lukekaven.bsky.social
Researcher/educator. Former: PLATO Project, CUNY faculty, CABM; Cornell Realism, biological philosophy as an aid to scientific discovery. Dewey on education.
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More like amputating your limbs, one by one.
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This should be a reminder for all of what oligarch-led wars are like: Total incompetence in the chain of command. And all field personnel are literally expendable on a whim if it suits oligarch vanity.
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It's a conduit for laundering bribes to the president and his family for preferential access, nothing more, nothing less. Trump wants to acquire rare-earth minerals through imperial conquest, then enrich himself as Putin did, by selling access to those resources, laundering payments with crypto.
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My assertion that these events are heard in Trump's circle was not controversial, nor is my assertion that they readily adopt strongman tactics used around the world. It relies on plausibility, and does not need defending. I don't service insulting pinnipeds, so we've reach the end.
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Streisand this book!
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Streisand this book!
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P&D is libertarian religion. They believe it's a property-owner's "natural" right to convince dupes to bear the losses for them, and to use a government position to shill for it. When pressed, they'll call this a "courageous idea."
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Hmm to your hairsplitting. Trump said "Erdogan is my friend and someone I respect" (see below). The two are likely to meet next month, at which you should bet these latest developments will be discussed.
www.trtworld.com/us-and-canad...
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Trump & co. follow all political developments in Turkey. All of it is source material for their playbook.
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Watch this happen in the US, or something very much like it. You know MAGA follows all of this.
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You're intentionally adopting and amplifying the corrupt MAGA usage?
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Suggest not reflexively using the corrupted right-wing misframing of "DEI."
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Fight or step aside.
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Excellent and important work, and a great interview. Highly recommended.
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As an American who was a former Landed Canadian Immigrant, I don't blame you, not a bit. I'd move back to Montreal in a heartbeat if I could.
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[And I thought I was cute calling RFKjr a pharma chameleon, but you got me beat.]
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Wao!
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The July 4th displays of drones in formation that make people go "oo, ahh" are rehearsals for coordinated attack drones. Add AI and ML, and you have shockingly effective pack hunters.
Add the words "loitering munitions" to your lexicon.
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There are of course variations and side-streams, but this captures something I thought was essential in many respects.
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The royal road for narcissists:
Misdeed -> N injury -> N rage -> "I'm the victim here"
-> Victim Tour™ -> "I'm doing this for YOU, who's with me?"
-> "WE must destroy THEM with social media"
-> "a Big Lie for OUR cause is no vice"
-> "Give me money/power"
-> "What do you mean 'WE'?"
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Sorry, I have to break off here. I absolutely can't endorse your view. People can be convinced to do themselves harm, e.g., by rejecting vaccines, and they don't/didn't deserve to die, and especially not because they weren't "worthy."
FFS.
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Eugenicide in this epoch is the wealthier/whiter killing the poor, the sick, and the intellectuals, artists, and educators who oppose them by discouraging/withholding and destroying trust in medicine, science, and education. This is done often by persuading people to harm themselves.
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You can bet they're using insider information to buy on the dip. Then they'll pump the market and sell off.
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When someone kills you, you suffer temporary hardship ... and then you're dead. This is what eugenicide looks like.
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Stancil suspects that Musk is summarily removing from X all videos of anti-DOGE protests in DC, especially those at DOGE insurgency sites. Are you able to substantiate (or refute) this?
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At CPAC tonight rhe hiding ended
youtu.be/bBOJAAujwb8?...
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I too. The confluence of libertarianism/neofascism is a predator-prey program. Vaccinated antivaxxers delight in coyly getting people to unalive themselves, believing they could never be held legally responsible as the mass-killers they are. To a libertarian, it's "your fault" for believing them.
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We need at least a 92% uptake rate to keep measles down. It's eugenicide time instead. No-one should mistake these people for being anything but exterminators of "other" persons.
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The conclusion I think is inescapable:
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The implication of exterminationism is inescapable:
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with the wealthiest cast as "natural" predators, and all others as, literally in this case, "parasites." It is inescapably exterminationist in its implications.
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notions of human value, e.g., from American Calvinism, wherein the wealthy are among "God's Elect" and the poor have been "cast out" by God. But this is supplemented by notions from contemporary libertarianism that implicitly sort people into predator and prey, ...
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I'm using a notion that is expanded over the earlier notions. It is not simply a matter of genetics, but of the oligarchic ruling class's perception of workers and ordinary citizens in an accelerationist dogma under capitalism as de-valued life. It is continuous with some historic ...
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