Post AuC7W84EeaDa2NqEFM by dmandl@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AuC7W84EeaDa2NqEFM by dmandl@mastodon.social
       2025-05-17T13:20:27Z
       
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       Edward Luce's column is one of the best things in the FT, but I just saw a video of him interviewing Steve Bannon at a conference, and boy was that a mistake. The format does not work with these people. A fascist politely sipping bottled water pretending to be a Republican.
       
 (DIR) Post #AuC7W9GgBnlZlGfgHY by dmandl@mastodon.social
       2025-05-17T13:22:20Z
       
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       ...The things you should be saying to him, the questions you should be asking him, are the kinds of things that would be considered out of bounds or rude at these conferences.
       
 (DIR) Post #AuC7WASlkL1zT3KqlU by dmandl@mastodon.social
       2025-05-17T13:25:24Z
       
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       ...The inevitable question: What would you ask Hitler, smiling and charming in a suit, sipping bottled water, and splitting hairs over the finer points of German law, at one of these conferences?
       
 (DIR) Post #AuC7WBIWduQo3ZYBRA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-05-17T19:21:08Z
       
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       @dmandl You pop up a level of abstraction and harm or maim him as much as humanly possible. That's the obligation. "Trolley problems" are fascist setups.