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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 49m

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/parliament...

Parliamentary systems and other pluralistic institutions in pre-colonial Africa

The political history of several African kingdoms included systems of governance that were variously referred to as national “assemblies”, “councils,” or “parliaments,” which limited the power of King...

www.africanhistoryextra.com

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 44m

This is astonishingly pertinent

Three books lying on a chair, only the one above is visible. It’s the original French version of Jean Baudrillard‘s „Symbolic Exchange and Death“, in the typical minimalistic white Gallimard design but with a small surrealist picture on it that shows half of a broken off statue head of a woman, only her full lips visible, pasted over a sort of landscape made out of electro trash in violet hues

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 49m

In my Baudrillard era

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 1h

Lol

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

Wait till you hear his reading of Watchmen

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine you’ve just come out of an Israeli jail and WaPo calls to ask you if it’s true that you’re the Antichrist or rather one of his lesser minions

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

This is one of the more amusing statements someone has had to make to a major newspaper.

"Yudkowsky said in a statement “my understanding is that authorities from multiple Christian denominations have stated that Thiel’s views, identifying the Antichrist with proposals to regulate the AI industry, are not deemed by them to be compatible with conventional Christian belief.” Spokespeople for Thunberg did not respond to a request for comment."

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

Thiel *presenting plans for Hawksmoorian churches to be built in a strange pattern over US geography as blood drips out of a cupboard in the background* this will surely make me the Katechon Alan Moore said so

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

Thiel *presenting plans for Hawksmoorian churches to be built in a strange pattern over US geography as blood drips out of a cupboard in the background* this will surely make me the Katechon Alan Moore said so

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2h

We can count our blessings that this genius is much too illiterate and lazy to get into From Hell

Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 3h

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

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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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 3h

Me buying cotton shirts: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me having to iron cotton shirts: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 4h

This is why I’m rereading Baudrillard for #Barocktheorie

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 5h

Hey, Thiel:

The Question in PAX AMERICANA: "Never rely on technology to do your job for you, Ted. When obsolescence calls. YOU'RE IN OVER YOUR HEAD."

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 4h

Lecker

Warnung unter einem Gericht in einer Bestellapp:
„Contains Gluten, Gluten, Gluten, Gluten, Gluten.“

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 4h

He’s for Schmittianism what Jordan Peterson was for Jungianism

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

most normies are mad at thiel for being incomprensible

we are mad at thiel for not understanding philosophy and theology

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 5h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

mainly because it's from the crown jurist of the Reich, Carl Schmitt, and not Revelations

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

It's perfectly comprehensible; I just don't know how you get it from the text of Revelation.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 5h

Aside from all the vulgar-Schmittian bonkersness on display I really get the impression that these ultra rich business leaders have way too much time on their hands, contrary to their claim of working all the time

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 5h

❤️🖤

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 2d

Leiden University is hiring:
Assistant Professor in African and Comparative Philosophy

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 8h

A propos of nothing

Solidarität mit dem @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social !

Zwei Regalböden mit verschiedenen Büchern des Verbrecher Verlags

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Rasmus Fleischer @rsmsflschr.bsky.social · Jan 16

"the jazz musician is probably the only person for whom the composer is not a very interesting individual, in the sense that he prefers to destroy what the composer writes or says"
–– Ornette Coleman, interviewed by Jacques Derrida (1997)

Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · Jan 16

Down Beat reviews Ornette Coleman's FREE JAZZ

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 20h

😮 I did not know that wow

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 20h

Wat (this is about Tom Morello)

Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 21h

His dad was a Mau Mau fighter and Kenya’s first ambassador to the UN! His aunt was the first woman elected to the Kenyan legislature! His mum was also pretty cool — a civil rights activist who campaigned against censorship of music during the big Tipper Gore panic about violent lyrics.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 20h

Amazing meme game

Sébastien Lecornu raising his skinny fists and the title of GYB!Es Album laid over it

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Tom Uhlig @stopmakingsense.bsky.social · 1d

Meine lieben Freund:innen und Verleger:innen vom @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social haben sogar ein Buch gemacht, das genau solche Einschüchterungsversuche vom Verfassungsschutz kritisiert!

Aber ernsthaft: Der Verlag wird gerade massiv von rechts angegriffen, was auch finanziell reinhaut. 1/2

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prämiert Verfassungsfeinde mit 101.000

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