novapsyche

Did you hear the news from the Dutch election?

Finally, it seems that RW populist Wilders is done. Out of government-building coalition territory. Phew 🥳

It will be a centre left coalition, most likely.

Thank you NL☺️

Do you post about anything other than this topic? Why do you have Bluesky staked out on the solitary issue of Platner's totenkopf?

As I told you almost two days ago: bsky.app/profile/nova...

You mean like Trump?

No? Hmm. 🤔

That you are trying to rehabilitate Platner when no one has even one reason to give him the benefit of the doubt in this situation is highly troubling.

Even if he were to win the primary, voters in the general election will pass on a candidate with a Nazi tattoo.

Neguse is great.

KKK in training

What plot?

I've the strong suspicion that Patel et al. just want to announce splashy arrests.

IIRC, Nixon's fate figured into the decision to launch what eventually became Fox, specifically to make sure such a thing never happened again.

Destruction equipment at the White House today.

Yep.

What we need now is a story of how we get out of this mess.

What I've noticed is that there is a certain type of (left-of) centrist who believes that Democrats can banish the fascism currently in power without addressing the psychological forces galvanizing it: grievance, racism, misogyny. This focus solely on policy seems to accord with that avoidance.

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Nature research paper: Thiorphan reprograms neurons to promote functional recovery after spinal cord injury

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Headline

America voted for this - “His replacement is highly unusual given that the office — created by Congress in 1946 to fund Navy and Marine Corps research — is typically run by a two-star admiral with extensive experience in technology, science, and engineering.” thehill.com/policy/defen...

The Andrew formerly known as a prince

Yeah, even Hasan changed his mind when news of the totenkopf tattoo broke.

Miles apart. There's a rift between them.

The leftwing defense of Graham Platner is rooted in a false Democratic vision | Moira Donegan Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path

"[I]n Platner, some pundits and members of the consultant class seem to have found a vehicle for their own project for the party’s reform, one that is… about transforming the Democratic party’s image to embrace men, masculinity and… a rugged, rural whiteness."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You are not a good-faith interlocutor.

What the actual fuck?!?

Ignore Deroldsen (or look at his posting history). He's a sealion.

I agree with your outlook.

I told Deroldsen about the German differentiation yesterday. (Thank you for weighing in!) Yet he's persisting in this tour of trolling across Bluesky on this one topic.
bsky.app/profile/nova...

Are you still spreading this falsehood?

As I *just told you* yesterday:
bsky.app/profile/nova...

Starving You is the Point: The Neuroscience of Hunger and Obedience in America We are watching a government experiment in population management using stress, scarcity, and biology to keep people too tired to fight back.

"Hunger doesn’t just weaken the body, it rewires the mind for _obedience._ And that’s exactly the point. A starving population doesn’t resist. It _obeys._

"...What’s happening right now isn’t just politics or economics. It’s neuroscience[.]"

drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/starving-y...

Trump is lawless and the GOP wants to use starving people as a bargaining tool.

From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake

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This is attempted murder.

The actions resemble that of ICE, but this is regular police. That would tend to point to the recklessness of ICE bleeding over into police action, a type of contamination.

'He also quipped about his past experiences writing about the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. “Maybe it’s about time also to write a play about Donald Trump,” he said'

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ICEstapo

He says some off-the-wall stuff sometimes and probably attracts pushback as a result.

I didn’t see in the thread where he said his ideas were not his own. Perhaps he said that elsewhere?

Here’s the original post, for reference: bsky.app/profile/whst...

How I replied: bsky.app/profile/nova...

He made his claim like he'd discovered something. YMMV.

"What the far right has figured out" made it sound as though these concepts had just been assembled into a powerful, coherent structure, when in fact they already had been constructed previously by the far right (i.e., the original fascists).