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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 9h

Why. To my mind this is a feudal relic. A democracy can't function in my opinion with lifetime judges. They will almost always side with the wealthiest.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 15h

I'd prefer term limits and a clear message from Congress that the Supreme court has expanded its mandate far beyond any warrent. However, abortion was always waiting for the second shoe to drop. It should, after Roe v. Wade, been legalized by Congress in the 70s. You can't rely on geriatric dudes.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 16h

Most critics I think don't like that gesture. They want a lesson, a message. This movie doesn't give either, any more than The Lady Eve is a warning against confidence men. I'm guessing this will travel the same route from critically derrided to cult film that the Big Lebowski made.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 16h

I loved it, but ... it definitely was the most expensive theater of the ridiculous project ever mounted. Charles Ludlum, or Kenneth Bernard, would have loved it. Like Bernard with nuclear bombs, Inarritu takes climate catastrophe as the very condition for making a romp.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 21h

What are GOP strategists thinking? focusing on Jan. 6 2021 right as the midterms are almost upon us? seem to be There seems to be a diaper haze around the big T. They really believe pardoning traitors was a popular move. Of course, the NYT still believes in the "vibechange" too. Elites are weird.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 21h

On the other hand - maybe Oxford ain't what it is supposed to be. Isn't Oxford ground zero of the effective altruism movement - perhaps the stupidest intellectual cult since Ayn Rand went to her reward?

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That is a very cute picture of Lenin! Although I am a fan, I have to admit that most pictures don't emphasize his puckishness nor how he carefully he styled his casquette.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel - it is just a feeling - that the majority of young white women have had enough. Still, an intersectional analysis of ideological positions would have to ask: what are these voters voting for? How does gender play out in the U.S.? This I, a cis white leftie guy, don't understand.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Feminism was and is a completely admirable program to create bonds of solidarity between women. However, between the effort and the reality fallls the shadow - and the need for work. As has often been pointed out, the majority of white women vote R. Have since LBJ. But this can change.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only "rapists" Trump has ever opposed were the Central Park 6 - blacks kids who, as it turns out, were innocent. White failsons? This is Trump's jam! And it must be said, the 53 % of white women who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2024 know this. Sad synthesis of racism and misogyny.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

- and I've seen the vids of heartening demonstrations of support by parents and workers that are now all around - except of course on French fox tv, which is a phantasmagoria of redfaced racists yelling shit. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/10/pour...

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Pour des lyceens!

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I haven't tuned into the NYT gurgling their macronist responses to the police violence against the Lyceens yet. But I have seen a lot of the videos - including a video of an insane police charge at our school, Voltaire

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Raping as part of Curriculum. The Cornell frat rape non-case reminds us: we've been here so many fucking fucking times before. And we still have frats. University prezes should just wear signs saying: Rapists welcome! limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-ra...

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A rape kit

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thus, you can imagine any utopia you want. We could have had a just and equatable medicare for all under Clinton. Might as well go all the way. Ending racism in this country was easy under Grant. We could have had a country without a reactionary electorate if we'd avoided the Louisiana purchase.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I love about these retrospectives is that they imagine away all the real factors to get to their conclusion. Which, not coincidentally, is how the hawks dem and republican argued their way into occupying Iraq - just make up a war that will never be waged, ignoring the real figures in place.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Imagine Bush and his generals had not approved the Kunduz airlift of Taliban leaders to Pakistan in November 2001. Imagine the Bush administration didn't decide they needed a terrorist on tap and actually pressured Pakistan to turn over OBL. Imagine Bush not being Bush.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Such tough language between pals! But the weapons kept flowing, and the U.S. played guard so that there wasn't like international condemnation of Israel, and the unjailed man Biden's DOJ was still "investigating" for treason went on to win. A disgrace, all the way around.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bingo. As Obama said: "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up." An accessory to genocide and - by his ratfucking his own party until the primary season was past in 2024 - an accessory to Trump's second term. Hopefully, Biden's generation of Ds are on the way out.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think "believe" is too cognitive a word for the erotic process between Trump and his fans. They are in love. Or heat. And the more authoritarian the persona, the more they are satisfied. Freud's notion of projection is closer to the dynamic, I think.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Implicature resists the computerization afforded by any conventional set based logic. This is the Large in Large Language Models. The way to force the computerization of implicature, it was seen in the 80s was by sheer expansion of the corpus of data. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/mr-g...

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Mr. Grice's progeny

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That could be the motto of our entire U.S. establishment at the moment. The peter principality.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in the era of far right grifters, Weiss is a case all her own, the face of our own disgraceful Tump time. And she didn't even earn it, but had it thrust upon her by the projections of other trustfunders - while she goes on being mediocre to grossly bad.I have to salute that - its impressive.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Weiss does lead a charmed life. First, she had the Sulzbergers in her corner, and they are so heartbroke that she left the NYT that their reporting often seems a hommage to Weiss. Then, a billionaire gave her 150 million for her website, which overvalued it by 150 million. Then, CBS.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think it is true that everything on saraev's resume could be done better with AI. He should be pushed out by AI and find something that he could do that wasn't completely bullshit. But he won't. He'll just keep pumping the reinvention of Muzak as a revolution.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, if Netanyahu wasn't the prime minister of Israel,there definitely would be a warrent out for him as a member of the international network to arm and empower Hamas.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So did the Biden DOJ. But they just had other priorities. Like making sure their aged president had another aged past president to run against in 2024/

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That man is giving Clavicular a run for the money in the "most annoying ignorable men" contest. Clavicular is the smart one.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, dont do that - you'll jinx the results!

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

However, I do like the idea of seeing a great man or woman’s tomb, or seeing their handwriting, or the chair they sat in. Or where they might have been buried. limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...

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some remarks on Pascal

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

I understand the relic-mania of the Middle Ages, for I like relics myself. Not that I collect them – I don’t really have that collecting vibe in my life. I’m a great thrower-outer, too great in fact. I have regretted certain trips to the dumpster. #Pascal

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

Sadly, he worked as an intern for Matt Yglesias. The man is doomed.

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

The Atlantic has, apparently, a "we only hire stupid writers" policy, competing with Bari Weiss's Free Press. Novicoff, whose name rhymes with Dumbkopf, has found a nest there.

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

Nothing to stay at home parents except - 6 hours of free childcare. Does Marc Novicoff know any stay at home parents? The electorate at large, via this numbskull, is just thinking: I work two jobs to put keep my household going, but I still love figuring out each day who is going to care for them.

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

Perhaps it is just my unhipness but I never came across the phrase bean souped before and now it is my phrase of the day!

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

After you suck down this you will gradually learn to accept anything. Myself, who read Sade and Bataille in grad school had little incling that this stuff would become a Republican party norm. It retains the power to shock. The Dada-ists would weep! Their forms appropriated by fascism!

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is pure sadian ekphrasis. But the ass kissing evangelical leadership will suck it down with gusto. Followed by the rest. The sadism has a purpose: it breaks your moral code, your norms, your inhibitions.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The psychology of the relation btw Trump and his Maga base is very similar to the Epstein routine of grooming - first compliments then degradation. The AI of Jesus cleaning King Trump's shoes is about a blasphemous image as any in the western canon.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That's a timeline that his senile brain is incapable of comprehending. The only person who has a timeline and sticks to it in the administration is Stephen Miller. Like Eichman, he's good at that sort of thing.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

all aligned and cut at right angles.” This of course is a fantasy, a fanta-fact, but it floated before these dreamers who longed to be the Great Fire themselves, purging the old and crooked from the City.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The city of London has been the one that most commodiously instituted the use of sidewalks. It owes this advantage to the almost entire reconstruction of the old part of the city that was consumed in the great fire of 1666. All the streets were retraced on a vast plan...

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...So it is not surprising that D’alembert and Diderot’s Encyclopedie is full of Anglophilia, even in the farther corners. For instance, in the entry entitled Trottoir, or sidewalk (which may have been added when the Encyclopedie was re-edited in 1825), we read this:

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/09/on-s... I drove in Ireland on the right side – instead of the American left – this summer. I drove down country roads that are so narrow that one is always confronting the situation of who concedes, the driver coming towards you or you yourself?

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On sidewalks, cities, corruption and laterality

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Netanyahu knows he is a war criminal. That is why he is hooking up with the party descended from the most evil of all war criminals, Hitler, in Austria. No words for this obscene man. english.elpais.com/internationa...

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Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates

The Netanyahu government had until now boycotted the formation, with which it now seeks to build ‘a political bridge’

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would accuse Netanyahu of anti-semitism. He is literally hooking his party and Israel to the Freedom Party, a neo-nazi party in Austria. You can't get more anti-semitic than supporting Hitler supporters in Austria. english.elpais.com/internationa...

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Israel moves closer to Austria’s Freedom Party, founded by former SS members and Nazi Party affiliates

The Netanyahu government had until now boycotted the formation, with which it now seeks to build ‘a political bridge’

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over the last three years of Netanyahu's leadership of Israel, over 260000 Jews have left Israel. Mr. Netanyahu, these people no longer feel safe under your crazy and criminal reign.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Incumbency is a powerful thing. Being primaried can send a message - and that works well. It is the whole point of elections. Duckworth, who won her last primary with 44%, might not want to be seen working with Trump. Her choice.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Myself, I'd fight fire with fire and call for the execution of elected NH Libertarians, but, because there aren't any, I call for farting in their general direction. About all the attention they deserve.

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes yes yes! It is as if the driver blamed the car for making him drive drunk. "The car is the next apocalypse, I'm telling ya! I had nothing to do with it!"

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rogergathmann @rogergathmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No, Trump is not going to agree and he will think he won becauise he continues to do what he wants. In 2020, Trump actually did comply with the Dem majority about COVID cause he could see something in it for his own self. That Trump is long gone, and any D who can't see it will be primaried.

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