Matt Sharpe

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Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control? Dark money, captured courts, and media empires are quietly doing what dictators once could only dream of...

'Is the Assault on Democracy Stronger than We Think — and Nearing Permanent Control?' Thom, yes is the answer. It won't stop until the people stop it. They will just be emboldened more and more. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

paging America: "the first fatal problem for historians [in Weimar] was their inability to perceive Hitler as a real threat." He was I suppose: only joking, just appealing to his base, just trying to own the libs, not meaning what he said, nothing to worry about, it will all pass by ...

America is Not Seeing the Trump Red Flags Warning signs, ignored

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Rhetorical school takes out suit against Trump administration for White House destruction— “too… X- Rhetorica ad Newseum, your one stop shop for all your rhetoric news

"Rhetorical School Takes Out Suit Against Trump Administration for White House Destruction: 'Too Obviously Symbolic'" bringingthemtheplague.medium.com/rhetorical-s...

Academic Freedom: Internal and External Threats In a series of lectures conductednear the end of his life, Michel Foucault examined the emergence and evolution of the Greek term…

some a-mus-ings. Alas, all 2 little on the culture wars for fans of moral panics.
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att culture warriors, who think "western civilization" is more threatened by "wokeism" than MAGAism: "O, when degree is shaked ..."

Strongman:
"Friday: During their meeting at the White House, Trump told Zelensky to concede land to Russia to bring an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

In the absence of anything approaching an actual uprising, Trump still threatening military action against American citizens.

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

What a metonym and metaphor, all at once- this photo.

When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future? The movements of the 1960s built lasting institutions. Today’s movements need more than moral clarity: they need leadership and coordination...

When the Chant Fades, Who Builds the Future?
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wow. he looks lethal. probably funded by soros, who is known to love chickens. do your own research, bro!

Europe’s far-right find happy hunting grounds in social media - 360 Social media fuels far-right radicalisation in Italy, France and Germany, with Telegram leading despite crackdowns on extremist groups.   In the digital age, social media has become a powerful tool fo...

360info.org/europes-far-... we need to talk about social media and algorithms, peeps. outrage and hatred gets eyeballs. far right feeds on outrage and hatred. ergo? a good society would legislate to monitor the platforms, "free speech" not being absolute.

How authoritarians twist language into weapons - 360 As populist strongmen rise across democracies, Camus’ warnings against the corruption of truth and language feel newly relevant. His work shows how authoritarians blur moral boundaries, sow confusion,...

create false equivalence, sow confusion, do what your project onto the enemy in blame, militarise culture and public life to excuse extraordinary actions. 360info.org/how-authorit...

Going Full Venezuela No Kings day feels eerily familiar to me.

Going Full Venezuela
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How Global Capital Is Buying the Death of Democracy The ruling elite’s endgame

Making the world safe for the very few. medium.com/the-springbo...

The U.S. Is Moving Toward Competitive Authoritarianism Former Intelligence Officials Warn of a Systemic Erosion of Democracy Under a Second Trump Term

even the military and intell community can now see the writing on the wall, unless it is stopped by the people. sfg.media/en/a/us-comp...

"Today it seems...almost inevitable that an overly strong sympathy w the irrational leads 2 pol reaction...1st comes the gr8 gesture vs “civilization”—...that...holds a strong attraction for intellectuals—suddenly one arrives at the cult of violence, then in no time at Hitler." Klaus Mann 1933

October 8, 2025 Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

this has been foreseeable for five years. still, another barrier crossed. not many left now. October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

the first rule of the party was to believe what they say, not the evidence of your eyes. we have always been at war with eurasia, americans.

Interview with Matthew Sharpe, translator of Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, Philosopher of Reaction Interview with Matthew Sharpe, translator Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, Philosopher of Reaction: Towards a Political Biography, Brill, 2025. By James Dorahy

to understand what is happening to the US, it helps to understand Nietzsche, not the whitewash liberal Nietzsche of the postwar, but of the interwar and today. Losurdo is the guide, and the texts read completely: the philosopher of antidemocratic reaction par exc.
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If nihilism is murder, what then? Camus’ distinctive conception of nihilism & its overcoming - Matthew Sharpe, 2025 This paper proposes that Albert Camus is a distinctive thinker of nihilism, whose unique contribution to debates around nihilism has been widely under-valued. W...

nihilism for Camus is the cultural failure & malaise that allows people to scorn and kill others with indifference, whether based on religious or secular ideas. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Albert Camus, fascism and America - ABC listen Living and writing through the years before, during and after the Second World War, French author and philosopher Albert Camus witnessed the rise of fascism and its terrible endgame in German National...

Interview down under on Camu as a thinker of fascism and the unfolding MAGA disaster. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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"we must rediscover the values wh sustain that [common] conscience, destroyed...by terror...we must create commnties of reflection wh will initiate dialogue across frontiers...this world must cease bg one of policemen, soldiers & $ & bcome 1 of men & women, productive work&considered leisure." Camus

America Was Great When Taxes Were High on Corporate Executives - What Happened? Part I “The big lesson is that the period of maximum prosperity of the U.S. economy in the middle of the century was a period where you had a top income-tax rate of 90 percent.” -Thomas Piketty

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