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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 1d

In the US academia is becoming unviable outside the R1 environment. And soon it will be unviable outside the ultra-elite tier of R1s. The UK is in a similar situation. The few European institutions in the global/Anglo R1 game are holding up for now, but it’s scary.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah no that’s more of a weird side effect of Protestantism + exactness, sigh. We’ll cure it eventually

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 6d

Nah it’s the mystical screechers who riff off the artists

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 9d

😭

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 9d

It’s not true that philosophy has no empirical results to show for itself. The results are the empirical sciences philosophy birthed. Next level stuff.

NB They were birthed from the exactness & clarity-seeking bits of philosophy, not from the mystical screeching side of things.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 13d

None of which is to say that MAGA will win. Most Americans won’t stand for this kind of thing. But we won’t see the generously sponsored, glitzy social movements we’ve grown accustomed to. It will be more like antibodies stubbornly and gradually rejecting an aggressive parasite.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 13d

Another, related problem is the taint of degenerated, elite-captured social movements that now hangs over even the noblest initiatives to resist the MAGA thugs. Parts of the lib left made themselves so annoying and toxic that all sorts of good causes are crippled by association.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 13d

A structural obstacle to mobilising against ICE executing people in the street is the lack of incentives of the sort we saw with the diversity-industrial complex around other social movements. The elite can’t launder their privilege by putting undocumented migrants in boardrooms.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14d

There is nothing they wouldn’t defend, and no lie too big.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14d

Nobody’s saying it should be the norm, just that it shouldn’t be seen as something to apologise for

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 15d

Yes. Sour grapes and fear of the unfamiliar make this disgusting yet hyper-popular political cocktail

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15d

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 15d

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 16d

Libs love Carney’s speech but when radical realists say 93% of the same things they clutch their pearls 🤷🏻‍♂️

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 17d

He climbed down fast

Monica Azzolini @m-azzolini.bsky.social · 18d

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 18d

If he doesn't climb down fast, Trump will be deposed, one way or another.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 29d

Climate change denialism and worrying about controlling the arctic don’t go together.

Post-truth is cooked, get ready for post-coherence.

enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · Jan 9

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