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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tangent. Corrections welcome.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Corrections welcome...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
From the good TS essay....
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Corrections welcome:
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Excerpt from a Sept. letter from someone in Ukraine... (She mentions the Free Russia Legion at the end, as at link here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...)
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Still good.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
reporting in Independent newspaper yesterday...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Resisters
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corrections welcome of course...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Re the good if sad hydrocarbon meditation--the ninth (?), the summary below probably doesn't capture the whole story but may raise a few fair questions..?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
???
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You probably knew. Agency in another gear. War work. And just a nice lift here in the play-along linked below. (Lots of players in this world. Someone may enjoy it.... This interpretation considered the pinnacle, seems. See bio, also linked.) Henryk Szeryng....
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gilded and gilt are used to suggest very different things in English.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tangent and genuine question... Don't understand these things, but is this model possibly one to learn from? To encourage re-investment and job creation rather than extraction? Are the taxes fair?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Worth repeating...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
State capitalism? To be checked from AI:
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't say I understand it but wonder if this is part of the story... (AI summary)
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So the rich actually like the US debt & want it to remain? Is the USA now "constituted" this way? Now structured this way? If so, the understanding of this "constitution" needs to be spread till it sinks into brains? I for one barely follow it at this point. Need to learn. Is this accurate?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is this AI summary fair?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Re the people in China and the government
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How prioritizing global dominance can harm and isolate the domestic population of a country...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But at least study the global rankings, for starters. The UK is not near the top (but the UK achieves better overall population health outcomes and higher life expectancy than the US, despite spending roughly half as much per person).
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Keeping people insecure is keeping them easier to manipulate? Rather than representing people? Since China has been in the news lately...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did they think it was anti-Semitic that the Madoff Ponzi scheme went to court and to prison? Seems not. Israeli actions over past years have been a lot worse imho than a Ponzi scheme, which was bad. None of this badness has anything to do with true religion. Opportunism. Self-righteousness. Also,
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tangent in the news...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What if the troops protected the people from the government? Also,
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And were any US textile/clothing companies represented on the "top" mannequin-aspiring US figures? If the answer is no, MAGA will be fine with it.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ugly but related words...?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Probably needs updating and more but...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, that ugly observation where LBJ describes Southern political figures manipulating poor voters by stoking racial division to distract them from economic exploitation:
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also, re China, the view of a person we know in Ukraine....
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Motorcades haven't been dignity. Nor airplanes, uniforms, lapel pins. Dignity is in some behaviors. After seeing him off, to reward the person below with Head of the World Bank wasn't dignity. Precedents for today's in-dignities have registered silently in US culture and the world for 80 years:
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Almost sounds as though there might be accommodation for them here...
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not sure this is the same man. His wife seems to have the name as the female in the picture.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Kr... Interesting choice of new name.
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some Trump advisers point him toward the East India Company as a model....
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People who grew up with the values of the "dark triad" as normal in their everyday small behaviours can now play with a country's public money, military and credibility?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On their apparent admiration of the East India Company....
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82... Perhaps the person? Comments in other languages point to an elephant in the room--to the fact of living in a bubble of English? For most of us, how can it be good, clever, safe or just plain courteous for everyone to use our language while we can't use theirs?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thanks to the Trump regime, are US people discovering there have long been areas of the country where a "dark triad" (below) is cultivated as "smart" and as normal? Where people grow up with this triad and look down, sometimes with a sort of snort, on those who don't? From now on call the DT out?
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Summary below by AI. (Had a prof from India once whose books were published by Oxford University Press but who refused to fly a route that required him to change planes in the UK where he refused to set foot because of this. Born a Tamil Brahmin but also stood and lived opposed to caste.)
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rwhetsel.bsky.social @rwhetsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lying as the way to frustrate? Frustration as the official weapon of attack?
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