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1 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Oh like you never broken serious ethical codes to help out a sibling keep a high powered position when they've been under multiple accusations of sexual harassment and also through their incompetence seem to have caused thousands of unnecessary deaths.
I think we have to make a distinction between being willing to help a family member out and working to keep a family member keep a job they shouldn't have. The two are not the same and indeed are at odds. Sometimes you help your family by easing the path of resignation.
There can be ethical tensions between family and society, although I think this case isn't quite it for reasons I suggested. For a better scenario, there's Springsteen.
My most normie opinion is that Springsteen is pretty great:

Well, if it was any other man, I'd put him straight away
But when it's your brother, sometimes, you look the other way

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27 Nov
1. As Ghislaine Maxwell's trial starts, worth remembering the man in her life who had mysterious wealth, was an asset for multiple intelligence agencies, loved to secretly record those who visited him, and died under murky circumstances (suicide? murder?): Robert Maxwell
2. Robert Maxwell: born in abject poverty in a shtetl in Czechoslovakia in 1923, family destroyed by Nazis, distinguished military service, reinvention in England & rapid rise to wealth as a publisher, business fraud, dead naked body off of yacht (jumped, fell, pushed?)
3. Robert Maxwell had 9 children of whom the favorite was Ghislaine. Maxwell's last days on earth were spent aboard the yacht called The Lady Ghislaine. Ghislaine herself doted on her dad, and learned from him the art of making herself useful to a difficult, capricious man.
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25 Nov
1. This tweet and the accompanying article got a lot of attention when it came out, but we should be clear that they are merely stating a long held orthodoxy on American right: that some forms of fascism are benign & preferable to anti-fascism.
2. I'd say going back to 1930s (or perhaps 1930s) the dominant mode of conservative thought has been that figures like Mussolini & Franco are useful bulwarks against working class militancy & anti-fascism (because it involves an alliance with left) is itself dangerous.
3. Philio-fascism or fascist fellow travelling is pervasive on right and was especially strong from circa 1935-1975. It went into slight abeyance with rise of "human rights" & pro-democracy talk as anti-communist tool, but has come back with vigor in last 10 years.
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23 Nov
1. Greenwald seems very touch about his appearances on Fox News, and for good reason. It's very hard to square his professed politics with his buddy-buddy act with Tucker Carlson.
2. A few useful distinctions are worth making. There's nothing wrong with going on Fox to reach their audience, as Bernie Sanders & Obama have done. But neither Sanders nor Obama praise Carlson as socialist & give credence to Carlson's claims of supporting racial equality.
3. Nor is there anything wrong with ignoring Fox because there are bigger fish to fry as Noam Chomsky does. But again, that's different from making common cause with Carlson or praising hi.
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20 Nov
1. There was once a boy in Texas who grew up in New Yorker worshipping household. He wanted more than anything to enter into the world of the New Yorker. And when he became a filmmaker he imposed himself on its former film critic. This is story about Wes Anderson & Pauline Kael. ImageImage
2. There's a recurring Wes Anderson character, the young boy or teen or barely adult man who yearns to enter into the world of adult hood, who pushes himself into the world of adults & becomes emotionally entangled with their lives. It's hard not so see that as autobiographical
3. Rushmore (1998) was Anderson's second film but the first one with his signature style of deadpan artifice. Kael had already retired from the New Yorker when he made it, but Anderson wanted to get her stamp of approvalz; the Andersonian callow youth winning adult approval.
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19 Nov
1. This is a photo of Geordie Greig, a big-wig in British journalism and until recently editor of the Daily Mail, propping up Ghislaine Maxwell. It's the type of scene you'd avoid using in a novel because it's too apt a metaphor.
2. I know what you're thinking. "Jeet, we know the British press is depraved and incestuous. But surely there are limits to even their moral degeneracy. Surely they wouldn't stoop to sympathy for Ghislaine Maxwell." I have bad news for you.
3. The Rachel Johnson piece about her "old chum" Ghislaine got much attention but it's important to know it's part of larger patter of stories expressing concern for Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice. Like this Daily Mail piece.
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17 Nov
Rachel Johnson, sister of the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, writes in the Spectator, a magazine once edited by Boris Johnson, in sympathy with for a woman credibly accused on facilitating mass child rape. Image
There have been a few odd articles in right-wing British media expressing sympathy for Ghislaine Maxwell. One possibility is that they are sending a message: "you're still part of the club. Be a good girl and keep quiet."
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