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Tiff you're simply dreaming if you think this has anything to do with a larger American backdown. This is Trump being played by a foreign leader, and ...

By enabling a literal military invasion? Sorry Tiff, this is too stupid.

To a problem wholly precipitated by a weak, ignorant, president who, probably with little to no understanding of the strategic situation in Syria, rol...

To be clear, I don't think impeachment is inherently anti-democratic or anything. In fact it's obviously an important mechanism for guaranteeing it. I...

Yes, yes, adjusted for the undemocratic bullshit that is the electoral college and so on. The point I take away is that it's no good to respond to the...

What Maw said. And this isn't a 'suffering contest'. That implies some kind of game. This isn't a game. People. Will. Die. Your allies will die. Don't...

Tell that to the thousands of families of Kurds, to whom the US has broken their promises (granted thanks to their fighting alongside US forces to eli...

To be clear, the withdrawal is about 50 US soldiers. That's it. The rest of the 950 or so still remain in Syria, just not on the Northern border. So w...

Loyalty is good. Competency is better. And he lacks the latter is spades. And this includes his family. The legislative moves that he has been most su...

The mind boggles that three years in, the refrain that "orange man is bad!" is supposed to make any political headway at all. What would you make of a...

That much is clear.

I don't disagree. I just think it's the worst possible outcome. Even in getting impeached, Trump will have made things worse for everyone. Synder is n...

Cheers! I need a good righteous rant every once in a while. The hysteria around impeachment (did no one learn from the Muller inquiry?) seemed a good ...

I really enjoyed this. I think some of the most hard hitting stuff was from Lowry, the economist, near the end of the video. Worth quoting at length f...

This doesn't appear to mean all that much.

"For a brief moment after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in 2001, it seemed as if the shock of these events might bring about ...

The US has been a force of net ill in the world for a long time now. 9/11 had the effect of unleashing and amplifying that force in a way completely u...

Oh a much better world. I moderate even my fantasies, apparently. A stochastic tragedy, with Trump as attractor (@"fdrake"). I can appreciate that. St...

To be fair, I think this does have bearing on Trump because this looks to be a decision unilaterally made on his part - most of the intelligence servi...

"To the despisers of the body will I speak my word. Not so that they may learn or teach differently but simply so that they may say farewell to their ...

There is so much out there about the body if you're willing to look for it! The most obvious place to look is Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Percept...

Yeah WaPo is a bit of a joke.

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"As of 2019, 90% of the United States's media is controlled by five media conglomerates: Comcast (via NBCUniversal), Disney, Viacom & CBS (both contro...

Sure, ok buddy.

And the point was that your question was misconceived and ill-thought.

Two points. First, most of the 'leftism' espoused by these institutions is a kind of effete liberalism that has little if not nothing to do with mass ...

But I was O.o

News to me.

I guess because they're all strongly committed - rightly - to seeing race as a historical category, and they're all incredibly attuned to the myriad s...

I'm a tad torn on this. On the one hand the US should quite clearly fuck off from anywhere in the world where possible, and this might count as a nice...

This is really good.

Not being there, it's hard to presume to say. But what they've been doing - the relative discipline of sustained, unyielding demand(s) - seems to be w...

All true. An understanding of power doesn't lead to any particular manner of its wielding in one way or another - but it does help a great deal in lea...

The point is that the right understands that politics is about power - taking control of institutions, putting 'their man' or men in positions to exer...

'Twas I, banner of Nadia. Who is not bery bright, apparently, having messaged me directly too.

Maybe take a look at Graham Harman's Tool Being, if you can get your hands on a copy.

Dunno what they expected with the mask ban. Watch them use this to (more) violently crack down.

True. The damage done will not have been redeemed, whatever follows. It's probably unfair to expect an 'on the balance' assessment - but, I'll look to...

This, though, is entirely right. Trump has been an incredible force of galvanization, for the right and left alike. The left certainly has alot to tha...

Sorry I mean the focus on impeachment.

""I don't see a problem with it," John Blockus, who runs an equipment repairs company, says of Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian President. If the...

Jodi Dean - The Communist Horizon Jodi Dean - Crowds and Party

I think one of the things in our purview is to change the kinds of conversations that dominate the public space, and change the terms of what is impor...

As I said to someone else, if, at this point, you're still trying to convince people that things are fucked up, the only person living under a rock is...

And? What is anyone supposed to do about this? This is as banal a claim a 'bad people do bad things (and they shouldn't)', or our idiot contributor ab...

Because to 'play politics' is to 'play democracy'. There's nothing democratic about the 'odious' focus on the backroom deals and personalities of the ...

The purple is really nice. There's something celebratory to it.

This is partly what I mean when I say that Trump supporters are generally far better attuned to the things that matter: they grasp - however cynically...

Raymond Geuss, Outside Ethics - a book incidentally all about how treating politics on the model of morality is more or less the height of folly. But ...