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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 14

“This is a different panel. Everything’s computer!”

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 13

Wait, the same Samuel Moyn who writes for Compact magazine?

Richard Steigmann-Gall @notoriousrsg.bsky.social · Mar 11

Sam Moyn finally throws in the towel. Dude needs to do a fucking mea culpa tour. More than anyone else he lent intellectual legitimacy to the anti-anti-fascists. Honestly? Fuck this guy.

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 13

they will all be societal democrats

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 9

great

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 9

transition program

"“How do we solve for something like this?” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins asked on Fox News. “People are sort of looking around and thinking, ‘Wow, maybe I could get a chicken in my backyard,’ and it’s awesome.”

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 8

"Le gendarme incompris (1921), a nonsense play by
Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet in which the policeman
delivers himself of lines by Mallarmé"

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Reposted by Jason Smith

Alain Goulagueur @severnyveter.bsky.social · Mar 5

L'ouvrage de Jasper Bernes qui va sortir le mois prochain est un outil absolument excellent pour tous ceux qui voudraient comprendre non seulement l'histoire détaillée et les débats internes de la tradition dite d'ultragauche, mais aussi les conditions concrètes de toute révolution à venir.

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 3

“The social order is as much a part of the milk as its fat content.”

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 3

bruh
"Drones armed with shotguns are now shooting down other drones."

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 3

"The trenches that cut scars across hundreds of miles of the front are still essential for defense, but today most soldiers die or lose limbs to remote-controlled aircraft rigged with explosives, many of them lightly modified hobby models."

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Mar 2

Alas, yes. Troubling.

Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 28

"From the age of 16, Skye had a relationship with Anthony Kiedis"

Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 28

"D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation"

Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

"the population implosion"

Not a day goes by without the establishment press publishing an article about declining fertility rates in the capitalist core.

I'm writing something substantial on this phenomenon, details of which I hope to share soon.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The End of Children

Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?

www.newyorker.com

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

it's never going to stop being hilarious that so many pundits, and not a few on the US "left," characterized the MAGA movement as "populist" in character.

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

"China — which processes nearly 90 percent of rare earths worldwide — holds a “near monopoly” over this step in the supply chain...Most major rare earth producers, including the U.S., lack the domestic know-how or infrastructure needed to refine the minerals, forcing them to rely on Beijing."

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

quick hitter

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

Looking forward to reading it. Thx

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

anyway, the move fast and break things circus seems amateurish & likely cover for the usual grift, spiced up with some pimply nihilism. If they happen to disrupt the functioning of defense, ICE, DoJ, etc., no tears. And who knows what can of worms is being opened up? what scenarios made plausible?

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

*review copy

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

good book title! I'm stealing it

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

Vengeance bides its time, and never gets old.

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

I once heard Hent de Vries say something like radical undecidability is that between Christ and the anti-Christ. Scratched my chin, but maybe?

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · Feb 27

Surely the new gang in charge (?) in DC has a role for Blake Masters? Plug him in anywhere, he's perfect, but Secretary of Schoolboy Nihilism fits best.