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  1. Did we catch this? During the press availability in the Oval Office today, May 30, 2025, Elon Musk—on his "last day" as head of the fake "Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)"—appropriated Hannah Arendt’s phrase "the banality of evil" to describe routine government bureaucracy.

    youtu.be/2Pv2V_7QbC4

    #ElonMusk #BanalityOfEvil #doge #HannahArendt #OvalOffice #DOGE #Bureaucracy #Orwellian #PoliticalLanguage#Gaslighting

  2. 🆕 Tomorrow, it's kickstart day for our new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.

    The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.

    Free admission.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/comm

    @histodons
    @histodon

    #Histodons #Communism #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #CivilWar #Russia #PoliticalLanguage #PoliticalViolence #RussianCivilWar #GuerraCivil #Comunismo

  3. 🆕 A week from today, on the 29th, we will kickstart a new seminar: #Communisms — Lisbon Research Seminars on History and Politics.

    The inaugural speaker will be Russian historian Alexander Reznik, who will address the role of political language applicable to the study of civil wars.

    Free admission.

    ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/comm

    @histodons
    @histodon

    #Histodons #Communism #PoliticalHistory #HistoryOfIdeas #CivilWar #Russia #PoliticalLanguage #Propaganda #PoliticalViolence #RussianCivilWar