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"[O]ne certainly could not be a successful writer or professor or television journalist," writes Fukuyama criticizing the impossibility of success in communist countries, "without implicating oneself rather fully in the system's deceit." EoH 169 (2006). He would go on to support the Iraq War.

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message boils down to: “we are going to do partisan republican appropriations whether you like it or not”

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there’s a thesis im willing to explore using freud’s concept of the founding crime concerning the stability of certain regimes like the us and china which center entire ideological structures on extremely contradictory foundations.

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don’t see how fukuyama’s entire premise survives hegel saying that a human subject in a state—not in nature—is recognized not from their “desire of the other’s desire,” pride, or “thymos” but from their obeying the universal and actual will: the law. See Encyclopedia III § 432.

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To prevent any possible misunderstandings with regard to the standpoint just outlined, we must here remark that the fight for recognition pushed to the extreme here indicated can only occur in the natural state, Where men exist only as single, separate individuals; but it is absent in civil society and the State because here the recognition for which the combatants fought already exists. For although the State may originate in violence, it does not rest on it; violence, in producing the State, has brought into existence only what is justified in and for itself, namely, laws and a constitution. What dominates in the State is the spirit of the people, custom, and law. There man is recognized and treated as a rational being, as free, as a person; and the individual, on his side, makes himself worthy of this recognition by overcoming the natural state of his self-consciousness and obeying a universal, the will that is in essence and actuality will, the law; he behaves, therefore, towards others in a manner that is universally valid, recognizing them—as he wishes others to recog-

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

poetry in motion. sublime. exquisite.

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I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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julian @jsmunoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war.”

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OyEz OyEz OyEz ThE LobStErS ArE ReAdY

rendition of john roberts who carries his judicial persona and authority even into a goddamned lobster boil by announcing its opening the way oral arguments are opened

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LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congress should, inter alia, take away the Court's jurisdiction to grant stays of lower court orders halting executions

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julian @jsmunoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

problem i have with death penalty is how the sheer act of simply having it as a sentencing option fills an entire state legal machinery with bloodlust. it’s not enough for the state to take its time. it desperately *must* end a person’s—even a heinous one’s—life.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Enjoyed Corey Robin's essay "On Nikole Hannah-Jones" coreyrobin675129.substack.com/p/on-nikole-...

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good god. an orator he is not. not even a bible salesman.

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it’s funny how their reliance on edgy, hyperreal messaging through memes and ironic demonstrations of cruelty now means everything they say is trapped in unseriousness

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ah. makes u wonder, why not just call urself kojevian

There is, of course, a legitimate question as to whether Ko-jève's interpretation of Hegel, presented here, is really Hegel as he understood himself, or whether it contains an admixture of ideas that are properly "Kojèvian." Kojève does take certain elements of Hegel's teaching, such as the struggle for recognition and the end of history, and make them the centerpiece of that teaching in a way that Hegel himself may not have done. While uncovering the original Hegel is an important task for the purposes of the "present argument," we are interested not in Hegel per se but in Hegel-as-interpreted-by-Kojève, or perhaps a new, synthetic philosopher named Hegel-Kojève, In subsequent references to Hegel, we will actually be referring to Hegel-Kojève, and we will be more interested in the ideas themselves than in the philosophers who originally articulated them.

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as a miami resident, my only hope for this is that this breeds exactly the opposite of what ken griffin hopes it will breed

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thing with wonkishness is that it’s the last refuge in the desert of the non-ideological. once the wonkishness doesn’t work there is nothing left.

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whats vice signaling but for stupidity?

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embracebecoming.bsky.social @embracebecoming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lee atwater himself expressly admitted this 40 years ago

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I'm going to push back and say that I also experience some of this feeling, and I don't think it's depression. I think it's the result of living in a society run by con-artists.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus Christ dude

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currently writing about fukuyama, and my biggest gripe with him on the issue of hegel, is that he just is not hegelian. he defends hegel from russell and popper (a defense that, given their reductive arguments, is no more necessary than is a defense of plato for exactly their same charges) 1/x

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

its been a while since i saw a nice, ripe, off-the-vine clusterfuck

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I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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i mean… this is the end of any rationale for fiscal policy, then, insofar as any regulation will have effects on investment decisions. why raise interest rates at all?

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lmao colombia’s new right wing president de la espriella is now running to the IMF(!) for help in resolving the country’s fiscal crisis. colombia heading straight towards uribista-style austerity again, it seems

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"Beyond Neoliberal Administration," my forthcoming chapter in Building Democratic Capacity (Cambridge University Press, edited by @blakeprof.bsky.social, @joshuamacey.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social, and Bijal Shah, forthcoming 2027), is now posted to SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=752...

Abstract: Recent developments in administrative law limit Congress’s ability to confer regulatory discretion on its administrative agents. Commentators have tended to view these developments as undermining progressive social policy, which has operated throughout the twenty-first century primarily through the administrative state. But Congress can respond by avoiding reliance on regulatory discretion in the first place. The new judicial doctrine does not constrain the use or acquisition of public resources. Thus, Congress has incentives to rely on a different set of tools: Pigouvian instruments (taxes and subsidies), redistribution, public infrastructure, and social control of investment. Despite recent progressive coding of regulatory bureaucracy, this alternative toolkit might well result in more egalitarian consequences. In many ways, the regulatory state was the instrument of a neoliberal mode of governance that offloaded ownership and control of resources onto private parties. The ultimate victim of the Roberts Court’s war on the regulatory state might be neoliberalism.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Example of Baudrillardian definition of simulation:

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Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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and trump. his own calculus was, “get me smarm incarnate because he’s guaranteed to win and i need a better senate.” why he hated cornyn, considering cornyn’s voting record, requires a better political mind than mine.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my mom doesnt know who rahm emanuel is and im not telling her

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we really need to start calling out these conservative christians for just straight up not believing in christianity. if you don’t believe christian teaching, nobody is forcing you to call yourself a christian! free yourself!

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watched one of the most visually stunning movies i’ve ever seen (curse of the golden flower) and the critics’ consensus was that it’s not a great movie because it’s too visually stunning

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hold on bcuz “bunny suit” sent me to jupiter in a kirby star

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this site is very millennial because every time there’s a “list” (top 100 shows, top songs etc) ppl go ape shit and i bet it’s just the vestigial huffington post listicle neuron getting activated

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