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Sotto Hitler, in Germania, per le donne adulte il regime nazista aveva previsto un'organizzazione specifica.

Una volta compiuti i 21 anni entravano a far parte della NS-Frauenschaft (Lega delle Donne Nazionalsocialiste), che era l'organizzazione femminile ufficiale del partito.

I compiti principali delle donne adulte nell'organizzazione erano:

1) educazione alla maternità

2) autarchia e consumi domestici

3) propaganda culturale.

THIS SATURDAY (Jul 11), I’ll be at the Idler Festival in LONDON.

There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of centrists who bemoan "political polarization" and call for a politics that abandons the "tribalism of left and right."

Obviously there's the false equivalence: on the right, you have fascists who want to send masked, armed goons into the streets to beat, kidnap and murder your neighbors. On the left, you have calls for higher taxes, unions, environmental impact reviews for data-centers, and an end to the genocide in Gaza.

"Leftist extremism" is moving some zines around:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/24/prairieland-texas-ice-protests-zines

Right wing extremism is attempting the overthrow of the government, murdering brown people in gulags, and the earth's richest man slaughtering the world's poorest children for the lulz:

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

"Horseshoe theory" (the idea that the far right and the far left actually bend around to meet each other) is bullshit:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/26/horsehoe-crab/#substantive-disagreement

The reality is that the right and left have large, substantive disagreements that are matters of life and death. Anyone dismissing these as "tribalism" doesn't know what "left" and "right" mean. At best, they have mistaken a collection of cultural signifiers – pronouns, MMA, brands of beer – for politics.

Mistaking cultural signifiers and identity markers for politics is centrism's most dangerous pathology, the thing that makes centrism the handmaiden of the right. If you think identity markers are politics, then you'll be tempted to think the answer to a world run by 150 rich, white, cis straight guys is to replace half of them with women, POCs and queer people. The difference between the left and the right isn't the identities of the ruling class – it's whether we have a ruling class at all.

I collect definitions of "right" and "left." There's Corey Robin's definition from The Reactionary Mind, that conservatism is the belief that some people were born to rule, and others to be ruled over, and that any attempt to elevate the latter group to positions of power (through civil rights movements, affirmative action, etc) will result in dire misrule and disaster:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated

This explains how the right can encompass white nationalists (rule by white people), Hindu nationalists (rule by high-caste Hindus), libertarians (rule by bosses), imperialists (rule by military aggressors), etc. It also explains the right's obsession with learning the racial and gender markers of anyone involved in a plane crash or other disaster: "See, the oil tanker was being piloted by a DEI hire when it crashed into that bridge!"

Another important definition is Wilhoit's Law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/26/sole-and-despotic-dominion/#then-they-came-for-me

This one hardly needs explanation in this era of "it's not a crime if the president does it," where Alex Jones can owe billions to the parents of dozens of murdered children and somehow not have to pay or give up his assets:

https://www.status.news/p/infowars-the-onion-alex-jones-ben-collins

But when it comes to a "post-politics that is neither right nor left," the definition I turn to most often comes from science fiction writer Steven Brust, who once told me:

"Left" and "right" have had the same meaning since the French Revolution. If you want to know if someone is on the left or the right, ask them, "What is more important: human rights or property rights?" If they say "Property rights are a human right," then they are on the right.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/16/wage-theft/#ppp

That's it. That's the crux. If you think that property rights are a tool for achieving human rights, then you're on the left. You might support the right of farmers to block attempts to expropriate them via eminent domain in order to build a data center, or the right of people to not have their homes or devices searched by cops, or a library's right to own and archive digital books, even if the publishers insist that ebooks are never "sold," merely "licensed."

If property rights are a tool to achieve human rights, then property rights can be set aside when they impede other rights. Human beings have the right to health care, which is why we should have taken away the pharma companies' patents and copyrights, ending vaccine apartheid and letting the poor world make its own vaccines:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/25/the-other-shoe-drops/#quid-pro-quo

Faccaldo in italiano. Inzopportabbole. Mai provato nulla del genere prima. Ma neanche prima di prima. Dal demilamenoavanticristo: ce lo dice lascenza dei divulgatori prescientifici.

E' troppo facile instillar questo, o la qualunque (*), in menti la cui memoria è stata brasata per farla vivere SOLO nell'eterno presente come i cani, sostituita dai giga dello smartphone. Non possono più memorizzare nulla, perdono la contezza di tutto, non ricordano di tre, cinque anni fa. Gente che le risposte se le fa dare dalla Intelligenza Artificiale, essendo quella Naturale sottosviluppata.

Trump's good friend judge James Gosnell is as bad as any Nazi. He's into torturing, raping and murdering infants and toddlers including necrophillia!

Former Charleston magistrate judge James Gosnell Jr. pleads guilty to child porn charges

Story by Emily Deanne

July 3, 2026

James Gosnell Jr., a former Charleston magistrate judge, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to two child pornography charges, avoiding a trial that had been scheduled to begin with jury selection in August 2026.

The 69-year-old pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor and one count of distribution of child pornography.

According to federal prosecutors, the possession charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The distribution charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years. Combined, Gosnell faces up to 40 years in federal prison, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential fines, special assessments and restitution for victims.

Former Charleston magistrate judge James Gosnell Jr. pleads guilty to child porn charges

As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to seek dismissal of the remaining charges at sentencing if Gosnell complies with the terms of the agreement. During Thursday's hearing, Gosnell admitted to possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material.

U.S. Attorney Bryan Stirling said the guilty plea brings certainty to the case while prosecutors continue to seek the maximum sentence.

“These deviant, disgusting, and deeply disturbing actions truly shock our community,” Stirling said.

Stirling said investigators uncovered thousands of files depicting the sexual abuse of children after executing a search warrant at Gosnell's home.

“The depths of the darkness revealed in Gosnell's electronics and messages to his co-conspirator serve as a reminder that evil walks among us, often hiding in plain sight, him being a judge sitting on the bench,” Stirling said.

According to prosecutors, the investigation began after a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and information linked to online payments. Investigators traced the activity to Gosnell's phone number, email address and residence before executing a search warrant in September 2025.

Authorities said they seized more than 3,700 images and videos of child sexual abuse material stored on flash drives, discs and VHS tapes. Prosecutors said the material included content involving children under the age of 12, including infants and toddlers, that included the bonding, rape, torture and murder of children, as well as a video called “Daisy's Demise,” and videos of dead children being sexually assaulted.

Good friend of President Trump, Charleston magistrate judge James Gosnell Jr., pleads guilty to shocking child porn charges involving torture, murder and necrophillia

Stirling said prosecutors will ask the court to impose the maximum possible sentence.

“Gosnell's plea today is a resolution for the public, the government, and his victims. He faces a maximum term of imprisonment, which we will be arguing for, for 40 years,” Stirling said.

He added that accepting the plea avoids the uncertainty of a trial.

“What it gives us is certainty,” he said. “If you go to trial, there's uncertainty after relying on jurors. ... There's finality to this,” Stirling said. “All the conduct that's alleged and all the conduct that we saw will be included in his sentencing reports.”

Stirling also said he hopes the plea provides closure to those impacted by the case.

“We hope this plea will bring finality and closure to the community that he betrayed,” Stirling said.

Gosnell's attorney, Lionel Lofton, said his client chose to plead guilty to spare his family from a lengthy trial.

“Gosnell took the position that, 'I'm not going to put my family through any more heartache or hardship. I'm just going to go ahead and plead,'” Lofton said.

Lofton said the defense had challenged the legality of the search warrant but lost that argument in court.

“I just didn't think the search had probable cause. We challenged that. The court ruled against us,” Lofton said. He added that he hopes the court ultimately imposes a sentence that allows Gosnell to be released someday.

“Hopefully we can convince the court that he's not an evil person and he did stupid things and he violated the law,” Lofton said.

Stirling said the case represents a breach of public trust by someone who once served on the bench.

“South Carolina is better than this. They deserve better than this from their public servants,” Stirling said.

Booking photos of John Badger Thorpe and James Benjamin Gosnell Jr

The guilty plea comes just over a month after co-defendant John Thorpe pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and child pornography distribution charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

Manteniamo la calma. Prima di disprezzare Mario Adinolfi per i suoi guai giudiziari bisogna essere garantisti, aspettare gli accertamenti e continuare a disprezzarlo per oscurantismo, fanatismo, abominevole bigottismo, intolleranza, idee disumane, azioni politiche discriminatorie, iniziative portate avanti con l'estrema destra e un milione di altri motivi.