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David M

@ComradeDoom1

'need to pray but can only think'

 a Bakersfield of the mind
Joined November 2017
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"The hermeneutics of suspicion seems to cut both ways... We might try to deny it but we are constituted by myths and symbols all the way down." I wrote about Ricoeur for @compactmag compactmag.com/article/paul-…
Paul Ricoeur and the Crisis of Atheism

Paul Ricoeur and the Crisis of Atheism

Twentieth-century French philosophy continues to inflame the passions of American readers in the 21st.

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I didn't vote (because I'm still too bitter to cast a ballot for Democrats), but feel pretty happy about the elections this week. A giant No to the Iran war and No to AI.
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Lee Fang
@lhfangNov 6
One of the most enduring "luxury belief" dynamics centers on Israel. The average working class voter thinks it's insane that Israel gets to dictate U.S. foreign policy and forced us into war with Iran. Yet we get lectured by the elites in media that this is somehow a great idea.
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"MAHA was destined to disappoint because of the political and philosophical contradictions at its core..." I wrote a critical assessment RFK Jr's thought and political movement for @compactmag today compactmag.com/article/mahas…
MAHA’s Identity Crisis

MAHA’s Identity Crisis

In late October, Calley Means resigned from his position as senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Great to have @ComradeDoom1 back in our pages, on MAHA's impasse and the contradictions of RFK Thought: compactmag.com/article/mahas…
MAHA’s Identity Crisis

MAHA’s Identity Crisis

In late October, Calley Means resigned from his position as senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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@compactmagNov 3
"As much as Kennedy rails against that establishment, he shares a number of its assumptions." @ComradeDoom1 on RFK and MAHA's identity crisis: compactmag.com/article/mahas…
MAHA’s Identity Crisis

MAHA’s Identity Crisis

In late October, Calley Means resigned from his position as senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Guy who voted for Trump because he’d keep us out of endless wars in the Middle East
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favorite new releases of 2026: Inferno by Boards of Canada (music), The Rouse by China Mieville (books), and, yes, You Can See Everything (movies). AI hasn't killed the arts yet!
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great review of the new biography. Kunkel breaks the taboo that has been in effect since Harold Bloom canonized Blood Meridian; the Judge's philosophy of war is not scary, it's hokey as hell.
Benjamin Kunkel (@kunktation) profile pictureBenjamin Kunkel@kunktationOct 21
I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
The Style Is Father of the Man, by Benjamin Kunkel

The Style Is Father of the Man, by Benjamin Kunkel

On a new life of Cormac McCarthy

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I wrote about Cormac McCarthy (including the new biography) for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2026/11/…
The Style Is Father of the Man, by Benjamin Kunkel

The Style Is Father of the Man, by Benjamin Kunkel

On a new life of Cormac McCarthy

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though she does have a shady marriage in her past she doesn't want to talk about, it still seems unlikely Ilhan Omar married her own brother. She may have married someone for fraudulent immigration purposes but it's just porn to say it was her brother archive.is/1mXLr
New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage hist…

New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage hist…

archived 21 Jan 2026 14:02:07 UTC

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biggest revelation from the new Cormac McCarthy biography is that he befriended the unabomber's brother and helped console David Kacysnski for the guilt he felt about turning his brother in. This seems to have been the one un-selfish thing Cormac ever did.
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I first read this article a decade ago and have never known what to make of it. Maybe the time has come to talk openly about men being sexually assaulted by women. vice.com/en/article/the-hidd…
The Hidden Epidemic of Men Who Are Raped by Women

The Hidden Epidemic of Men Who Are Raped by Women

According to dominant stereotypes, men can't be sexually assaulted by women. But according to a new, wide-ranging study, around two-thirds of men who report sexual victimization say their assailant...

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if it's true that women can and do r*pe men, what reason is there to give more credit to Jane Doe's claim that male # 1 r*ped her than vice versa? At that point you're just picking whether you like boys or girls more, no?
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@mtraceyOct 6
A few years ago the equivalent of these student protesters would've been chanting Defund the Police, "ACAB," and other prison abolitionist slogans
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So... Anthropic believes that they’re creating a conscious being that may well kill us all and that we need be concerned about hurting the feelings of this new being? that's actually how the company understands their project? nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)

Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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(to paraphrase Stavrogin, I believe in God because I have seen the devil at work...
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Bogus rape statistics have been circulating for a long, long time. Here's an article from 2000 debunking the claim that only 2 percent or rape claims are false. digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/v…
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getting a lot of bookmarks, that's encouraging. I came back to this cursed website to be a humble conduit of truth
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I first discovered this article over a decade ago, well before #MeToo. The rape panic just never ends. It's such an emotional subject that even just trying to learn empirical facts is dangerous,
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I was seriously thinking about voting Democrat again, so it's good to be reminded of their position on due process. A party that gives in like this to moral panics every single time isn't fit to govern
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@mtraceyOct 2
As usual, nothing unites the Dem Party coalition like RAPE Whether it's the renegade "DSA" left, or their "establishment" Dem nemeses, they all inevitably unite to declare that RAPISTS definitely did RAPE the SURVIVORS -- no matter how comically non-credible the actual evidence
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