that's part of the misrecognition!

(Not an anti-Christianity post - just an example of Adorno cooking)

From Minima Moralia:

“The existence of bread factories, turning the prayer that we be given our daily bread into a mere metaphor and an avowal of desperation, argues more strongly against the possibility of Christianity than all the enlightened critiques of the life of Jesus.”

It is definitely contentious and as I understand it, there's been some pushback against the "transformation" narrative. But I think the most convincing argument is that the fall was uneven. There were areas where it truly was a collapse (e.g. Britain) but other places had relative continuity.

Any deal is going to be uncomfortable - time to get comfortable with that!

During the last diplomatic opening, Trump was praised for walking away because "no deal is better than a bad deal." But that was clearly wrong - the DPRK's program has continued to advance and now we have even less leverage than before.

Makes me think of Amilcar Cabral: “tell no lies, claim no easy victories”

Drives me nuts when people can’t distinguish between a potentially promising development (intra-GOP division) and a normative good (MTG is a Democrat!!!)

more like Project Epimetheus amirite

Does this mean there are 60 votes for socialism in the Senate?

From our recent @crisisgroup.org statement on the risks of regime change in Venezuela.

www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

“There is no such thing, so Maduro can hardly be its boss," Phil Gunson, an analyst at the International Crisis Group think tank, told AFP of the so-called "Cartel de los Soles."

Listen to my colleague Phil.

“You’re just shilling for the developers!!!” - people who already own property

Roughly a fifth of all deployed US naval ships are in the Caribbean, according to Stars & Stripes and USNI News