Patrick Gilner, Ph.D.

Is it really so hard to treat people working service jobs like their fucking people?

A black and white Chihuahua stands on her hinds to legs at the rim of a bath tub, looking over her shoulder back at the camera.

New chihuahua just dropped...

Make it viral.

#Venezuela
#Madura
#Trump
#History
#War
#WarCrimes
#InternationalLaw
#CriminalLaw
#Germany
#WW1
#Weimar
#Prosecution
#Extradition

Dissertation Dissertation Title: “The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” My dissertation, “The Politics of Reck…

“The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” (Copyright: Dr. Patrick Gilner, 2019)

Abstract: patrickgilner.com/dissertation/

A short preview is available from ProQuest: media.proquest.com/media/hms/PR...

Dissertation Dissertation Title: “The Politics of Reckoning: German War Crimes, Allied Justice, and the Meaning of Punishment after the First World War.” My dissertation, “The Politics of Reck…

If you are interested in reading it, just send me a message and I can send you a copy directly. Otherwise, an abstract and short preview are available at the links below:

Letterhead in German Fraktur from the "Bund deutscher Männer und Frauen zum Schutze der persönlichen Freiheit und des lebens Wilhelms II" [League of German men and women for the protection of the personal freedom and life of Wilhelm II]. Based in Breslau, the letterhead depicts a sympathetic and stoic depiction of the former German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. Circa early 1920s.

Given the United States' intervention into Venezuela and its intention to prosecute Venezuela's head of state, now is as good a time as any to mention that I wrote a 500+ page dissertation on the first attempt to prosecute a foreign head of state under modern international criminal law.

Class war persists and intensifies every day in America. The ebb and flow is merely a matter of who is cognizant of this struggle, and to what extent they understand their place in it.

"Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor."

Karl Marx, Das Kapital

Today is my dad's first birthday since he passed away. He would have been 87 today. He had a good life and a full life, and, mercifully, he passed very quickly. He was always afraid of lingering. But I miss him so much.

Roasting marshmallows over a fire pit.

I am definitely interested!

And that's exactly how it's done! Fascists wants us isolated. And that's because we survive theough community.

When first studying Nazi Germany, and lasting well into my career, I did so as a person without a disability.

Now I have several, and at least one that would have had me targeted for murder.

How does this change my perspective?

Not one damn bit. Eugenics has always been immoral.

Oh wow! Thank you for this resource!

A large Chihuahua asleep on his back with paws up and to the left.

Passed out

And these were not Germans who had been imprisoned or brutalized in the camps, but rather Germans whose only knowledge of the camps came from German press reports and rumors/grapevine.

It really hits home how fascism will permeate everything and colonize even one's most interior thoughts.

But I just finished reading Richard J. Evans' book, Hitler's People, and in the Luise Solmitz chapter (if I recall right) he notes that many Germans already were reporting nightmares about the camps by August and September 1933.

An area of the history of the Third Reich that I have only barely read on, but which fascinates me, is how stressful it could be. I knew that living under dictatorship influenced the kind of dreams that people had, especially those who were targeted by the regime...

Between moving, trying to sell a house in the current economy, dealing with bad flair ups from a chronic condition, and this entire, huge, exhausting moment as we teeter on the verge of technofascism, I am just utterly exhausted.

How are folks managing all the stress?

Dr. Oz, in his committee hearing to head Medicare and Medicaid, called maintaining good health a “patriotic duty”. This is the kind of language used to justify doing terrible things to disabled people, and deserves some scrutiny. This from the man who would control disabled people’s access to care.

No, people with ADHD are not making it up: Calling it a scam is a disgrace

Whether it's ADHD, autism, benefits or PIP, the way we disparage what we don't understand reflects both on our own fear and lack of literacy – and the irresponsible way we stigmatise disabled members of our society, writes Kat Brown

and not another corporate leech whose success is built on marketing, propaganda, Myth, and social engineering made possible by inordinate access to capital and resources.

In his pathetic quest to be lauded as a polymath and one-man super-human oracle, he has not only discredited his own feeble facade, but highlighted the world's true need for specialized expertise and experts, ...

Elon Musk's profound inability to understand anything nuanced about history, and then flood the internet with pathetically ego-centric and juvenile wannabe expert takes on social media, is the greatest argument for reviving humanities education in a generation.

"Technological progress, particularly the advent of smartphones, has led to an expectation of being always available and a pressure to react and respond in real time that did not exist 20 years ago."

"Neurodiversity conditions have become a lot more debilitating for those experiencing them. Increased population density exposes individuals to more stimuli than their nervous system can handle...

Mind over body: the trouble with treating chronic conditions | Letters Letters: Readers respond to an extract from Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan’s book on the pathologising of mental health problems and behavioural disorders

"The rise of diagnostic levels of most of these conditions comes from increased awareness, and also from the environmental changes in our society that place ever-increasing pressure on individuals to perform at a certain standard...

Best #NHL trade deadline for the #ColoradoAvalanche in about two decades.