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What It’s Like To Have Your Anti-Trump Art Go Mega-Viral – Co.Design

So, does Mitchell make any money on the work, which has been shared so many times? He uploaded a high-res image of the symbol and granted permission for anyone to use it personally for free. But for those who want to support his work or simply want something readymade, you can also buy T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and journals emblazoned with the symbol through Threadless.“I really just want to spread the image as much as possible and cement it in history,” Mitchell says. “In all honesty, the amount I’ve made from my Threadless shop so far is still less than my hourly rate, so I don’t really see it as a big deal. If you look at my Twitter, half the replies are people wanting to know where they can buy a shirt. Threadless is happy to help them out with that, and so I’m happy to let that happen.”Now that the symbol has flooded our streets and our timelines, Mitchell just has one request: “Impeach this idiot already,” he says.

From: What It’s Like To Have Your Anti-Trump Art Go Mega-Viral

Steven Pearlstein: Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president – The Washington Post

Steven Pearlstein: Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president – The Washington Post

From: Mark this date: Donald Trump is now a lame-duck president - The Washington Post

This is a Waterloo moment for Trump, the tea party and their alliance. They have been stopped in their tracks not only by Democratic opposition but because of a mutiny within their own ranks. Although never particularly liked or respected, it is now clear that they are no longer feared. The bankruptcy of their ideas and their incompetence have been exposed. Their momentum has been dissipated. Their rejection of political norms has itself been scorned. Our long national nightmare may finally be coming to an end.

Jonathan Freedland: With Trump it’s time to go beyond mere disgust – The Guardian

Jonathan Freedland: With Trump it’s time to go beyond mere disgust – The Guardian

From: With Trump it’s time to go beyond mere disgust | Jonathan Freedland | Opinion | The Guardian

One seasoned Democrat told me that among the reasons Trump won in 2016 was that a long year of Crooked Hillary talk, about emails and Goldman Sachs and the like, had steadily demoralised and demobilised the liberal base. If sustaining fury at Trump helps keep those same voters energised, so they eventually turn out to defeat him, it’ll be worth it, he says.
But it can’t just be in the form of world-weary, if witty, tweets. What’s needed is a coherent argument, one that explains why Trump’s repulsive behaviour matters. For Americans, that will surely centre on the state of their society. The civic realm is being degraded by Trump’s lies, vanities and insults. The national conversation is being coarsened. The basic democratic assumption, that disagreements can be resolved through discussion rather than coercion and violence, is being eroded from the very top. Note the language of Scaramucci’s outburst: “I want to fucking kill all the leakers.”

Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress

+ BTW, I recently upgraded some this and that on the back end of the blog, and it does seem to make comments post much faster [. . .]

2017-07-22 16:00:39

to bob

CK MacLeod

For WordPress self-hosted people, there is already a "restore legacy editor" plugin, even though Gutenberg hasn't been installed yet as the default.

Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress

2017-07-22 15:57:27

to bob

CK MacLeod

+ I thought you were on WordPress.com, not self-hosted WordPress. I can't find any info on WordPress.com and Gutenberg or Gutenbergerish editing, so I don't know [. . .]

Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress

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2015-05-23 9:49 am
They also blog who only sit and comment… (Commentariat 2)
trumwill
These changes look like they will be fantastic. I already like the ability to go further back. When might we see the lower-left icons?
2011-01-04 11:51 am
Almost Everyone vs. The Whole Thing
CK MacLeod
Scott Miller wrote:
It is destructive, not comforting.
...destructive sometimes to what we think we are or prefer to think we are, and to the goals [...]
2015-02-01 12:02 am
To Wade McKenzie
“A” rarely if ever equals “A” only
CK MacLeod
I think I still have a copy of I and D in my book boxes, and haven't looked at it in a very long time, [...]

Comment at American Creation on Strauss and the Problem of Belief

Comment at American Creation on Strauss and the Problem of Belief

May 6, 2016

Anismism, notes, Philosophy

May 6, 2016

Anismism, notes, Philosophy

A remark about philosophers is not the same thing as a philosophical remark, and considering it philosophically is different from considering it in terms of, say, intellectual history.

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Voegelin’s Gnosis, Part 3: Anismism

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August 2, 2015

Anismism, History, Philosophy, ReligionAnismism Eric Voegelin Hegel Voegelin's Gnosis

Voegelin’s Gnosis, Part 3: Anismism

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August 2, 2015

Anismism, History, Philosophy, ReligionAnismism Eric Voegelin Hegel Voegelin's Gnosis

The point at which the insight or observation of or insistence upon an "anism" or anti-gnosis converts into just another gnosis would be the central problem of anismism, the problem of anismism to itself, already foretold in the paradox of its name and the temptation to start tacking additional "isms" onto it: Anismismism would be very bad anismism as well as a bad joke, the false idol of the return to anism or the image of that return or the discourse of images of that return, and so on, rather than as the actual return to the anismic real.

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Terminator Antichrist (drone as symbol)

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February 11, 2013

Drone as Symbol, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, WarDrones Liberalism UAVs

Terminator Antichrist (drone as symbol)

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February 11, 2013

Drone as Symbol, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, WarDrones Liberalism UAVs

The Drones as symbol refer us to a tyrannical, imperial, not merely mechanical but super-biological or super-organic, invulnerable, temporally and geographically unbounded, and most of all cruelly lethal power that has already annihilated the human being ideally before it sends its "Hellfire" missile at him to finish the job, while also morally annihilating the distant human pilots and their masters, the latter group eventually including all of us who benefit or who possess a moral share in the program as citizens of a democratic republic.

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