take, but I’m ngl, the other one feels WAY better
Ah, Benedict Arnold, who’s no longer in favor, did you ever notice? No longer in favor!
The birds would never stand for it.
Well, apparently he’s already ahead of me on the roasting front! But the expense is arguably the best part about roasting your own: it’s significantly cheaper. That was what originally drew me to it.
Once you understand this, the need to treat Yglesias et al. as serious interlocutors worth listening to simply dissolves.
The thing about the standard anti-trans position that isn’t remarked upon enough is that it’s a conspiracy theory. In order to believe it, you must believe that the world’s biggest health organizations are actively misrepresenting all the data showing the benefits of GAC and the cost of bans.
Civility discourse is a war on thinking and writing clearly. None of this is in defense of nuance. What civility pundits want is to be absolved of responsibility for the content of what they say, provided it's expressed in a particular way. Their fight is against judgement itself.
To add to this, any attempt to disarm the population that doesn’t simultaneously disarm the police should be considered dangerous and illegitimate.
I cannot recommend roasting your own enough. ~$10/lb for raw beans. Your coffee is always fresh, and roasting is interesting and fun.
Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions, as David Hume wrote.
What is the one atrocity Zionists have committed in the past 22 months that you think about the most?
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
It's Woodstock for everyone who loves hearing people with severe vocal fry.
get behind that, then that's a signal to leave.
But it's important to keep that geopolitical context in the background as well, and to remain hypervigilant against attempts to sow distrust among otherwise likeminded people. No tolerance for antisemitism is and should be an easy standard to maintain. No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts.” If an org cannot
What I can tell you is that this couldn’t be further removed from what I see *in real life.* I’m willing to grant that, as one guy in one corner of one part of the world, my “real life” could very well be unrepresentative, and it is at least clear to me that hypervigilance on this front is warranted
information. The other one doesn’t even have a profile or a proper username. Does this necessarily mean they’re bots? Of course not. But a significant number of the comments online expressing similar sentiments *are* being made by bots, and their entire reason for being is to spread FUD like this.
We are in the midst of a massive operation on the part of multiple hostile foreign powers to stoke racist and antisemitic sentiments across the political spectrum throughout the western hemisphere. One of the people who made antisemitic comments in that thread you linked has no visible personal
First, let’s be precise in our language: you jumped from a claim about *a* leftist institution to a condemnation of leftist institutions, plural. You’ve established there is a problem at the DSA—but that’s it. Those skeets were obviously vile. I think it is important to point out, though, that
Ahhh, okay. I was trying to figure out how it was connected to mass shootings or…anything, really. I guess my error was looking for a deeper meaning in the first place. Thanks!
Maybe I’m just dim, but I’m not any less confused after reading that
Well, as a Seth, I reject God.
The ratfucking part is crucial. Bonus points for ratfucking and lampooning at the same time. :::gives self award:::
The only skeets of yours that I see here are the ones accusing critics of the Dems of not voting
It makes it easier for them to demand our marginalization.
The clickbait titles burn 😭
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
And for the record, I cast my vote for Harris, because I understand that votes are nothing more than damage control in our broken system. Many people who believe as I do understand this and did likewise.
I saw that and my first thought was, “what’s their beef with Pan-Africanism?”
Imprecatory prayer is also acceptable, I think
*I* voted, and have been screaming about Harris supporting genocide from the very beginning. Many such cases!
This is one of the most ghoulish takes I’ve heard come from the party of ghouls
No one said anything about not voting. You projected that. It is possible to criticize a party one has voted for.
There is no evidence that attacking candidates in the primary and pre-primary phases harms Dems in the general. That’s kind of what the primaries are FOR.
“Slim pickings.” FFS we have YEARS to choose a proper candidate!
Agreed 100% on the importance of narrative and notability. That’s not exactly something a party has control over, though, is it? Once you’re talking about how notable a person is or what the narrative or “vibes” are, you’ve switched from a conversation about politics to one about media.
Why is middle-aged Republican male hair like that
Do you plan to fight or flee?
The discussion re: tuning pitch reminded me of Lyndon LaRouche’s campaign to lower the tuning pitch to A = 432 in the 80s. I would be very surprised if Willis isn’t drawing on that. Seems like with weird conspiracy guys, a lot of roads lead back to the OG weird conspiracy guy, Lyndon LaRouche.
Pritzker is describing Trump’s fascist invasion of Chicago with total moral and political clarity. It’s an example that every other Democrat in the country should follow.
good to look back on your own red lines. folks i kinda think we have crossed this one.
The scoldings will continue until flying monkey morale improves
WHITE PHOSPHORUS NOW!!!! TOXIC GASES ARE NOW SUFFOCATING US!!!!!
From your lips to God’s ears!
Congestive heart failure can take ages, sadly
“Politics is downstream from culture,” sniffs the Center-Breitbartian
It is possible to love the *doing* of one’s work while finding the *performance* of it humiliating. The n00bs are probably having a gay old time. The veterans—who probably thought they graduated from shakedowns years ago—are wincing *just* a little.
you’ll notice that Third Way isn’t concerned about management speak as much as they want Dems to use *their* management speak.
I suppose we can take some small comfort in knowing how humiliating it must be for these people to be reduced to this.
You’re conflating notability with representativeness. Dennis Hastert was a notable neoconservative, but if the American Conservative put out a list of sex crimes that neocons need to stop committing, I suspect you’d cry “foul” (and rightfully so).
Someone here called what is happening with Newsom "astroterf" and it's just perfect.
Get fucked.
I liked The Argument back when it was called nothing and didn't exist
insanely funny that mainstream libs have 100% accepted the right wing analysis of politics and decided to waste all their time on language and presentation while trying to crush people like Zohran who are offering actual policies that people want!
What does this even mean?
Cracker Barrel, desperately trying to change the narrative, issues a statement claiming that the man in the old logo was "actually super gay"
This is why it’s so fucking important to stand up to the infiltration of center-left parties by media-elite transphobia The UK is already living their Gavin Newsom future, the US should not want this