“The misogynistic imagery essential to the anti-European mentality of the American right supports the idea that the EU, being effeminate, is innately weak and will break under pressure from manly America. But the world does not conform to such idiotic prejudices.”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/shredding-the-postwar-order-fintan-otoole/
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/04/24/shredding-the-postwar-order-fintan-otoole/
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Years later, a very old friend phoned. I thought he was dead btw. He said “American Taliban exists. You are from there.” I said “from” and laughed….
As the saying goes.
‘Real men of valour do not need to boast’.
Self aggrandising is usually overcompensating behaviour to cover for insecurity.
Not creative destruction so much as destructive creationism
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social gave a seriously challenging morning missive. We need to embrace
'Protests Won't Save America: How the #HandsOff event can catalyze or anesthetize us'
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/protests-wont-save-america
The human capacity for self-deception never ceases to amaze me.
donOLD 🚽tRUMP 🖕
What EU really thinks -
That is an American flag burning in #France.