Hari Sheldon
@harisheldonus
Germarican engineer interested in history, politics, religion, philosophy, psychology, and anything in-between.
Hannah Arendt famously wrote about people like Blanche - silly, little street fascists who become important cocks in a terrible machinery of dehumanization and destruction.
I recently learned that "Senate" stems from the Roman times meaning "old men" (originally Greek). I tend to agree with Samuel Moyn that it ought to be abolished.
Es scheint als haette sich nichts seit 1936 geaendert. Faschisten duerfen weiterhin teilnehmen.
Yes, I mean the arrogance that suggested an austerity program which forced Russia to import food and essential goods to avoid shortfalls in the general population. And yes, while selling off its natural resources, oil and precious minerals.
E. Becker described best (to me) the mechanism and human psychology behind the need for "immortality projects." Trump is an obvious and pathetic example to the excesses of this natural human trait. He is not the first though in history. So, he is not even original or innovative.
Still questions why separation of state and church is fundamental to a healthy democracy? Fascists like Trump love the cloak of religion to justify their nihilism.
Interestingly, Trump sells a Golden Green Card to rich people who want to live in the USA. You cannot take anything POTUS says seriously because he is just not that smart.
That was the last time I was forced into "patriotism." (East German communist youth organization.)
Trump is so predictable ... "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength through Joy) was a reward for good performing German fascists in the 1930s and 40s.
An important book to (re-)read as the public language changes to routinely using dehumanizing terms of target groups and opponents. We can learn from history! (Dehumanization, the enabling mechanism behind Auschwitz and most other genocides.)
Maybe that will be the outcome of all this; Americans learn their own history.
Nice try; Stalin was an animal and murderer of his own people. Russians (or Soviets at the time) would have been better off if Stalin never existed. I didn't know there were bots on BlueSky. I hope they pay you well.
Selective memory; Abu Ghraib prison. I am sure he was alive at the time.
Lindsey Graham is old enough to remember the 1994 US security guarantees provided to Ukraine through the Budapest Memorandum. He is now trying distract from the US government responsibility by blaming European countries.
Seems like material fatigue. One can see the structure wobbling prior to disintegration. Could also be that the blades let go. Spinning up a rotor through a bunch of structural eigenmodes is tricky business. Obviously, Russian helicopter OEMs know all that. Lesson: always build a fixed-wing!
Trump is an ineffective leader! He cares more how many Russian fascists have died than how many innocent Ukrainian civilians. Moreover, he sabotages the Ukrainian military by giving away losses of Ukrainian soldiers. But it "isn't his war." Crazy!
OK, I did not (but should have) see this coming! If I advertised for a viable third party in the USA, I did not mean another fascist party under Elon Musk!
One must remember that Kennedy trained his local accent to be more attractive to his constituency. The rest is good old American tradition.
Bruce Springsteen inspired this common East German guy when he held a concert in East Berlin in July 1988! 160,000+ other East Germans were inspired by his 4 hour concert. Our hearts yearned for freedom which we achieved peacefully only 16 months later. I never even head of Trump at the time.
hahaha, that can work in our advantage. AI was used in the generation of this 7th generation fighter jet.