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Uh huh. How fortunate for the cat to be euthanistically spared all of your whinging white grievance. :shade:

"So let the guilty hang ..." :fire: https://youtu.be/5_gdYoBYRGY

'Acceptable' collateral damage - besides, only a mere fraction of total police lynchings :wink: - for the paramilitarized Operation Niggerization of t...

:mask: Excuse tf outta me, but ... Some think they have the luxury - das herrenvolk privilege - to forget their crimes and/or those committed in their...

@"ernestm" - an excerpt from another thread where "You" = White Majority, who for 231 years have controlled ALL institutions - public and private - in...

I have it on a pile somewhere but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

:up: Thanks. Sloterdijk and I are old acquaintances (since his masterful Critique of Cynical Reason days, which that 'Heidegger quote' could be from(?...

:up: Thanks. Neither do I. N was a piñata of "uncharitable readings" by Anglo-American analytical/positivists for the first half of the last century, ...

Ludic fallacy. A simulation =/= the simulated. :yawn: (Oh, and what Banno said.)

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:yikes: :rofl: Thanks for this - so I didn't have to. Given that S was an excommunicated Jew, the first openly secular philosopher in Christendom in t...

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To protect their 'license to brutalize & kill', the police are rioting against peaceful 'anti-killer police' protesters while corporations and the inv...

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Yeah, well, boredom made me do it ... Read S. His latin is crystal clear as are the excellent english translations by Stuart Hampshire & Edwin Curley....

In order to deny that the USA is still "a racist society" you have to also deny her well-documented, 231 year history of LEGAL slavery, segregation, m...

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist." ~Angela Davis

In the light of Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Peirce, Wittgenstein-TPL & Dewey, I've found Heidegger spectacularly redundant and obscurant. Also, his 'interp...

Enemy of our enemy ... :mask: And some telling years in presidential history also to keep in mind: Hoover 1932 Ford 1976 Carter 1980 Bush 1992 "DJT 20...

Celebrating a down tick in DEPRESSION-like (weekly) unemployment while ignoring in this very same report that unemployment numbers have gone up for Bl...

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:up: The lesson of political history. (e.g. Hobbes & Marx) :point: I'm interested in clarifying concepts and not in normalizing confused usage of term...

"THAT'S NOT A CHIP ON MY SHOULDER, THAT'S YOUR FOOT ON MY NECK." ~Malcolm X (re: AmeriKKKa) Taking a MF breath 8 minutes 46 seconds later ... on the o...

I beg to differ. :mask:

Is what I wrote on the Joe Biden thread nothing more than unfactual, or misinformed, "Trump bashing"? :mask:

Thanks for sharing this insight. Baden's reply notwithstanding, I understand racism as shorthand for manifest systemic discrimination that, whether by...

Yes. Racist & Sexist discriminations are modes of systemic policing that help enforce and maintain Class exploitation. Don't you think 'white grievanc...

Yes.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to d...

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Exactly. Murican 'white grievance' déjà vu: https://youtu.be/bhSs6bnAU1o :smirk:

No "maybe" about it. :shade:

:clap: I barely escaped the Bronx by the early 80s. My closest homies were then, and still are today, German-Black, Bajan, Italian & Chinese - sons of...

You're caveat addresses 'community-based policing' but I'm concerned with the flagrant hazards of 'militarized policing' by officers who lack (humanit...

"Perhaps that's what all human relationships boil down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?" ~Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

No. I've emailed Congress members and written Op-Eds during the Obama Administration to no effect. None. Not even a courteous "fuck off".

Addendum: The night a NYC grand jury failed to indict any of the 6 police officers who, in broad daylight with witnesses present and video recorded, s...

Excellent. Thanks for this. :up: :clap: :100: For what it's worth, consider this 'genealogy' of America's Oligarchic White Supremacy problem: the Unit...

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Baitin' trolls is not only fair game but hygienic triage. FTG. I applaud the mods for their restraint. A bouncer-bartender for almost a decade back in...

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topic adjacent :wink: Inspired by Philip Kerr's thriller A Philosophical Investigation (about a serial killer who preys only (or mostly?) upon other s...

Covid summer days: sat - Cormac McCarthy° fri - Albert Murray thurs - William Faulkner wed - Toni Morrison tues - José Saramago mon - Samuel Beckett s...

Whomever has power and (almost) everything to lose - and, by implication, their Stockholm Syndrome-d functionaries & apologists. Are you one of them? ...

You have all of the power. We are not safe. You have (almost) everything to lose. We have (next to) nothing to lose. So, in fact, You are not safe; an...

update: The Insurrection Act of 1807 is being seriously discussed ... Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. :yikes: :point: :fire:

Yeah, there's that - his only play left, I think. :eyes:

:point: November 3, 2020 national referendum on the • worst public health crisis since 1918 • worst unemployment crisis since 1929 • worst social unre...

@"StreetlightX" This fall there will be a national referendum on the incumbent; the Devil himself, if he were to take the Democratic nomination from B...