Roger Lancaster

Not entirely pleased to be outed as a Nietzschean : diagnostic.millermanschool.com

@FeedbackRobust @phl43 I’ve tested ChatGPT by giving it passages from books or essays I published years ago. AI will often claim that it generated the text.

@phl43 Eh, the AIs are jealous, a quality all truly intelligent beings are capable of.

I always knew that Lincoln was a fraud.

The war on Iran is a massive, systemic failure of the US political system. No one but the military contracts and Israel fanatics wants it. It's terrible for Americans, for the whole world. Where is the opposition party? Where are the checks and balances? Where is democracy?

Israel is not a modern democracy as long as they allow Jim Crow style violence every single week. It is like the U.S. before the Civil Rights Act a deeply hypocritical and flawed state.

Iran has made it clear that there is no going back to the way things were—crippling sanctions and constant threats from US military bases in the Gulf states. Given that political agreements are seen as meaningless and diplomacy as deceptive, Iran has decided that the US must be expelled from the region. The Gulf states cannot survive without access to the Strait of Hormuz; their access may therefore be conditioned on paying taxes as reparations and selling their oil in other currencies to end the petrodollar system that ties the US to the region. This war will prove to have been a historic mistake— as the effort to restore global primacy only intensified its demise. Yet in our local media, the propaganda is still organised around the saviour narrative of “liberating women” and “helping protesters”. This is similar to the absurd narrative of the Ukraine War, where the effort of using Ukrainians to impose a strategic defeat on Russia is sold to the public as NATO "helping" Ukraine defend its sovereignty. If the West wants to maximise its security and end these conflicts on favourable terms, it must break free from the narratives it has created.

What do Americans consider immoral? Dive deeper into our U.S. morality report: pewresearch.org/religion/2026/…

@RubenGallego And they say Americans are litigious.

How hot could it be? It’s Mexican food in New York City.

Habermas's critics have a point: he didn't mention fishwives or explore less pessimistic paths to the present. But if you liked Fraser's response, then you should be happy with our fragmented, compartmentalized media spheres today, where no one aspires to "the common good."

@ZaidJilani Childcare, universal healthcare.

Taxes are necessary and Democrats should defend them. But part of the reason Americans don’t like them is they see the government not delivering for people. So new taxes should be linked to new popular programs like childcare.

Supposedly the dime returns to normal in 2027.

China is the big winner of Trumps foreign policy

A lot of liberals hate Sheinbaum because she exposes them as frauds and shows what could be possible with strong leadership.

Ok this is legit funny

Claudia Sheinbaum getting done what Obama and Biden refused to do, giving the working and middle classes debt relief.

Graham Platner: “The anti-trans campaign in Maine is funded by an out-of-state billionaire to make sure we have this discussion and we don’t talk about raising his taxes. That’s why it exists. I think there are like two trans kids that compete in high school sports in Maine? There are 40K Mainers who are going to lose healthcare because of the lack of the ACA extension. One of those things seems very important and real to me. One of them seems like an invented culture war scare to keep people divided”

@RestrictedDaily this doesn't look like a studio session, as Grok surmises; it looks like the Johnny Cash Show.

Two of my all-time favorites: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. When they sat down together and recorded Girl from the North Country, it wasn’t just a duet… it was a moment in time.

“This very well could turn into the largest disruption of oil markets in history.” @crampell and JVL discuss the effects of the Iran war on the economy.

I can imagine how people must feel to see their city on fire, not because I have had this experience, but because I can "change places in fancy," as A. Smith put it. This faculty, the basic mechanism of moral sentiment, should be cultivated; its absence should be denounced.

I, who am descended from peasants Detest seeing Bread thrown away. You can understand How I hate their war. Brecht, "Finland 1940"