Brenden
@brendenslabyrinth.substack.com
chaotically curious. tragically confused. simulated enigma. i write about the thing… https://open.substack.com/pub/brendenslabyrinth
they tell you to 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'…to endure market risk, while they use government bail outs to eliminate their risk.
I believe risk should be shared…not dumped entirely on the working class…this should be considered the centrist position…because it is.
I believe risk should be shared…not dumped entirely on the working class…this should be considered the centrist position…because it is.
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
they tell you to 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'…to endure market risk, while they use government bail outs to eliminate their risk.
I believe risk should be shared…not dumped entirely on the working class…this should be considered the centrist position…because it is.
I believe risk should be shared…not dumped entirely on the working class…this should be considered the centrist position…because it is.
we have a fusion of state power and corporate interest. this is the status quo.
when our government insures Boeing’s losses but not your healthcare…that’s not capitalism.
that is modern feudalism…where welfare supports corporations first.
when our government insures Boeing’s losses but not your healthcare…that’s not capitalism.
that is modern feudalism…where welfare supports corporations first.
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
we have a fusion of state power and corporate interest. this is the status quo.
when our government insures Boeing’s losses but not your healthcare…that’s not capitalism.
that is modern feudalism…where welfare supports corporations first.
when our government insures Boeing’s losses but not your healthcare…that’s not capitalism.
that is modern feudalism…where welfare supports corporations first.
Universal healthcare is only "radical" if you profit from sickness. To everyone else…it should be a common sense necessity and right for being a tax paying citizen.
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Universal healthcare is only "radical" if you profit from sickness. To everyone else…it should be a common sense necessity and right for being a tax paying citizen.
in our current society…scarcity is not born of population…but of a centralized and planned scarcity.
November 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
in our current society…scarcity is not born of population…but of a centralized and planned scarcity.
Trump: “We’re pretty close to a deal with India… we’ll bring the tariffs down.”
Translation: I set the fire, now I’ll roll in with the hose…and claim to be the big deal maker and peace maker…
Translation: I set the fire, now I’ll roll in with the hose…and claim to be the big deal maker and peace maker…
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump: “We’re pretty close to a deal with India… we’ll bring the tariffs down.”
Translation: I set the fire, now I’ll roll in with the hose…and claim to be the big deal maker and peace maker…
Translation: I set the fire, now I’ll roll in with the hose…and claim to be the big deal maker and peace maker…
you have to be at psychotic levels mentally to listen to someone like stephen miller and JD vance and not think..."yeah these guys should not be anywhere near governance or any form of power for that matter." they should be institutionalised.
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
you have to be at psychotic levels mentally to listen to someone like stephen miller and JD vance and not think..."yeah these guys should not be anywhere near governance or any form of power for that matter." they should be institutionalised.
normalize justified crime…such as stealing food…for your family….because the government wants to steal SNAP benefits….so that some rich dudes can have more tax breaks.
crazy take. i know.
crazy take. i know.
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
normalize justified crime…such as stealing food…for your family….because the government wants to steal SNAP benefits….so that some rich dudes can have more tax breaks.
crazy take. i know.
crazy take. i know.
joe rogan has started calling himself a christian…
is anyone surprised? he’s just dabbling he’ll claim. he’s just attending church. nothing necessarily wrong with it…but his road to full unconscious grift is the lest bit surprising at this point.
is anyone surprised? he’s just dabbling he’ll claim. he’s just attending church. nothing necessarily wrong with it…but his road to full unconscious grift is the lest bit surprising at this point.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
joe rogan has started calling himself a christian…
is anyone surprised? he’s just dabbling he’ll claim. he’s just attending church. nothing necessarily wrong with it…but his road to full unconscious grift is the lest bit surprising at this point.
is anyone surprised? he’s just dabbling he’ll claim. he’s just attending church. nothing necessarily wrong with it…but his road to full unconscious grift is the lest bit surprising at this point.
the internet is not just infrastructure. it's a symbolic organ. a myth engine. a place where desire is both staged and consumed.
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
the internet is not just infrastructure. it's a symbolic organ. a myth engine. a place where desire is both staged and consumed.
power doesn’t fear your arguments, it fears movement. The left used to be about breaking things open.
now it’s about maintaining a fragile consensus.
no wonder the only people who look like they’re shaking things up are frauds
now it’s about maintaining a fragile consensus.
no wonder the only people who look like they’re shaking things up are frauds
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
power doesn’t fear your arguments, it fears movement. The left used to be about breaking things open.
now it’s about maintaining a fragile consensus.
no wonder the only people who look like they’re shaking things up are frauds
now it’s about maintaining a fragile consensus.
no wonder the only people who look like they’re shaking things up are frauds
trump is completely untethered to the truth. he’s willing to say anything to get his way.
and his base believes that he is tethered to their truth. so for them..he is a truth sayer.
when you push back on trump you’re essentially attacking the most true political symbol they’ve ever believed in.
and his base believes that he is tethered to their truth. so for them..he is a truth sayer.
when you push back on trump you’re essentially attacking the most true political symbol they’ve ever believed in.
March 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
trump is completely untethered to the truth. he’s willing to say anything to get his way.
and his base believes that he is tethered to their truth. so for them..he is a truth sayer.
when you push back on trump you’re essentially attacking the most true political symbol they’ve ever believed in.
and his base believes that he is tethered to their truth. so for them..he is a truth sayer.
when you push back on trump you’re essentially attacking the most true political symbol they’ve ever believed in.
Politics isnt just policy, it’s atmosphere. If you don’t have energy, unpredictability, and risk, you’re just managing a movements decline.
March 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Politics isnt just policy, it’s atmosphere. If you don’t have energy, unpredictability, and risk, you’re just managing a movements decline.
“have you said thank you once”
this comment to zelensky will define the political career of jd vance. not in a good way obvi. but it demonstrates his fundamental lack of charisma.
he simply doesn’t have it. it’s a glitch in the matrix to have this dude at any level of power.
this comment to zelensky will define the political career of jd vance. not in a good way obvi. but it demonstrates his fundamental lack of charisma.
he simply doesn’t have it. it’s a glitch in the matrix to have this dude at any level of power.
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“have you said thank you once”
this comment to zelensky will define the political career of jd vance. not in a good way obvi. but it demonstrates his fundamental lack of charisma.
he simply doesn’t have it. it’s a glitch in the matrix to have this dude at any level of power.
this comment to zelensky will define the political career of jd vance. not in a good way obvi. but it demonstrates his fundamental lack of charisma.
he simply doesn’t have it. it’s a glitch in the matrix to have this dude at any level of power.
trump and jd vance looked weak in the meeting with zelensky. it’s disgraceful.
“um pwease say fhank you because we give pew pew”
embarrassing. zelensky kept his cool even after personal attacks and our two “leaders” whined like babies.
“um pwease say fhank you because we give pew pew”
embarrassing. zelensky kept his cool even after personal attacks and our two “leaders” whined like babies.
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
trump and jd vance looked weak in the meeting with zelensky. it’s disgraceful.
“um pwease say fhank you because we give pew pew”
embarrassing. zelensky kept his cool even after personal attacks and our two “leaders” whined like babies.
“um pwease say fhank you because we give pew pew”
embarrassing. zelensky kept his cool even after personal attacks and our two “leaders” whined like babies.
edginess isn’t optional. If you dont have it, the status quo replicates itself. the left was always the unpredictable force, the glitch in the system. if you lost that…you lose the aesthetic of change.
February 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
edginess isn’t optional. If you dont have it, the status quo replicates itself. the left was always the unpredictable force, the glitch in the system. if you lost that…you lose the aesthetic of change.
people don’t join movements. They join imagined worlds. If you want to win…you have to create a world they want to live in and that they can imagine.
February 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
people don’t join movements. They join imagined worlds. If you want to win…you have to create a world they want to live in and that they can imagine.
accelerationism is a cope. capitalism is not going to collapse into utopia…it will collapse into technofeudalism.
February 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
accelerationism is a cope. capitalism is not going to collapse into utopia…it will collapse into technofeudalism.
if your anti-elite stance is funded by Peter Thiel…you’re not a rebel. you’re an employee.
February 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
if your anti-elite stance is funded by Peter Thiel…you’re not a rebel. you’re an employee.
People dont follow ideologies. They follow aesthetics. If you want to win…you need to make leftism cooler than reactionary larping.
February 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
People dont follow ideologies. They follow aesthetics. If you want to win…you need to make leftism cooler than reactionary larping.
capitalism will continue to fall out of favor just as feudalism did…
the next evolution is coming. and history never stops becoming history.
the next evolution is coming. and history never stops becoming history.
February 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
capitalism will continue to fall out of favor just as feudalism did…
the next evolution is coming. and history never stops becoming history.
the next evolution is coming. and history never stops becoming history.
isnt your own…it’s manufactured for you.
the same goes for our politics now…curated rebellion, as safe as an algorithm.
just watch the pretty internet aesthetics.
the same goes for our politics now…curated rebellion, as safe as an algorithm.
just watch the pretty internet aesthetics.
February 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
isnt your own…it’s manufactured for you.
the same goes for our politics now…curated rebellion, as safe as an algorithm.
just watch the pretty internet aesthetics.
the same goes for our politics now…curated rebellion, as safe as an algorithm.
just watch the pretty internet aesthetics.
aesthetic rebellion once belonged to punk, to outsiders, to the unmanageable. Now it belongs to reactionaries.
February 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
aesthetic rebellion once belonged to punk, to outsiders, to the unmanageable. Now it belongs to reactionaries.
the ‘managerial elite’ alienated the working class. Virtue without vision, purity without purpose.
February 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the ‘managerial elite’ alienated the working class. Virtue without vision, purity without purpose.
rebellion isn’t safe. it isn’t curated. it’s dangerous and offensive.
the left must embrace and accept this: the true revolution terrifies…even those who are advocates for it.
the left must embrace and accept this: the true revolution terrifies…even those who are advocates for it.
February 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
rebellion isn’t safe. it isn’t curated. it’s dangerous and offensive.
the left must embrace and accept this: the true revolution terrifies…even those who are advocates for it.
the left must embrace and accept this: the true revolution terrifies…even those who are advocates for it.
the left needs edginess. we lost the edge. it’s part of the reason “rebellious” aesthetics have moved to the right…
they feel unwelcome in left spaces. why? we’ve allowed the managerial class and their virtue signaling to control the in group-out group. this has marginalized the working class….
they feel unwelcome in left spaces. why? we’ve allowed the managerial class and their virtue signaling to control the in group-out group. this has marginalized the working class….
February 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
the left needs edginess. we lost the edge. it’s part of the reason “rebellious” aesthetics have moved to the right…
they feel unwelcome in left spaces. why? we’ve allowed the managerial class and their virtue signaling to control the in group-out group. this has marginalized the working class….
they feel unwelcome in left spaces. why? we’ve allowed the managerial class and their virtue signaling to control the in group-out group. this has marginalized the working class….