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Stephen Miller at an international conference about cartels: "These organizations can only be defeated with military power. I see some heads nodding because they understand. You're dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."

all the really bad implications aside there's something wonderfully 2007 reddit about the way poor things posits that there are 3 possible jobs, prostitute (good), scientist (good), and lawyer (bad)

when was it ever a leftist goal to get rid of people's jobs anyway

if he had been responsible, he'd know that his book would migrate into the popular consciousness as "womman??? with JOB? call da gotdang DOGE!!!!!"

this is a lot of words for saying that he was irresponsible and dumb and so are his fans

Trump's trade policies have exactly the impact on US manufacturing that most macroeconomists said they would.

though scientific racism was also a mass 'we need people to look like the Pictures that make my peepee hard' event and that was mostly before photography

we need a new walter benjamin to convince everyone that photography was a mistake, that its natural telos may have been ai slop all along

all right-wing discourse online and some left-wing discourse as well boils down to "people don't look enough like photoshoots with models, including pornography as a subset of the previous"

nuns used to wear LATEX and have RULERS. but now they're WOKE (picture of a 60-year-old presbyterian woman in a pantsuit that was taken in 1985)

internationalists, globalists, globohomos, papal octopuses, rootless cosmopolitans, woke scolds, pink-haired baristas, women with laptop jobs, all are welcome

All this gets eye rolling from the savvy nihilists who run the press in this country, but you can't be afraid to try.

*from Paul Wellstone, peace be upon him

The thing about "Know your values and frame the debate"* is that must you have values, you must be willing to argue for them and you have to be willing to publicly judge (gasp!) those who act against those values if you want to create a consensus needed to frame the debate.

we're also going to reclaim the word 'globalist' since the alternative (nationalism and its networks of patronage) seems to be getting a whole lot of people killed

we're going to list all the human rights and then enforce them, and we're going to list all the war crimes and then enforce that, and we're going to make international courts that can punish corporations for violations of the same

i have some sympathy with robert reich but the word 'common good' may be poisoned by its inherent nationalism, nonetheless open normativity like we had post-wwii is the only way out of this

the thing about yelling about hypocrisy is that "fine, i'll become worse" is as valid an answer to it as "you're right, i'll improve myself"

not claiming my own moral superiority, but we seriously need to return to normative language in politics

The bombing of the girls' school in Minab, claiming over 180 dead, mostly school girls, merits pride of place in this depiction. It was a grave war crime.

and it is breaking the brains of the people who still labor under the delusion that debunking hypocrisy is one and done, no more effort required

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

russell: instinct for decency in politics but essentially an airhead with no knowledge of himself or any of his moral first principles. wittgenstein: probably singlehandedly rehabilitated jansenism in his own life-as-work-of-art, if he figured everything out it was lost to the confessional seal tho

russell and wittgenstein were the two "we're done, i figured absolutely everything out" guys in the most opposite way possible. yes wittgenstein's joke about russell is the final word on this but i'm posting it anyway

dh lawrence was a kook who liked to talk about worshiping his own dick more than he liked actually having sex, and russell was a sex addict who liked 'em young under the façade of a kindly don

deciphering this conversation is easier if you remember that they were both insane

Thought this put it pretty well.

Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

Pope Leo XIV is Catholic.

I do hope his priest had him do more than 3 Hail Marys after his married mistress burned herself to death.

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