Benjamin Radd
benjaminradd.bsky.social
Benjamin Radd
@benjaminradd.bsky.social
Ed-tech founder (@FascinationLab) … Prof (@UCLA) … Senior Fellow (@BurkleCenter) … music geek (🎸🎹) and Tolkien nerd (🧝‍♂️🧙‍♂️🐉💍).
Yes, but also rife with mis/disinfo on X, as well!
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“Family, friends, religion — these are the three demons you must slay to be successful in business.”

-- C. Montgomery Burns.
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
For this reason, there will never be normalization between the US and the IR because it would amount to political suicide for the clerical regime. Any such talk or diplomacy to that effect is a farce, and only delays the inevitable — as Ronaghi articulately states.
April 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Going against any one of these three principles would cause the regime to topple. By that logic, any diplomacy with the US that would normalize relations in any way would undermine the first pillar, and therefore is inconsistent with the IR’s mission statement. It would have no basis to exist.
April 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The Islamic Revolution which Khomeini led rested on three pillars, each of which served as the founding principles (“mission statement”, if you will) of the subsequent Islamic Republic: (1) anti-American, (2) anti-Israel, and (3) exporting the revolution.
April 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
March 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Your top priorities don’t align with mine, ergo you’re a fascist” is just 🤦🏻‍♂️
March 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I want them to debate many things. My priorities (ie, top three) don’t necessarily align with the ones above that you are reacting to. But a reordering of priorities is not, by itself, a marker for fascism. Hyperbole helps none of us, here.
March 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
There are a hundred or more suggestions one could make. He happened to list three. It wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list of three, but rather three that you and maybe others wouldn't prioritize or agree with. They still doesn't make them prima facie fascistic.
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
How is any of that "fascistic"?
March 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM