Dead Carl
@deadcarl.bsky.social
www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose.
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose.
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Schmittian dichotomies rule everything around me and I hate that.
little bit odd that AIPAC is clearly bad and does bad things but has turned into some kind of bogeyman for leftwingers
it's almost like no one wants to Do Politics, they just assume all their enemies are in a secret cabal that rules the party
it's almost like no one wants to Do Politics, they just assume all their enemies are in a secret cabal that rules the party
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Schmittian dichotomies rule everything around me and I hate that.
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I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
The Conspiracy Against America
National Populism and the United States
othermeans.io
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
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I need people to take a breath and take a step back if they believe this is true of how normie types are going to respond to this a year from now, or if they want to manifest this narrative to make them respond that way.
No one is really going to pay attention to the ACA subsidy vote because what matters is Democrats had leverage, people saw them use it, and people saw them give it away
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I need people to take a breath and take a step back if they believe this is true of how normie types are going to respond to this a year from now, or if they want to manifest this narrative to make them respond that way.
“Primary every Democrat” is also just not something that’s going to happen. “Primary defectors” is a lot more plausible and so a lot more threatening.
“primary every democrat” only becomes a serious threat if bsky doesn’t go goo goo babies over platner-esque candidates
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Primary every Democrat” is also just not something that’s going to happen. “Primary defectors” is a lot more plausible and so a lot more threatening.
If the eight feel betrayed on the ACA vote there’s going to be consequences in January. If bridges are burned with the defectors, it’s not clear how the GOP gets out of that shutdown.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If the eight feel betrayed on the ACA vote there’s going to be consequences in January. If bridges are burned with the defectors, it’s not clear how the GOP gets out of that shutdown.
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“The shift under Mr. Patel has struck directly at the Five Eyes relationship through the removal of senior agents who spent years fighting Islamic extremists or blunting counterintelligence threats alongside operatives from allied countries.”
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“The shift under Mr. Patel has struck directly at the Five Eyes relationship through the removal of senior agents who spent years fighting Islamic extremists or blunting counterintelligence threats alongside operatives from allied countries.”
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While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane.
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
When Pete Buttigieg says he would take medicine that makes gay men straight. What do you think is Mr. Buttigieg's attitude towards gays, men and medicine?
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane.
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
“When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!
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since we're meming about the 1911 this is genuinely one of my favorite memes of all time
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
since we're meming about the 1911 this is genuinely one of my favorite memes of all time
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Once we're in universe two healthcare isn't about winning policy concessions - although if you can, great! It's about making Republicans look awful for refusing to give on healthcare. It's a battle of political attrition, and "a vote" is probably the best ask you can get. So it's about other stuff.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Once we're in universe two healthcare isn't about winning policy concessions - although if you can, great! It's about making Republicans look awful for refusing to give on healthcare. It's a battle of political attrition, and "a vote" is probably the best ask you can get. So it's about other stuff.
“The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the shutdown if there are two Democrats and one Republican left alive, we win.” -Bluesky, apparently
any bsky poaster have a theory of victory aligned with keeping the govt shutdown indefinitely I'm all ears, because again I think I've got a history that's pretty indicative I'm more than supportive of COAs that fuck me over personally if there's a viable path to an achievable end state
Okay so again, you gonna forgo your income for another 13 months?
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
Because you're asking me and a couple million of your fellow citizens to do that, and I don't think it's too much to ask for a plausible theory of victory aligned with that COA
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the shutdown if there are two Democrats and one Republican left alive, we win.” -Bluesky, apparently
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Given the source and their having pushed some form of this story a few times the last few weeks I would hold off on being outraged for now
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Given the source and their having pushed some form of this story a few times the last few weeks I would hold off on being outraged for now
“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in the practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil – experience.”
if your ""theory"" doesn't even approach either of these very basic questions it is not worth the skeet it is posted on
sorry not sorry, fuckwads
sorry not sorry, fuckwads
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in the practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil – experience.”
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The past is a foreign country, it’s bloody awful there.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The past is a foreign country, it’s bloody awful there.
Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
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People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical: His generation inherited insecurity.
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
I profile Nalin Haley, a fascinating young man, who I believe will likely play an important role in conservative politics in years to come.
unherd.com/2025/11/why-...
Why Nikki Haley’s son went radical
unherd.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.
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If you got a call like that you’d immediately think it was a scammer
i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”
There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.
November 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
If you got a call like that you’d immediately think it was a scammer
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I really don’t find these arguments persuasive. Take this, for example, from one of the sources: this is another way of saying ‘as much water as it takes for the beef that two people consume annually’. That’s a relatively trivial amount!
May 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I really don’t find these arguments persuasive. Take this, for example, from one of the sources: this is another way of saying ‘as much water as it takes for the beef that two people consume annually’. That’s a relatively trivial amount!
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Your reminder that the Vice President of the United States was in group chats with minors when he was pushing 40 years of age, and the entire US political media is aware of this and chooses to not say anything about it
Tired: pedocon theory
Wired: pedopol media theory
Tired: pedocon theory
Wired: pedopol media theory
Media when the GOP vice president of the United States is in group chats with teenage groypers: I sleep
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Your reminder that the Vice President of the United States was in group chats with minors when he was pushing 40 years of age, and the entire US political media is aware of this and chooses to not say anything about it
Tired: pedocon theory
Wired: pedopol media theory
Tired: pedocon theory
Wired: pedopol media theory
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One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
God its so insane anakin admits to slaughtering a bunch of kids and it’s just a non factor for padme
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
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i think we do actually need to force this issue.
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
It's bad manners to force the issue but in a lot of environmental advocacy (not necessarily climate), there is remarkable ambivalence about whether or not there should be people at all.
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i think we do actually need to force this issue.
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
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If a group gets mad over condemning fucking swastikas graffitied on a Jewish space, they're not pro-Palestine.
They just fucking hate Jews and find the very real plight of Palestinians to be a convenient excuse.
All groups like this really want is brutal violence and a reason to jack off to it.
They just fucking hate Jews and find the very real plight of Palestinians to be a convenient excuse.
All groups like this really want is brutal violence and a reason to jack off to it.
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
forward.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If a group gets mad over condemning fucking swastikas graffitied on a Jewish space, they're not pro-Palestine.
They just fucking hate Jews and find the very real plight of Palestinians to be a convenient excuse.
All groups like this really want is brutal violence and a reason to jack off to it.
They just fucking hate Jews and find the very real plight of Palestinians to be a convenient excuse.
All groups like this really want is brutal violence and a reason to jack off to it.
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Media when the GOP vice president of the United States is in group chats with teenage groypers: I sleep
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Media when the GOP vice president of the United States is in group chats with teenage groypers: I sleep
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit
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it's not quite a @bretdevereaux.bsky.social five-part teaching paradox series, but i did my best to explain the underlying concept of politics hearts of iron embodies... and why "meme politics" is a good way to understand how Trump II operates
www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #51: The Meme Politics of "Hearts of Iron"
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li as she explores the concept of "meme politics," which pervades the current Trump II administration, through the historical grand strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. In realit...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
it's not quite a @bretdevereaux.bsky.social five-part teaching paradox series, but i did my best to explain the underlying concept of politics hearts of iron embodies... and why "meme politics" is a good way to understand how Trump II operates
www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
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I won’t say Dems never blow it but I will say the fact that you all say they blew it every single time makes your claims they blow things carry less weight than they otherwise would.
REPUBLICANS REJECT DEMOCRATS' OFFER TO END SHUTDOWN: GOP AIDE
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I won’t say Dems never blow it but I will say the fact that you all say they blew it every single time makes your claims they blow things carry less weight than they otherwise would.