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Published May 6, 2012
Categorized as Art, Featured, Internet, Movies, Philosophy, Technology, TV Tagged Apple, Samuel L Jackson, Siri, Zooey Deschanel

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Schmitt in Cairo (cc @ibishblog)
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November 23, 2012
History, Politics, The ExceptionCarl Schmitt Egypt Hussein Ibish Mohammed Morsi Political Theology The Exception Weimar
Schmitt in Cairo (cc @ibishblog)
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November 23, 2012
History, Politics, The ExceptionCarl Schmitt Egypt Hussein Ibish Mohammed Morsi Political Theology The Exception Weimar

One could easily - the liberalist Twitterati have shown little hesitation on this one - compare Morsi's assumption of the right to rule by decree with acts by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, or a wide range of autocrats including Morsi's immediate predecessor. If inclined, however, to support or excuse Morsi, one might instead invoke Franklin Roosevelt after or even before the 1941 American Declarations of War, or Abraham Lincoln suspending the Constitution to save constitutional order: Each was called tyrant, traitor, dictator by his political enemies, even amidst undoubted states of emergency. Now they are, generally but not universally, called "great."

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Operation American Greatness
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November 4, 2016
Neo-Imperialism, notes, Operation American Greatness, Politics, WarAmerican Conservative Iraq NeoConservatism Trumpism
Operation American Greatness
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November 4, 2016
Neo-Imperialism, notes, Operation American Greatness, Politics, WarAmerican Conservative Iraq NeoConservatism Trumpism

Ironic how Trump apologists, especially certain types of "American Conservative" paleo-cons, self-styled republican constitutionalists, and diverse fellow travelers all the way extending to everyday "Deplorables" drunkenly hurling foul epithets at campaign reporters, have adopted a main strategic rationale of the despised Neocons and Globalists.

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And many nations shall join themselves to the Eternal in that day
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April 3, 2011
History, International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, Religional-Farabi al-Gahazali America Arab Middle East Buddhist Christian Enlightenment God Hegel Heidegger Hermann Cohen Hindu Ibn Rushd Israel Jew Kojève Moghuls Mongols Murder Muslim Nietzsche Nihilism Palestinianism Physics Post-Modernism prophecy Rosensweig Sikh Strauss Stupidity Sufi terrorism Theodicy United Nations World War Zechariah Zionism
And many nations shall join themselves to the Eternal in that day
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April 3, 2011
History, International Relations, Neo-Imperialism, Philosophy, Religional-Farabi al-Gahazali America Arab Middle East Buddhist Christian Enlightenment God Hegel Heidegger Hermann Cohen Hindu Ibn Rushd Israel Jew Kojève Moghuls Mongols Murder Muslim Nietzsche Nihilism Palestinianism Physics Post-Modernism prophecy Rosensweig Sikh Strauss Stupidity Sufi terrorism Theodicy United Nations World War Zechariah Zionism

There is no Christian, there is no Muslim, there is no American, there is no atheist, there is no Buddhist, there is no Hindu, there is no Sikh, there is no nihilist, there is no anyone else.

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Keith Spencer: …data shows that a centrist Democrat would be a losing candidate – Salon.com
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Political Philosophy, Politics2020 Election
Keith Spencer: …data shows that a centrist Democrat would be a losing candidate – Salon.com
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Political Philosophy, Politics2020 Election

TV pundits and op-ed writers of every major newspaper epitomize how the Democratic establishment has already reached a consensus: the 2020 nominee must be a centrist, a Joe Biden, Cory Booker or Kamala Harris–type, preferably. They say that Joe Biden should "run because [his] populist image fits the Democrats’ most successful political strategy of the past generation" (David Leonhardt, New York Times), and though Biden "would be far from an ideal president," he "looks most like the person who could beat Trump" (David Ignatius, Washington Post). Likewise, the same elite pundit class is working overtime to torpedo left-Democratic candidates like Sanders.

For someone who was not acquainted with Piketty's paper, the argument for a centrist Democrat might sound compelling. If the country has tilted to the right, should we elect a candidate closer to the middle than the fringe? If the electorate resembles a left-to-right line, and each voter has a bracketed range of acceptability in which they vote, this would make perfect sense. The only problem is that it doesn't work like that, as Piketty shows.

The reason is that nominating centrist Democrats who don't speak to class issues will result in a great swathe of voters simply not voting. Conversely, right-wing candidates who speak to class issues, but who do so by harnessing a false consciousness — i.e. blaming immigrants and minorities for capitalism's ills, rather than capitalists — will win those same voters who would have voted for a more class-conscious left candidate. Piketty calls this a "bifurcated" voting situation, meaning many voters will connect either with far-right xenophobic nationalists or left-egalitarian internationalists, but perhaps nothing in-between.

From: There is hard data that shows that a centrist Democrat would be a losing candidate | Salon.com

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Eli Zaretsky: Trump’s Charisma – LRB Blog
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Political Philosophy, Politics2020 Election
Eli Zaretsky: Trump’s Charisma – LRB Blog
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Political Philosophy, Politics2020 Election

Understanding Trump’s charisma offers important clues to understanding the problems that the Democrats need to address. Most important, the Democratic candidate must convey a sense that he or she will fulfil the promise of 2008: not piecemeal reform but a genuine, full-scale change in America’s way of thinking. It’s also crucial to recognise that, like Britain, America is at a turning point and must go in one direction or another. Finally, the candidate must speak to Americans’ sense of self-respect linked to social justice and inclusion. While Weber’s analysis of charisma arose from the German situation, it has special relevance to the United States of America, the first mass democracy, whose Constitution invented the institution of the presidency as a recognition of the indispensable role that unique individuals play in history.

From: Trump’s Charisma

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Matt Yglesias: Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying – Vox
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Matt Yglesias: Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying – Vox
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[E]ven Fox didn’t tout Bartiromo’s big scoops on Trump’s legislative agenda, because 10 months into the Trump presidency, nobody is so foolish as to believe that him saying, “We’re doing a big infrastructure bill,” means that the Trump administration is, in fact, doing a big infrastructure bill. The president just mouths off at turns ignorantly and dishonestly, and nobody pays much attention to it unless he says something unusually inflammatory.On some level, it’s a little bit funny. On another level, Puerto Rico is still languishing in the dark without power (and in many cases without safe drinking water) with no end in sight. Trump is less popular at this point in his administration than any previous president despite a generally benign economic climate, and shows no sign of changing course. Perhaps it will all work out for the best, and someday we’ll look back and chuckle about the time when we had a president who didn’t know anything about anything that was happening and could never be counted on to make coherent, factual statements on any subject. But traditionally, we haven’t elected presidents like that — for what have always seemed like pretty good reasons — and the risks of compounding disaster are still very much out there.

From: Trump’s latest big interview is both funny and terrifying - Vox

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  • 2012-12-22 7:56 am
    You know who else used to oversimplify history?
    bob

    The appeal of this sort of historical what ifs, time travel fictions and whatever permutations I've left out includes (certainly not limited to) a [...]

  • 2011-01-03 2:30 pm
    Almost Everyone vs. The Whole Thing
    CK MacLeod

    bob wrote:
    The multiplicity of Hegels alone should be proof enough for the existence of parallel universes.
    Parallel incomplete self-consistent universals. My Hegel describes the "revel." [...]

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    Child of Mog; Extraordinary Comments
    Vikram Bath

    I think Child of Mog is now my favorite of the various options now.

    I agree that experimenting with the live production site is generally bad [...]

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