Choitner: so your group is called the brotherhood of mutants?

Magneto: indeed

Choitner: one of your members is a guy known as juggernaut

Magneto: yes

Choitner: how did he get his powers?

Magneto: He has a-

Was it a wren, by any chance?

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

I guess Graeber's answer would be "less regulations". But then, two pages earlier he told us that an "academic friend" let's students waiting so that he can play video games. So I feel like less regulations won't cut it

This is pretty much the exact justification for why a good part of (academic) bureaucracy is good, actually. Universities are a place of personal power relations, and those need to be regulated on some level

Recently it was big news in Austria that Austrian former chancellor Sebastian Kurz is in the Epstein E-mails, and that they seem to have some connection. So that's fascinating
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Fuck ‘em. I don’t care if they’re Democrat, Republican or Santa Claus; they need to be held accountable.

James McPherson's "Battlecry of Freedom" is certainly a page-turner

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

What I mean is: An ambitious sociopath, who just can't wait to stake a claim

So Cruz is just the Republican's Newsom

What's actual violence that's indirect? His example immediately afterwards suggests he means a sometimes-enacted threat of violence. But that's not really actual, and it undermines his criticism of abstract theories of violence. So I don't know, it's a head-scratcher. And everything is like that