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Podcaster, poet, educator, former expatriate, angry person, “moralist," Buddhist. Author of Apocalyptics and Liberation. Host Varn Vlog ☸
If Marjorie Taylor Greene inadvertently saves democracy it will be like an inverted version of Gollum causing the destruction of the One Ring on Mount Doom
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“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
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Extremely and just noticed this myself
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Schrodigger’s reactionary view of the lefty
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one of my favorite liberal tics is assuming when trump and the GOP talk about "the left" they're not talking about liberals
30.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 2403 🔁 341 💬 58 📌 14Coates finds himself in the tricky position of being a liberal who is a serious thinker and an ethical human being while liberals around him are 🤡 🤡
30.09.2025 03:41 — 👍 100 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Most of the time the truth is uglier than what the pundits tell you, but the future can also be brighter than what they want to believe as well. It just has a cost.
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People in power don’t just give you things unless there is a catch: Ponder that more often.
24.09.2025 07:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0French, what happens with Gothic, Old Norse, and Frankish speakers learn Latin. English, what happens with Germanic speaking tribes, half of whom used to speak B-gaelic language just a century before anyway, give up on even learning the Germanic-inflicted Latin.
24.09.2025 04:26 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Someone asked how this potato man rarely got identified as from the States when I lived abroad--not that I was ashamed of it--and I replied, "I only smile when I mean it. It's good camouflage against people assuming you are from the States"
24.09.2025 04:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There is no right side of history. There is the world you make with the history and material you are given. Instead of hoping that the future remembers you, make the conditions of the future. You don't choose materials-Only want you do with them, and who you do it with.
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Noticing a theme
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Speculative bubbles often pop slowly over the course of years, and only become obvious once the bubble has long since burst all of the bricks of history, and we miscognize it as happening only right then.
18.09.2025 05:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Most people want to believe others (or at least others they identify with) think like them but that ironically is only possible in relative alienation where projection can override rough edges of social tension.
18.09.2025 05:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Speculative bubbles often pop slowly over the course of years, and only become obvious once the bubble has long since burst all of the bricks of history, and we miscognize it as happening only right then.
18.09.2025 05:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Karl Popper and Martin Heidegger can fist fight in one of the thousand hells.
18.09.2025 05:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Many of you need better enemies so you would be better fighters, intellectual and otherwise.
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