This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
Ambi-Coastal Conference
A thread compiling examples of the vast explanatory power of The Situation.
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
Indicates substantial country differences in 'social capital' -- generalized trust
i.e., essentially, 'human rights are only for those within a narrow circle of moral inclusion'
In international relations theory we call this chain-ganging,” ie, getting pulled into an ally’s war as if chained together at the ankle. As others have pointed out, there was a large element of this in WWI. See here:
www.jstor.org/stable/2538910
And here:
stephaniehuesler.com/2019/12/15/h...
Do unto others before they have a chance to do anything unto you.
Not quite the golden rule. Nor "eye for an eye..."
FWIW, this is sec. 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution:
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
From September '24...
U2 new EP kicks off with “American Obituary” which is more hopeful than the title sounds. It addresses the killing of Renee Good, ICE in Minneapolis, and the threat to democracy.
“The power of the people is so much stronger than the people in power.”
Listen/ watch here: youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook?...
(put another way, weird to say, as Rubio does, that Europe produced “the genius…of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,” who were self-consciously playing music rooted in the traditions of the African diaspora.)
One more quick thread, and then I'm getting out of here to walk my dog in the sun.
I think a lot about the authoritarian personality. I won't start going on about that because this thread would last forever, but I just want to say one thing about it.
So much underestimating of the role of "nonshared environment" (situations you experienced uniquely different from rest of your family), which includes some lucky turns or coincidences in life...
Yes, absolutely. But was it selected for in various dark ages of yore?
These* are ways of taking an undesirable (even repugnant) attribute and giving it a sheen of value. That gives a desirability-neutral result.
*though I wonder what is the undesirable attribute "heterodox" is rehabilitating
This pales in effectiveness to my strategy, "hope Supreme Court justice simply dies at the right time"
Anonymity can increase aggression.
Silke. Zimbardo.
we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???
Yes, but somewhat danceable. 👍
Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Richard III...or maybe more Ivan the Terrible with his oprichniki...
There are a bunch of mountain passes between the Oregon and the California water...
The theme -- across all the outrages-- seems to be wielding a big stick (or bat) in a predatory manner on vulnerable little people.
Instead of going to bat for them.
Looks a bit like a 60s dance called
THE JERK
and a little like
BOXING
Any suggestions for how to combine those labels into a descriptive name for this dance?
