Tweet von @themrmacorn: "The US is largely a hyper-individualized, functionally illiterate, propagandized, & pacified population with no sense of solidarity & no tolerance for the slightest inconvenience or uncomfortability. There will be no mass movement to the streets til the economy collapses."
Terry Eagleton: “A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.”
Tuer l'idée de Dubai, we might find common ground there
This understates the case. It's been a war crime as long as there's been established international law; it's been widely recognized as an extreme and, to most military commanders, unacceptable violation of basic norms in Europe since at least the seventeenth century (possibly much longer)
A fearsome air power campaign by US and Israel are committing horrendous war crimes in Iran
If you hear about Iran's Hormuz chokehold & wonder why you are facing fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions in the coming weeks and months...this is why. US & Israel are at war with a people not just a regime
It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
My Weekend Essay for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social: why the 'left-realist' critique of int’l law is a form of disenchantment that obscures more about political reality than it illuminates.
A short critique of Perry Anderson via EP Thompson, Carr, Weber.
www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
if you want to understand how trump talked himself into an war of choice to overthrow the government of iran, you have to start where all discussions of great wartime leaders start:
with french postmodernists and SUNSET BOULEVARD
A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment…
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
‘My mother said she would cook kabsa. Kabsa was not just a meal. It was a declaration that this day was different. The tent slowly filled with the smell of spices – a scent we had not experienced in months.’
Hassan Ayman Herzallah collects gas in Gaza, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand
ein jungre mann sitzt vorneuebergebeugt in der bahn und starrt ins leere. ein hund kommt rein und stupst ihn mit der nase an er erschrickt
Cover von "Passagiere"
Pünktlich zum Frühlingsanfang ist meine Dissertation zur Kulturgeschichte der Eisenbahnreise erschienen. Wie schön! Bestellen und probelesen kann man das Buch hier: www.campus.de/buecher-camp.... (1)
Es dürfte in so langfristigen Fragen wie Energiepolitik die ganz seltene Ausnahme sein, dass einem die monumentale Dummheit einer Entscheidung mit derartiger Wucht unmittelbar ins Gesicht schlägt.
Strike: when we bomb someone
Attack: when someone else bombs us
„+++ Bundeskanzler Merz hat den Iran scharf kritisiert und ein sofortiges Ende der iranischen Angriffe gefordert. In einer Erklärung rief der Kanzler Teheran „nachdrücklich dazu auf, sofort die militärischen Schläge gegen Israel und unsere anderen Partner in der Region einzustellen". . Der Iran müsse zudem „auch andere destabilisierende Aktivitäten in der Region und darüber hinaus unterlassen" sowie „die Gewalt gegen die eigene Bevölkerung beenden". Darüber hinaus betonte Merz der Mitteilung zufolge, Deutschland sei nicht an den Angriffen auf den Iran beteiligt gewesen.“
dachte wenn man angegriffen wird darf man sich verteidigen
There will dead Iranians, dead Israeli and dead Americans by the end of the day. What do you expect each of these rational men - Trump, Netanyahu, Khamenei - with enraged publics and radicalised regimes will then do?
It’s an inherently escalatory dynamic.
bsky.app/profile/70sb...
(Claude Lévi-Strauss, hardly a fan or admirer of Karl Marx, said "rarely do I I tackle a problem in sociology or ethnology without having first set my mind in motion by a reperusal of a page or two from the Eighteenth Brumaire")
#NowWatching la suite de l'Abécédaire de J.Chapoutot. I comme Irresponsables. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQP5...
Idk experts this one seems a little far fetched
Progressive Calvinisten seiend wie
Si tout le monde prononçait Epstein à la marseillaise (« èpseutaing ») il y aurait moins de problèmes.
Salma Yaqoob @SalmaYaqoob Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism In fact it's evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering. And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms. The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.
Totally this.
The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.
"For Westad and Chen, by contrast, it is the use of power to pursue visions of development that is the essence of modernity." weltinnenpolitik.substack.com/p/chinas-gre...
Timely, timely counter-narrative: the notion of craftsmanship. How you do something matters (a fucking lot); the importance of tacit knowledge, repetition and slowness (dwelling); the relationship between problem finding and solving. Examples from music playing and programming.
Sur un sujet proche, émission plutôt équilibrée (c'est rare)
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
namen von marxist:innen die komplett hart gehen:
hans heinz holz
