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Jack Rogozhin

['Member']Joined: August 09, 2023 at 04:34Last active: August 15, 2023 at 12:52None discussions73 comments
Location: Bay Area

Bio

English Professor specializing in 19th/20th c. American literature and Post/Modernism

Favourite Philosopher

St. Anselm, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, Maurice Merlau-Ponty, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard

Favourite Quotations

She came from Providence...one in Rhode Island--Eagles

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence ? George Eliot

Comments

In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
I was talking about the quote erroneously celebrating IRA
August 15, 2023 at 12:53
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No, I have great interest in discussing philosophy. Political discussion is eminently philosophical as it entails issues of ethics, ontology, epistemo...
August 15, 2023 at 05:28
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Clearly it isn't, as you fail to counter my point; so the one trolling is you And this is a philosophical forum. So show it some respect by remaining ...
August 15, 2023 at 05:15
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
1. So what. That's their issue, not ours. You clearly dont' care about national sovereignty or sovereign borders. We/NATO certainly didn't help things...
August 15, 2023 at 05:13
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Well, if that is the worst of the bunch, i've been far more courteous than some of my interlocutors who have accused me of being a Putin puppet....whi...
August 15, 2023 at 04:10
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
I don't believe I have been doing that However, if you can show me where I have been impugning motived and intentions instead of arguing the facts, I ...
August 15, 2023 at 04:00
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Your quote above was all opinion and suppositions; that's what I was talking about. And neither they, nor your mention of XL and IRA counter the claim...
August 15, 2023 at 03:50
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No No, Ukraine's official Nazi battalion. And the Nazi thing is just truth; your denial of it is straight out of CIA and Banderite newsspeak Here you ...
August 15, 2023 at 03:33
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Only touchy one here is you. I asked a serious question. You seem to like the Azov Nazis a lot
August 15, 2023 at 03:25
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Of course it is as Biden has proven to be as bad, if not worse than Trump. And Biden's appointments: Blinken, Austen, Abrams, Tanden have been awful a...
August 15, 2023 at 03:24
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Sure, but we also have the choice to vote against both, work towards building a progressive third party, and get across progressive messaging neither ...
August 15, 2023 at 02:47
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Have you ever thought of joining the Azov Nazis?
August 15, 2023 at 00:49
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Read my bio, champ Who pays your salary?
August 15, 2023 at 00:36
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Here's some reading on that Trade Union House slaughter of anti-coup Crimeans by pro-coup right wingers https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ukrainian...
August 14, 2023 at 23:40
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Yes you were I agree here and this is what we should be discussing Yes you did, and it's reprehensible...and I made no spurious addition and you haven...
August 14, 2023 at 23:22
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No, I'm not, not in any way Yeah you are. Verbatim. And i made no racism accusation and you misused Tu Quoque You can do better than this...or can you...
August 14, 2023 at 22:14
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
I'm not. Why are you parroting CIA/MSM propaganda....remember Russiagate? More CIA/MSM propaganda...remember "Russian bounties" And I didn't do that. ...
August 14, 2023 at 21:28
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Nope: correct assessment of the situation...again, you're glaringly wrong You literally said American only TRIES to influence states and the actions a...
August 14, 2023 at 21:22
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
The US doesn't have to attack Niger or annex to violate their sovereignty; it's very naive of you to think they do. They have bases and troops there a...
August 14, 2023 at 21:11
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Yes, what i have shown there is correct. Feel free to show otherwise...you haven't yet
August 14, 2023 at 20:48
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
It's funny how SSU is so concerned about the sovereign borders of Ukraine, but cares nothing for the sovereign borders and sovereignty of Niger...or a...
August 14, 2023 at 20:46
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Yes, and Niger has been a genuine popular uprising and the Maidan coup was a para-military/Right Wing militia, US backed military coup However, you sa...
August 14, 2023 at 20:36
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
I made clear my statement of facts. Read more carefully. And judging a person's internal motivations is a much different thing than judging external e...
August 14, 2023 at 20:35
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Yes, it is an erroneous concept. The vote is nobody's to spoil and nobody owns any vots. Also, if you voted for Cornel West in a general, that is a vo...
August 14, 2023 at 19:55
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Yes, I definitely agree. The Maidan coup has been a disaster, particularly for the Ukrainians My point was that one can't condemn one coup on the prin...
August 14, 2023 at 16:05
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
But you clearly have a definition of fascism or you have no place criticizing mine. So, you either use one--and we both know you do and are being disi...
August 14, 2023 at 13:45
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
And many definitions of "fascism" include elements conveniently excluded from yours...So, yours--according to you--must be cherrypicked and wrong
August 14, 2023 at 13:30
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
Yes, and your claim was wrong. And deviating defintions from one definition doesn't prove ti wrong. That's absurd. ALL definitions have competing ones...
August 14, 2023 at 13:18
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
I read and counted perfectly fine. And if there's no such thing as an official definition, then you have no place telling me my definition is incorrec...
August 14, 2023 at 13:13
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
LOL...you accuse me of cherrypicking my official definition of fascism by actually cherry-picking your own
August 14, 2023 at 13:07
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No, it was neither, but that was a wonderfully, and entirely, supported assertion by you
August 14, 2023 at 12:52
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No, not voting for Biden and voting for Cornel West is voting for Cornel West, just like not voting for Cornel West is not the equivalent of not votin...
August 14, 2023 at 12:51
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
What's the obsession with misrepresenting a statement of fact as "obsession with puppets"? What's with your obsession with denying the fact "first wor...
August 14, 2023 at 12:46
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
The alternative is rejecting the Zionist, warmongering, anti-labor, pro-fascist police, and anti-environmentalism of Biden and the rest of the Duopoly...
August 14, 2023 at 12:34
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
No, I used fascist correctly: "an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization." This certainly applies to ...
August 14, 2023 at 12:31
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
We do not have a functioning American democracy and Biden has been as fascist, if not more fascist, than Trump
August 14, 2023 at 06:53
In: Joe Biden (+General Biden/Harris Administration)  — view comment
At 70, Cornel West is practically a kid. He's also a brilliant Marxist scholar and the best candidate out there
August 14, 2023 at 06:07
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Sorry, but the Niger coup against America, France, and their puppet government has the backing of the Niger people and is not evil If you think so, yo...
August 13, 2023 at 23:29
In: If there is a god, is he more evil than not?  — view comment
Well said
August 13, 2023 at 22:19
In: The Sahel: An Ecological and Political Crisis  — view comment
Such as the absolute political power and money of the American and French governments and the puppet governments serving them
August 13, 2023 at 22:18
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
This is all supposition, and you admit it is. You cannot make a logical claim based on "it seems" and "what I understood" and assert it as fact. That ...
August 13, 2023 at 18:40
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Ukraine's government and media have been caught many times spreading lies about supposed Russian war crimes: https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukrainian-o...
August 12, 2023 at 18:40
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Yeah, none of this comes off as objective or supported either And it not being the first report doesn't change that. There were lots of reports about ...
August 12, 2023 at 18:38
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
Ukrainska Pravda is hardly an unbiased, definitive source...no more than RT Whatever happened to the Ghost of Kiev and the Snake Island "massacre"?
August 12, 2023 at 18:02
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
As you can see, that quote couldn't have come from the quote function as it was SSU's quote responding to me. To willfully misrepresent that is either...
August 12, 2023 at 13:56
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
You did say that. I pointed out Niger was a French colony and you countered by saying they were allies. But at least we both agree Niger was a French ...
August 12, 2023 at 13:15
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
It does not contradict my claim; you've confused my use of "regularly" again And you don't get to decide what questions are asked and answered, and yo...
August 12, 2023 at 09:16
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
I have answered all of your questions...and shown you to be wrong. You have still not answered my one question above. It is time for you to start answ...
August 12, 2023 at 02:10
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
And you never answered the question above. Do you really think NATO just sends money to its member countries? :grin:
August 12, 2023 at 01:47
In: Ukraine Crisis  — view comment
And I just said what I meant by "regularly" is they regularly do it, not do it on a regular basis. You need to read better And yes my link backed it u...
August 12, 2023 at 01:44
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