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Pluralistic: Federal Wallet Inspectors (13 Dec 2025)

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

„The last frontier of #empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals - Champions of #exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the #planet it needs to survive“ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay #environment #ecology #capitalism #earth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climate

University of Michigan: Fans, not celebrities, drive nationalism on Chinese social media. “In China’s social media universe, celebrities are often assumed to set the tone for millions of adoring followers. But a new study led by the University of Michigan shows the dynamic works the other way around: When it comes to online nationalism, fans are the ones leading—and stars are following.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/12/university-of-michigan-fans-not-celebrities-drive-nationalism-on-chinese-social-media/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/115511486067053071

Nope. Cerf co-developed #tcp. He did not invented "the Internet". Just another example of toxic #US #exceptionalism.

“Palestine Exception, #American #Exceptionalism: Two sides of the Same Bloody Coin”

by Benay Blend in The Palestine Chronicle

@palestine@fedibird.com
@Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml

“‘#Palestine #Exception’ serves as the most recent documentary exploring the wave of crackdown from college administrators, the media, police and politicians who oppose calls for a ceasefire and divestment from corporations that do business with ‘Israel’.”

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/palestine-exception-american-exceptionalism-two-sides-of-the-same-bloody-coin/

#Press #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Zionism #Barbarity

DD Snider & John Denver both sat in same testimonial seat, many years ago, to fight against shitass #USACensorship about music & freedom of expression.

The USA government has always tried to silence & criminalize #dissent. The USA government has never actually been democratic or a free country & it's always been far from 'the best'. It's best at USA #exceptionalism , #CognitiveDissonance & global #terrorism.

Both the #GOP & #DNC are corrupt.

#USpol #FascistUSA #USNazis #BoycottUSA #BanCorporateLobbyists #geopolitics #DeathOfUSA #ZionaziUSA

Robert Boyle got a brief mention in something I wrote many years ago. Since then, he has continually re-emerged in my consciousness, provoking within me both curiosity and disquiet as he does so.

The author of "The Christian Virtuoso" helped engineer the early modern understanding of the mechanical universe and associated that understanding with Protestant piety.

When we remember the Boyle family's motto - "God's Providence Is Mine Inheritance" -- and that family''s role in the English colonization of Ireland, we might see foreshadowed in Robert Boyle that combination of a sense of divine election, a belief in the right and duty to rule, and a confidence in the providential workings of a God in nature that would infuse so many English settlers around the world - especially those in what would later become the USA.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/405637/robert-boyle-1627-1691

#RobertBoyle #History #Exceptionalism #SettlerColonialism #MechanicalPhilosophy #England #USA

A full-length portrait of a person seated in a chair, painted in a classical style. The person is wearing a long, dark robe over a white shirt with a lace collar, and a brown wig. They are seated in a brown chair with ornate carved details, resting one hand on the chair's arm and extending the other in a gesture. To the right is a table covered with papers and instruments. The background is a dark red curtain, and there is a number "56" in the lower left corner of the image.

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The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine Webb, 2025

An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves.

#books
#nonfiction
#anthropology
#humans
#apes
#exceptionalism

Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us to exploit the earth towards our own exclusive ends, throwing us into a perilous planetary imbalance. But is this view and way of life inevitable? The Arrogant Ape shows that human exceptionalism is an ideology that relies more on human culture than our biology, more on delusion and faith than on evidence.
Harvard primatologist Christine Webb has spent years researching the rich social, emotional, and cognitive lives of our closest living relatives. She exposes the ways that many scientific studies are biased against other species and reveals underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life—

Dear #MAGA Would you go to a #doctor with a home school education and a medical degree from #TrumpUniversity? That's why REAL #education is actually important. Dumbing the country down to a 6th grade reading level is not a formula for #exceptionalism & #Library cards are not passports to Hell.

a young girl wearing glasses a...

I'm so sick of #US #politics, all US politics. The Nazis, so-called Christians, swindlers, tech-bros, terminally online, leftists bickering amongst themselves, the hot takes bulletin boards of social media, US #exceptionalism across the whole political spectrum. The utter cruelty of the right and the inexcusable softness of the left.
I'm not both sides-ing. The right are clearly the lunatic bad guys here. But still it's all such a constant torrent. And yes, I'm aware of the irony of this post.

"Germany is open about its uninhibited support for Israel‘s war of extermination and genocide in Palestine, and wants to make sure the entire world sees it."

"Establishment forces have translated Holocaust remembrance chiefly as support for Israel, elevating its protection to a German Staatsraison (national interest) coupled with zero tolerance for criticism of Israel, which is automatically treated as antisemitism".

Gjovalin Macaj: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/germanys-zeal-israeli-genocide-revives-its-dangerous-exceptionalism

@eu @israel 🧵

#transgression #GazaMethod #allies #collusion #connivance #complicity #internationalCommunity #imperialism #counterTerrorism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #politics #recycling #manipulation #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #IHRA #IHL #Germany #FriedrichMerz #Merz #exceptionalism #whiteSupremacy #arrestWarrants #ICC #ICJ #EuropeIsrael

Two news headlines
On the left handside: Putin smiles and raises his right arm. "Why isn't Putin arrested in Alaska despite an arrest warrant?"
On the right handside: Merz shakes hands with Netanyahu. "Friedrich Merz plans to invite Netanyahu despite arrest warrant"

Conversation with Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jXvuOG33zLs
#usa #exception #exceptionalism #exceptionism #bookclub #aarongood #JeffreySachs #deepstate #un #sdsn #unsdsn

Drinks Ireland can either:

- print alternative labels for foreign markets, just as every single industry does (and which they have to do anyway as one market is Metric and correct, the other Imperial and wild)
- fuck off
#exceptionalism

Drinks Ireland warned Taoiseach that alcohol health labelling plans seen as ‘trade barrier’ by US

When you're on any global social sharing platforms - it's really beneficial to not assume that everyone you're engaging with is a US citizen.

It is important to remember that you're on global sharing arenas & to resist doing more USA #exceptionalism / #USACentric crap. Most of us on these globally accessible social sharing platforms do not live in the USA. The USA is only a tiny part of a large global audience. Just because they're often the loudest online - doesn’t mean they're more important than every other sovereign nation on the planet. It is that #USA #arrogance that most of the global population is sick & tired of.

#USATerrorism has destroyed countless lives in many different countries & still does. It is NOT the greatest nation in the world. Never has been either. Never will be either.

I don't need to like or respect #Iran government for me to hate USA government. USA continues to start wars & interfere in far away conflicts that they have zero business sticking their exploitive & manipulative noses into.

#FuckTheUSA - #Capitalist #Fascist #Racist state of #corruption & global #terrorism & #ProxyWars. Most of the world already hated US arrogance & their shitty #exceptionalism BS, before Trump. Many more people hate USA now, under his puppeting #USNazi regime.

#geopolitics #USpoli #politics #TurdCountry #KKKUSA #Racists #Bigots #fascism #DomesticTerrorists #CriminalPresident #BoycottUSA #BombsAwayUSA #TerroristUSA #WarSurvivorsForPeace

@HarriettMB I know what you mean re Rodgers #elite #english #exceptionalism but I liked his 1990's work, the Lloyds building and this inside the Senedd Cardiff. (n.b. strictly no photography...you know me!)

“In the few decades since Bisson’s story was published, our understanding of #human #exceptionalism has been coming apart.” aeon.co/essays/did-a...

Did animals provide the bluepr...

DEN NATIONALE SOMMER

Nu står vi alle
på den halve jord
og sér, hvor løvet vifter,
kornet gror,
og føler solen hed
og havet svalt
og tenker: Åh, hvor …
åh hvor nationalt!

#PietHein
#Exceptionalism

Всё, что вам нужно знать об американоцентризме

Справедливости ради, в той статье обсуждалась совсем другая тема, а вопрос из заголовка был взят как экспериментальный пример, но само существование таких формулировок, за которые ещё и платят сотни баксов, выглядит забавно

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That's all you should know about #American #exceptionalism

This article was about Polymarket and its interesting bets, but the title was hilarious, honestly

Статья на LessWrong с заголовком "Будет ли второе пришествие Христа в год следующих выборов?"

We’re Experts in #Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion
If #exceptionalism => freedom
Freedom can end up implying #authoritarionism
Highlight - role of #media in democracy of #poland
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IXR9PByA9SY

#exceptionalism

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