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i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
im like 65% of the way to convincing myself that capitalism, as most people understand it, existed for ~one century, and everything beyond that is people trying to construct a prehistory for something that was totally contingent
this is because a successful bipartisan project of the last 40 years has been obfuscating all of the things the government does
I think very often people do not realize the sheer *scale* of government, particularly the US government.
There are already food banks/depositories in every district & a ton of Democrats have been doing events to support them, but if no one besides a staffer posts about it, no one knows about it.

Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!
im being your reply guy today but dont you think this is like a perfect inversion of those sardonic lib interviews with trump voters from 2015/2016. who looks like the media elite here!
this shit makes me feel so insane given that 5 years ago you had these people mastering hermeneutics to explain why everything bernie sanders said was secretly racist.
agree but i read this mostly as an indication of where he thinks the momentum is
my backyard has a carefully balanced ecosystem of 5 squirrels, 2 rabbits, and one large rat
crazy i just listened through it this morning and thought about what an absolutely singular collection of music it is
it was such a good bit to get my entire generation addicted to the internet by making it good for the formative years of our development, and then make it completely unusable by the time we reached our 30s.
it’s good when the army is paid entirely by one anonymous rich guy
Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"
nothing really gets me going like writing historical materialist heterodox macroeconomics for 18th century french colonies
trump snubbed again
*MOKYR, AGHION, HOWITT WON NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
torn between “i should flee america” and “i should move back to philly”
goin outside to eat a cliff bar like im having a cigarette
“can a civil war be imposed from the top down” looks like a question we are going to learn the answer to soon
there is definitely a belief that no retribution is possible for doing things that are transparently illegal
it’s very funny that a huge portion of civil society is long on the idea that there will never be another election in america
david graeber has a curious essay about why the police were so bothered by large puppets during the anti-globalization protests. i thought it was bullshit when i read it but this video is making me reconsider.
wizard frog is insane
“can the king break the law” essays in intro political theory classes probably go hard this year
AI is mostly a project to find out how small you can make the ruling elite while subjecting the median individual to increasingly harsh conditions. the bet is you can proletarianize all knowledge and entertainment industry workers and suffer little to no blowback.
sometimes I think about how probably the most important class I ever took in my life was a year-long typing class in high school where we all had to be able to type ~60wpm with few mistakes to pass
im not even necessarily pro winning wars, but there is little historical evidence that any war has been won by “warrior spirit”
i just read a bunch of books about the seven years war and every single one starts and ends with: logistics, not bravery or even really strategy, wins wars
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."