Ludwig W

“Eppur si muove” - “And yet it moves” phrase attributed to Galileo as the Establishment threatened him for Heresy for asserting the Earth moves around the Sun

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@jack @jack @TwitterSafety @TwitterSupport @bluesky

To the Totalitarian Overlords, a comment to your oh-so-lofty statements coming after ensuring the “right” people are in power & help killing of actual dissent.

Alternatively could’ve summed up it in a two word retort.

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@ggreenwald The recent Dem establishment anti-scientific stance on COVID-19 transmission that one type of gatherings are fine & others dangerous depending on politics is inevitably going to deepen skepticism of those who already think alarms abt COVID-19/Climate Change are a neoliberal plot

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

"We’re watching an intellectual revolution undertaken by a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts - Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness." https://t.co/MHXoAy9U5e

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@nytopinion @nytimesworld @nytmedia An old article written in August 2014 about the increasing blowback of aggressive US Foreign Policy abroad, often cheered on by the media including the @nytimes on US domestic matters https://t.co/OlPHm7wmPl

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@MarkAmesExiled Presumably if George Floyd was killed or others are beaten up Live on camera filmed by those @hunterw objects to, it didn’t happen. This is “intellectually honest” journalism.

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@TheTakeaway @KarenAttiah One reason the Pentagon is leery about using the military domestically is a) their more extreme methods will become crystal clear to US citizens; b) many in the military may develop a conscience that will detract from the killing machines they are trained to be.

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@TheTakeaway @KarenAttiah Exactly. When the topic is about using US military abroad in the latest adventure dreamed up in DC, the price is some *other* people abroad (invariably brown or black) so the issue is more about danger to US troops or money and media is quick to join in cheering troops on.

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@SominiSengupta @ABarnardNYT @bariweiss Interesting that the NYT only has this "civil war" when the issue is what to do *within* US. NYT has no problem either in its Opinion or News divisions of cheering on use of US military abroad whether it is for "Nat Sec" (Right) or "Responsibility To Protect" ("Left")

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@nytmedia You have standards?

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@27khv @politico @ProSyn This proves again that the way US and allied media work is by writing out the Pulitzer winning narrative “Russia/Putin is Evil” first and cherry picking data to support the narrative while the same data for (say) Germany is used to paint it in a favorable light. 4/

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@27khv @politico @ProSyn While both Germany and Russia have had reports of problems with PPEs in various hospitals, both have (so far) had hospitalization cases well below average capacity.

Yet Merkel (a leader who has been in power for 15 straight years) is praised by US media while Putin condemned 3/

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@mayavada @theintercept @mehdirhasan Either way I’d be interested in his opinion on how he’d vote in a non-swing state.

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@mayavada @theintercept @mehdirhasan Chomsky teaches in AZ but I though his residence was still in MA?

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@ggreenwald And it’s unclear if the recepients of US Gov violence - either direct or indirect - abroad care very much whether they’re orders by humanitarian-loving Dems or capitalism-loving GOP (actually the GOP is just being honest). And at least Trump so far hasn’t started a shooting war

[Ludwig W @LudWitt]

@ggreenwald Take Biden - if the only argument for him to committed progressives is “hey at least he’s not as bad as Trump” then one has to wonder if there was any incentive for the Dem establishment to get someone other than this doddering relic who is long past his put-out-to-pasture date