Niall O'Connor
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Niall O'Connor
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Contingency.
Trump is clearly well versed on Mao’s On Contradiction and the general principles of dialectical materialism 😜
April 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
One way or another, things are always contaminated by interpretative fantasies.
April 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Always a reliable indicator.
April 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Navarro miscalculated: he underestimated both the adaptability of the Chinese economy and Beijing’s capacity to mobilise countermeasures. The US is now stuck in a veritable double bind. 200% anyone?
April 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Isn’t an atheist just somebody who seals a pact of eternal fidelity with the notion of God?
April 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In Trump’s symbolic economy, China can be seen as a bad object projected outward in order to preserve a grandiose, idealised self-image - nationalistically inflated and psychically defensive (per Andre Green on the negative hallucination).
April 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
He has revealed his hand.
April 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM