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Costco, our electrician, Darn Tough socks, the guys that did our brick repointing. That little hardware store at 45th and Walnut. Doc Martens, at least until private equity dug its claws in
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Costco, our electrician, Darn Tough socks, the guys that did our brick repointing. That little hardware store at 45th and Walnut. Doc Martens, at least until private equity dug its claws in
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"i am engaging in capitalism"
bsky: shut yo bitch ass up!!
"i am engaging in capitalism, At Costco."
bsky: ALL GLORY TO THE KIRKLAND BRAND AND OUR COSTCO OVERLORDS.
bsky: shut yo bitch ass up!!
"i am engaging in capitalism, At Costco."
bsky: ALL GLORY TO THE KIRKLAND BRAND AND OUR COSTCO OVERLORDS.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"i am engaging in capitalism"
bsky: shut yo bitch ass up!!
"i am engaging in capitalism, At Costco."
bsky: ALL GLORY TO THE KIRKLAND BRAND AND OUR COSTCO OVERLORDS.
bsky: shut yo bitch ass up!!
"i am engaging in capitalism, At Costco."
bsky: ALL GLORY TO THE KIRKLAND BRAND AND OUR COSTCO OVERLORDS.
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Doing my patriotic duty
December 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Doing my patriotic duty
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We are all middle aged and you just posted about Costco, friend
How the hell does this get 600+ likes lol
Doing my patriotic duty
December 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
We are all middle aged and you just posted about Costco, friend
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my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.
blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
my paternal great grandparents got off a boat in Newark and were americans from the moment they touched american soil. my only objection to that pattern is that i think we should send a plane to pick up anyone who declares themselves an american.
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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Middle age consumerism is just the exhausting process of finally finding A Person Or Brand That Does Something Well and then prayerfully throwing money at them
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Middle age consumerism is just the exhausting process of finally finding A Person Or Brand That Does Something Well and then prayerfully throwing money at them
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wrote about class first leftism here. Ben Burgis completely lost his shit and acted like I was slandering him...which is not what the essay is doing. medium.com/arc-digital/...
Why Class-First Leftists Are Wrong
Defining leftism based on economics while excluding identity is theoretically, empirically, and ethically misguided
medium.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
wrote about class first leftism here. Ben Burgis completely lost his shit and acted like I was slandering him...which is not what the essay is doing. medium.com/arc-digital/...
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and you shouldn't trust either of them, imo.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
and you shouldn't trust either of them, imo.
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anyway. the point is that it's a quite deliberate strategy for ryan grim to go on bannon's show.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
anyway. the point is that it's a quite deliberate strategy for ryan grim to go on bannon's show.
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they generally think this in part because they're white people who dislike the idea that they might be participating in oppression, and/or dislike the idea that other people may have experiences of oppression they should listen to.
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
they generally think this in part because they're white people who dislike the idea that they might be participating in oppression, and/or dislike the idea that other people may have experiences of oppression they should listen to.
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basically some people on the "left"—Jimmy Dore for example—believe that white populist class first leftism is the true ideology of the oppressed, and think that concern about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, is an elite boondoggle meant to distract from class oppression.
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
basically some people on the "left"—Jimmy Dore for example—believe that white populist class first leftism is the true ideology of the oppressed, and think that concern about racism, sexism, homophobia, etc, is an elite boondoggle meant to distract from class oppression.
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horseshoe theory isn't really a thing...except to the extent that certain fash curious folks on the left and right want it to exist or to bring it into being.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
horseshoe theory isn't really a thing...except to the extent that certain fash curious folks on the left and right want it to exist or to bring it into being.
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re ryan grim and the various iterations of glenn greenwaldism...
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
re ryan grim and the various iterations of glenn greenwaldism...
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
the way this works isn't so much that they get seduced by the right as that they were already dreaming of a realignment of left and right populism against an imagined bland/evil center. 1
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This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This is a really good piece!
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
(though I am once again begging people to move off Substack)
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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This article is heartbreaking.
December 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This article is heartbreaking.
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BUT!
When he gets to the part that's always quoted, he's not admitting that the Reagan-era GOP was an extension of that. Indeed, at one point he directly denies Reagan-era
Republicans have any connection to it.
He's not affirming Lamis. He's mocking him as a conspiracy theorist.
When he gets to the part that's always quoted, he's not admitting that the Reagan-era GOP was an extension of that. Indeed, at one point he directly denies Reagan-era
Republicans have any connection to it.
He's not affirming Lamis. He's mocking him as a conspiracy theorist.
December 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
BUT!
When he gets to the part that's always quoted, he's not admitting that the Reagan-era GOP was an extension of that. Indeed, at one point he directly denies Reagan-era
Republicans have any connection to it.
He's not affirming Lamis. He's mocking him as a conspiracy theorist.
When he gets to the part that's always quoted, he's not admitting that the Reagan-era GOP was an extension of that. Indeed, at one point he directly denies Reagan-era
Republicans have any connection to it.
He's not affirming Lamis. He's mocking him as a conspiracy theorist.
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As I noted here, if you listen to the full interview, Atwater readily admits that the Nixon-era southern strategy was a very real thing and based on "coded racism"
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December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
As I noted here, if you listen to the full interview, Atwater readily admits that the Nixon-era southern strategy was a very real thing and based on "coded racism"
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Grim, like many people, seizes on this key passage where Atwater is apparently confessing the dark secret about the Southern Strategy:
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Grim, like many people, seizes on this key passage where Atwater is apparently confessing the dark secret about the Southern Strategy:
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The cherry on top of all this is that Grim -- like many people on the left -- get that Atwater interview completely wrong.
Here it is. I criticized Ryan Grim because I didn't think he challenged Christopher Rufo all that hard, and Grim called it "defamation".
December 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The cherry on top of all this is that Grim -- like many people on the left -- get that Atwater interview completely wrong.