Anderson Cooper was the first to give the bat$hitcrazy maga trolls a major platform on so-called liberal media. He has done more than anybody to normalize their lies. He made good money off of it

„already heading in that direction“ is generous

The emperor has no clothes!!! But so what. Calling it out doesn’t change a thing.

Students, please discuss: Is the terrorizing of Americans by ice an unfortunate accident or a deliberate part of the strategy?

Merz and Wadephul are positioning Germany to assume the mantle of European hegemony in the emerging new world order of spheres of influence. There is nothing reassuring in Merz‘ statement. Chilling

…. But do what you want with Venezuela

Strange, because Plato is considered by some the philosopher of totalitarianism

Enemy of the people, just a wee bit nicer

I am not sure both sides see reality as a standard

The question is: Does the left have the philosophical tools to prevail against Schmittian Decisionism? I don’t think Deliberative Democracy or Discourse Analysis will cut it in the Ausnahmezustand.

They don’t need to convince the majority. It is enough to establish an alternative narrative.

Fritzchen is a proto-fashist bull$hit artist and a clown. He is completing what Scholz, Baerbock and Habeck started: undo Germany‘s decades old commitments to multilateralism and international law.

Anybody who still thinks the constitution will protect the system of government is reading from an outdated rule book. The Ausnahmezustand (state of exception) is here and requires different terms of engagement.

The White House has moved to a Schmittian model of governance: the president is the Decider. Formal norms encoded in the constitution are weak and cannot keep up with the normative power of the facts the president‘s decisions establish.

I like Lieu, but it is self-defeating to take comfort in strongly worded rebukes. We are way past the point where politicians’ indignant pearl clutching accomplishes anything

What we are witnessing right now is how a democracy can be gutted from within by those intent on doing so. What happened to the Weimar Republic is happening now to the U.S. system of government. The executive branch is making a laughing stock of the legislature, and there are no effective checks.

Sadly, it has to be said that people like him are the extreme center who enable the dismantling of the figment of democracy. History will not look upon them kindly. Similar to centrists on the Weimar Republik who failed to stop Hitler when they had the opportunity to

Stop expecting journalism from CNN. It is a manufacturing consent machine. No one has done more to mainstream maga, namely Zucker and Cooper

First take it, then close down shop. They have embarrassed themselves beyond repair