I feel like people are overreacting to the Michigan primary being closer than expected? Like the interesting thing was an anti-genocide candidate winning, not whether the polls estimated his support accurately
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post various things I’m reading, photos, and political/philosophical musings - trans rights are human rights - black lives matter - free palestine - he/him - check out my blog twilliambell.wordpress.com
i think we should eliminate all taxes for everyone willing to participate in the corvee. These Americans will be entitled to 100% of the money they earn as long as the state can enslave them at will for public works projects.
The real impasta@therealimpasta.bsky.social · 20h agoATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS
this is actually crazy, who is he imagining this would be a gotcha question for?
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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The Neurath-Horkheimer Debate
Marxism has a serious tradition of anti-positivism. As far as I’m concerned the big names here are Lenin, Lukacs, and Horkheimer. Horkheimer is, to my knowledge, distinguished fro…
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🍄@peddasson.eurosky.social · yesterdayirgendwo in den Tiefen des Internets gibts das bestimmt
With the US strategic defeat by Iran, what are the long held assumptions that must be revised? "All the foundations of the unipolar world have vanished. " @policytensor sums up what we have learned since February. Hard to disagree with any of them.
All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.
The data center mania happening at a time when climate change is already such a serious and obvious problem feels like a taunt. You are pissing me off on purpose
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · last wk."By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
You know we're in uncharted territory when The Economist is citing Karl Marx on their Trump coverage.
The Economist@economist.com · last wk.Donald Trump’s net approval rating has fallen to a record low of -25, according to our tracker. Explore the data
Regret is fine, but these were unprecedented constitutional crimes & also caused mass death, & he needs to spend the rest of his life in jail, after he personally reimburses the federal government & lawful recipients of Congressionally authorized federal funding for the billions he destroyed.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit
For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w agoI’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?
i don’t need 4. give me the jolly green giant, it’s going to be a fucking bloodbath
Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2w agoThings aren't great, let's have some fun
more serious Odyssey opinion: leaning into the religious significance of the Trojan horse strategy (and the hospitality as central to civilization theme) was a good choice by Nolan and friends artistically and politically. strongest condemnation of our present era I'd expect from a mass market film
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 3w ago
We should make ski slalom more like kayak slalom, add in some uphill gates
Whatever could be said about that claim when he made it in 1962, it soon became undeniable that government vaccine research, distribution, and mandates are objectively among the greatest achievements of civilization. Claiming otherwise is embarrassing, it's like saying you don't wash your hands.
Cato Institute@cato.org · 3w ago"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus." — Milton Friedman. They were driven by individual liberty and free markets. And they always will be.
1. Ruling class doesn't have answers to social problems (climate change, rent, etc) 1.1. Ruling class can't internally agree 1.2 Ruling class can't spin a coherent story for other classes 2. Hegemony breaks down. 2.1 Explanations can no longer make reference to "general knowledge"
Jason Colavito@jasoncolavito.bsky.social · 3w agoThe anti-science "wellness" crusaders who brought you raw milk and vaccine conspiracies are now attacking a new target: sunscreen. They falsely claim sunscreen, not UV radiation, is the cause of skin cancer. www.menshealth.com/health/a7186...
A live topic of conversation is ‘middle power hedging’, one place I’d like to see that conversation go is preventing the kinds of financial system lockouts and near debanking that the US is using against the ICJ, et al
How Stormy sleeps knowing she scared the crap out of me
Jessica Benjamin with a very helpful overview of object relations theory in a footnote
Yesterday the sky was orange, today it is yellow, but both are sepia, how both are sepia I don’t know, it’s a mystery, like the trinity
Leftists and conservatives both have these kinds of characteristic moves of phony magnanimity. The leftist one goes "Carl Schmidt gets at something important about the nature of contradiction, but you can get the same from XYZ so why not just read them", the conservative goes...