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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 14h

This self-cancellation of justice: the beautiful name it goes by is well enough known--grace... ~Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (2008), II.10 (p. 54)

Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 14h

I am strong enough to allow that!"... The justice which began with: "Everything can be paid off," ends with a look the other way as those who are unable to pay are allowed to run free--it ends as every good thing on earth ends, by cancelling itself out.

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 14h

It is not impossible to conceive of a society whose consciousness of power would allow it the most refined luxury there is--that of allowing those who do it harm to go unpunished. "Of what concern are these parasites to me?," it would be entitled to say. "May they live and prosper:

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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re a despot, you can do anything 🆘

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 1d

A British academic is tracking the Dictator in the WH’s authoritarian acts since taking office in Jan.

It tracks illegalities, unconst’l acts, abuses of power - anything undermining democracy & propping up authoritarianism.

Tally is at 1466 authoritarian acts.

🆘🇺🇸

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 2d

Universal Basic income now.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

Literally a schtick. Reframed by lazy academic administrators as *singling a student out.* Flat earther level ignorance permeates higher ed, and ignorant people can be pushed around by… psychopathic MAGAs inspired by KKKirk’s “professor watchlist.”

Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

while indicating it takes work to achieve scholarly expertise in a discipline or field. And I have used that phrase in all my face to face courses for the last 15 years.

I have had *academic administrators* say this is antagonistic and hostile to students in the classroom.

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

When I was a teaching assistant, I worked for an interesting lecturer. Every semester, this prof would joke to the class, “If you don’t like it, get your own fucking PhD!” I always found that to be a cute and silly way to ingratiate with students,

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

in which the lives of some peoples are less valuable than the lives of others and therefore their deaths are less disturbing. ~Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing (2007), 94

Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

In the case of powerful states, the cruelty is not random but part of the attempt to discipline unruly populations. Today, cruelty is an indispensable technique for maintaining a particular kind of international order

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

It seems to me that there is no moral difference between the horror inflicted by state armies (especially if those armies belong to powerful states that are unaccountable to international law) and the horror inflicted by insurgents.

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

I have had *academic administrators* claim that philosophizing in… checks notes… a PHILOSOPHY course is mere “speculation.”

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Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

All they do is refer back to the missing parts of the context. Consequently, constancy of meaning is never anything but the constancy of contexts. ~Ricoeur, Rule of Metaphor, 89

Nathan Eric Dickman @nericdickman.bsky.social · 2d

The belief that words possess a meaning that would be proper to them is a leftover from sorcery, the residue of ‘the magical theory of names.’ Words are not at all the names of ideas present to the mind; they are not constituted by any fixed association with data, whatever that data might be.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 5d

Texas Gateway Church pastor, Trump / MAGA spiritual advisor, and sponsor, Robert Morris, has plead guilty for raping a 12 year old girl. Morris sponsored one of Trump’s Inaugural Balls in 2017 and partook in other MAGA & GOP events. #OpDeathEaters #EndImpunity

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iowademocrat.bsky.social @iowademocrat.bsky.social · 4d

Ice shooting people in Chicago! We have entered the actual killing your own population party of the Democracy take down! Fuck RumP!

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4d

Another "ice" shooting in Chicago

They're not "ice" they're ISIS. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4d

Thousands took to the streets of Pamplona, Spain, demonstrating in solidarity with Gaza and denouncing ongoing Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5d

2 years ago I would have bet good money on the fact that most people will react like this to a live streamed genocide and forced starvation...now we're desperately passing videos of unicorns like this around in the family chats...so we don't lose complete hope in humanity