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Trump's day-one Executive Order blitz contained a *lot* of weird, fucked-up shit, but for me, the most telling (though not the most important) was the decision to defund all medical research whose grant applications contained the word "systemic":
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Now, this is an objectively very stupid thing to so. As someone with a recent cancer diagnosis whose illness is still "localized" - and who will need a lot more intensive care should his cancer become "systemic" - I would very much like my government to continue to fund systemic research.
But of course, Trump wasn't intentionally killing research on systemic forms of cancer. Rather, he was indifferent to the collateral damage to this kind of research that arose in the pursuit of his *real* target, which is killing systemic explanations for *social* phenomena.
This is absolutely in keeping with neoliberal dogma, best expressed in Margaret Thatcher's notorious claim that "there is no such thing as society."
In neoliberalism, we are all atomized individuals, members of *homo economicus*, driven to maximize our personal utility. All acts of seeming generosity are actually secretly selfish: you only tell your partner you love them because you hope it will make them fuck you and/or take care of you when you get sick; you only give alms to the poor in order to seem virtuous before people who can steer profitable business your way.
You donate to cancer research as an insurance policy against your own eventual sickness.
This selfishness is a feature, not a bug. It's only by pursuing our selfish utility-maximization that we allow the market - a giant, distributed computer - to correctly assess who should be given the power to allocate capital and direct the activities of the lesser among us.
When the invisible hand helps these born monarchs to pull capitalism's sword out of the market's stone, they are elevated to the position of power they were destined to hold, from which they can maximize all our social and material progress.
The project of neoliberal economics is to transform the social science of economics into a "hard science" grounded in empirical, mathematical proofs.
Economism is a political philosophy that says that human society should only be considered through a lens of mathematical models. As such, it vaporizes all factors that can't be readily quantized and represented in a model:
Last summer, the pandemic was in its first wave and the nation was in chaos. A lack of federal leadership left each state to figure out how to interpret the science, and many states punted public h…
If you offer to buy a kidney from me and I agree to sell you that kidney, then we have arrived at a mutually satisfactory, voluntary arrangement in which the state should not intervene. Never mind that all the people who sell their kidneys are poor and desperate and all the people who buy the kidneys are rich and powerful. After all, can we really ever be sure that someone *feels* "powerful" or "desperate"?
This is an extremely convenient political philosophy if you happen to be in the market for a kidney, or for that matter, if you want to buy the labor or bodies of any kind of worker for any kind of use.
It's a great philosophy if you never want to bargain with a union, because the union is interfering with the "voluntary" transactions between workers and their bosses, and the glittering equations (operating in a Cartesian realm with no room for "power" or other squishy factors) prove that this is "market distorting."
It's also an extremely convenient political philosophy if you are getting rich by stealing from people, or even murdering them.
If you offer me a payday loan with a ten heptillion percent APR and I accept it, that's voluntary, it's the market, and there's absolutely no reason for anyone to pass comment on the fact that 100% of the people who take those loans are poor and 100% of the people who originate them are rich:
Likewise, if you're enjoying a wildly profitable monopoly, this philosophy acts as antitrust repellent: "if people didn't prefer my monopoly business practices, they'd shop elsewhere":
It's great news if you want to destroy the planet with immortal, infinitely toxic plastic packaging, because it lets you claim that the only problem with plastics is "littering" (irresponsible individuals) and not your products:
President Biden’s July 9 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy is a highly technical, 72-part, fine-grained memo on how to address the ways market concentration harms our lives as workers, citizens, consumers, and beyond.
It's fantastic news if you're one of a few very large fossil fuel companies who are rendering the only planet in the known universe that's capable of sustaining human life uninhabitable, because it lets you blame the problem on our individual "carbon footprints" (not your depraved greed):
This is a philosophy that is violently allergic to systemic analysis. It *must* reduce everything to a set of individual choices, taken in a power-free vacuum: to litter, to labor, to borrow, to shop. Its adherents are so saturated in this ideology that they can't even see that it *is* an ideology.
Think of Noam Chomsky's interview with Andrew Marr:
> Marr: How can you know I’m self-censoring?
> Chomsky: I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.
A systemic view challenges everything about the neoliberal mindset. In 2011, the streets of Hackney (and beyond) erupted in an uprising of protest, which included some looting and arson, though the vast majority of mobilization was of marching and shouting protesters outraged at the murder of a Black man by London police.
In response, then-Prime Minister David Cameron declared all systemic explanations for the uprising to be off-limits, calling it "criminality, pure and simple":
"Criminality, pure and simple" has *zero* explanatory power. Where did this "criminality" come from? Why did it spike on these days? What happened to it after the uprising was crushed by police? Did it go away?
Is it festering in the hearts of Britons up and down the country, awaiting some inaudible signal before detonating again?
How frightening it must be to believe in a world without systemic explanations! It's a world where inexplicable spirits sweep across the land, engendering population-scale effects that are the result of millions of people making voluntary, individual decisions, disconnected from any kind of social phenomena.
It must be terrifying, like living in a world secretly governed by demons or witches.
It's the world of the conspiracy fantasist.
Yesterday, I wrote about the role that the conspiratorial wing of the Trump coalition is playing in keeping the Epstein story alive, and the danger this poses to Trump:
As well they should be! Elite sex predators get away with all kinds of crimes - not just Epstein, but the whole universe of powerful men, from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump, who systematically abused women for decades and got away with it - bragged about it, even!
But despite these very real abusers, the conspiracists in the Trump base are mostly concerned with *imaginary* abusers - Qanon's shadowy cabal of adrenochrome-guzzling pedophiles, tirelessly freighting trafficked children from one nonexistent pizza parlor basement to the next, packed inside of very mid Wayfair home furnishings:
It's the world in which real suffering children (kids in cages, children rotting in Alligator Auschwitz, kids working the night-shift at a meat-packing plant) don't matter at all, while imaginary children (unborn children, Qanon victims, etc) take center stage.
Indeed, one of the strangest things about the Epstein case is that it's the rare instance in which right-wing conspiratorialists care about *actual* people, rather than imaginary ones.
The mirror-world dominates right-wing politics. It's a world in which systemic problems don't exist, because it's a world in which systemic power doesn't exist. It's a world where individual rich people with evil in their heart are to blame for our problems, not a world where a system of impunity for the powerful allows rich people to get away with hurting us.
This is why they call antisemitism "the socialism of fools." An antisemite blames their problems on a cabal of Jewish bankers, rather than the dominance of the political system by finance capital.
In response to yesterday's post, reader Garvin Jabusch wrote to say, "your phrase 'blame systemic problems on individuals' does a fantastic job of crystallizing how I feel about the BP-invented concept of the carbon footprint."
This is exactly right, and it's an important connection I'd never drawn before myself. Because while conspiracies have run rampant since time immemorial, the modern conspiracist is a conservative, trapped in the mirror-world:
Conspiracism - like neoliberalism - insists that the world runs on individual virtue and wickedness, not the systemic properties that make it easier or harder (or impossible) to do the right thing.
This is why Donald Trump banned the word "systemic." To any objective observer, it is plain that Donald Trump is an effect, not a cause.
He's too stupid and impulsive to do anything except fill the Donald Trump-shaped hole in our politics, after 40 years of Democrat/Republican consensus that "there is no such thing as society" and insistence that every social problem is the result of a "distorted market" and can only be worsened by state intervention.
Both neoliberalism and conspiracism insist that the world is run by great men, not by social forces. By denying that anything can be "systemic," Trump can deny that *he* is systemic, merely a conveniently shaped monster suited to our monstrous times.
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... in the sense that if we just change the coordinate system, the centripetal force disappears or is de-emphasised and a new force (centrifugal) appears.
For "centripetal", read "systemic power structures" and for "centrifugal", read something like "personal economic motives"
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🇬🇧 "Tú" is a passionate and heartfelt ballad that showcases Shakira's incredible vocal range and emotional depth. Released on November 5, 2002, as part of the album "Grandes Éxitos," this live performance captures the essence of love and devotion, making it a cherished piece in her discography.
🇪🇸 "Tú" es una balada apasionada y conmovedora que muestra el increíble rango vocal y la profundidad emocional de Shakira. Lanzada el 5 de noviembre de 2002, como parte del álbum "Grandes Éxitos," esta actuación en vivo captura la esencia del amor y la devoción, convirtiéndola en una pieza apreciada en su discografía.
At the time of the song's release, Shakira was 25 years old.
🎵 L Y R I C S / L E T R A S🎵: Te regalo mi cintura Y mis labios para cuando quieras besar, ah-ah Te regalo mi locura, ah, ah-ah Y las pocas neuronas que quedan ya
Mis zapatos desteñidos El diario en el que escribo Te doy hasta mis suspiros Pero no te vayas más
Porque eres tú mi sol La fe con que vivo La potencia de mi voz Los pies con que camino
Eres tú, amor Mis ganas de reír El adiós que no sabré decir Porque nunca podré vivir, sin ti
Si algún día decidieras Alejarte nuevamente de aquí, ah-ah Cerraría cada puerta, ah, ah-ah Para que nunca pudieras salir
Te regalo mis silencios Te regalo mi nariz Yo te doy hasta mis huesos Pero quédate aquí
Porque eres tú mi sol La fe con que vivo La potencia de mi voz Los pies con que camino
Eres tú, amor Mis ganas de reír El adiós que no sabré decir Porque nunca podré vivir
Sin ti
Album Artist: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll Album(s): Grandes Éxitos Written by: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, Dillon O'brian Music genre(s): Latin Pop, Ballad Released: 2002 Decade for first release: #2000sMusic
markdown 🇬🇧 Shakira's live performance of "Tú" is simply mesmerizing! Her voice is powerful and emotional, capturing the essence of the song beautifully. The energy in the room is palpable, and you can feel the connection she has with her audience. Shakira truly knows how to deliver a stunning performance that resonates with fans.
What do you all think of this live version? What are your favourite moments? Let's get a discussion going!
🇪🇸 La actuación en vivo de Shakira de "Tú" es simplemente hipnotizante. Su voz es poderosa y emocional, capturando la esencia de la canción de manera hermosa. La energía en la sala es palpable, y se puede sentir la conexión que tiene con su audiencia. Shakira realmente sabe cómo ofrecer una actuación impresionante que resuena con los fans.
¿Qué opinan ustedes de esta versión en vivo? ¿Cuáles son sus momentos favoritos? ¡Vamos a iniciar una discusión!
Pièce interactive en forme de conférence sociologique : pourquoi les Kévin (Ryan, Jordan, Dylan) sont si mauvais à l'école ? Vraiment excellente heure de vulgarisation sur les déterminations et la #fabriqueDuCrétn et l'#EnseignementDelIgnorance.
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"Το περιστατικό κορυφώθηκε όταν υπάλληλος του καταστήματος δέχθηκε ειρωνικά σχόλια και προσβλητική μεταχείριση εντός του καταστήματος από μέλη οικογένειας Ισραηλινών επισκεπτών. Ένας νεαρός την αποκάλεσε με χλευασμό "supporter", αφήνοντας σαφή υπονοούμενα για την πολιτική της στάση, ενώ λίγο αργότερα η μητέρα του φέρεται να την σταμάτησε στον δρόμο για να την φωτογραφίσει και να της απευθύνει ειρωνική φράση, γεγονός που θεωρήθηκε ως σαφής απόπειρα εκφοβισμού. Η επιχείρηση εξέδωσε σχετική ανακοίνωση, δηλώνοντας ότι η ασφάλεια της εργαζόμενης είναι αδιαπραγμάτευτη και πως δεν θα γίνει ανεκτή καμία μορφή επιθετικής συμπεριφοράς προς το προσωπικό."
Ισραηλινοί κατηγορούνται για πιέσεις, προσβολές και αρνητικές κριτικές σε βάρος καταστημάτων του Πλωμαρίου που πήραν δημόσια θέση για τα γεγονότα στη Γάζα
Ένας από τους σιωνιστές που στοχοποίησαν επιχείρηση αλληλέγγυα στην Παλαιστίνη, έχει ανακηρυχθεί "ευεργέτης" από τις τοπικούς αιρετούς της αυτοδιοίκησης στο Πλωμάρι.
L'histoire de Jack l'éventreur, centrée sur les victimes. Humour balourd, mise en scène assez bonne, discours convenu vaguement féministe. Sans intérêt.
Οι τουριστες ειναι ανωτεροι ανθρωποι. Οφειλετε να το καταλαβετε αυτο και να σκυψετε ταπεινα το κεφαλι. Ο Ισραηλινος τουριστας που βιαζει το παιδι σου γιατι του θυμισε ενα παιδακι στη Γαζα εχει δικιο. Νιωθει νόστο. Αυτος που σου κατεδαφισε το τζαμι επειδη ειχες την παλαιστινιακη σημαια εκει, εχει δικιο. Δε μπορει το Ισραηλ να υπερασπιστει τον εαυτο του; Ενω εσυ ποιος εισαι; Ενας απλος ραγιας που του επιτρεπουμε ως τουριστες να νιωθει ανωτερος. Οχι ομως ανωτερος και απ' τα αφεντικα του; Καταλαβες;
Très bons acteurs, bonne mise en scène et... pièce mal écrite, qui change de sujet au milieu : d'abord la relation père-fils, les difficultés des relations familiales; puis soudain, ça devient politique (le fils est facho qui chasse les migrants) en perdant toute cohérence (depuis quand les fachos violents qui font des ratonnades sont des mangeurs de quinoa écolos ?). Dommage.
Acquaintance of mine adopted a kitten but her senior cat (female) keeps attacking him. She was about to take him back to the Humane Society. I agreed to foster him for a few days to see if Momo (my senior male) accepts him. If so I will adopt the newcomer.
It’s been a while since I’ve interacted with a kitten and good lord he’s got a lot of energy. I adopted all my other cats as adults. Young adult cats have more than enough energy for me; this little guy is bonkers.
I believe it is now possible, by watching a modern movie, to identify the psychological diagnosis of the writers and what prescription drugs they are on.
Comment le chanteur HK (Ministère des Affaires Populaires, HK et les saltimbanks) a été formé par Brel. Beau, émouvant, et très belles interprétations des chansons du grand Jacques. À ne pas manquer.
🇬🇧 "Hay Amores" is a heartfelt ballad that beautifully captures the essence of love and longing. Released in 2008 as part of the soundtrack for "Love In The Time Of Cholera," this track showcases Shakira's emotive vocals and poetic lyrics, making it a timeless piece that resonates with listeners.
🇪🇸 "Hay Amores" es una balada conmovedora que captura maravillosamente la esencia del amor y el anhelo. Lanzada en 2008 como parte de la banda sonora de "El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera," esta pista muestra las emotivas voces de Shakira y sus letras poéticas, convirtiéndola en una pieza atemporal que resuena con los oyentes.
At the time of the song's release, Shakira was 31 years old.
🎵 L Y R I C S / L E T R A S🎵: Ay mi bien, que no hara yo por ti Por tenerte un segundo, alejados del mundo y cerquita de m Ay mi bien, como el ro Magdalena Que se funde en la arena del mar, quiero fundirme yo en ti
Hay amores que se vuelven resistentes a los daos Como el vino que mejora con los aos As crece lo que siento yo por ti
Hay amores que se esperan al invierno y florecen Y en las noches del otoo reverdecen Tal como el amor que siento yo por ti
Ay mi bien, no te olvides del mar Que en las noches me ha visto llorar, tantos recuerdos de ti Ay mi bien, no te olvides del da Que separ en tu vida de la pobre vida que me toc vivir
Hay amores que se vuelven resistentes a los daos Como el vino que mejora con los aos As crece lo que siento yo por ti
Hay amores que parece que se acaban y florecen Y en las noches del otoo reverdecen Tal como el amor que siento yo por ti Yo por ti, por ti, como el amor que siento yo por ti
Official HD Video "Hay Amores" by Shakira
Album Artist: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll Album(s): Love In The Time Of Cholera Written by: Shakira Mebarak, Antonio Pinto Music genre(s): Latin Pop, Ballad Released: 2008 Decade for first release: #2000sMusic
🇬🇧 Shakira's "Hay Amores" is a beautiful testament to her artistry! The emotion she conveys in this song is truly captivating, and the visuals are stunning. Shakira looks absolutely radiant, and her voice carries so much depth and feeling. This track really showcases her talent and ability to connect with her audience on a personal level.
What do you all think of the video? What are your favourite moments? Let's get a discussion going!
🇪🇸 "Hay Amores" de Shakira es un hermoso testimonio de su arte. La emoción que transmite en esta canción es realmente cautivadora, y los visuales son impresionantes. Shakira se ve absolutamente radiante, y su voz tiene tanta profundidad y sentimiento. Esta canción realmente muestra su talento y su capacidad para conectar con su audiencia a un nivel personal.
¿Qué opinan ustedes del video? ¿Cuáles son sus momentos favoritos? ¡Vamos a iniciar una discusión!
Le genre d'immeubles aux murs poudreux du XVIe siècle qu'on ne voit qu'ici, ou bien à Naples ou à Rome... l'intérieur est à l'avenant. Et la vue de la fenêtre. Voilà le genre de lieux intéressants où on peut loger intra muros 😀
Un spectacle assez bien fait, qui tombe dans le travers de beaucoup de pièces : changer de sujet au milieu. La première heure est très bien, la deuxième on se fait chier, parce que l'histoire change complètement et qu'on s'en fout. Apparemment on peut écrire des pièces de théâtre sans avoir lu le "Discours" de Corneille, et c'est une erreur 😀
"Te Felicito," featuring the talented Rauw Alejandro, is a vibrant celebration of love and empowerment. Released in 2022, this track combines Shakira's captivating vocals with Rauw Alejandro's smooth style, creating a catchy and uplifting anthem that resonates with fans worldwide.
"Te Felicito," con el talentoso Rauw Alejandro, es una vibrante celebración del amor y el empoderamiento. Lanzada en 2022, esta pista combina las cautivadoras voces de Shakira con el estilo suave de Rauw Alejandro, creando un himno pegajoso y edificante que resuena con los fans de todo el mundo.
At the time of the song's release, Shakira was 45 years old.
🎵 L Y R I C S / L E T R A S🎵: Por completarte me rompí en pedazos Me lo advirtieron, pero no hice caso Me di cuenta que lo tuyo es falso Fue la gota que rebalsó el vaso
[Pre-Coro: Shakira] No me digas que lo sientes Eso parece sincero, pero te conozco bien y sé que mientes
[Coro: Shakira] Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa
Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas
[Verso 1: Shakira] Esa filosofía barata no la compro Lo siento, en esa moto ya no me monto La gente de dos caras no la soporto Yo que ponía las manos al fuego por ti Y me tratas como una más de tus antojos Tu herida no me abrió la piel, pero sí los ojos
Los tengo rojos de tanto llorar por ti
[Pre-Coro: Shakira] Y ahora resulta que lo sientes Suena sincero, pero te conozco bien y sé que mientes
[Coro: Rauw Alejandro & Shakira] Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa
Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas (Ey, dice, Ra-Rauw)
[Verso 2: Rauw Alejandro] Hablándote claro, no te necesito (Yeah) Perdiste a alguien auténtico (Ah) Algo me decía por qué no fluiamo' (¡Wuh!) Te va a picar cuando recuerde’ cómo nos comíamo' (¡Yah!) Como ante' (Ey) Tú de espalda apoyándote del volante (Ey) Quemando el tranquilizante No te bloqueé de las rede' pa' que vea' la otra en la Mercede' (¡Yah!)
[Puente: Shakira] No me cuente’ más historia’, no quiero saber Cómo es que he sido tan ciega y no he podido ver Te deberían dar un Oscar, lo has hecho tan bien
[Coro: Shakira & Rauw Alejandro] Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas De eso no me cabe duda Con tu papel continúa Te queda bien ese show Te felicito, qué bien actúas
Album Artist: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, Rauw Alejandro Album(s): Te Felicito Written by: Shakira Mebarak, Andres Uribe Marin, Andres Mauricio Acosta Echeverri, Kevyn Mauricio Cruz Moreno, Raul Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, Lenin Yorney Palacios Machado, Alberto Melendez, Santiago Munera Penagos Music genre(s): Reggaeton, Pop Released: 2022 Decade for first release: #2020sMusic
🇬🇧 Shakira and Rauw Alejandro have truly delivered with "Te Felicito"! The chemistry between them is electric, and Shakira looks absolutely stunning throughout the video. Her confidence and style shine, making her a true icon. The catchy beat and vibrant visuals make this song a must-watch!
What do you all think? What are your favourite moments from the video? Let's get a discussion going!
🇪🇸 ¡Shakira y Rauw Alejandro realmente lo han logrado con "Te Felicito"! La química entre ellos es eléctrica, y Shakira se ve absolutamente impresionante a lo largo del video. Su confianza y estilo brillan, convirtiéndola en una verdadera ícono. ¡El ritmo pegajoso y los visuales vibrantes hacen de esta canción un imperdible!
¿Qué piensan ustedes? ¿Cuáles son sus momentos favoritos del video? ¡Vamos a iniciar una discusión!
May one day justice come for those who arrest Palestine Action supporters whilst letting the genocide go on and on. May future children be taught in schools how crazy and wrong this was. That seeing these headlines together is our actual reality! #Gaza
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Join Vietnam veteran Eric Hollenbeck as he recounts a gripping yet humorous story from his time with the 101st Airborne in the Vietnam War. In this episode of Tales from the Ox, Eric shares a chaotic jungle firefight where a surprising moment of humor—sparked by a "girly throw" of grenades—brought light to the darkest moments. Discover ...
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Épisodes de la vie de Joseph Kessel, Maurice Druon et Germaine Sablon les menant à la création du "chant des partisans". Bonne mise en scène, excellents acteurs, bonne chanteuse interprétant Germaine Sablon. Très grosse erreur de fin : ils ne font pas chanter le public !
it's just crazy how fast technology is advancing now. it may not be apparent unless you grew up in my generation watching the early development of computers happen
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People didn't like it when I told the truth of how to save Ukraine years ago. They should have removed him by force before he could kill off the entire male population and sell off women and children. Well, here we are.
Belle mise en scène d'Éric Bouvron, le texte par contre... C'est vraiment un peu trop vulgaire à mon goût, et américanisé. Trois trucs qui m'ont insupporté : les armées romaines dans la pièce ont des "divisions" et pas des légions, sérieusement ? Les Égyptiens s'écrivent des lettre sur des "parchemins" et pas des papyrus, sérieusement ? Et coup de grâce, le général qui s'appelle "Maximus", nom bidon qui n'a rien de romain et n'existe que dans certains très mauvais films américains...
What language was that he was spewing? The only word I understood from whatever he was yapping on about was "nigger", but honestly, I couldn't agree more. If he survives puberty it will be a miracle. If he doesn't, society will be better off.
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For many months we see Palestinians starving. So, unfortunately, we see this kind of footage around. todon.nl/@prolrage/11488080167…
But, what European ministers saw 4 days ago? "a recent agreement to improve humanitarian aid access into Gaza." todon.nl/@prolrage/11486229611…
If these are not incidents to revolt against EU, don't expect something but pure, clear, totalitarian, fascism in the future. Good luck to europeans who sleep.
Strength to Palestinian people and Resistance. May "god" take years from Europeans and give it to you.
Video footage circulating on social media shows children in #Gaza searching through rubbish for food, as #Israel continues to block aid from entering the enclave. With famine pushing people to collapse in the streets, the WFP has warned that Gaza is “on the verge of catastrophic hunger.”
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Video footage circulating on social media shows children in Gaza searching through rubbish for food, as Israel continues to block aid from entering the enclave. With famine p
This is what European ministers 4 days ago saw as an "increase of humanitarian aid" and decided to not take any action related to the 25 years old Euro-(genocidal)#Israeli trade agreement.
Israel is starving all of Gaza and there isn’t even a whisper from the media. If you refuse to report crimes against humanity, you are complicit in them.
Would be a shame if this declassified email from Susan Rice noting Obama and Comey agreeing to hide the Russia Hoax from Trump’s NSA, General Flynn, went Viral:
![EU Leadership Faces Scrutiny Amid Gaza Crisis
Despite the escalation in violence and rising civilian casualties, the European Union’s top officials did not issue any public response over the weekend.
Just days earlier, on July 15, EU foreign ministers met in Brussels and declined to impose sanctions on "Israel" over its conduct in Gaza.
The EU’s High Representative, Kaja Kallas, acknowledged the deteriorating conditions, calling the human rights situation in Gaza "catastrophic."
"We don’t have a ceasefire, and that’s why it is so much harder to provide that aid," Kallas said, adding: "But we really need to work for that to help the people because we don’t know how far the ceasefire really is [from being agreed]."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/8125789 "EU Leadership Faces Scrutiny Amid Gaza Crisis
Despite the escalation in violence and rising civilian casualties, the European Union’s top officials did not issue any public response over the weekend.
Just days earlier, on July 15, EU foreign ministers met in Brussels and declined to impose sanctions on \"Israel\" over its conduct in Gaza.
The EU’s High Representative, Kaja Kallas, acknowledged the deteriorating conditions, calling the human rights situation in Gaza \"catastrophic.\"
\"We don’t have a ceasefire, and that’s why it is so much harder to provide that aid,\" Kallas said, adding: \"But we really need to work for that to help the people because we don’t know how far the ceasefire really is [from being agreed].\"")
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Now, this is an objectively very stupid thing to so. As someone with a recent cancer diagnosis whose illness is still "localized" - and who will need a lot more intensive care should his cancer become "systemic" - I would very much like my government to continue to fund systemic research.
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But of course, Trump wasn't intentionally killing research on systemic forms of cancer. Rather, he was indifferent to the collateral damage to this kind of research that arose in the pursuit of his *real* target, which is killing systemic explanations for *social* phenomena.
This is absolutely in keeping with neoliberal dogma, best expressed in Margaret Thatcher's notorious claim that "there is no such thing as society."
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Cory Doctorow
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In neoliberalism, we are all atomized individuals, members of *homo economicus*, driven to maximize our personal utility. All acts of seeming generosity are actually secretly selfish: you only tell your partner you love them because you hope it will make them fuck you and/or take care of you when you get sick; you only give alms to the poor in order to seem virtuous before people who can steer profitable business your way.
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You donate to cancer research as an insurance policy against your own eventual sickness.
This selfishness is a feature, not a bug. It's only by pursuing our selfish utility-maximization that we allow the market - a giant, distributed computer - to correctly assess who should be given the power to allocate capital and direct the activities of the lesser among us.
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When the invisible hand helps these born monarchs to pull capitalism's sword out of the market's stone, they are elevated to the position of power they were destined to hold, from which they can maximize all our social and material progress.
The project of neoliberal economics is to transform the social science of economics into a "hard science" grounded in empirical, mathematical proofs.
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Economism is a political philosophy that says that human society should only be considered through a lens of mathematical models. As such, it vaporizes all factors that can't be readily quantized and represented in a model:
locusmag.com/2021/05/cory-doct…
It's a political philosophy with no theory of power, built on just-so stories.
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Cory Doctorow: Qualia
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If you offer to buy a kidney from me and I agree to sell you that kidney, then we have arrived at a mutually satisfactory, voluntary arrangement in which the state should not intervene. Never mind that all the people who sell their kidneys are poor and desperate and all the people who buy the kidneys are rich and powerful. After all, can we really ever be sure that someone *feels* "powerful" or "desperate"?
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This is an extremely convenient political philosophy if you happen to be in the market for a kidney, or for that matter, if you want to buy the labor or bodies of any kind of worker for any kind of use.
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It's a great philosophy if you never want to bargain with a union, because the union is interfering with the "voluntary" transactions between workers and their bosses, and the glittering equations (operating in a Cartesian realm with no room for "power" or other squishy factors) prove that this is "market distorting."
It's also an extremely convenient political philosophy if you are getting rich by stealing from people, or even murdering them.
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If you offer me a payday loan with a ten heptillion percent APR and I accept it, that's voluntary, it's the market, and there's absolutely no reason for anyone to pass comment on the fact that 100% of the people who take those loans are poor and 100% of the people who originate them are rich:
pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usu…
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Pluralistic: When you hear “fintech,” think “unlicensed bank” (01 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Likewise, if you're enjoying a wildly profitable monopoly, this philosophy acts as antitrust repellent: "if people didn't prefer my monopoly business practices, they'd shop elsewhere":
eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/p…
It's great news if you want to destroy the planet with immortal, infinitely toxic plastic packaging, because it lets you claim that the only problem with plastics is "littering" (irresponsible individuals) and not your products:
pluralistic.net/2020/09/14/the…
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Party Like It’s 1979: The OG Antitrust Is Back, Baby!
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It's fantastic news if you're one of a few very large fossil fuel companies who are rendering the only planet in the known universe that's capable of sustaining human life uninhabitable, because it lets you blame the problem on our individual "carbon footprints" (not your depraved greed):
mashable.com/feature/carbon-fo…
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The Carbon Footprint Sham
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This is a philosophy that is violently allergic to systemic analysis. It *must* reduce everything to a set of individual choices, taken in a power-free vacuum: to litter, to labor, to borrow, to shop. Its adherents are so saturated in this ideology that they can't even see that it *is* an ideology.
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Think of Noam Chomsky's interview with Andrew Marr:
> Marr: How can you know I’m self-censoring?
> Chomsky: I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.
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A systemic view challenges everything about the neoliberal mindset. In 2011, the streets of Hackney (and beyond) erupted in an uprising of protest, which included some looting and arson, though the vast majority of mobilization was of marching and shouting protesters outraged at the murder of a Black man by London police.
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In response, then-Prime Minister David Cameron declared all systemic explanations for the uprising to be off-limits, calling it "criminality, pure and simple":
theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/09…
"Criminality, pure and simple" has *zero* explanatory power. Where did this "criminality" come from? Why did it spike on these days? What happened to it after the uprising was crushed by police? Did it go away?
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David Cameron's full statement on the UK riots
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Is it festering in the hearts of Britons up and down the country, awaiting some inaudible signal before detonating again?
How frightening it must be to believe in a world without systemic explanations! It's a world where inexplicable spirits sweep across the land, engendering population-scale effects that are the result of millions of people making voluntary, individual decisions, disconnected from any kind of social phenomena.
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It must be terrifying, like living in a world secretly governed by demons or witches.
It's the world of the conspiracy fantasist.
Yesterday, I wrote about the role that the conspiratorial wing of the Trump coalition is playing in keeping the Epstein story alive, and the danger this poses to Trump:
pluralistic.net/2025/07/18/win…
Trump's conspiratorial base are hugely and reliably animated by stories about impunity for elite sex predators.
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Pluralistic: MAGA crackup (18 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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As well they should be! Elite sex predators get away with all kinds of crimes - not just Epstein, but the whole universe of powerful men, from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump, who systematically abused women for decades and got away with it - bragged about it, even!
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But despite these very real abusers, the conspiracists in the Trump base are mostly concerned with *imaginary* abusers - Qanon's shadowy cabal of adrenochrome-guzzling pedophiles, tirelessly freighting trafficked children from one nonexistent pizza parlor basement to the next, packed inside of very mid Wayfair home furnishings:
pluralistic.net/2021/07/05/ide…
This is the "mirror world" of right wing conspiracism described in Naomi Klein's *Doppelganger*:
pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not…
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It's the world in which real suffering children (kids in cages, children rotting in Alligator Auschwitz, kids working the night-shift at a meat-packing plant) don't matter at all, while imaginary children (unborn children, Qanon victims, etc) take center stage.
Indeed, one of the strangest things about the Epstein case is that it's the rare instance in which right-wing conspiratorialists care about *actual* people, rather than imaginary ones.
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The mirror-world dominates right-wing politics. It's a world in which systemic problems don't exist, because it's a world in which systemic power doesn't exist. It's a world where individual rich people with evil in their heart are to blame for our problems, not a world where a system of impunity for the powerful allows rich people to get away with hurting us.
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This is why they call antisemitism "the socialism of fools." An antisemite blames their problems on a cabal of Jewish bankers, rather than the dominance of the political system by finance capital.
In response to yesterday's post, reader Garvin Jabusch wrote to say, "your phrase 'blame systemic problems on individuals' does a fantastic job of crystallizing how I feel about the BP-invented concept of the carbon footprint."
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This is exactly right, and it's an important connection I'd never drawn before myself. Because while conspiracies have run rampant since time immemorial, the modern conspiracist is a conservative, trapped in the mirror-world:
pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/tha…
The mirror-world warps reality, but that warpage has the same curvature as neoliberalism's "There is no such thing as society."
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Pluralistic: Conservatives are fringe outliers – and leftists could learn from them (16 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Conspiracism - like neoliberalism - insists that the world runs on individual virtue and wickedness, not the systemic properties that make it easier or harder (or impossible) to do the right thing.
This is why Donald Trump banned the word "systemic." To any objective observer, it is plain that Donald Trump is an effect, not a cause.
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He's too stupid and impulsive to do anything except fill the Donald Trump-shaped hole in our politics, after 40 years of Democrat/Republican consensus that "there is no such thing as society" and insistence that every social problem is the result of a "distorted market" and can only be worsened by state intervention.
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Both neoliberalism and conspiracism insist that the world is run by great men, not by social forces. By denying that anything can be "systemic," Trump can deny that *he* is systemic, merely a conveniently shaped monster suited to our monstrous times.
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Support me this summer in the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop! This summer, I'm writing "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux that explains how to be an effective AI critic:
clarionwriteathon.com/members/…
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I'm reminded of this xkcd:
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... in the sense that if we just change the coordinate system, the centripetal force disappears or is de-emphasised and a new force (centrifugal) appears.
For "centripetal", read "systemic power structures" and for "centrifugal", read something like "personal economic motives"
Maybe I'm over-thinking this, though...
Centrifugal Force
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