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linkresolver.bsky.social
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@linkresolver.bsky.social
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linkresolver.bsky.social
lol this reminds me of the long protracted online “debate” over M4A details among Warren/Sanders/others in the 2020 Dem primary only for the offline Joe Biden to win it. Like. You’re arguing over a fantasy that distracts from the reality of what needs to be done
This is true and many leftwing critics often bolster this aspect as key towards the road to single payer Defending the ACA gains are important but yelling at anyone who wants more like they’re ungrateful dullards in a time where we greatly need some political offense doesn’t make sense to me
October 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
indeed!
any account can adopt the style and tone of class analysis, which is too bad
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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As a lapsed Catholic who attends mass, I am struck by how the rituals of activism has replaced the rituals of religion as a way to communicate solidarity/comfort. But lapsed Catholics seem to view rituals as symbolism and ~not~ Doing Works and I’m not sure how much the same applies to activism RN.
absolutely and I think that’s really important! they’re denied communion in there, which is actually incredibly unusual, so this is the next best way to bring the Eucharist to them. maybe it gave some small degree of reassurance to some very scared people that they aren’t forgotten
October 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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History says the opposite FYI
It’s super fun to see other residents of other countries telling people to calm down, they aren’t organized. As if a riot needs to be organized to work.
September 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
Unironically using the word “idpol” is definitely a red flag
They don't want to engage with valid criticism so they're using idpol to paint it as problematic. They're refusing to acknowledge the term go back to brunch is calling out their lack of commitment to action and instead telling themselves we're literally mad at them for having brunch specifically
July 31, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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It helps that: 1) education polarization may actually be effective in helping obfuscate macroeconomic factors 2) segregation (racial/economic/geographic) allows for people to believe that the ill effects of economic policies can be mitigated by pushing consequences on people they don’t know
We were reliably informed that high prices made the electorate willing to volunteer for the SS, but now we are to believe that the electorate will cling desperately to higher and higher prices as long as people they don’t know get to be rentseekers at their expense.
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Glad this account blocked me because I can say with my whole chest: this is pretty much the opposite of a materialist way of understanding language, especially sociopolitical language. Call it philosophy, call it religion, call it Plato’s idealism … it is not a historically minded interpretation.
One must keep in mind that Leftists have been using it this way since long before Limbaugh and company turned "liberal" into a snarl word for Democrats, and such connotations are US specific. The conservative political party in Australia in the Liberal Party, for example. It's because leftists use the term "liberal" to mean people who believe in liberalism, which is the dominant socio-economic model of the world currently. Since it is the current norm, defending it can be considered conservative and thus right wing. It's consistent even if you disagree.
July 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I think what I dislike about the use of “treats” to frame this discourse is that no party to this discussion would consider the device they’re typing with as a treat. I deeply suspect that people who type this also think information technology should be free.
“Naptime” in this case is “slave or near-slave conditions for the people who make all our stuff”, and cotton candy is “a more equitable arrangement”. However, I get the sense that you would not like the alternative I would suggest so I will leave the discussion here. Your blog is very good
July 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
😶
PSA: This sounds weird but after a big win folks often lash out at those closest to them for the dumbest reasons. Many on the left are programmed on losses don't know how to process wins. Just let people run their course and don't take it personally. Trust me, it gets easier ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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An extremely balanced take on The New Literalism piece in The New Yorker 🙃
Is subtlety inherently good? Is obviousness inherently bad? Are we actually talking about the artistic merit of subtle metaphors versus obvious metaphors, or are we talking about respectability politics?
June 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Nah … not a huge fan of it as it seems to die on the absolute lack of chemistry between the leads (sorry) but I’ve fantasized dropping Denzel into it. The Branagh version leans into the cheese pretty hard.
if we’re all going to die I might as well say it: the 2013 Whedon Much Ado About Nothing is absolute top to bottom garbage
June 18, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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lolll
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to organize and mobilize liberals. And I think a tiny subsection of them can be reached, I think anarchists *should* go to shitshows like No Kings (I went), and I applaud those anarchists working to reach libs. But there's a vast gulf in knowledge and motivations.
June 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I would rather we defeated fascism honestly
May 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Respect the OP but the quote tweets are kinda contradictory
I'm seeing a lot more of my far left friends posting things like "both parties aren't the same after all" and "there are meaningful ideological divisions even amongst capital/the right/etc". which is good! We should move with the times. but I'm seeing less contrition about it than I'd hope
April 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
Speaking of shallow
I don't think you were wrong to feel this way; many just missed that at the core of this is an inter-capitalist class conflict between what we might think of as "Stupid Capital" and "Stable Capital"
April 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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So … I sort of want to get off this self perpetuating cycle of debating America. It is undergraduate shit at this point and clearly being either a “hell no” optimistic or a “hell yes” doomer has been deeply ineffective as praxis.
What this take absolutely misses is there are those for whom *it was* always this bad - simply because the water is getting hotter than ever before for those higher up the ladder doesn’t mean the water is hotter for those who were already scorched at the bottom of the pot.
March 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Already (wisely) deleted but this was too precious not to share
David Lynch probably died in his city of Los Angeles from the air quality from the fires caused by the white colonialism that he spent his life’s work trying to expose as our violent hegemony — after spending his final years afraid to leave his home because COVID indifference threatens his emphysema
January 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
This is, like, true, though
Spent the afternoon in a 5-hour faculty "retreat", in which an external facilitator presented a bell curve representing the distribution of resistance to change for members of an organization. The 5% most resistant were labeled "organizational terrorists". So, let's just say dry January is over.
January 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
In the middle of this we get glimpses that this person 1) lives in California 2) and has or does not need a car 3) depends on electronics for their job. This which leads me to assume a few things like 1) office job 2) in an area dense enough for walking/reliable public transit
Like, if I don't have a computer or a phone, I can't do my jobs. My jobs are needed to pay for the food, the food I need to eat to live. If I don't have clothes, I cannot get job (even if I'd probably survive in California.) JOb? Needed for money, to live.
January 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
linkresolver.bsky.social
Interesting… degrowth apparently = less work and MORE infrastructure, which J imagine pops up magically because petard no longer working
"People will have to sacrifice their comfort to deal with climate change" The sacrifice: -No more having to "earn" a living -Much less waste of both materials and food -End to planned obsolescence -Working fewer hours for better pay -Free housing -New mass transportation systems -A ton of new jobs
January 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
linkresolver.bsky.social
The youth have lots of comments about politics but then you find out after a tedious back and forth:
I’m not importing the 2024 political environment to 2008 or 2004
January 1, 2025 at 1:57 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
Saroyan Stairs, Beachwood Canyon: sometimes Los Angeles is interesting.
Saroyan Stairs, Beachwood Canyon, Hollywood, CA
December 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
linkresolver.bsky.social
this is my beat
I had to look up Christmas movies that did not involve a parent that died/someone that died because I couldn’t handle anymore since I lost my dad this year. It’s slim pickings. Why can’t Christmas movies just be cheerful and upbeat?
December 24, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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Americans are the biggest consumers in the world. That’s why countries want access to us. However, that doesn’t mean they are financially well off.
December 23, 2024 at 4:26 AM
linkresolver.bsky.social
Accurate
Your political takes may or may not be sourced from bathroom stall graffiti.
December 13, 2024 at 5:10 AM