Of fucking course

This bananapants Yarvin tweet is a perfect example of why it's more useful to think of the US right as a movement defined by emotions and imagination, more than it is a movement defined by anything we could reasonably call "ideas." Yarvin is a first-rate reactionary fabulist, and a 7th rate thinker.

I was just discussing this with my biomom the other day.... Wondering what the exact moment in time that Trans women became the OBSESSION of these Billionaire NAZI PEDOPHILES.... It's because One of us Publicly kicked th first tiny domino....

No surprise, sadly. After all, our society views trans women as nothing more than walking sex objects who have no value beyond a cis person's cheap thrill. Time & again, we are Cassandra, warning others of looming horrors, only to be ignored & ridiculed. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQIA2

the proper response to this is for Portland PD to arrest the federal cops

Why do bottom-half young men vote populist? Populism is a risky bet. Men have a higher risk tolerance than women on average. Young men have the highest risk tolerance of all. Bottom-half men are downwardly mobile. They feel like they have little to lose if their risk doesn't pan out.

this is the natural outcome of the liberal property regime that deifies and protects *some* property (the bourgeoisie and petit bourgeoisie) while negating the property of the other (the working and subaltern classes)

We can make it real if they have the courage

I really need the smart people on this site to stop reacting like the pronouncements of individuals that always lie actually represent the ground truth and most literal reality of what is going to happen. Maybe today will be the day they’re going to follow through but so far it hasn’t been ever.

We probably need to recognize more directly that not all members of Congress consider urban areas to be America.

Just noticed how many of these anti-crypto people arguing with transsexuals are Gen X moids— they’re all just mad they didn’t get in on the grift as early as their friends right?

Trans people: *exchange currency for goods and services in a gray market due to systemic oppression* Liberals: "STOP IT! HOW DARE YOU SEE TO YOUR OWN HAPPINESS AND WELL BEING OUTSIDE OF *MY* ACCEPTABLE PARADIGM! HEY, LISTEN TO ME, STOP DOING THAT, STOP HAVING FUN AND BEING HEALTHY!"

It’s not about whether or not crypto is “cool”. It’s about having to find alternative markets which accept different forms of currency in order to procure our necessary healthcare, should it become illegal. Yes, when people are forced to engage in grey markets, they open themselves up to more risks

it isn't that most libertarians are fascists, its that fascists like to cosplay as libertarians

LILIES ARE TOXIC TO CATS

When there’s a lot of hand-wringing over how Farage got elected in a little while, this will be the answer. When you ask people if they want fascism or diet fascism they’re never going to pick the low-calorie version

Bruegel is one of my favorite painters and much of his work focuses on the Carnivalesque. Those themes are present here -the wedding/banquet in which all are welcome, the breakdown of medieval formality, and the cod pieces worn by the men which represent fertility and the material stratum

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

I regret to inform my followers that Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors. Born in Queens, New York, she joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA) in 1971. After 7 trials and imprisonment, she escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979 with the help of BLA members and fled to Cuba. Rest in Power. ✊🏿

This is after a years long push from the media, centrist democrats, and the GOP to demonize trans people. We are going to win

Okay... We gotta keep bull baiting these fuckers on camera. There is a LOT they are more than willing to say before realizing they're giving the Villain Monologue. These people WANT to be feared. What they are MORBIDLY afraid of is being seen as what they inherently all are; Racist Dweebs.

Pretty sad when the bad site actually has a ton of replies and a community note correcting this, but here all you get are tons of blue maga replies and qt's boosting this complete bullshit

the elite of Western society are incapable of cognizing the implications of ideas and observations, and no longer employ the middle class to do it for them. The American intellect only knows how to assign an affective valence to a stream of media, whose structure and provenance they hate to examine.

another cool podcast @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Superstructure is a MMT podcast for critical theory, media culture & aesthetics that are committed to unconditional inclusion and intersectional politics.

An important warning in the preface about not focusing too much on individuals in explaining historical developments.

Tulane realized the real money for a university is housing, not tuition, so they forced students to live on campus for an extra year. Now there's a glut of rental housing surrounding campus and prices dropped. Critical geographers are flocking to NOLA to understand what made landlords less greedy.

The Hayek answer is so gutting not just because Hayek is one of the architects of the economic order that unmade postwar liberalism, but also because Hayek himself was unwilling to accept pluralism, which means Sunstein either doesn't care, or his liberalism by necessity must contain its own defeat.

one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

It is not a coincidence that most of the videos you see of ICE agents using excessive force seem to feature unarmed women half their size. 🙃

This is after a years long push from the media, centrist democrats, and the GOP to demonize trans people. We are going to win

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

Yorkist populism against the Lancastrian usurpers presaged the rise of the English bourgeois class and the development of liberal property relations

oh hey hey its about time this fucking trash bag left public service

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

scolds on here couldn't parse the difference between "American global leadership" and "American participation in foreign policy" or accept the idea of prioritizing fixing our democracy so we stop sabotaging the world and now one of the foremost advocates for democratic renewal deactivated.

At some point I have to assume the disconnect is that nobody doing the math or writing about the math has made less than $75k in the past ten years if at all.

I said this on Twitter like four years ago and everyone got so mad at me lol www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

This is the world that South Park created

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

One mistake I see too often is viewing the economy as if it were some sort of static and easily defined *thing* rather than a concept created by people using objective data* to make subjective assumptions about the relative health of said human made concept.

“Negative space” is a good description for this kind of ideology. I’d argue this kind of belief system is designed to confuse and evade normies, revel in one’s own alienation and disillusionment

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Yorkist populism against the Lancastrian usurpers presaged the rise of the English bourgeois class and the development of liberal property relations

not trans, not cis, a secret 3rd thing (a grifter)

you can be a roman catholic grown-up boy scout, a republican, and a cold-war throwback G-man, but you write ONE lesbian novel and straight to the gulag

#Boston to offer free vaccines at series of clinics www.boston.gov/government/c...

seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade