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carlsachs.bsky.social
Philosopher (pragmatism, critical theory, 4E cognitive science). Marxist in my head, social democrat in my heart. Spinozistic panentheism. Jewish anti-Zioinist. Lifelong sci-fi nerd. he/him https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8627-2554
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It should be evident to everyone that Trump intends to do to Canada what Putin is doing to Ukraine, and for roughly the same reasons.

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Every college and university president who does not loudly and publicly condemn Khalil's abduction should resign immediately.

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Mahmoud Khalil practiced & preached non-violence. His only 'crime' being a Palestinian who demanded an end to American-sponsored genocide. He was abducted by agents of the fascist US government at the urging of fascist Zionists. If they can do this to him, they can do this to anyone. No one is safe.

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One of the structural weaknesses of the liberal mindset (and I am aware of this defect in myself) is that we are very quick to attribute stupidity to our enemies.

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My guiding principle is "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto". I've always wanted to regard myself as a cosmopolitan, a citizen of the universe. Patriotism, an excessive love of one's own country, has always seemed weird to me.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Bezos: "we need to defend freedom as our highest value!" Me: "great, let's talk about firms and markets as forms of unjust impersonal domination!" Bezos: "no, not like that"

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I don't mean to alarm anyone, but the professional leadership of the US military has been replaced by Trump loyalists who will not hesitate to give the order to shoot civilian protestors if the President invokes the Insurrection Act.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 25 days ago • 47 comments

"Without its ideals – its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could as easily be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany!” (Captain America in "What If . . . ?" #44)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Much of my political worldview is about "the three Johns of liberal socialism": Mill, Dewey, and Rawls. I hold that Mill was pretty much right about liberty, Dewey about democracy and education, and Rawls about justice.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

One very minor act of resistance we can all do: write to newspaper editors and insist that every time they quote a Trump spokesperson about his "mandate", they also mention that Trump received 30% of the votes from all eligible voters.

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Trump has claimed that tariffs are the opposite of taxes: in his mind, taxes are when money flows from within the nation-state to outside of it, and tariffs are the reverse (money flowing from other nation-states to a specific nation-state).

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Same in the States, except that most philosophers don't know anything about American philosophers, either.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Radio National (Australia)'s philosophy podcast, "The Philosopher's Zone", interviews some philosophers on who Sellars was and why some contemporary Continental philosophers have started reading him. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Everyone who ever said, "the government should be run like a business" was demanding fascism, whether or not they were too stupid and ignorant to realize.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments