𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗮 𝗙. 𝗦𝗮𝗮𝗱 -

Saad writes from her space as British, as African, as Muslim, but importantly to whites her are ignorant or complacent in their positions of power. A 28-day guidebook to thinking about race and power, it sounds like a great companion to as earlier read, 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺.

#books #bookreviews #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #exceptionalism #silence #whitesupremacy #allyship

How #Fascism Works

"Empires in decline are particularly susceptible to fascist politics because of this sense of loss. It is in the very nature of empire to create a hierarchy; #empires legitimize their colonial enterprises by a myth of their own #exceptionalism. In the course of decline, the population is easily led to a sense of national #humiliation that can be mobilized in fascist politics to serve various purposes."

https://sackett.net/stanley_how-fascism-works.pdf

How #Fascism Works

"Empires in decline are particularly susceptible to fascist politics because of this sense of loss. It is in the very nature of empire to create a hierarchy; #empires legitimize their colonial enterprises by a myth of their own #exceptionalism. In the course of decline, the population is easily led to a sense of national #humiliation that can be mobilized in fascist politics to serve various purposes."

https://sackett.net/stanley_how-fascism-works.pdf

An Exceptional problem.

The English language is full of exceptions. So is the culture that speaks it. "ghoting" is really pronounced "fishing" with this in mind.

Why is this troubling to me? Because it is the case in our society. One would say "but that isn't in context" to say it like that. Yes, exactly why it is the problem. The exceptional problem is prevelent in the powers of the cultures that speak it, and they dictate the acceptable exceptions, while casting out the ones that follow the same rules of exception, but they do not like.

This is how empire culture gains. We are different than them. This is how racism keeps going. The powerful are the "exceptions". Exceptionalism pushes people to mask and do things outside reasonable norm structures, often to the delight of, you guessed it, those in power who would exploit that novel exception. OR, they are threatened by it, and do what all power does, which is to squash that exception.

The rules are made up, the game is a lie. Except not this one. :D

#philosophy #exceptionalism

“The US is No One's Ally: Disband NATO (and 5 Eyes) Now”

by Alon Mizrahi in The Mizrahi Perspective on Substack

@uk_politics
@thegreenparty

“And kick all American bases out. Because giving an out-of-control, hostile power unlimited access to a country's territory, political system, resources and culture is tantamount to national suicide”

https://open.substack.com/pub/alonmizrahi/p/the-us-is-no-ones-ally-disband-nato

#Press #US #UK #NATO #VassalState #Trump #FiveEyes #Exceptionalism #Sadism #Megalomania #Empire #Decline #Panic

RE: https://zirk.us/@JazzyKindaFella/115926808610431386

The mild treatment of Israel's ceasefire violations typifies the facilitation that dominant economic classes (owners of commercial media) continue to give to perpetrators of genocide. This is the way it is. This is the way it has been. It is still going. There bloody murders being industrially manufactured by cartels of oligarchs. The boundary between credible and incredible, between saying something and not saying anything, it gets pushed to the limits all of the time. And this moves the limits, just like Israel has shown the world that they can take bulldozers to the limits. Trump does the same thing. It is a bonfire of vanities for the arrogant believers in US exceptionalism. Bottom line: the suffering continues, the genociders remain at large. #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #exceptionalism #vampires

Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/