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The administration appears to be all-in for the far-right AfD. Elon Musk appeared via satellite at their party convention, told them they worry too much about the past, and has praised them as Germany's only hope going forward. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/elo...
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The message is clear: Vance snubs the German Chancellor and meets instead with the AfD's Alice Weidel, weeks before the German election. www.msn.com/en-ph/politi...
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and for NYT to use a photo-op from Dachau after Vance has told the Germans to stop worrying so much about the past ...
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Vance's patron Peter Thiel makes the connections between MAGA and Schmitt explicit: Liberalism is exhausted, one suspects that democracy, whatever that means, is exhausted." www.newsweek.com/peter-thiel-...
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Vance cites Adrian Vermeule, whose model is Carl Schmitt, the “crown jurist of the Third Reich.” When these people talk about a “strong executive," that’s where they’re going, IMHO.
The NYT, tho, takes this all at face value.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
How a German Thinker (and Nazi Jurist) Explains MAGA Morality
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The Smithsonian/Uncivil Religion collection contains enough information to keep researchers busy for years, including thi selection of long-term videos, including a 13 minute excerpt of the 3 hrs of NewYorker video, militia insignia etc uncivilreligion.org/home/long-vi...
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Smithsonian's "Uncivil Religion" photo/video collection. Look for the crucifixes. uncivilreligion.org/home/media-g...
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A very modest bill that would allocate (in passthroughs to the states) a fraction of what the Germans spend on civic education has languished in Congress for several years and couldn't even garner a committee hearing, much less a vote. civxnow.org/our-work/fed...
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If you believe, as I do, that "civic education really matters," you might want to check out the German civic education system, anchored by Centers for Civic Education at the federal and state level. www.bpb.de/die-bpb/uebe...
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"We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
FDR, 1936
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I wrote an article trying to explain this distinction. One that AT&T, Verizion, and Comcast would prefer you not understand. The TL/dr: "It's the wires, stupid.” digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol55/is...
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This post comes to you over wire (and radio) transmission, like freight on rails. No transmission, no BlueSky.
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It seemed unable/unwilling to distinguish the pipe from the cat videos delivered over the pipe. Or, as Justice Scalia put it, the pizza delivery service from the pizza.
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The FCC’s decision addressed only the transmission piece, but never mind. The Court wants to focus on all this other stuff in order to claim the FCC had no authority to do what it did.
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digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol55/is...
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Verizon press release, cont'd: “Data transmission is only one component of the broader package of services offered to consumers.” So let's just forget about the transmission piece?
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or (apropos monopolies) an article that mentions the physical networks on which the Internet rides, expensive to build and subject to abuse, the sort of thing that public utilities commissions have always regulated. digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol55/is...
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now you can follow the masses
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I don't remember locked shelves 10 years ago, having to find someone in store to open the lock so I can buy the product.
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am I allowed to comment? UtV was a seminal read for me. Now on "Mill and the Floss", remarkable 19th century ... what? realism? romance?
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Fast forward 85 yrs,we call it disinformation, propaganda supercharged by algorithms & digital technology. Rene diResta has written a fine book about this, "Invisible Rulers." She was also head of Stanford's Internet Observatory, until the Freedom Caucus essentially harassed it out of existence.
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oy, was just beginning to feel comfortable here