Nora Grinberg
@noragrinberg.bsky.social
Yes, this person is disturbed by the diversity of options, but the reason is not that now they feel as an outcast. The reason is that before, they were the default, dominant option, and now they are just one of many, which for them means losing power. It's always about power.
December 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yes, this person is disturbed by the diversity of options, but the reason is not that now they feel as an outcast. The reason is that before, they were the default, dominant option, and now they are just one of many, which for them means losing power. It's always about power.
I don't dispute that. Right wingers will vote right. But my feeling, not based on research data, is that parties like Reform, MAGA or Milei's LLA, contain an element of rebellion in them, as in "if the system doesn't work for me, let it all go to hell". This isn't just traditional right wing voting.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don't dispute that. Right wingers will vote right. But my feeling, not based on research data, is that parties like Reform, MAGA or Milei's LLA, contain an element of rebellion in them, as in "if the system doesn't work for me, let it all go to hell". This isn't just traditional right wing voting.
This and other forms of social suffering are part of the problem, but seems to me there's an unquantifiable yet essential cause of the shift rightwards: disappointment and humiliation caused by the betrayal of social democrats and the failure of democracy to provide hope for the future.
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This and other forms of social suffering are part of the problem, but seems to me there's an unquantifiable yet essential cause of the shift rightwards: disappointment and humiliation caused by the betrayal of social democrats and the failure of democracy to provide hope for the future.
Inside each one of us there is a little Nazi. Most of us manage to keep it under control, but some people will unleash their inner beast if they perceive that it no longer carries a social sanction, as a way of venting some unconscious grievance, or to earn some advantage, consciously or not.
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Inside each one of us there is a little Nazi. Most of us manage to keep it under control, but some people will unleash their inner beast if they perceive that it no longer carries a social sanction, as a way of venting some unconscious grievance, or to earn some advantage, consciously or not.
The new photo doesn't show the toilet. Is this on purpose, so that people don't start imagining Trump using it?
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The new photo doesn't show the toilet. Is this on purpose, so that people don't start imagining Trump using it?
Not sure this is a good comparison. Children aren't born hating difference. Hating and bullying are learned. Gay and trans kids know who they are without anybody teaching them.
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Not sure this is a good comparison. Children aren't born hating difference. Hating and bullying are learned. Gay and trans kids know who they are without anybody teaching them.
It really doesn't matter. Musk's problem is not intellectual, it's moral and emotional. He's convinced of his own superiority, he believes he can and should thrive at other people's expense, that it is all a game and winner takes all. No amount of books can change that.
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It really doesn't matter. Musk's problem is not intellectual, it's moral and emotional. He's convinced of his own superiority, he believes he can and should thrive at other people's expense, that it is all a game and winner takes all. No amount of books can change that.
The distinction of gender and sex is only a didactic device. In practice, as Judith Butler explains, it's all gender. Of course there is a material dimension to the body independently of how we conceive it, but we are incapable of thinking about sex without imbuing it with gender.
October 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The distinction of gender and sex is only a didactic device. In practice, as Judith Butler explains, it's all gender. Of course there is a material dimension to the body independently of how we conceive it, but we are incapable of thinking about sex without imbuing it with gender.
Guglielmo Marconi
Maria Montessori
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Antonio Gramsci
Maria Montessori
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Antonio Gramsci
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Guglielmo Marconi
Maria Montessori
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Antonio Gramsci
Maria Montessori
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Antonio Gramsci
True, but by engaging with GC arguments you only play into their hands. Thing is, you cannot discuss unfair advantages without a) defining what an unfair advantage is, and b) framing the discussion on individual performance, not identity.
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
True, but by engaging with GC arguments you only play into their hands. Thing is, you cannot discuss unfair advantages without a) defining what an unfair advantage is, and b) framing the discussion on individual performance, not identity.
זה תלוי איך מגדירים סיוט
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
זה תלוי איך מגדירים סיוט
By targeting the weakest, the right wing aims at destroying social solidarity and promoting the idea that weakness is bad, powerless people are undeserving failures, and power and success are the ideal values.
October 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
By targeting the weakest, the right wing aims at destroying social solidarity and promoting the idea that weakness is bad, powerless people are undeserving failures, and power and success are the ideal values.
Give some thought to the two meanings of the word "sex". Sex means 1, The reproductive process, which in humans requires two different gametes etc. 2, A way to classify individuals according to their capacity to reproduce. This is non binary, as many people aren't binary male or female.
September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Give some thought to the two meanings of the word "sex". Sex means 1, The reproductive process, which in humans requires two different gametes etc. 2, A way to classify individuals according to their capacity to reproduce. This is non binary, as many people aren't binary male or female.
Trump was busy ending all those other wars and had no time left for Portland. Now it is ravaged he'll have to rebuild it from scratch. But no worries, he'll make Portland great again, just as he's making America.
September 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Trump was busy ending all those other wars and had no time left for Portland. Now it is ravaged he'll have to rebuild it from scratch. But no worries, he'll make Portland great again, just as he's making America.
But that's the gist of the matter. Transphobes insist on treating an issue as binary when it is clearly not, so there is no way to stop contradictions from cropping up. Also they oversimplify, as if the only relevant parameters are biological, ignoring political, ethical & social implications.
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
But that's the gist of the matter. Transphobes insist on treating an issue as binary when it is clearly not, so there is no way to stop contradictions from cropping up. Also they oversimplify, as if the only relevant parameters are biological, ignoring political, ethical & social implications.
בעיניי מרתקים הרבה יותר האנשים שקונים את הלוקשים האלה, המנגנונים שמאפשרים את הרמייה, האפשרויות הלא ממומשות שבפקפוק ומרד.
September 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
בעיניי מרתקים הרבה יותר האנשים שקונים את הלוקשים האלה, המנגנונים שמאפשרים את הרמייה, האפשרויות הלא ממומשות שבפקפוק ומרד.
Plus, it is speculation at best. No evidence has been found of such a link.
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Plus, it is speculation at best. No evidence has been found of such a link.
Actually it's even weirder than that: The Jewish New Year is actually celebrated in the seventh month, Tishrei. The first month is Nisan, roughly April.
September 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Actually it's even weirder than that: The Jewish New Year is actually celebrated in the seventh month, Tishrei. The first month is Nisan, roughly April.
He was vicious, but he could be so because the social consensus around him was vicious too.
September 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
He was vicious, but he could be so because the social consensus around him was vicious too.
Cis people are unaware of having a gender identity. They experience it as given. This survey seems to refer to gender expression. Plus, men are by far more insecure regarding their manliness. Women may feel they aren't up to par as women, but question a man's being a man and he crumbles.
September 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Cis people are unaware of having a gender identity. They experience it as given. This survey seems to refer to gender expression. Plus, men are by far more insecure regarding their manliness. Women may feel they aren't up to par as women, but question a man's being a man and he crumbles.
Members of dominant groups see their own position as pure reality, while the weaker groups experiences are perceived as less real. Claims and actions against the hegemonic group's domination are therefore seen as disruptions of reality and violent by definition.
September 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Members of dominant groups see their own position as pure reality, while the weaker groups experiences are perceived as less real. Claims and actions against the hegemonic group's domination are therefore seen as disruptions of reality and violent by definition.
ובאונת מוח כרותה
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ובאונת מוח כרותה
Another right wing media paradox. Like people with huge platforms complaining to audiences of millions that they're being cancelled.
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Another right wing media paradox. Like people with huge platforms complaining to audiences of millions that they're being cancelled.