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Honte à ces voilées d’opérette qui jouent les « résistantes » devant leur téléphone alors qu’au même moment, en vrai, les Iraniennes sont persécutées, aspergées d’acide, condamnées à mort, pour avoir courageusement retiré le symbole de la domination islamiste. Pauvres filles ! #Iran #Résistance #Solidarité

« Le président rencontrera des dirigeants du secteur pour collaborer sur les meilleures façons d’accroître les capacités de raffinage, de favoriser la domination énergétique américaine sur l’ensemble de la chaîne d’approvisionnement et de faire baisser les prix pour le peuple américain »

Etats-Unis : Trump va rencontrer les patrons du pétrole pour essayer de faire redescendre les prix
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To ensure its dominance, the new capitalism no longer produces. It captures. It captures water, energy, soil, rare resources... The collective urgencies do not enter the concerns of the new dominants. What enriches them weakens our commons! (translated)

PUTIN WILL NEVER GET SAXONY-ANHALT BACK. 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 Eastern Germany knows what Moscow’s domination meant. It must never return — not militarily, not politically, not through dependence, fear or appeasement. Putin wants a weaker Germany. He wants a divided Europe. He wants NATO https://t.co/yTio1P4Wbr #SaxonyAnhalt #StopPutin #UnitedEurope #DE #EU #UA

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The Three Words Democracy Borrows Democracy is often praised as inherently good, but Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates saw serious flaws. A better view: rule by one, few, or many each has tradeoffs. A healthy society ideally combines a strong leader, a competent elite, and a virtuous citizenry—because, as Thomas Sowell said, “there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.” Democracy promises three virtues it can’t guarantee: freedom, wisdom, and consent. **Freedom:** Nozick’s thought experiment shows how slavery can be disguised by changing vocabulary—when power gradually shifts from overt domination to rules voted on by others, at what point is it “freedom”? A society can talk endlessly about freedom while restricting rights through taxes, regulations, and suspensions. **Wisdom:** Socrates doubted democracy produces wisdom. If a voyage were dangerous, you wouldn’t let every passenger vote equally on navigation. Yet political voting gives equal weight regardless of knowledge, inviting manipulation by those skilled in fear, emotion, and flattery. **Consent:** “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” can be an illusion. If the state is treated as “us,” coercion can be reframed as self-government. But representatives don’t truly follow your instructions the way a genuine agent must. Freedom, wisdom, and consent are real virtues—democracy just borrows their language, and the biggest risk is believing that choosing rulers collectively makes the ruled free, wise, and consenting.

Larsson 🇫🇷 chez JL c'est : - 4 titres de champions de France dont un 3 peat - 2 ans de domination régionale - une montée en VCT - 3 matchs remportés contre les teams tier 1 Il termine son parcours chez JL dans le top 5 des meilleurs coachs français au monde #JOBLIFE #Esports #Coaching #VCT

🚨⏸️ MI-TEMPS ! 𝗕𝗔𝗥 2️⃣ - 0️⃣ 𝗔𝗟𝗛 HAMZA ⚽️ RAPHINHA ⚽️ LE FC BARCELONE MÈNE A LA PAUSE 💪🔵🔴 Domination à sens unique des hommes de Flick qui mènent tranquillement à la pause, grâce au buteur en forme, Hamza, et le capitaine, Raphinha 🔥 https://t.co/Hxe3hzPlz6 #FCBarcelona #MiTemps #Football

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Donald Trump announced a 100% tax on foreign drones and their imported components to the United States, aiming to support the domestic industry against Chinese dominance in the market, while arguing that this measure is necessary to protect national security. (translated)

Une taxe de 100% sur les drones étrangers: Donald Trump sort l'artillerie lourde pour soutenir les entreprises américaines, larguées face à la Chine
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Donald Trump announced the imposition of high tariffs on imported drones and their components in order to support the American industry, in response to the dominance of the Chinese industry, while justifying this measure by national security concerns. (translated)

Droits de douane - Trump impose des droits de douane sur les drones pour soutenir l'industrie américaine

J’ai un peu l’impression que la France est tout doucement en train de se réveiller d’un long et douloureux cauchemar de domination idéologique de la gauche qui depuis 50 ans, nous apprend à devenir des bons petits communistes, dans les médias, le cinéma et l’éducation. Wake up… #France #Réveil #Idéologie

And there it is, finally the false narrative about the defense of freedoms and democracy falls. It is only a doctrine of imperial domination. (translated)

CRIMEA IS KOSOVO Both peoples deserve freedom from imperial domination. 🇺🇦 Crimea will be free. 🇽🇰 Kosovo will remain free. SerboRussian Colonialism will lose Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be restored. Kosovo’s independence must be fully recognized. Freedom for Crimea. #Crimea #Kosovo #Freedom #UA #XK

« Monsieur Glucksmann, quand allez-vous assumer le fait de ne pas être de gauche ? Car être de gauche ne se résume pas à se revendiquer de cette étiquette : c’est une tradition politique fondée sur la réduction des inégalités, la défense des classes populaires, la redistribution des richesses, l’intervention publique lorsque le marché produit de l’injustice, ainsi que l’élargissement des droits sociaux et démocratiques. La gauche est née d’un combat contre les privilèges et les rapports de domination, avec l’idée que la société ne doit pas seulement protéger les libertés individuelles mais aussi garantir des conditions réelles d’égalité. Dès lors, la question n’est pas seulement de savoir qui se dit de gauche, mais quelles politiques sont réellement menées : à qui profitent-elles, quelles inégalités réduisent-elles, quels intérêts défendent-elles ? C’est sur ces critères historiques et sociaux que l’appartenance à la gauche se mesure. ». La vraie gauche de rupture est avec @JLMelenchon ! Cap vers la victoire en 2027 ! #Gauche #Égalité #JusticeSociale

Metaphysics of the Solitary Absolute: Philosophical and Legal Analysis of the Thesis of Solitary Amorality ​The Thesis of Solitary Amorality, formulated by Tom Nesky under the banner of the Axiom of Relationality of Law and Being, constitutes a radical challenge to classical and contemporary normative theories. Its central premise—stating that law, morality, and the category of crime are not inherent properties of reality, but artificial products of social relations—requires a rigorous deconstruction at the intersection of legal positivism, phenomenological existentialism, ontological anarchism, and monistic metaphysics. This paper attempts a systematic analysis of the intellectual pillars of this thesis, examining its internal coherence, genealogical roots, and consequences for the understanding of freedom and human subjectivity. ​The Systemic Construction of Crime vs. Pure Theory of Law ​The first pillar of the Thesis of Solitary Amorality, designated as Nullum Crimen Sine Systema, posits that law does not discover pre-legal categories of evil, but brings them into existence through the very act of establishing a boundary of permissibility. This assertion exhibits a profound convergence with 20th-century legal positivism, particularly with Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law (Reine Rechtslehre). Kelsen advocated for a methodological purification of legal science from ethical, sociological, and political elements, defining law as a normative system founded upon a hypothetical basic norm (Grundnorm). ​In the Kelsenian view, the legal system functions as a coercive apparatus devoid of inherent moral value. A crucial point of intersection with Nesky's thesis is the elimination of the traditional dualism between acts that are inherently evil (mala in se) and acts prohibited merely by law (mala prohibita). Kelsen argued that an act becomes unlawful solely when a legal norm attaches state-enforced coercion to it. Unlawfulness is not an ontological property of the act, but the result of a relationship of normative imputation. This implies that the law does not penalize an act because it is intrinsically evil; rather, an act is considered evil solely because it has been subjected to systemic penalization. ​This clash became prominent during the debates surrounding the Nuremberg trials, where positions based on natural law and legal positivism collided. While prosecutors such as Robert Jackson invoked universal moral norms (mala in se) as the basis for punishing criminals despite the previously binding positive law of the Third Reich, Kelsen pointed out the theoretical inconsistency of such an approach. He argued that judging on the basis of retroactive law (ex post facto) constitutes a breach in the systemic coherence of positivism, even if it might be justified by political and historical necessity. ​Nesky's project imparts an existential dimension of oppression to this structure, bringing it close to the critique of the state formulated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche famously described the state as "the coldest of all cold monsters," which devours the individual's singularity and imposes herd morality upon them. The gaze of the state, mediated through the Other, paralyzes the sovereignty of the individual and forces them to navigate within arbitrarily designated normative boundaries. Every stroke drawn across the chaos of reality establishes a boundary, and every boundary instantly creates the concept of its transgression. ​The Paradox of the Systemic Cage and the Limits of Ontological Anarchism ​The second pillar of the thesis—The Paradox of the Systemic Cage—points to the impossibility of escaping the system through rules alone. Every attempt to negate the existing order, from establishing anarchist structures to escaping into geographical isolation, immediately transforms into a new system whose primary imperative becomes the defense and maintenance of that very absence of rules. This process of structural looping finds its reflection in the current of ontological anarchism formulated by Hakim Bey (pseudonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson). ​Bey, drawing on a synthesis of Nietzscheanism, Situationist theory of the spectacle, and chaos esotericism, recognized that classical revolutions striving to overthrow the state inevitably reproduce structures of domination, becoming new forms of confinement. As an alternative, he proposed the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). TAZ is a tactic for creating temporary, non-hierarchical spaces that deliberately evade formal structures of state control. The key element of TAZ is its ephemerality: before the system can map, define, and absorb the autonomous zone, it must dissolve itself and relocate to another point in space-time. ​Attempts to transform TAZ into Permanent Autonomous Zones (PAZ) immediately encounter the paradox noted by Nesky. The need to defend and codify freedom within a lasting community gives rise to internal rules, mechanisms of exclusion, and hierarchy. For this reason, Murray Bookchin criticized ontological anarchism (calling it "lifestyle anarchism" or "bourgeois anarchism") for its lack of political realism and its flight from systemic struggle against capital and state in favor of aesthetic rebellion. The convergence of these perspectives demonstrates that freedom defined as reactive resistance to a system remains structurally determined by it. ​The Dissolution of the Relational Mirror: The Existential Gaze and the Collapse of Morality ​The third pillar of the thesis, designated as The Dissolution of the Mirror (L'Autre), posits that good and evil require the presence of an external witness and judge. This assertion represents a direct application of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential phenomenology, particularly his analysis of the Gaze (le look / le regard) and the relation to the Other (l'Autre) presented in Being and Nothingness. ​Sartre illustrates the constitutive role of the Other through an analysis of the voyeur's situation. At the moment of complete absorption in the act of peeping through a keyhole, the subject's consciousness is pre-reflective—the voyeur does not reflect on himself; his consciousness completely merges with the act being performed. Only the sudden sound of footsteps in the hallway shatters this unity. The voyeur realizes that he himself is seen, and is instantly paralyzed by shame. ​For Sartre, shame is not a purely internal emotion; it is shame of oneself before the Other. The Gaze of the Other objectifies the free subject (being-for-itself—pour-soi), freezing them into a specific role and moral evaluation (being-for-others—pour-autrui). As Ellie Anderson points out, Descartes' formula "I think, therefore I am" is replaced in Sartre by "I feel shame, therefore Others exist." The Gaze of the Other marks the birth of social morality, wherein the individual learns to view themselves from a third-person perspective. ​This existential dynamic corresponds to the Nietzschean genealogy of "bad conscience." Nietzsche demonstrates that morality and guilt are products of the forced internalization of human instincts that could no longer be discharged outwardly due to social barriers. Forced into the constraints of society, man turns against himself, creating an internal judge (conscience) modeled on the external tyrant. ​This vision also resonates with the classical theory of Thomas Hobbes. In Leviathan, Hobbes explicitly declares that in the state of nature, where there is no common power, there is no law, and where there is no law, no notion of injustice exists. Concepts of good, evil, justice, and property are attributes of man living in society, not in solitude. Removing the social fabric reverts the individual to a state in which theft and injury lose their raison d'être due to the absence of relational reference to the Other. #philosophy # metaphysics # thesis # morality

✊ Un vent de rupture souffle sur la gauche américaine ! Les lignes bougent. Après la victoire de Zohran Mamdani à New York, Abdul El-Sayed remporte à son tour la primaire démocrate pour l’élection sénatoriale dans le Michigan, porté par le soutien de Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren et Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. C’est une excellente nouvelle : l’aile progressiste du Parti démocrate confirme sa capacité à convaincre et à gagner. Autre signal fort, la candidate battue a immédiatement reconnu sa défaite et s’est engagée à faire campagne aux côtés d’Abdul El-Sayed pour battre le candidat républicain. Un rassemblement qui montre que l’essentiel est désormais de porter un projet commun face à la droite. Une nouvelle génération de responsables politiques assume une véritable ligne de rupture : lutte contre les inégalités, justice sociale, défense des services publics, combat contre le racisme et toutes les discriminations, refus de la domination des puissances financières sur la démocratie. Elle affirme également son soutien aux droits du peuple palestinien, condamne les politiques du gouvernement israélien qu’elle juge contraires au droit international et plaide pour une paix fondée sur la justice, l’égalité des droits et le respect de la dignité de tous. Ce qui était présenté comme une alternative marginale devient une force politique qui gagne du terrain. Aux États-Unis comme ailleurs, de plus en plus de citoyens refusent de considérer les inégalités sociales et les discriminations comme une fatalité. Le vent de la rupture souffle. Quand les peuples s’organisent et se mobilisent, ils peuvent ouvrir la voie à une société plus juste, plus démocratique et plus solidaire. #ZohranMamdani #AbdulElSayed #BernieSanders #AOC #ElizabethWarren #JusticeSociale #Antiracisme #Palestine #CessezLeFeu #Égalité #Démocratie #Gauche #Solidarité #ServicesPublics #JusticePourTous #JusticeSociale #Démocratie #Solidarité

Grateful to Prof. Ralph Wilde for a rigorous dissection of Apartheid Israel's latest legal monstrosity: a death penalty for Palestinians only. Every colonized people has been declared a threat by its colonizer: security is the oldest alibi of domination. Israel must be stopped. #ApartheidIsrael #PalestinianRights #EndColonialism #IL #PS

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David Ellison, the head of Paramount, defends the acquisition of Warner Bros. for $111 billion by rejecting accusations of market dominance, while promising the independence of the concerned newsrooms, despite a lawsuit from several states that is suspending the operation. (translated)

"Ce ne sont pas les chiffres d'une entreprise capable de dicter ce que le public regarde": en lice pour racheter le studio Warner Bros., le patron de Paramount défend son opération à 111 milliards de dollars

Four of the five French teams engaged in the 2026 Women's Tour de France, in the face of the domination of FDJ United-Suez, are trying to make themselves noticed by actively participating in the race and taking breaks, despite modest resources. (translated)

Cofidis, Ma Petite Entreprise, Saint-Michel... Comment les autres équipes françaises tentent d’exister sur le Tour de France, dans l’ombre de la FDJ United-Suez

"The electoral rejection of environmentalism does not prevent its cultural dominance. We see this through the extraordinary kindness of the media world, which is one of the great privileges granted to this ideology. We also see it in the omnipresence of the ecological discourse…" (translated)

Le service public français dans toute sa splendeur : une information orientée, un discours verrouillé et une ligne idéologique parfaitement assumée. Nous vivons sous une domination socialiste qui impose l’immigration de masse aux Français. https://t.co/44XWXKROTn #ServicePublic #Immigration #Politique