I wrote about how Palantir is not some new foreign evil but is actually completely unremarkable and merely the next logical step of a system that abstracts, commoditizes, and tracks every aspect of human life Link below 👇

The capitalists of old gave such concessions because unified labor was a very real threat, the USSR's entire existence gave workers in the imperial core a standard. The entire history of the US post WWII was to destroy that & the moment the USSR was dissolved was the moment that all went away!

I don’t know how anyone still convinces themselves we live in a democracy when all our politicians are in the 10% of every 90/10 issue.

Me, atheistly: I like the Woke Pope

This is why oligarchs have steadily undermined public education & the humanities, including (especially) history: in the hope that we’ll all forget the collective power of organized ordinary people.

Oh my god he admit it!!

We are very quickly (like historically unprecedentedly quickly) going to enter into an economy where things will be cheap to make, expensive to buy, and no one can afford them HUGE corporations will crumble, then merge/be bought Nothing they make will work well No one will be able to buy anything

A critique of AI and its evangelists as the newest snake oil salesmen in the proud capitalist tradition, written by someone with a Disco Elysium profile pic? here for it

This is such a profoundly saddening situation. I don’t think people realize just how brutally screwed we are.

Incredible piece. you should go read it

I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇

Did you guys hear about Will Stancil leaking the Tinder ICE Honey Trap details just to take credit for the work done by women for months (ruining the entire operation by doing so)?

This happened in under 10 hours

… is he srs

“This is what it’s like to live in a de facto one-party state. No matter what the popular support for an issue is, the will of the voters is never reflected in policy, and no matter which party wins, the Republicans get almost everything they want.”

Democrats are not exactly like republicans, they are a compliment to them. They are not weak, they are ideologically committed. They are behaving exactly as you should expect people who believe deeply in this system to behave. My latest: www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/one-party-...

This probably won’t play well on Bluesky but I’m saying it anyway. If AOC wants to win and not only win but be a transformative president, she has to get some better foreign policy thinkers to guide her. Matt Dussism that tries to marry woke NATO Atlanticism with a muddied anti-imperialism 1/3

“Life has taught me some hard lessons & the hardest of these is that not every story has a happy ending. Sometimes it’s just an ending. So I don’t know, maybe it’s important to hang on to the improbable because at least it’s not this.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

Admitting that you’ll vote for someone worse than Trump if they have a D next to their name. We know!!!

If we accept this, we will accept anything. My latest. www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/if-we-acce...

“I believe that there are millions of Renee Goods & Alex Prettis in this country & I believe we’re stronger, braver & more steadfast any of these low rent Nazis. I believe in you & I believe we can win. We only need to decide.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

I knew this was going to happen and I really resent everyone that has acted as if it wasn’t even a real possibility

Here’s the thing man: there’s already violence in the streets. You’re just saying it should only be on the side of the state.

People are quickly going to come to the conclusion that there’s only one thing left that they can do to fight back if they see that everyone in power has abandoned them

I wrote about the death of consensus reality www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/the-death-...

Bro 😭

I’ve never said there’s nothing you could do. Try reading a book and learning about the things you need to do when voting stops mattering. Your intellectual laziness is not my failing.

Sooooo what’s the “primary every Dem” solution to these people just doing whatever and installing a dictatorship?

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

“We must go to war for a future where this barbarism is not only unacceptable, but rare. Where there is no reward for inhumanity. If we want to live in a society, building one from scratch is our only hope.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

Andre Easton is a socialist candidate running to primary Ritchie Torres in NY-15. Watch the video.

The tattoo is undoubtedly bad but I want to caution folks against using Jewish Insider as a source that Platner knew it was a deaths head. Jewish Insider is responsible for a lot of genocidal propaganda and should not be seen as credible under any circumstances

Instead of looking for the next Zohran we should be asking where is our next Malcolm? our next Fidel? our next Lenin? I wrote about how we can avoid the mistakes of the past by forming structures outside of our institutions whereby natural leaders emerge www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/where-are-...

I’m on so many lists with the word tankie in them. I can’t believe people still use this word in 2025

i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad. most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.

“Every parade has a right to exist” is going to be knocking around in my brain forever

Judging by how bad cops are at solving crime I bet getting away with murder is actually way easier than the shows make it seem

I wrote this a while ago about criticisms on the left of the Palestine protests and I think it can also be applied to criticisms of the liberal No Kings protests. I think the category error I see the most is in expecting the protest itself to be an end and not a means

IF there’s free and fair elections and IF democrats manage to win all they need to do is rebuild every federal agency and program from the ground up. easy peasy

I do not think it is too outlandish at this point to imagine that Elon is directly feeding a lot of this user information directly these nazis

I have been crowing on about how voting can’t save us from this mess for such a long time. Maybe this will be the thing that makes it click for people. I might be way off base but I think it’s delusional for people to talk about the midterms or 28 elections as if they are going to be real.

Wow!

I am way too emotionally invested in these people to not get another season of this show :(

This book is gonna give me nightmares man (The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp)

Remember when stonetoss got IDed and Musk made it a bannable offense to tweet his name.

It’s like you don’t want more people to come here

Just putting out there that anyone being a scold about people wanting to keep in touch with their friends before this all happened is getting an instant block. It doesn't seem like anyone likes the CEO here either

There are only so many websites left and rich Nazis are trying to buy all of them. That's just the fact of the matter. You can't blame people just trying to keep their community, but you can help them at least temporarily find haven (hopefully here for a while)