How much like the prelude to WWI is the last two years of diplomacy and war around Ukraine? With Bosnia == Ukraine, treaties that oblige the “great powers” to leap to each other’s defense, shuttle diplomacy amongst them to decide how and when to escalate, Germany flicking the US’ nose over Mexico … I am feeling less than optimistic on this, the inaugural day of the Buffoon.

www.technoccult.net/wp-content/uploads/library/headmap-manifesto.pdf

turning the pessimism of the AR vision on its head.

Trump wins, the wishes of American people are clear. Germany and Austria next.

See “Wow”

If two people are going to get married, they ought above all to be able to talk well to one another. Because everything else disappears.

https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/08/13/china-as-a-model/index.html

Long read, but counterintuitive and worth it.

Legal analyst Keith Boykin listed the many excuses and arguments Trump enablers have made over the years. “He can’t be prosecuted in office,” Boykin wrote. “He can’t be impeached because the courts should decide. He’s immune from prosecution after office. He can’t be prosecuted by Biden’s DOJ because that’s ‘lawfare.’ And he can’t be prosecuted by a special counsel. We have created a dictator.”

I heard this Israeli citizen on the radio this morning. She had lost an aunt and uncle to Hamas. She said she was okay with using humanitarian aid as a “card” in the war and that withdrawal of aid might impose “just enough suffering to make the Palestinians reject Hamas”.

What aspect of the experience of the Jews in the last several thousand years could possibly make her think this? A culture that’s been persecuted for thousands of years by the larger societies within which they’ve been embedded, and that has not lost its essential jewishness. In fact, Judaism has been strengthened by persecution.

The absolute inhumanity of what she was saying infuriating

the ruling class can survive any crisis as long as the working class pays the price