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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

There is a lot that stays with me from that article, but one thing in particular stands out: how Tate describes being terrified of his father and how he respected that and later how he instilled that fear into his sons.

Andrew has described lying awake at night in terror. “I must have been the most awake child on earth,” he said in one video. “I was so afraid of the beatdown.” In his telling, this violence was an essential part of becoming a man. “I can’t wait to kick my kid’s ass if he gets fresh,” he has said.

The brothers sometimes visited, and Andrew has described meting out harsh discipline. “My kids obey me like fucking soldiers,” he said. On his orders, his five-year-old son would sit for hours in silence: “Doesn’t fucking move, doesn’t say a fucking word, because he’s scared for his fucking life.”

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Also noteworthy for how it documented the political and economic developments after the war - of which a part proved just as dangerously threatening to his life as the war.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

A haunting gutpunch, this one. Also go read his Showa series! A thorough testimony of an average (if unexceptionally lucky) life through Japan's fascist turn after an economic crisis and being swept up in the eventually disastrous war.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Iets, wel wat simpeler, waar je misschien ook in geïnteresseerd zou zijn is de strip *Logicomix*. Gaat ook over paradoxen, de limieten van de logica en waarin Gödel een kleine maar beslissende rol speelt met zijn theorie. Hoofdrolspelers: Bertrand Russel en Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Stripcover "Logicomix. Een epische zoektocht naar de waarheid." Je ziet Bertrand Russel tikken tegen een vallende rij dominostenen.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I laughed

Frankly, I’m choosing to consider myself still a virgin. It is a social construct, I know, but whatever just happened utterly failed to deconstruct it.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In andere woorden: het is de lokale integratie aan het onderuit halen en nog meer drempels aan het opwerpen.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

And it rightly concludes on that zionism can't be stopped by Palestinian subjugation or concession, but rather that Israelis surrender the ideal of Jewish supremacy which will always necessitate the ongoing of the colonization and genocide and rather work on to become true partners in the country.

Note that this process is not deterministic. While messianic Zionism seeks to block decolonization in Israel and Palestine, it doesn't make it impossible. Opponents of messianism have had several opportunities where they could have chosen a different path, but the price was that they would have to reinvent themselves as Israelis, and dismantle the regime of Jewish supremacy. Absent a willingness to make these changes, the door remains open to the impetuous spirit of Ginsburgh and his ilk.
If there is any chance of stopping the march toward a Spartan, outcast society, it lies in the rejection of the idea of Jewish supremacy and Judaization, even in the version currently accepted by secular Zionism. The alternative vision to suicidal messianism is a true, equal partnership between the river and the sea.
Shay Hazkani is a professor of history and Jewish studies at the University of Maryland. He is the author of "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War" (2021).
Tamir Sorek is a professor in the History Department of The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the book "The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad" (2020).

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

It explicitly compares it to other settler-colonial movements.

Some see the shock and anxiety that gripped the Israeli public in the wake of October 7 as the only explanation for this radicalization. But it seems the massacre only unleashed demons that had been nurtured for decades in the media and the legal and educational systems. Zionism, besides being a national movement, is also a movement of immigrant-settlers, seeking to displace the local population. Settler-immigrant societies always encounter indiscriminate violent resistance from indigenous groups. The desire for absolute and permanent security can lead to an aspiration to eliminate the resisting population. Therefore, virtually every settlement project has the potential for ethnic cleansing and genocide, as indeed happened in North America in the 17th through 19th centuries or in Namibia in the early 1900s.
To be sure, Ginzburg is not the cause of Israel's moral collapse. But the nationalist Haredi movement, with Ginsburgh as one of its most prominent leaders, offers Israelis a religious veneer for erasing Palestinian indigeneity. It provides a language and a plan of action for both observant and secular Israeli Jews who seek a
solution to the conflict that doesn't force them to cede the privileges granted by a regime of Jewish supremacy.
The use of biblical language to justify war crimes is likewise not a novelty of Zionism. Puritan settlers in America, Ireland and other places seized on the Bible and compared the indigenous populations who opposed them to Amalekites and Canaanites. They too resorted to ethnic cleansing and genocide against the natives.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Learning new words. Looking up "Lokesætt" only returned this very article, so was that one made up?

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

That is why we speak of "settler-colonialism". It is a colonialism that indeed sooner or later breaks away from the metropole, as Zionists did with the British to their chagrin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler...

A settler state is an autonomous or independent political entity established through settler colonialism by and for settlers. This occurs when a migrant settler society assumes a politically dominant position over the indigenous peoples and forms a self-sustaining state that operates independently of the metropole, the homeland of a colonial empire. Countries that have been described as settler states include the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and Taiwan, and formerly South Africa, Liberia, and Rhodesia.[

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The romantic desperation here made me tear up. Can't believe that would happen, reading ranked competitive breast growth. Well done.

"all of this—the glitter, the gold, the locking me inside a cage I’d never flee if you handed me the key—will be snatched away, when I again prove unable to give someone what they want from me."

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

According to the article, those were the lead authors:

The lead authors were Ch Supt Liz Hughes of Avon and Somerset police force; Det Supt Jon Holmes of Lancashire; DCS David Ashton of Durham; Ch Supt Fiona Bitters of Hampshire and Isle of Wight; Sonya Baylis, of the National Crime Agency; and DS Robert Simmons of Suffolk.

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Don't know about that. I am reminded of the quote attributed to Žižek (I can't find a source other than this tweet itself). If AI can do it, that may suggest the replaced activity was already quite robotic in the first place.

Picture of a tweet by the account @LuminanceBloom that contains the following words:

ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want

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Witnit @witnit.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Two quotes this reminded me of: 1) "Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world." - Disco Elysium 2)

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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