Thursday, January 8, 2026

CIA here to stay

 https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/06/how-the-deep-state-taught-stephen-miller-to-love-socialism/

Just when you think they couldnt do anything dumber they go and totally ledeen themselves

It is good to be king

 

Cryptoanarchists guilty pleasure

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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Kingmaker

 https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5674994-trump-crypto-industry-political-rise/

A light on the hill for all nations  -   THIS THING NUKES TAXES

Botulism for dummies

 Kant's relationship with Neoplatonism involves significant connections, particularly in his emphasis on the role of pure reason, the distinction between the intelligible (noumenal) and sensible (phenomenal) worlds (mirroring Plato's Forms), and shared philosophical methods, like contrasting mathematical certainty with philosophical inquiry, even while Kant critiqued certain Platonic metaphysical excesses and was more influenced by Berkeleyan idealism. Kant's "Ideas of Reason" function similarly to Platonic Forms as regulative principles for guiding knowledge, aiming for a holistic understanding, though Kant limits their knowability. 

Key Similarities & Connections:
  • Ideas/Forms: Kant's "Ideas of Reason" (like God, freedom, immortality) serve a function akin to Plato's Forms, representing ultimate, non-sensible realities that structure our understanding, though Kant sees them as limits for reason, not objects of knowledge.
  • Noumena vs. Phenomena: Kant's distinction between the "thing-in-itself" (noumena) and appearances (phenomena) parallels Plato's sensible vs. intelligible realms, where the latter holds true reality.
  • Methodological Parallels: Both Kant and Plato contrasted the deductive certainty of mathematics (starting from self-evident principles) with the circuitous, dialectical, and constructive nature of philosophical inquiry, which establishes foundations later in the process.
  • Regulative Use of Ideas: Kant's praise for the "excellent and indispensably necessary regulative use" of ideas echoes Plato's ascent towards a God's-eye view, a "spiritual flight" towards the highest principles
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Botul

Replace the Brain Tumor with Lung Cancer

 https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1818&context=facsch_papers

Marx and Hegel too cringe?  Step aside faggots -  let a real scientific racist through

The 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant held explicitly and outrageously racist views, which are well-documented in his published works, lecture notes, and personal reflections. Kant was arguably the first European thinker to develop a formal "theory of race" and is considered by many scholars to be one of the most influential racists in modern Western thought. 

EU bureaucrats vow to die in a ditch for Danish aristocracy

 God save the Queen!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-08/three-options-us-considering-to-take-greenland/106207610

The monarchist principle upholds nepotism,  corruption, abuse of power, utter contempt for democracy and . . . oh wait . . . no, sorry . . . that's the European Union

On Tyranny

 https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/cathy-levine-the-tyranny-of-tyranny

The brief references to political "affinity groups" in Zoe Baker's long and excruciatingly dull argument for anarchist organizationalism have little to do with the dynamic and deeply personal sharing and interactions of the small radical feminist groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as described by Cathy Levine in "The Tyranny of Tyranny". Have you read that essay? What did you think of it?

CIA here to stay

 https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/06/how-the-deep-state-taught-stephen-miller-to-love-socialism/ Just when you think they couldnt do anyth...