More of this, plz www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The article @robfahey.net and I wrote on Sanseito is finally out (open access). We describe the party’s conspiracy worldview and how it shapes its policies and organizational features. I may do a thread to include the work I have done since finalizing the draft. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One of the most famous Samurai (at least politically)’s family more or less purchased the title

Same energy

Japanese men's fashion and culture magazine POPEYE began publishing in 1976, and now 49 years later, I helped the editors put together the first-ever all-English issue. This Tokyo guide is pure POPEYE: extremely deep recommendations and arguably the highest info-density of any magazine on the planet

He read and endorsed a lot of thinkers that make the New Right angry and confused. www.critical-theory.com/martin-luthe...

it’s actually kind of amazing how totally screwed many of the MAGA states are in light Godking Emperor of Borderline IQs antics over VIsAs.

I see this as a concession from networks that TPUSA’s audience are Very Online.

Gender Affirming Care is when Chris Rufo’s wife says that she married a fighter

look she is awful but this is a sure sign no one but the most overt maga people like what is going on

this seems to be a recurrent feature of how other professions defend themselves too on social media. usually a mixture of "of course we're ____" justifications and "how dare you allege we [same thing]"

Reminds me of how Sinema manipulated the work of Agamben to validate her own incoherently nihilistic politics.

So I’m guessing that it’s pretty clear that Harris is not going to run for higher office again? Let alone governor of California?

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

Well, there’s a reason why they can’t make her the East Coast editor.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

pretty sure michael tracey defending liberals is a sign of the apocalypse. plan accordingly.

It’s not a very smart idea to fire people for being annoying scoldish busy bodies. Now that they’re unemployed, they’ll have significantly more free time to be scoldish busy bodies.

I’m trying to distinguish between this and Totalitarianism. A sentiment that I’ve long held and hasn’t budged much is that the Right Wing equivalent of the Left Wing “Beautiful Soul” syndrome is significantly more violent. @themallkrampus.bsky.social

This is Big. Two of my favorite lifestyle magazines in Japan got an English translation. H/T to @wdavidmarx.bsky.social for his work on Popeye’s issue.

John Yoo right now:

probably because Fetterman was a populist.

Fukuyama is good and useful. But it’s probably more useful to research how and why others responded to Kojeve and ended up endorsing aesthetic violence like Mishima and Bataille.

In a way I do think it’s very funny that the new object of fun that aims to supplant The Groups suffers from the precise “hyper-alienating and moonbeamy verbal diarrhea born of a bad ratio in how important your higher education credentials are to your personality” that afflicts every other Group

We unfortunately made a similar mistake with Vox and coddled a lot of whizz kids like they were special needs students who required more time on the practice test.

A lot of people (like JD Fat and his nerdy think tank enablers) don’t know or care about how much the United States relies on Korean engineers, products, and resources for its own industry. Let alone diplomacy Assuming that Kpop etc is all that we get from the country is a cosmic level of ignorance.

The troll in me wants to hire one of the Zizians to review the book.

So, キャンセルカルチャー (Cancel Culture) is a neologism in Japan now? I thought it was just 言葉狩り

Wood Tracing Grain almost perfectly matches the profile of the assassin. Lol

Unfortunately, Ezra Klein is the last gasp of the Obama Era. An old Time article from 2008 had anonymous sources in Obama’s campaign who had the impression that the President thought he could enter a room of Neo-Nazis and persuade them to vote for him. True or not, Klein is fulfilling the delusion.

Need to find the screen capture. But Thiel directly invoked Russian Cosmism in an interview with Piers Morgan. Again, that’s woo woo crunchy weird he is about the Singularity etc

Or a dog

I liked the Spiderverse movies. I also liked Kpop Demon Hunters. But this article was great critique of the former’s appeal. And I think it also applies to the latter. thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

they should. Thats basically this website’s actual technical use case. But I think a majority of users are here for “the culture.” I don’t take attempts to define “Blueskyism” very seriously. Yet, I think it’s undeniable that this platform’s user base has a centralized culture.

The Discourse Event has done the thing where all the Content Particles have become a stellar body with its own gravity and light, largely divorced from the actual event and now an object that exists on its own terms to be overtheorized and talked to death for reasons entirely unrelated to its cause

Goes into something that I alluded to yesterday to @rmarcantuoni.bsky.social & @pauljnadeau.bsky.social. Spec Fic is more equipped right now to confront reality. But the Stand Alone Complex was also derived from a Japanese social theorist’s “Instance of a Third Person” @dhnexon.bsky.social

I’m not saying anyone needs to agree with Williams. But he wrote something that’s going to bring him no end of grief from both websites.

Romeo and Paul are in luck. Because probably some of the best theorists on the social web wrote in Japanese during the aughts.

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

I just had a thought that filled me with an intense feeling of dread. I feel like Baudrillard’s writing on violence, the media, and 9/11 are relevant to the public’s response to the recent televised assassination.

Klein is either ignorantly wish casting or he’s being willfully dishonest. Because I don’t think he’s an idiot, my bets on the latter.

bsky has now become the Other because its the only place where media flacks don’t receive deference

bari is a very familiar figure for anyone with experience in authoritarian states; the most sophisticated and careerist variety of informer.

NIMBY in a nutshell. The value of my McMansion and luxury condo goes down and it’s a crime against humanity.

Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.

“The A.I.-generated family has to be generated by A.I. because there are no photographs of this sort of idyllic life, with an angelic and eternally youthful wife untouched by reality or work.” thelampmagazine.com/issues/issue...

It's worth reminding Americans that one of the things that chilled Japan Inc's involvement in China was the risk that the PRC would detain its workers, so you really can't underestimate the chilling effect the Hyundai raid will have on foreign investment

Can I interest you in the PoMo wing of Japan?