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DOJ quietly removes study showing right wing attacks ‘outpace’ those by left
The Justice Department quietly removed from its website a study showing far-right extremists were responsible for the bulk of ideologically motivated deaths — a move that comes as the GOP seeks to back claims from President Trump that the “radical left” poses a greater danger than the right wing.
DOJ quietly removes study showing right wing attacks ‘outpace’ those by left
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Rant: The Irony of the Aftermath
The Irony of the Aftermath: Charlie Kirk’s Death and the Right’s Convenient Amnesia
They called it a tragedy. They called it an attack on free speech. They called him a martyr.
But what they didn’t call out—what they won’t admit—is the hypocrisy bleeding through every tribute, every cancellation, every moment of silence demanded in his name.
Tyranny & Tantrums: A Rant on America’s Collapse
America is to going to hell in a hand basket, and the cracks in its foundation are glaring. As Linkin Park’s Burn It Down echoes, “We’re building it up to break it back down,” the cycle of destruction and collapse feels all too familiar. Institutions meant to uphold democracy are being dismantled, only to be rebuilt on even shakier ground. Power is concentrated in the hands of a few, while the vulnerable are left to fend for themselves. Like the song’s imagery of betrayal and downfall, the current political landscape mirrors a system that prioritizes control and greed over people. The flames of collapse are fanned, and the question remains—what will rise from the ashes?
Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
Since the election of Donald Trump, a growing body of research has examined the role of digital technologies in new right wing movements (Lewis 2018; Hawley 2017; Neiwert 2017; Nagle 2017). This article will explore a distinct, but related, subject: new right wing tendencies within the tech industry itself. Our point of entry will be an improbable document: a German language dissertation submitted by an American to the faculty of social sciences at J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt in 2002. Entitled Aggression in the Life-World, the dissertation aims to describe the role that aggression plays in social integration, or the set of processes that lead individuals in a given society to feel bound to one another. To that end, it offers a “systematic” reinterpretation of Theodor Adorno’s Jargon of Authenticity (1973). It is of interest primarily because of its author: Alexander C. Karp.
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Read More »The Khazar myth and Marxism? 🤦🏼♀️
Someone questioned me about the Khazar myth in relation to Marxist ideology. I immediately thought of the Jewish Bolshevism and Cultural Marxism myths. I have never heard of this Khazar myth before, but it sounds like an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. So far, I have seen claims that the Communist Party of China is working with Jewish Marxist academics to incite a Communist revolution in the United States. Hahaha! I want to find these Jewish Marxist academics! Bring on the Communist Revolution! I wish people would pay more attention to the true enemies—the oligarchs behind the politicians—rather than these ridiculous conspiracy theories. 🤦🏼♀️
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Not a parody: The Onion acquires Alex Jones’s InfoWars in auction
Satirical website buys platform of US conspiracy theorist, who has been ordered to pay $1.5bn to Sandy Hook families.
Not a parody: The Onion acquires Alex Jones’s InfoWars in auction
Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’
Don’t Blame Karl Marx for ‘Cultural Marxism’
You might think that a history of cultural Marxism would start with Marx, but the poorly coiffed Prussian has almost nothing to do with this tale of insidious infiltration. Instead, the theory took off in the late 1990s due to speeches, essays, and books by William Lind, then with the Free Congress Foundation, and Patrick Buchanan, the firebrand conservative columnist, TV talking head, and sometime presidential candidate. (The idea, though not the name, was hatched earlier, in a 1992 monograph called “The New Dark Age: The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness.” It was written by a disciple of the noted conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche.)
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Read More »The Danger of Bullshit: Revisiting Harry Frankfurt’s Classic Essay
‘The liar is inescapably concerned with truth-values. In order to invent a lie at all, he must think he knows what is true.’ (p. 51)
The Danger of Bullshit: Revisiting Harry Frankfurt’s Classic Essay
Harry Frankfurt argues that bullshit is more dangerous than lying. At first sight, this seems counter-intuitive. Surely lying is worse than bullshitting? Liars are intentionally and deliberately trying to deceive us. Normally, doing something bad (e.g. deceiving someone) intentionally makes the action worse than if it is done unintentionally, for example accidentally or absentmindedly. If this is the case, how can bullshit be worse than lying?
The reason Frankfurt gives is that, whereas liars at least pay some respect to the difference between what is true and what isn’t, bullshitters completely disregard it. They simply don’t care about the difference. This, Frankfurt argues, means that compulsive bullshitters become progressively less able to tell the truth than compulsive liars. Liars and truth tellers are playing on opposite sides of the same game. Bullshitters are playing a different game entirely where the rules of truth don’t matter. This lack of concern, Frankfurt argues, is more corrosive of one’s ability to distinguish the truth than deliberately obscuring the truth. Once one gets into the habit of bullshitting, it is difficult to get out of it.
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