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Mietzschevelli

@geminipages.bsky.social

Physics undergrad, agnostic atheist, social democrat interests: neo-Roman republicanism, class analysis, materialism, labor movement, populism, catholicism, distributism, institutionalism, fallibilism, pluralism, pragmatism, realism, universalism

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Lost Mike@lostmike.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I don't know much about the "American Affairs Journal" or author Malcom Kyeyune, but I came across this article while searching for information about the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigates, and it felt like it was putting its finger on the root cause of the rot in military procurement.

America’s National Security Wonderland - American Affairs Journal

While America is battling exhaustion and political polarization at home, it is now facing something it’s never faced abroad: it is locked into a security competition against multiple opponents who, wh...

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Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · last mo.

Dropping April 2027. My longest, most ambitious book, The Triumph of Normal is also a statement of deep optimism. It challenges doomers, Left and Right, by showing the resilience of religion, family, politics, and creativity under the most ferocious anti-normality attacks.

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Mietzschevelli@geminipages.bsky.social · last mo.

The progressive wokes today attach themselves so strongly to social justice because what they actually want is to detach themselves from their duties, responsibilities, self-control, traditions, and actual productive work.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A thinking Catholic can reason with a liberal or even a Marxist about the human good, sometimes agreeing, sometimes (ferociously) disagreeing. You can't reason with aggressive particularists of our time. They retreat to the impregnable fortresses of their invented traditions.

Mietzschevelli@geminipages.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The bündnis sahra wagenknecht (BSW) stands as the only german political party whose membership universally mirrors pope's and the church's strict anti-war principles across the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and the wider middle east.

Sohrab Ahmari@sohrabahmari.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There is no theorizing Trumpism (believe me, I devoted more energy to it than almost anyone else circa 2017-2019). I increasingly share Francis Fukuyama's view that it's just the follies of one especially unvirtuous man, now aggravated and now checked by his grasping hangers-on.

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