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Chernyaev sided with Shevardnadze: “we must put America before Arabs. This is our future and our salvation.” whoops!

“The black man said: So you’ve hated me for a week. I’ve hated you for half a thousand years. Nothing personal.” if someone said this to me i would commit seppuku on the spot

the regime 📉📉

“For decades they had been told that their home was the Soviet Union. Some 25 million of them lived and worked in Ukraine… And many of them had grown up thinking that the entire Soviet Union was historically Russia.” damn i wonder if that’ll have any future consequences

the night the berlin wall fell the politiburo was up late talking about … Lithuania. gorbachev thought he was playing 4D chess but my man was playing checkers

having fun in this last section but it really pales in comparison to Scott Zwiren's schizo-affective language. probably because Zwiren was actually schizophrenic

as my online serbian friends often say about america … i hate Gorbachev so much it’s unreal

à propos: kind of wish that instead of walking it back and abstracting the claim in ATP, Deleuze and Guattari would have doubled down and said schizophrenics will be the vanguard of the anti-semiological revolution

so much of new fiction is just people compartmentalizing their various neuroses, which is fine, but also maybe why i found the new Sheil Heti and the new Houellebecq so refreshing

classic ivy league to CIA pipeline

finally someone willing to say it: Sontag has no real sense of humour

anti-police pro-urbanists on suicide watch. pro-establishment ruralists to the moon 📈📈

raison d’état and necessities 📈📈 democratic freedoms 📉📉

looking for a guide to governing? well in the Old Testament,

having war flashbacks to being on a conference panel

🔜 secret counter-society

pastoral regimes 📈📈📈 representative democracy coupled with industrial free market capitalism 📉📉

I went back over a week’s worth of news, No special week. Just one particular week, and it does not matter which one because it was an ordinary week. And I discovered that, according to the mirror that it held up to us, not a thing had happened that week except for the virus.”

please point me towards the all-covid only-covid issue of La Monde, BHL

i think Gilles Deleuze was right, about a lot of things but also re: BHL — he’s only really interesting as a symptom of the mass market territorializing other realms (in this case “serious” philosophy)

i don’t think that during covid the world has descended into “psychotic delirium”. mostly i’ve just been chilling

alright first micro-chapter down. BHL is gleefully misconstruing TV doctors (Dr Oz, Dr Phil, lol) and the “scientific research community”. this rocks

time to read another book by one of the dumbest mfers alive

regimes 📈

“freedom is nothing else but the correlative of the deployment of apparatuses of security.” i’m going to solve the trucker convoy by getting them to read Foucault’s seminars

all of this high and mighty stuff about how BHL just feels compelled to give unconditional support to refugees reads in a pretty sinister way considering he was a hugely vocal supporter of the NATO effort that turned Libya into an open air slave market

ok the Dugin debate was a horrible look for BHL (he was basically unable to do anything other than call Dugin a nazi, even though they both seem to agree that the liberal era is coming to a close) so for him to spin that in this book is funny. also - BHL claims that “readers and journalists” control the modern info-sphere. laughable, but even more so when you know BHL ran a paper funded by his millionaire daddy