Charlie Kirk’s Assassination: Are American Culture and its Institutions to Blame?
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, September 12, 2025; Updated September 13, 2025 American culture can be defined by a toxic feedback loop between polarized media, dehumanizing political discourse, readily available tools of violence, and a human psychology wired for tribal blame. A Harvard University study, Network Propaganda, found that left-wing media outlets are more closely aligned with centrist…
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Mycknoying (also McNoying)
Part of speech: Adjective (colloquial, slang)Language of origin: Swedish-English hybrid (Swenglish)Etymology: Portmanteau of Swedish mycket (“much, very”) and English annoying.Pronunciation: /mɪkˈnɔɪ.ɪŋ/ (mik-NOY-ing)Date of coinage: September 8, 2025 Definition:Extremely or excessively annoying. Imbued with a modern, colloquial tone often carrying ironic or sarcastic undertones, distinguishing it from more formal Swedish phrases. Variants & Usage Notes: The term fills an expressive gap in informal Swedish,…
Den svenska kulturella kanonen är också ett vapen. Används av ”icke-svenskar” för att nå framgång, men också av svenskar för att förvägra icke-svenskar framgång
Jonathan Michael Feldman, 4 september 2025 Många på vänsterkanten känner väl till rasbiologernas försök att hålla den svenska genpoolen ren och oförfalskad. Mindre omtalat, men lika betydelsefullt i vår tid, är försöken att hålla det sociala och ideologiska utrymmet ”rent och oförfalskat.” Den som är för annorlunda, som framhäver sig själv för starkt eller uppträder…
X deconstructs Y, but Z is also important: The Swedish Left and the Jewish Question
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, August 31, 2025 Henry Ascher’s Deconstruction of Statistics on Jewish Migration Out of Sweden There is an insane siege of Gaza going on (an ongoing combination of human rights abuses, mass murder, war crimes, occupations, etc.) as the readers of this essay are well aware. But, I contend that the Swedish…
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Ett alternativ till ett nytt vänsterparti i Sverige
En idé som cirkulerade i slutet av augusti 2025 var att Sverige borde skapa ett nytt slags politiskt parti. Dessa försök är dömda att misslyckas eftersom man, som Martin Luther King uttryckte det, inte kan sätta vagnen före hästen. Först behöver man bygga upp alternativa nätverk av politisk, medial och ekonomisk makt. Ett sådant nätverk…
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Dueling AI Arguments about Russia, Ukraine and the Causes of the War
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, August 20, 2025 Today I engaged in an AI experiment about the causes of the Ukraine War. In contrast to the neo-Luddites who deconstruct the strawman argument, “AI does not tell the truth,” much like early designed cars might crash, I argue that AI generates arguments and hypotheses. And guess else…
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Reflections on Almedalen 2025: The Grand Displacement and Celebration of Swedish Neoliberal Militarism
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, August 15, 2025; Updated August 23, 2025 The political discussion forum Almedalen 2025, held in Visby, Sweden, ritualized the “grand displacement”: Ecological collapse and the mass killing Gaza an increasing number call “genocide” were acknowledged, then sidelined by celebrations of missiles and markets. In Sweden’s new consensus, peace is pathological—militarism is…
Truth Displacement in Discourse: The Art of Rhetorical Deflection
August 9, 2025 Preface A Framework for Hypothesis Testing This essay does not purport to be truth but rather seeks to generate hypotheses and tests in the spirit of John Dewey’s approach to inquiry. Dewey emphasized that ideas should be treated as working hypotheses to be tested through experience and investigation, rather than as fixed…
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