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It is, as always, important that we do not let reactionaries have a monopoly on religion.
Religion, all religion, is ultimately about community & shared culture, it came be a thing to tie us together.
Religion, all religion, is ultimately about community & shared culture, it came be a thing to tie us together.
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It is, as always, important that we do not let reactionaries have a monopoly on religion.
Religion, all religion, is ultimately about community & shared culture, it came be a thing to tie us together.
Religion, all religion, is ultimately about community & shared culture, it came be a thing to tie us together.
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We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.
Here is the piece and an extract.
davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...
Here is the piece and an extract.
davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.
Here is the piece and an extract.
davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...
Here is the piece and an extract.
davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...
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A legitimately brilliant insight courtesy of MAGA crypto galaxy brain.
Tfw when MAGA detects the Zetro Card's radical potential for public finance.
See this link for more:
moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/24/h...
See this link for more:
moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/24/h...
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A legitimately brilliant insight courtesy of MAGA crypto galaxy brain.
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Maintaining the status quo is an essential part of the job of the mainstream media.
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Maintaining the status quo is an essential part of the job of the mainstream media.
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Artists of all walks:
Once you open "porn" up for removal, or acceptable removal, based upon a moving scale of gray morality, everyone's work is fair game. Everyone's. Because just being queer? Is considered by many perverse. Even if everyone has their clothes on, perverse.
Protect. Porn.
Once you open "porn" up for removal, or acceptable removal, based upon a moving scale of gray morality, everyone's work is fair game. Everyone's. Because just being queer? Is considered by many perverse. Even if everyone has their clothes on, perverse.
Protect. Porn.
October 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Artists of all walks:
Once you open "porn" up for removal, or acceptable removal, based upon a moving scale of gray morality, everyone's work is fair game. Everyone's. Because just being queer? Is considered by many perverse. Even if everyone has their clothes on, perverse.
Protect. Porn.
Once you open "porn" up for removal, or acceptable removal, based upon a moving scale of gray morality, everyone's work is fair game. Everyone's. Because just being queer? Is considered by many perverse. Even if everyone has their clothes on, perverse.
Protect. Porn.
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Excellent stuff from @graceblakeley.substack.com. People believe that if you build more houses then the price will come down. This simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the demand side is virtually unlimited due to the super rich wanting to buy up all of the assets.
"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets."
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...
Building More Won't Fix the Housing Crisis
Housing has become a financial asset that generates vast gains for the wealthy.
graceblakeley.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Excellent stuff from @graceblakeley.substack.com. People believe that if you build more houses then the price will come down. This simplistic analysis ignores the fact that the demand side is virtually unlimited due to the super rich wanting to buy up all of the assets.
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It wasn’t until after 2010 though (especially after the failure of the 2009 COP, that everyone thought would be THE ONE to finally go through), that I started noticing the weird disconnects on security and climate change. And related questions popping up.
Like, if you put together some of the
Like, if you put together some of the
It was 2007 when I first started seeing reports about how climate change had(has) security/military implications
press.un.org/en/2007/sc90....
press.un.org/en/2007/sc90....
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It wasn’t until after 2010 though (especially after the failure of the 2009 COP, that everyone thought would be THE ONE to finally go through), that I started noticing the weird disconnects on security and climate change. And related questions popping up.
Like, if you put together some of the
Like, if you put together some of the
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These are the kind of layups you miss when your core political instinct is to think of something and then imagine some hypothetical person who could be turned off by it until you've talked yourself into inaction.
October 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
These are the kind of layups you miss when your core political instinct is to think of something and then imagine some hypothetical person who could be turned off by it until you've talked yourself into inaction.
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Here's the thing:
Everything is Gamergate because no one with any power to actually hold people accountable took this seriously.
The same will be true if every time something atrocious happens like this and no one is held accountable.
They are only further emboldened.
Everything is Gamergate because no one with any power to actually hold people accountable took this seriously.
The same will be true if every time something atrocious happens like this and no one is held accountable.
They are only further emboldened.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here's the thing:
Everything is Gamergate because no one with any power to actually hold people accountable took this seriously.
The same will be true if every time something atrocious happens like this and no one is held accountable.
They are only further emboldened.
Everything is Gamergate because no one with any power to actually hold people accountable took this seriously.
The same will be true if every time something atrocious happens like this and no one is held accountable.
They are only further emboldened.
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i would also add: "cooperative and nonconfrontational discussion" is not always desirable unless you live so far on top of the food chain that you are unaffected by the subjects being "discussed." demanding that people be "cooperative & nonconfrontational" about the knife in their stomach is >
my imo ofc is addressing userbase concerns will probably encourage more people to dive into the deeper workings. i don't think you can force "cooperative and nonconfrontational social media discussion" solely through tools/architecture/algorithms if the subjects in
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
i would also add: "cooperative and nonconfrontational discussion" is not always desirable unless you live so far on top of the food chain that you are unaffected by the subjects being "discussed." demanding that people be "cooperative & nonconfrontational" about the knife in their stomach is >
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Cities don’t even have to issue bonds
They can just create city public money they accept back in payment if city taxes
They can just create city public money they accept back in payment if city taxes
October 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Cities don’t even have to issue bonds
They can just create city public money they accept back in payment if city taxes
They can just create city public money they accept back in payment if city taxes
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And the moral of #Marxistmonday is...
September 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
And the moral of #Marxistmonday is...
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Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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as i've said in the past, the delta between a certain subset of ""liberal"" elites and the liberal base is genuinely astounding
they have no idea how angry we are
they have no idea how angry we are
this is fundamentally about america's liberal elites not having the courage of their convictions, if they have convictions to begin with. they fetishize endless discussion and discourse and refuse to simply act.
September 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
as i've said in the past, the delta between a certain subset of ""liberal"" elites and the liberal base is genuinely astounding
they have no idea how angry we are
they have no idea how angry we are
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When liberal students complain about misgendering or trigger warnings, they get dismissed as snowflakes.
When conservative students complain about DEI, they get faculty and administrators removed from their positions and subjected to inquiries.
When conservative students complain about DEI, they get faculty and administrators removed from their positions and subjected to inquiries.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When liberal students complain about misgendering or trigger warnings, they get dismissed as snowflakes.
When conservative students complain about DEI, they get faculty and administrators removed from their positions and subjected to inquiries.
When conservative students complain about DEI, they get faculty and administrators removed from their positions and subjected to inquiries.
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Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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September 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring, world.”
crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory
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Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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Excellent piece.
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Excellent piece.
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People often dislike when art isn't fun and/or comforting.
They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them.
They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous.
In short, these are all good things for art to do.
They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them.
They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous.
In short, these are all good things for art to do.
The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
-Rod Serling
-Rod Serling
August 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
People often dislike when art isn't fun and/or comforting.
They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them.
They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous.
In short, these are all good things for art to do.
They often dislike when art holds a mirror to them.
They dislike stories where a traumatized character causes unjust harm because people like to believe their trauma makes them righteous.
In short, these are all good things for art to do.
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They always have.
Eugenics, especially in educated and wealthy American circles, never died out after WWII. And there is no more environment more fertile for a true resurgence than Silicon Valley. People who think they are gods gift to the world, untrammeled by conscience, ethics or reality, really
Eugenics, especially in educated and wealthy American circles, never died out after WWII. And there is no more environment more fertile for a true resurgence than Silicon Valley. People who think they are gods gift to the world, untrammeled by conscience, ethics or reality, really
Apparently, Silicon Valley thinks eugenics is the only way to save humanity from AI-fueled extinction. They insist their eugenics isn't bad eugenics, because theirs involves parents choosing to screen and selectively implant embryos based on genetically predicted IQ. But choice is a slippery slope.
August 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They always have.
Eugenics, especially in educated and wealthy American circles, never died out after WWII. And there is no more environment more fertile for a true resurgence than Silicon Valley. People who think they are gods gift to the world, untrammeled by conscience, ethics or reality, really
Eugenics, especially in educated and wealthy American circles, never died out after WWII. And there is no more environment more fertile for a true resurgence than Silicon Valley. People who think they are gods gift to the world, untrammeled by conscience, ethics or reality, really
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Me: "I was beaten as a child for not being masculine enough"
You: "You lack courage."
Have you considered that you, in fact, might be part of the problem?
You: "You lack courage."
Have you considered that you, in fact, might be part of the problem?
August 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Me: "I was beaten as a child for not being masculine enough"
You: "You lack courage."
Have you considered that you, in fact, might be part of the problem?
You: "You lack courage."
Have you considered that you, in fact, might be part of the problem?
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Guys, if we call the pro-segregation democrats racist it might drive them out of the party...
Labeling delegates who were uncomfortable with the Target Center bathroom arrangements as transphobic risks driving people out of the Democratic Party. Some may accept that loss, but it could very well mean the Democrats remain at record low popularity nationally.
August 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Guys, if we call the pro-segregation democrats racist it might drive them out of the party...
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It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
www.nbcnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.