Colin Danby

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"Service to the department."

I am not smoking the cigarette, the cigarette is smoking itself through me.

Pay attention, people.

Now, is he a deeply committed nazi, probably not. But he is at the least one of these red-brown "Hitler had some good ideas but went too far" red/brown left-bros.

Everyone can see what type of person ends up as a Platner apologist.

I cannot believe this is still going around. To recap from last Fall (a) this about *deciding on a tattoo* and getting the most viciously nazi image there is (b) there's evidence he knew it was a Totenkopf years ago.

Then, in *January*, he went on an antisemite's podcast.

I had a student a few years ago who wrote about this transition! I learned a lot. All best to Charlie and you.

This is so messed up. And the accusation gets flung in deeply unfair ways.

Credit where it's due! I wasted ten minutes on him.

There was a joy in him, even at the most serious moments, that you never forgot.

How to Do Things with Words

Commerce is good.

IOW, and I'll bow out after this, you can say that the Ben Collins "Tim Onion" persona is *supposed* to be a bullshitter, haha.

But you cannot claim that the Ben Collins who had a long career in serious journalism does not know what words mean.

All kinds of horrible or not-necessarily-good things happen *normally*. Looking at the world, and naming what goes on, is not advocacy. It's what social scientists are supposed to do.

Your position boils down to repeating that lots of people miss or ignore is/ought distinctions, which, yeah.

I ask you again.

How do you get "should" out of "thing that happens"?

Making up the bit about white-collar roofers is the least of the lies. More serious is converting "thing that happens" into "should."

Reinforced by "things would be fine so relax."

What am I missing? MD said

"This is a thing that happens. People switch sectors when We Are Having An Economy."

TO turned this into

"people getting laid off from white collar work due to things like DOGE cuts should simply become roofers and farmers and things would be fine so relax."

Yes! This is what I.F. Stone did: read everything no matter how boring.

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On the very slight chance that anyone on bsky has not already seen this:

An interesting feed requires that some % be incomprehensible. Not sure what level is optimal.

Shaun the Sheep

Take your cues from "Me Too went too far" because that train only goes one way.

And Mark Twain Churchill and Einstein, speaking through history with one voice.

Pardon the irrelevance, but why is she greenish-blue?

You're following the wrong people then.

Seriously, bsky is roll-your-own.

"The brief calls for " a 100 per cent sustainable landmark" that inspires people to take action against the climate and biodiversity crisis."

Actually *take* action? You must be nuts. Far better to waste resources on a hideous stunt to "inspire" unnamed people to take action.

Fun: Lawrence Kraus shares Bari Weiss' piece about me with Jeffrey Epstein.

I used to teach Panopticism with some bits of film, e.g. "Call Northside 777" and Wiseman's "Primate."

If sticking to literary texts, and noting your work, who had a better sense of what's enabled or thwarted by slipping into a discourse than Borges? Or much Kafka: that sense of being pinned.

Baffled.

What Foucault are they reading?