For those of you wondering why all the nerds are pouring one out for this Habermas dude and wondering why he was so important. If you've ever heard or used the terms "public sphere" and "private sphere," you are using Habermas terms.
Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.
Not to sound like a radical centrist but these are people who don't believe in convincing others of their arguments and think they're being smart when they're just cynical.
In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Possible also that most of the media attention was initiated by the right-wing press and with him just doing the job of being a city mayor there's less grist for the mill.
South Park episode nailed this
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to lift
”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”
The poet Lebo Mashile--not on Bsky--once said that raising her son not to hate women held the likelihood of raising him to be lonely because hating women was how men bond.
"Just for the record, I ought to tell you the facts. They’re boring, but you have a right to know.”
Reader: they were not boring.
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Old enough to remember the first "Coalition of the Willing"
I like how this argument shifted from "they're going to cancel elections" to "they're going to intimidate voters into staying home from participating in the election which is apparently not cancelled"
He did face a crisis not of his own making in his first term: Covid. It didn't go great.
One suspects that if Trump had magnanimously told Machado to keep it, that she would be telling the media this.
My cheap psychoanalysis is that if some of these people acknowledged how many people didn't want the Iraq war then they would have to admit they were wrong and those people were right.
It's much less humbling to say "well, no one was right"
I think there's suppression but also a bias against things that don't succeed to change elite norms. There were probably millions of people protesting the Iraq war in 2003, same accusations of them being unemployed idiots recycled, but we've memory-holed it.
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
I may be wrong but my feeling is that the framing is being done as low-effort SEO headlines.
I suppose to CNN's credit, if you want an expert on a jackbooted thug shooting someone and a government trying to sweep it under the rug, Rahm Emanuel is your guy:
Holy fuck they actually did it
Please stop reposting that BNO News account. All they’re doing is reposting information from Minnesota journalists but without any credit or sourcing.
Shoveling your own parking space and then trying to reserve it for yourself
The six percent are members of newspaper editorial boards and some magazine writers.
lol. Go for it. I'm a former public tv journalist and though Weta doesn't a lot of great things, if
I want to support local reporting I know where my money can do the most good
Co-sign. I was recently laid-off but my subscription to @51st.news is one of the things I decided to keep paying for.
@51st.news for DC
Perfection attained. Unless it's resulting in children accessing trans care. Then bring on the intervention.
Going to post endlessly about the ex I'm completely over.
