Well Done! Couldn’t agree more. Keep up all your good work! Many hands, hearts and voices together speaking truth will erode the hastily constructed “walls” set to divide us.
Thanks, Rachael, but I'll settle for a few more clear thinking environmentalists like yourself. Let the virus spread as it does. Most important news IMHO is the new Hansen, e.al., paper reporting the C3S data that the global ave. surface temp has increased 0.4 degC over the 1919-2020 baseline in just the past two yrs., so 0.2 degC ANNUALLY, and, on this trend line, that will bring us to 3 degC+ by 2032, when worldwide flora will be dying off and the fauna with it, let alone when we hit 6 degC in 2047. Any of the 108,000 children born today will be turning 22 when we hit the unlivable 6 degC. Now, that's NEWS. Have a blessed day!
One of my unusually helpful senior managers in substance misuse treatment told me once that I could challenge other managers most successfully if I knew the Orange Book (the bible’ of treatment practice) inside out. He was right and I was able to call ‘bullshit’ a few times. Most empowering!
I found a good interview with a Harvard University economist (rather surprised…) named Dani Rodrik that calls bullshit on where we are now with the rise in right-wing autocratic power. Below is an edited snippet from that talk:
Ralph Ranalli: It seems to me that a lot of this is about, for lack of a better term, reconnecting economics and economic models to democracy…I think we've seen a lot of flaws exposed, not just in our economic system, but also in our democratic system lately…one of the fallouts of neoliberalism and hyper globalism is…large numbers of people who feel like they've been left behind by that system, and then you get the rise of right wing authoritarian and populist politics that is essentially anti-democratic.
Dani Rodrik: I think the key is to understand that one of our central dichotomies—which is embedded actually in the way that neoliberalism thinks—is this dichotomy between the market and the state, or the firms and the government. This dichotomy makes absolutely no sense at all. It doesn't make any sense because every successful market economy requires rules. And those rules are determined and set, in large part, by the state, by the public authorities. So rather than this being a market versus state thing, it's always market and state…the moment you realize that a market economy requires rules, whether it's rules with respect to product standards, consumer information, about anti-competitive behavior, about macroeconomic policies that stabilize, aggregate demand, property rights and contract enforcement, which has to be provided by the state, the whole ecosystem of investments in infrastructure, research and development in education and training, which the states do by and large…democracy…is the institution that establishes other institutions, including the rules that govern the management of the economy…so rather than being something that is in tension with the economy, that causes us to worry about whether it is going to be too much state ... it's really our rule making machine without which we cannot do.
Ralph Ranalli: I think since Reagan we've had, not just the dichotomy between the market and government, we've had outright hostility towards the notion of government itself in a lot of cases, but especially government interventions in regulations and rule making…
Dani Rodrik: …I think you're right that since the 1980s and the Thatcher and Reagan revolution, that the way that we've talked about these issues have made many people, including most notable, of course, corporations and corporate leaders, think about government and regulation as the opposition and as a hostile force…I think the wiser and the more thoughtful among them clearly understand that…firms would be nowhere, including international corporations, without the laws and regulations and support of their host government and their home governments.
Rachel. 'Gender affirming care'? What the hell even is that? I call Bullshit on gender ideology. There are 2 sexes, one with large gametes the other with small. However, we don't need to accept our gender roles associated with that sex, nor 'transition' to the other, to be who we already are. Gender ideology is sexist. It promotes brutal surgery and life-long drugs to young people (those with learning disabilities being disproportionately represented among them) who are somewhat, and understandably, confused about themselves. There is no evidence that 'gender affirming care' benefits these people. In fact, there is mounting evidence to the contrary. If there hadn't been such unquestioning acceptance of aggressively pushed transactivism that destroys women's and girl's protected rights to same sex toilets, changing rooms and prisons, we wouldn't have sickening images of them surrounding their hero, Trump, for doing the common sense thing of banning men from women's sports. Trump doesn't support women. He wants them back in the home and denied reproductive rights.
And USAID was your typical neoliberal political regime changing bribing strings attached arm of US Imperialism. Trump gets free points for for getting rid of it.
Trump doesn't need covert CIA or NGO manipulation of other countries. He's just going to say, out loud, that he'll turn Gaza into a holiday camp for White people and steal Syrian oil and Palestinian gas etc etc.
Jo. Your anti-trans propaganda word vomit is tired, boring, and completely misses the point of Ms. Donald's post. Your little tangent spits in the face of her suggestion that everyone of all stripes should set aside our differences and band together. Read the room.
I am certainly not ‘anti-trans’ and does ‘little tangent’ refer to the biggest medical malpractice suit waiting to happen or to previously abused and vulnerable women being locked up along side unrepentant double rapists with fully functioning cock and balls?
I think both our comments highlight the impossibility of those of different ‘stripes’, who are crying Bullshit at different things, ‘banding’ together at all.
Do I assume that the ‘room’ is crying Bullshit at everything that Trump says or does regardless?
Please be open in mind and spirit that Trump may actually be the most effective anti-imperialist and anti-colonialost president that we have had in 100+ years. If he is able to get Russia, China, and the US toncut military expenditures in half, that is the end of empire, globally. Then the colony question becomes by whom, and what qualifies. But the old European colonialists will be done. Let's check back in six months and see how it is going.
David Stockman laid it out in glorious detail today.
Probably true actually. Doesn’t stop his being an accelerationist approach to fasttrack the coming societal upheaval/collapse with increasing chances it gets very violent.
Wow, thanks for sharing your perspective. It reads utterly ludicrous. Trump is not even half of the issue here(, and he obviously is one). For a fine treatise on MElon’s club of neo-nazi accelerationists, I recommend watching: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=cL6xuhK5SIz6n4qG
I was responding to your desire of wanting a government (and world?) that is not imperialist, colonialist, or capitalist. My point is that Trump's "alignment" with Russia leaves the imperialist, colonialist West European nations in the cold (Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.).
And Musk and DOGE are attacking the government's main gateway to imperialism, colonialism and fascism (government/corporate acting together). That is USAID. Listen to Mike Benz's interview with Tucker Carlson. The point of USAID was to fund imperialism and to pave the way for US corporate colonialism.
My friend, if you’re horny for the prospect of living under autocratic rule in a former nation cut up in privatized network states (unhindered by regulatory or democratic oversight), with a neo-nazi veneer of ‘progress’ (or a return) towards a purified people, vindictive towards anyone or anything that stands in its way, then I don’t envy you.
The Righteous mind is a nonattractive title. Everybody watch John Haidt's Tedtalks about his peer reviewed research for that book. Two human styles alike in dignity...the more left liberal can be cartooned to be dilettantes , the conservative one half of the tens of thousands of interview subjects Haidt studied caricatured as both team loyalists and respecters of the person in highest office. Those attitudes in Haidt's research are established early in life, by 6 or 7. What makes this useful was that people will own to their side of this division. And one can know who might sabotage your plans, and who will jump to your aid. Take the skinheads bowling? If you are flush with time on your hands, try not to give yourself away if you are planning to stop traffic.
Well Done! Couldn’t agree more. Keep up all your good work! Many hands, hearts and voices together speaking truth will erode the hastily constructed “walls” set to divide us.
Thanks, Rachael, but I'll settle for a few more clear thinking environmentalists like yourself. Let the virus spread as it does. Most important news IMHO is the new Hansen, e.al., paper reporting the C3S data that the global ave. surface temp has increased 0.4 degC over the 1919-2020 baseline in just the past two yrs., so 0.2 degC ANNUALLY, and, on this trend line, that will bring us to 3 degC+ by 2032, when worldwide flora will be dying off and the fauna with it, let alone when we hit 6 degC in 2047. Any of the 108,000 children born today will be turning 22 when we hit the unlivable 6 degC. Now, that's NEWS. Have a blessed day!
Thanks Rachel. Calling bullshit on those who are just throwing bullshit is indeed a wise tradition.
lovely piece of writing that connects because its true, thanks xxxx
One of my unusually helpful senior managers in substance misuse treatment told me once that I could challenge other managers most successfully if I knew the Orange Book (the bible’ of treatment practice) inside out. He was right and I was able to call ‘bullshit’ a few times. Most empowering!
Speaking of Orange please check out an essay describing what the Orange Oaf (aka Trumpzilla) is doing.
There's a Term For What Trump & Musk Are Doing by Anne Applebaum
As an addition to the last line, perhaps: we need each other because we disagree, and thank you for this :)
Beautiful, Anya!
I found a good interview with a Harvard University economist (rather surprised…) named Dani Rodrik that calls bullshit on where we are now with the rise in right-wing autocratic power. Below is an edited snippet from that talk:
Ralph Ranalli: It seems to me that a lot of this is about, for lack of a better term, reconnecting economics and economic models to democracy…I think we've seen a lot of flaws exposed, not just in our economic system, but also in our democratic system lately…one of the fallouts of neoliberalism and hyper globalism is…large numbers of people who feel like they've been left behind by that system, and then you get the rise of right wing authoritarian and populist politics that is essentially anti-democratic.
Dani Rodrik: I think the key is to understand that one of our central dichotomies—which is embedded actually in the way that neoliberalism thinks—is this dichotomy between the market and the state, or the firms and the government. This dichotomy makes absolutely no sense at all. It doesn't make any sense because every successful market economy requires rules. And those rules are determined and set, in large part, by the state, by the public authorities. So rather than this being a market versus state thing, it's always market and state…the moment you realize that a market economy requires rules, whether it's rules with respect to product standards, consumer information, about anti-competitive behavior, about macroeconomic policies that stabilize, aggregate demand, property rights and contract enforcement, which has to be provided by the state, the whole ecosystem of investments in infrastructure, research and development in education and training, which the states do by and large…democracy…is the institution that establishes other institutions, including the rules that govern the management of the economy…so rather than being something that is in tension with the economy, that causes us to worry about whether it is going to be too much state ... it's really our rule making machine without which we cannot do.
Ralph Ranalli: I think since Reagan we've had, not just the dichotomy between the market and government, we've had outright hostility towards the notion of government itself in a lot of cases, but especially government interventions in regulations and rule making…
Dani Rodrik: …I think you're right that since the 1980s and the Thatcher and Reagan revolution, that the way that we've talked about these issues have made many people, including most notable, of course, corporations and corporate leaders, think about government and regulation as the opposition and as a hostile force…I think the wiser and the more thoughtful among them clearly understand that…firms would be nowhere, including international corporations, without the laws and regulations and support of their host government and their home governments.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/he-predicted-globalisms-failure-now-hes-planning-whats-next#transcript
❤️🌎Love it! Channeling our planets messages loud and clear.
By all means throw the bullshit, but don't get mad if you get blow back from the winds of change.
Voice of experience?
Its life... and it also smells dont you know ...so everyone can tell what you did.... but we all cannot resist doing it.
Rachel. 'Gender affirming care'? What the hell even is that? I call Bullshit on gender ideology. There are 2 sexes, one with large gametes the other with small. However, we don't need to accept our gender roles associated with that sex, nor 'transition' to the other, to be who we already are. Gender ideology is sexist. It promotes brutal surgery and life-long drugs to young people (those with learning disabilities being disproportionately represented among them) who are somewhat, and understandably, confused about themselves. There is no evidence that 'gender affirming care' benefits these people. In fact, there is mounting evidence to the contrary. If there hadn't been such unquestioning acceptance of aggressively pushed transactivism that destroys women's and girl's protected rights to same sex toilets, changing rooms and prisons, we wouldn't have sickening images of them surrounding their hero, Trump, for doing the common sense thing of banning men from women's sports. Trump doesn't support women. He wants them back in the home and denied reproductive rights.
And USAID was your typical neoliberal political regime changing bribing strings attached arm of US Imperialism. Trump gets free points for for getting rid of it.
Trump doesn't need covert CIA or NGO manipulation of other countries. He's just going to say, out loud, that he'll turn Gaza into a holiday camp for White people and steal Syrian oil and Palestinian gas etc etc.
Jo. Your anti-trans propaganda word vomit is tired, boring, and completely misses the point of Ms. Donald's post. Your little tangent spits in the face of her suggestion that everyone of all stripes should set aside our differences and band together. Read the room.
I am certainly not ‘anti-trans’ and does ‘little tangent’ refer to the biggest medical malpractice suit waiting to happen or to previously abused and vulnerable women being locked up along side unrepentant double rapists with fully functioning cock and balls?
I think both our comments highlight the impossibility of those of different ‘stripes’, who are crying Bullshit at different things, ‘banding’ together at all.
Do I assume that the ‘room’ is crying Bullshit at everything that Trump says or does regardless?
What a writer you are! What a truth teller you are! What a leader you are! I’m so inspired by you today,Rachel. Thank you.
Perfect piece. 🙇🏼♂️🔥✌🏼🌏👌
Unpopular opinion. Keep it up 👏
Please be open in mind and spirit that Trump may actually be the most effective anti-imperialist and anti-colonialost president that we have had in 100+ years. If he is able to get Russia, China, and the US toncut military expenditures in half, that is the end of empire, globally. Then the colony question becomes by whom, and what qualifies. But the old European colonialists will be done. Let's check back in six months and see how it is going.
David Stockman laid it out in glorious detail today.
Probably true actually. Doesn’t stop his being an accelerationist approach to fasttrack the coming societal upheaval/collapse with increasing chances it gets very violent.
Recommended Listening.
https://youtu.be/bk9bs0F_oIU?si=iy_MK_oehcepERWP
Thanks! Will give it a listen.
Worth it. “Reform, or a sea of blood.” What will it be?
I've been a Nate Hagens fan for a long time (back at The Oil Drum). Looking forward to it.
Wow, thanks for sharing your perspective. It reads utterly ludicrous. Trump is not even half of the issue here(, and he obviously is one). For a fine treatise on MElon’s club of neo-nazi accelerationists, I recommend watching: https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=cL6xuhK5SIz6n4qG
I was responding to your desire of wanting a government (and world?) that is not imperialist, colonialist, or capitalist. My point is that Trump's "alignment" with Russia leaves the imperialist, colonialist West European nations in the cold (Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.).
And Musk and DOGE are attacking the government's main gateway to imperialism, colonialism and fascism (government/corporate acting together). That is USAID. Listen to Mike Benz's interview with Tucker Carlson. The point of USAID was to fund imperialism and to pave the way for US corporate colonialism.
And is Musk going to fast? I agree that it's scary. I don't understand why this hasn't received more awareness. My son says that it is a huge deal. https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
It isn't necessarily that Musk & friends want to misuse date: just this staggering level of incompetence is more than bad enough.
My friend, if you’re horny for the prospect of living under autocratic rule in a former nation cut up in privatized network states (unhindered by regulatory or democratic oversight), with a neo-nazi veneer of ‘progress’ (or a return) towards a purified people, vindictive towards anyone or anything that stands in its way, then I don’t envy you.
The Righteous mind is a nonattractive title. Everybody watch John Haidt's Tedtalks about his peer reviewed research for that book. Two human styles alike in dignity...the more left liberal can be cartooned to be dilettantes , the conservative one half of the tens of thousands of interview subjects Haidt studied caricatured as both team loyalists and respecters of the person in highest office. Those attitudes in Haidt's research are established early in life, by 6 or 7. What makes this useful was that people will own to their side of this division. And one can know who might sabotage your plans, and who will jump to your aid. Take the skinheads bowling? If you are flush with time on your hands, try not to give yourself away if you are planning to stop traffic.