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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 1d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 12h

"By removing the need to think for oneself or to wrestle with distressing realities that make little sense and feature widespread suffering that we as individuals feel powerless to stop, ideology provides comfort, especially to those who benefit from existing inequalities."

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 12h

Having had a lot of experience with MDs, I can name more than a few that would hop on board. There was the colon surgeon who tried to throw me out of the hospital while I battled a life-threatening colon infection w/ complications, when he realized I didn't support Trump. ("He can't do it; he'd...

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 12h

4/ told us that, in an emergency, we should look for the helpers. But I'm not sure, when push comes to shove, we'll be able to identify them easily. And I'm even less sure that the people we think of as helpers (b/c their job is to uphold out institutions) actually intend to either help or uphold.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 14h

Medical ethics is one of the hollowest fields one can find. Its primary function is to enforce depoliticization via endless self-affirming moralization so as to protect the status quo from scrutiny and genuine critique.

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Lilith 💀🪐✨🪦 @tapestrymoth.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve found myself recently questioning whether becoming a doctor is a common career choice for psychopaths. My personal experience suggests probably…

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 15h

Of course you could look to the role of the AMA, carving out ethics exceptions for medics overseeing CIA torture sessions, for a more modern example

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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a substantial literature about the enthusiasm the German, British, and US medical establishments had for fascism b/c it (1) embraced applied eugenics and (2) forced Jews out of the profession, opening up jobs

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 16h

I wrote a paired essay for The Lancet on the politics of care: Is the practice of medicine political? Should it be? What does this even mean?
drive.google.com/file/d/1eDrf...

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Contra Tenore @cntrtnr.bsky.social · 16h

I lurk on a GA pilot subreddit. A ton of American doctors. It's the most conservative group I've ever seen.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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David Rotenstein @davidrotenstein.bsky.social · 15h

My dentist had a Trump Christmas tree in his treatment room. It was August 2024. Patients were forced to look at it while in the chair. We got a new dentist.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15h

This would be GREAT paired with my article in doctors in the Klan in the 1920s.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15h

muse.jhu.edu/article/846640

Project MUSE - White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America

muse.jhu.edu

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xantar.bsky.social @xantar.bsky.social · 15h

I used to know a doctor (casually, not a friend) who always said annoyingly questionable things about the US health care system and I once pressed him about it to the point that he admitted he thought people with money deserved better health care

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 22h

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists.

50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path.
drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 13h

hate when you hear the best wubwub synths then the vocals come in all generic airy tiktok autotune like wtf bro this wubwub whatre you doing to me

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 13h

The problem with this discourse is that it reveals something that nobody with a stake in their own academic or professional discipline wants to own up to, which is there is no particular educational paradigm that automatically makes you a good person

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 15h

Also thing I learned too late to fully use us that if you leave a job before end of year, you're still entitled to full FSA funds. FYI for anyone that might be useful info to

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100 Rowans 🏳️‍⚧️ @rowena-marie.bsky.social · 7h

ACAB (All Cruciferous Are Brassicas)

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · Oct 9

Conservatives & Centrists: "i hate these illegal immigrants, all they bring is violence & disease. it’s an invasion.”

Christopher Columbus in hell:

Christopher Columbus as a horrifying flesh muppet, side-eyeing & glancing at the viewer. Flames and the boats of colonizers landing is in the background.

Christopher Columbus as a horrifying flesh muppet, staring straight ahead without looking at the viewer. Flames and the boats of colonizers landing is in the background.

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Laelaps @laelaps.fyi · 18h

As Imgur is now blocked in the UK due to the Online Safety Act, we'll switch the remaining unarchived Imgur links in the evidence document to ones we can properly archive so users in the UK can still access the evidence. We apologize for any potential disruption.

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Lunch/Counter/Punch @theultrasecret.bsky.social · 1d

The liberal elite delusion that police are broadly on the side of truth and justice has put us all in existential danger.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

the “i just really love The Crow soundtrack” to “estrogenated titty goth gf” pipeline is real

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 11h

Incredibly funny for Peter Thiel to misinterpret “evil billionaire”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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