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Jan 4, 2023·edited Jan 4, 2023Liked by Rurik Skywalker

'As in Deleuze's 'Diagram' concept, in which the painting or figure is reformulated as a representative schematic, whereby the pre- and post-verbal ideas of the viewer are given graphical form, thus reversing the traditional subject/object paradigm by imposing significance retroactively, we advance a visual expression of the 'Russia-Strong' (or 'Strong Russia') National Idea, wherein the polarity of good/bad is defined as strength/weakness (with strength being good, and weakness bad), to serve as a theoretical lens for the analysis and deconstruction of the dominant liberal paradigm. We situate this critique in the tradition of Foucault: the discourse on Russian liberalism recapitulates similar expressions of post-war sexuality, specifically homosexuality - this thesis therefore exists in the liminal space of pre/post-nationality, dominance/submission, and a marginalised and otherised identity, now inverted and reclaimed as 'strong' (active-subject) as opposed to weak (passive-object).'

(for your midwit polysyllabic justification)

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my eyes glazed over and i felt nauseous before i even reached the second sentence.

well done.

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It can't be true unless it references French paedo-philosophers

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😂 Well played

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Nobody knows what is going on in Ukraine except people of modern military background who are actually there. Even so, such a person does not know the NATO politics. Most pundits look at mortality, which is irrelevant. By mid winter this will be a missile war and Russia holds all the aces.

That is all I know. But now for my motivation.

The US has invaded and occupied 60 nations since WWII, including my country of Australia. As I speak, the US has eight bases in my region and I want them out. I figure if Putin beats NATO, the US will be forced to pull back troops to bridge the gap. So that is my bias. Hence I want Putin to target all energy, transport, and supply hubs with Zircons and Vangards. Then wipe out the US.

Am I simple? Hell yes.

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I'm not making any predictions about winter.

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You say "nobody knows" then you say "Russia holds all" - but Russian forces may have suffered HUNDREDS of deaths in a "missile" attack on a barracks the location of which (some say) they were revealing on open, public communication channels.

Not a good start to the year.

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It is the best podacast I have heard so far. Rolo, I would very much like to acess you paid stuff, but I am Russian, live in Russia and my credit cards don't make international transactions due to the sanctions ( I think all Russians have this problem). Is there any way to acces your paid material from Russia? Thanks.

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Yeah you can sign up for my Russian language content.

https://boosty.to/cdpodcast

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Haha I forgot about Kony 2012.

That whole thing was a faux-grassroots campaign to justify a US incursion into central Africa which ironically was conscripted some child soldiers. Danny Haiphong is kind of a gay, but he wrote a pretty good article about it on globalresearch.ca.

All the moral framework BS in the West is just deliberately engineered propaganda to manufacture consent. In the past everything was twisted to conform to Christian sensibilities and now it's wokeness. It's especially hilarious when they get people to support something that fundamentally contradicts the morals of their audience. How else can you convince a Christian population to support exploitation of Africa in the 1800s? How else can you convince MSNBC watching liberals to support genocide in Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen and Nazis in Ukraine?

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The point about diversity, that is actual diversity of peoples is spot on.There is no Japanese culture,no Italian culture, no German culture or Greek or Korean or anything for that matter.Same architecture,same vapid celebrity culture,same lugenpresse,same mercantile cultural focus that can't see beyond the bottom line,same mercantile owners.There's nothing left.No unique expression of a people AS a people.Just economic units being shuffled around while being presented the same warmed over pig trough-tier feed of free market is the best,anal is the best,whites are the worst etc etc.They just happen to wear different clothes while they do it.And the ''conservatives'' aren't any better,consistently capitulating on EVERY single point of note decade after decade.Have you seen Jordan Peterson's conservative manifesto?One of the most pathetic attempts at appealing to the left i've seen in years.Why is he even attempting a conservative view,he's openly said he's center left.Yet this is what passes for conservative thinking.The intellectual equivalent of a turd circling the drain but won't quite flush.

Also, years ago I went through my own libertarian phase.However I have a pattern seeking brain and couldn't stop noticing that economy tends to be levied against dissenters in a way that is decidedly not free market.The phase didn't last long.

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why would you click on a podcast link and then get mad that there was nothing to read?

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