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Risk and Extortion LXV: Nationalism as Mythopoesis
“Nationalism is the conviction that a nation is superior not through principle, justice, or collective accomplishment, but because one happens to have been born on its soil—preferably to parents and… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXIV: Live Aid
Overcoming the Negative Dialectics of Hedonism. Yesterday, exactly 40 years ago, on the 13th of July 1985, the Live Aid Concerts took place in two locations: The Wembley Stadium in… Read more.
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Risk and Extortiion LXIII: On the Prohibition of Holocaust Comparisons
Policing Language and Cancel Culture In a “conversation with” ChatGPT, I was told that I “needed to be careful with invoking comparisions between the Shoah and other genocides without collapsing… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXII: David Draiman is Disturbed
On July 5th, 2025, David Draiman (from the band Disturbed) performed at the “Back to the Beginning” farewell concert for Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne at Villa Park in Birmingham,… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXI: Can Common Sense Save Us?
The Vanishing of the Epstein-Maxwell Axis In the “West”, the growing rift between leading politicians and mainstream media on the one hand and “most ordinary people” on the other hand… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LX: The Rehabilitation of Terrorism
Benjamin Netanyahu made his name in Israeli politics for continuously associating the Palestinian people with terrorism. He rose to prominence in the 1970s by repeating the message about the risks… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LIX: Cultivating Hate, Cultivating Hope
Lessons from the Third Reich In many western nation states, criticizing the Zionist Project – including its operationalizations in genocide, war crimes and ethnic cleansing – is being defined as… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LVIII: Incels and Sycophants
58. Right wing militia and the manosphere 4 However, rather than blaming incels for their embrace of toxic masculinity, we should at least have the courage to identify the structural… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion XVII: The Devaluation of All Values
Right wing militia and the manosphere 3 The fascist takeover of Europe in the 1920s and the fascist takeover of the USA over the last decade could never have happened… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LVI: Castration Anxiety
Right wing militia and the manosphere 2 The incels and self-appointed alpha males (chads) of the manosphere are not, however, the worst kind of men. That honour belies the mouthpieces… Read more.
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