Diverging populisms - Emmanuel Todd


#politics #society #civilisation

I will start by explaining why the defeat of the West does not in itself surprise me, and why indeed I have anticipated it, and then I’ll try to say something about the areas where I am less certain and to formulate a few hypotheses. But please excuse my lack of certainty at this point. To offer any certainty at this point about what is going to happen would be enormously presumptuous, even a sign of insanity.


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Souverainetés nationales et divergence des populismes


#politique #société #civilisation

Je vais d’abord rapidement rappeler les thèses de mon livre qui m'ont donné le plaisir, je dois l'avouer, d'une prédiction réalisée avec une vitesse folle. Pour voir se réaliser ma prédiction sur l’effondrement du système soviétique, j'ai quand même dû attendre 15 ans. Dans le cas de la défaite militaire et économique des États-Unis, de l'Europe et de l'Ukraine face à la Russie, je n'ai eu à attendre qu’un an.


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in reply to Emmanuel Florac

@Salinger 3

en effet tu ne sembles pas voir qu il y a un gros problème à partager les idées rances de l extrême droite et complaisante avec celle ci.


Oui je sais, si Le Pen dit "il fait beau" et que je constate que le soleil brille, je dois absolument affirmer qu'il pleut pour éviter le déshonneur par association. Dans le même ordre d'idées, les humains sont des animaux mammifères sexués, il existe exactement deux sexes et pas un de plus, puisque des gens d'extrême-droite le disent c'est donc que je suis d'extrême-droite. De même, le jour où Le Pen aura l'idée de dire "il ne faut pas sauter par la fenêtre c'est très dangereux", tu te mettras à réfléchir à comment sauter par la fenêtre en défiant la gravité.

Eski ABD Suriye Özel Temsilcisi Jeffrey: Colani ile beraber çalışıyorduk, onları Esad'dan koruduk
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'Ukraine's best security guarantee is to be neutral and friendly' — Ex-DoD contractor odysee.com/Kevin_Michelizzi_in…

NASA has selected two more university student teams to help address real-world aviation challenges, through projects aimed at using drones for hurricane relief and improved protection of air traffic systems from cyber threats. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides student-led teams with opportunities to contribute their novel […]

Supposedly there is a multiple year back log on court cases for deciding if immigrants who did not do the proper paper work get assyylum and they can roam free

What if they were put in holding cells where they were protected but forced to do labour until the court date

If they had legitimate reason for assylum they should be happy that they are protected and well fed in holding cells

They can be in a giant farm with walls and grow their own food plus a little extra

Al-Qaeda affiliate claims 200 soldiers killed in Burkina Faso attack
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/al-qaeda-affiliate-claims-200-soldiers-killed-in-attack-in-burkina-faso?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Feeling good about the chapter I just wrote for “the novel I’m not allowed to talk about until it’s done” — I’ve been writing so much and pulling all the threads of the story together: it feels like maybe I really can complete this story.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by all the text. But right now I can see a light glinting at the end of the tunnel.

I imagine listening to the whole book and liking it. Thinking “that was a good story.”

That will be me someday! Maybe you to? maybe?

Florida becomes second state to ban fluoride in tap water under DeSantis-backed law
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ron-desantis-fluoride-ban-florida-water-2nd-state/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Takeaways from Supreme Court hearing on Trump's birthright citizenship order
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/takeaways-from-supreme-court-arguments-on-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Palestinian Resistance Committees: Anti-Israeli operation in Salfit was a strong response to crimes of Zionists parstoday.ir/en/news/daily_new…

US Supreme Court grills Trump administration over birthright citizenship
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/15/us-supreme-court-grills-trump-administration-over-birthright-citizenship?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Is it possible to manage Apple devices on Linux?


I have Linux Mint installed on my work PC. As I work with IT I am sometimes tasked with doing stuff like restoring Iphones and such, which is normally done through Itunes. But there's no Linux support for Itunes, and I haven't been able to install it through Wine. I also can't use a VM as my PC isn't powerful enough for it. I'm hoping there's a solution for this, as I will have to re-install Windows if I can't get it to work on Linux, and I really want to avoid that.
in reply to ssillyssadass

A few options

1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot.
2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well.
3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out ameliorated.io/
4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes.
5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier

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in reply to PlutoniumAcid

Absolutely, but OP will have to explain a bit to their boss why. Maybe we can help OP there?

Fuck that walled garden is not a business value added task so can we, as a community who cares how openness, translate that to C-suite MBA speech?

  • Apple devices are more expensive to manage (source? time from OP to do so? additional hardware?)
  • Apple devices are less compatible with software solution we use in the company (examples?)
  • Apple devices ...
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Lenin: No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself; but a revolution does not learn to defend itself at once. The revolution has awakened millions to a new life. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


Musician mutuals! I need one more thing to cover for this week's Other People's Music, so if you have a release you'd like to get more ears on (and have never submitted before), send me a DM.

Here's a link explaining the very few requirements:

etherdiver.com/2024/04/04/opm-…

To that I have since added two things:

1) NO AI of any kind. Not in the art, not to write lyrics, nada. If you mess with that stuff, don't submit to me, please.

2) Everything has to be on one release, for logistical reasons.

in reply to Ether Diver

We have two more singles off our upcoming album that you haven't gotten to yet: Halken is a lilting kind of dance tune that is surprisingly straightforward for being us (which might not be saying much), while Grössjön is more of a journey, representing the different seasons of a forest where our bassist used to play as a child:

Halken: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…

Grössjön: ryamusicumea.bandcamp.com/trac…

The O’Keefe Media Group on Thursday released never-before-seen footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Island library.

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Live: Israel kills at least 115 in Gaza as Palestinians commemorate Nakba
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NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In the dark before dawn, the rover’s left navigation camera used its maximum long-exposure time of 3.28 seconds for […]

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov: Warsaw as the capital of the Polish state no longer exits. No one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government. The population of Poland have been abandoned by their ill-starred leaders to their fate. The Polish state and its government have virtually ceased to exist. In view of this state of affairs, treaties concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland have ceased to operate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


Georgetown Academic Freed from Immigration Detention Following Judge’s Ruling #Palestine qudsnen.co/georgetown-academic…

In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.

#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.

Information is power, knowledge is power.

Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.

#digitalrights #openknowledge #opendata #privacy

Ed Martin at the DOJ is launching an investigation into the autopen pardons issued at the last minute before bidan left office.

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's outsized influence on #NASA over four decades is undisputed, but some of us in the #SpaceCommunity are concerned this may not be a feature 👎. Senator #Nelson’s imprint on the #SpaceProgram has led to grand pronouncements based on #unrealistic industry estimates, multibillion-dollar 💰 #cost overruns, years of schedule #delays and unmet expectations 😠 scientificamerican.com/article…

#SpacePolitics #PorkBarrel

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📆 May 02, 2025

• Increased commitment to human 👨‍🚀 space exploration, introducing $1 billion in new investments for #Mars 🔴-focused programs.
• The #SLS rocket and #Orion capsule will be retired after #Artemis III. The budget also ends the #Gateway Program 💀
• #ISS replacement in 📆 2030

nasa.gov/news-release/presiden…

#NASA #SpacePolitics #HumanSpaceflight

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The #Mars 🔴 Sample Return mission will be achieved by #human 👩‍🚀 missions to Mars. "Crew and cargo flights to the #ISS would be significantly reduced 📉. The station’s reduced research capacity would be focused on efforts critical to the #Moon and Mars exploration programs." arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/…

#Artemis #SLS #Orion

in reply to Spaceflight 🚀

It is not easy to turn a big #bureaucracy, and there will undoubtedly be friction and pain points. But the opportunity here is enticing: #NASA should not be competing with things that private industry is already doing better, such as launching big rockets. Rather, it should find difficult research and development projects at the edge of the possible. arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/…

#SLS #Artemis

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The incoming Trump administration will certainly keep #NASA's goal of landing people on the Moon, but without the budgetary 💰 burden of the #SLS rocket. arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/…
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Prof Logsdon* expects big changes under #Trump, Mr #Musk and Mr #Isaacman: scrapping programmes, closing NASA centres and more contracting out to #SpaceX, #BlueOrigin and other private sector firms. "There is a delicate balance between the interests of #NASA, #Congress and the #WhiteHouse."

Mr Isaacman has called the #SLS "outrageously expensive" and said that the major aerospace contractors are "incentivised to be economically #inefficient". bbc.com/news/articles/cn93797z…

* planetary.org/profiles/jon-log…

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“Years ago it would have seemed like a moon shot for #China 🇨🇳 to become a world leader in lunar research, but now it’s actually happening”

• #DORN will be the first #French 🇫🇷 scientific device on the #moon
• #NILS was built by #Sweden 🇸🇪 scientists with support from #ESA
• A laser retroflector from #Italy 🇮🇹 and #Pakistan🇵🇰 will separate from the orbiter and carry out imaging and other tasks in the lunar orbit
scmp.com/news/china/science/ar…

#ChangE6

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#China's 🇨🇳 lunar program appears to be in the lead. It is difficult to argue about the string of successes with the Chang'e lunar program and the unprecedented landing on the far side of the #Moon 🌙. Larger human landers built by #SpaceX and #BlueOrigin will open up a highway 🛣️ to the Moon the likes of which could only be dreamed of during the #Apollo era arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/…

#CNSA #NASA

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A #satellite 🛰️ developed by #China 🇨🇳 and #France 🇫🇷, the most powerful 💪 yet for studying the farthest explosions of stars 🎇, was launched into orbit on Saturday. China’s advances 📈 in space and lunar exploration are rapidly outpacing those of the #US, attracting partners from #European and #Asian countries as a result bangkokpost.com/world/2815780/…

Last year, I tried to help #Librem5 users to have a better experience when using #flatpak apps by not wasting space due to an outdated, buggy release of flatpak.

Today, I've added something else that should help on every distribution to that same post: Avoiding translations you don't need.

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#LinuxMobile

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Belarusian food exports to Russia up by 9.7% in Q1 2025 eng.belta.by/economics/view/be…
in reply to Emmanuel Florac

La fierté de savoir manier une machine qui effectue une tache ne compense pas la perte se savoir faire par rapport à cette tache.
Je sais placer une plaque de métal dans une presse et actionner la presse qui forme une casserole. C'est certes un savoir-faire. Mais on a perdu celui du maniement du marteau pour effectuer la même tache. C'est une perte de savoir-faire technique, qui a été remplacé par un autre, moins exigeant. C'est ça une prolétarisation.
Et ça fonctionne pour tous les métiers, que ce soit ouvrier, cadre, médecin, etc.
(J'essaye de ne pas parler de classe parce que, si les classes sont encore pertinentes, la prolétarisation les touche toutes)
in reply to Emmanuel Florac

j'ai perdu la connaissance de faire du feu sans allumettes, briquets et autres objets allume feu, je suis donc prolétarisé par rapport à un homme des cavernes ?
la Prolétarisation est une manière de voir par les forces capitalistes pour séparer les Prolétaires de leur classe !
et c'est bien de classe qu'il faut parler parce que si on oublie la lutte de classe on devient comme les Socialistes des collabos des forces capitalistes
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Cueboner

no
bruh
they call cock asians cuz theys wuz tha roosters tha bull okay
an Yakub used them to breed wif tha tha uh asian women
that why they all lite skin see
but tha roosters ran away
they fled tha coop
nomsayin
okay

cock asians an asians really ONE race
an we used to rule them
we wuz they shepherds

peermids wuz they coop okay