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Brooke Harrington

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Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words @washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian. All at brookeharrington.com .. more

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Elisabeth Brooke Harrington is an American academic, scholar, author, and professor of economic sociology at Dartmouth College.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Jan 23

Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9
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Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 11h

Excellent point. Preaching human liberation will get a body killed.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h

What do you like about it?

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, this song was playing in my head the whole time:
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Vulfmon & Zachary Barker - Disco Snails (Official Video)

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens speaking of Henry Kissinger, these ICE dudes really make you wish Hell existed because there's no earthly punishment that can really do them justice.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

A real life DOCTOR OF SNAILOLOGY!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

A fellow snail-stan?! Insta-follow!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Snails, snails everywhere...crowned snails, especially.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Walking very slowly around the Snail District of Siena: a medieval city divided into 17 Districts, each with its own animal mascot.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

the lobster scene

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Fr. Dowling should perform an exorcism at that ICE facility. A little "the power of Christ compels you" couldn't hurt.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

The guy playing Trump looks so similar to Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Can you imagine if Hoffman had lived? He would have been the most skin-crawlingly perfect Trump of all time.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Not just "to turn a blind eye to"...many of these guys were active, eager participants. The lesson of the Epstein files is that there are a lot of paedophiles and rapists running the world.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

The basis for a new Crusade.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

That ship may have sailed. A dozen years ago, wealth managers--the people who keep the rich getting richer--were already telling me that wealth inequality had grown so out of hand that nothing would correct it but grassroots revolution (quoted in my 2016 book, "Capital without Borders.")

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

A timepiece that doubles as a reliquary for pieces of the God-King!

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Hughes was blissed out on opiates. The Broligarchs are way into psychedelics...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Coincidentally, religious delusions are a known side effect of ingesting psychedelics--a practice now apparently de rigeur among the Broligarchs.

Sources--

Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/tech/silicon...

Nature Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

"Anyone who stops me from stealing is the Antichrist. We must crusade against the regulators."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

you jest, but basically yes--neuroscience and even economics research suggests exactly this (that becoming rich actively makes you less rational AND less empathetic)
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/scie...

Does Having Too Much Money Make Us Stupid ?

The quality of our decisions hinges in part on our ability and inclination to consider the trade-offs.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

this but evil
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Hey You Got Peanut Butter in My Chocolate High Quality VHS rip 1981

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Rothbard is a patron saint of the Broligarchs' efforts to establish their own personal empires offshore-which is why the subtitle of my new(ish) book is "The New Colonialism."
Rothbard-inspired techbros are styling themselves as imperial potentates.
See also, @raycraib.bsky.social's cool history.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Thiel has been Like That since our undergrad days. Here's a first-person account of his defense of apartheid.
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My Conversation with Peter Thiel about Apartheid… And its Unfolding Aftermath

I posted this on Facebook on the evening of November 1, 2016.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, now I have no choice but to follow you.

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, slavers famously *censored* the Christian Bible, ripping out all the parts about justice and liberation, to prevent the slaves from getting any ideas about their own humanity.
www.npr.org/2018/12/09/6...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

You might be onto something, chief.

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/artic...

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

Possibly aided and abetted by psychedelics, like Musk:
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