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Eric Rosenfield

@ericrosenfield.bsky.social

Makes a media and politics thingy. He/him YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LiterateMachine Blog version: https://literatemachine.com PodCast: Literate Machine on your favorite podcast service

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Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterday

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4d ago

Leftists support migrants because they believe a human being's worth should not be dependent on where they were born. Some people who consider themselves part of "the left" are actually just reactionary nationalists of the subaltern class, who would instantly be on the right if their side ever won.

From Susan Abulhawa: "no, this was completely engineered by the US, Israel, and Morocco. This is how Sanchez, and Spain at large, are punished for challenging Israel, and "re-educated" to fall back in line with western imperial objectives."
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Eric Rosenfield@ericrosenfield.bsky.social · last wk.

Honestly, I have no interest in seeing the Nolan movie because a dour, humorless, grimdark tone is about the opposite of what I want from a movie with evil singing fish ladies, a cyclops, and a witch who likes to turn people into pigs.

Eric Rosenfield@ericrosenfield.bsky.social · last wk.

Just so everyone knows this market-brained plutocratic shit is promoted by Steven Levitt, the guy behind Freakonomics: freakonomics.com/2012/10/an-a...

An Alternative to Democracy? - Freakonomics

With the U.S. presidential election nearly here, everyone seems to have politics on their mind.  Unlike most people, economists tend to have an indifference towards voting.  The way economists see it,...

freakonomics.com

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · last wk.

the ceo of shopify (tobi lutke) wants more votes than you.

Eric Rosenfield@ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m serious everyone should just read Clara Mattei’s Escape From Capitalism, and by everyone, I mean everyone on Earth. Seriously this is the best breakdown of the problems of mainstream economics I’ve ever read, it’s a masterclass in how we got here and why it’s justified by those in power

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Prime Minister of the Jewish state is committing war crimes. To say that holding him accountable for that is in some way a personal attack on American Jewish identity says deeply troubling things about American Jewish identity. If that makes me less safe, he should stop doing war crimes.

Eric Rosenfield@ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 2w ago

Can't get over this Doomsday trailer. Characters from other movies show up and look at each other. Thor like "This is def worse than before, guys." Retread from Ragnarok where the big bad is so bad Thor's weapon can't hurt them. And the big tag? Steve Rogers. Such an exhausting absence of new ideas

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reminder: there's NO legitimate use for crypto. Its only practical uses are tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, specualtion, and crime. No Democrat should vote for the so-called CLARITY Act, a bill backed by the crypto lobby that would make this Ponzi scheme even worse.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3w ago

Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.

Marie Vibbert@reasie.bsky.social · 3w ago

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Jack Graham@timescarcass.bsky.social · 3w ago

For instance, when US politicians talk about objectively mild lib/socdem reforms being 'communism', this sounds utterly unhinged. Then you realise that what they are actually saying is 'this could bring Black people slightly closer to economic and social equality' to people with white privilege.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w ago

it’s hard to explain how much shit like this has radicalized people. like i’m a white middle-aged broad who’s always been liberal but i’ve gone full-on “abolish ICE/reform scotus/the next dem candidate must commit to mass prosecutions” and you will not sway me from that position.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · 3w ago

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?