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FFS ... aka make the working people pay for the wars the upper classes desire (#politics)

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I do not stand with the Ukraine, just as I do not stand with Israel, and nor should you...

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typically Stengers spends more time critiquing psychoanalysis than writing about the subject in the title ... i always wonder, mystified why she does this, and am sure now that the ideological game she is playing (working) is to put it simply 'mistaken'

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this reached the reading pile 69 pages in... hypnosis between science and magic Stengers.... #science #philosophy

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transference everyday life in the modern world) https://sz-duras.medium.com/transference-everyday-life-in-the-modern-world-b3b45f53ab3b

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https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/333/2025/

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(In the meantime they'v arriv'd at the other end of the 'Horshoe' , where it bends back onto the road; and they glants back once more, thoughtless ly the girl-colord abdomens/ beforewhich boysdants their bicycles / how shallo the air moves today / a whole squadrone of children; and all of them […]

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€800billion for EU "defence" spending.... extraordinary numbers

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never mind

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death to the CCRU

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it is not military keynesianism that Starmer and the EU is proposing but Military illiberalism , alongside the illiberal interventionism which has evolved out of the liberal inventions we have disliked so much... #politics #philisophy

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the greatest philosophical problems are war and capital and climate... #philosophy, nearly everything else pales into insignificance

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the liberal interventionists really dislike Trump... though really they are illiberal interventionists... strange how much they love war and capital #politics #climate

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1.6 degrees average it's getting worse very fast... #climate

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you may believe that increasing UK and european military spending, putting troops into the Ukraine is not in the interests of the US…. surely not.

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laughs, i see the UK PM is falling in line… From: @PhilipCJames https://mas.to/@PhilipCJames/114100531133138655

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' And so you knew her then ?' asked the knight. ' Oh no; I never knew her,' responded the squire: 'but the man who told me the story said that it was so certain & trustworthy that, if I should tell it to someone else, I could swear an oath on it that I had […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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highly entertained by the way people blame trump for the zelensky/trump debacle... the problem is US imperialism ffs people

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there are political, economic and natural laws in play here that cannot be avoided… (sadly having lived through two major political and evonomic crises) i will probably miss this one…) From: @sz_duras https://mastodon.online/@sz_duras/114097609244811044

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the blusky and meta liberals are ignoring the hard (2 degrees - climate collapse) and the periodic soft (political economic) crises to speak about Trump and the present resurgence of the fascist right across the West… it’s curious but does this mean that because of their intellectual […]

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the blusky and meta liberals are ignoring the hard (2 degrees - climate collapse) and the periodic soft (political economic) crises to speak about Trump and the present resurgence of the fascist right across the West… it’s curious but does this mean that because of their intellectual […]

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Boycott Israel led by a criminal government. Boycott its companies. Boycott its universities. Boycott companies doing business there.

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so i am still wondering what books or cultural objects we have read, say 20 to 40 years ago that only became important, recently in retrospect... a few further examples: Beyond Good and Evil - F. Nietzsche The Young Lukacs - Arato and Breines I Am Legion - Neil Bell… and you?

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watching chinese dramas i am terribly aware of how utterly hideous the familial relationships of the ancien-regime were… the weakening of the family relationships has saved many a man and women in the west… Oedipus as liberation… quite strange

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the anti-trump demonstrations are quite enjoyable… imagine they have an illiberal line in their ucs

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Israel has chosen to mark the first days of Ramadan by blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza. The open racism of Israel and the support given by the UK state is disgusting… #politics

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my most unpopular opinion is i have found that : the best art is openly political.

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empires collapse. gang leaders are strutting about like statesmen. the peoples can no longer be seen under all those armaments. so the future lies in darkness and the forces of right are weak. all this was plain to you when you destroyed a torturable body.(brecht) using this in story...#poetry […]

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"The fundamental problem of political philosophy: Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation". (Deleuze) How you understand this Spinoizist concept in the context of late capitalism is crucial...

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IMF: “In general, this calls for a pivot toward supply side policies, which means cutting red tape, increasing competition, and encouraging entrepreneurship. We also need better education systems and smart regulation to ensure rapid but safe advances in productivity-enhancing technology, such […]

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thank god we are not in the EU…

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These right wing women are amazing exampkes of pure ignorance: EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas: "If together we are not able to put enough pressure on Moscow, then how can we claim that we can defeat China?"

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https://marginalia-search.com/. a search engine with no images ! #testing

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I can't manage the fractured and specialised approach that the split, multi channel approach of social media in 2025 requies, meta, blusky so boring), x, mastodon, the orange substack, medium... all different and all almost the same. #spectacle its all language, signs for me...

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i published - shower (everyday life in the modern world) --- https://sz-duras.medium.com/shower-everyday-life-in-the-modern-world-ece6632cd45c. #fiction #vignette

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that is the heart of liberal ideologies, "make believe"

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Back in 1935, Soame Jenyns could say "China is still distant enough from our lands to be invested with the glamour of an undiscovered country..." in (A background to chinese painting) --- Soame Jenyns is writing against the fantastic make believe China of the 1930s, formed during the 18th and […]

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Zelensky is walking the well-worn path of the proxy whose utility to empire has run it’s course.

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very surprisingly Starmer handled the meeting with Trump better than Zelensky did #politics

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should say voting green... and consuming less is the best means available

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Do not forget that the prosecution of independent journalists and activists, whether pro-palestinian or climate change is at the behest of deeply reactionary people who want to harm you #politics

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the bluesky obeying the US state, hardly surprising but it's a shame

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That was fast: #bluesky might have taken its first step towards US govt related censorship: https://www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-protest-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-calls-it-non-consensual-explicit-material/ Anyway, good that bs is decentralized, so you can just switch to another s […]

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140 years ago N wrote the preface for this, and still people speak as if good and evil are definable #philosophy

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the obvious and unspoken reason for the treatment of higher education in this way (uk) is that the upper classes think because of the new social-political-technologies of AI and the reduction in human costs ... that they DO NOT NEED so many educated people... #politics

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what is this primary and secondary nonsense in Apple Mail? Why are the designers so terrible at these things? #politics

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Starmer increasing military spending because of the Russian threat, so we are back in the mid 19th C... Though Starmer is not quite Palmerston is he...

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ft commentariat.... 2019. the ideology is blatant.

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