atheorist.bsky.social
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And those soulless little business majors on the station board all went on to glorious careers conducting layoffs, outsourcing, stock buybacks and all around enshittification
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People showing more concern for homeless cars than for homeless people are concerned about neither, just any weapon they can grab to NIMBY with.
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Who is being protected from what when accounts like this omit the fact that the rum was proceeds of importing slaves? Why avoid this after 250 years?
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Important because communities where people have numerous ties with families, neighbors and co-workers will function when electronic media and social spaces become unusable due to surveillance and the flood of bullshit. Underground economy for the win.
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Is it OK to run someone over if they don't have a flag?
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Frick Collection = Most successful reputation laundry ever.
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Telling us shit trump said? Why? You are a news outlet.
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Remember Atari Democrats?
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Worsening inequality lets people think their status is a zero sum game. They fear that lower status people are out to drag them down and higher status people feel the same way about them.
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This is much more promising than filing lawsuits, pointing at the constitution and other stuff that already stopped working.
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How to make sure that when they finish being kids they won't go to the stupid mall then either.
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If the Democrats do not purge members afraid to piss off megadonors and crypto bros and win by being the anti-oligarch anti-billionaire party that practically everybody wants, things won't stop getting worse for a long time.
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I remember in history class, studying feudalism in the middle ages when I said aha, this is exactly how gangsters control cities today. So simple. Everyone must kick up to someone more powerful to get ahead you must find someone to kick down at. "Nobility" my ass.
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the kids are all right
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Universities have legions of highly paid administrators, maybe just maybe because that was the going rate for solid leadership that knows its way around the corridors of power. We have learned that universities can survive only if they stop paying cowards and toadies to run them.
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Instead of understanding corruption people relied on shortcuts to identify it. Corrupt people were furtive. They acted guilty.
Corrupt practices out in the open - hey transparent! - do not seem corrupt to them.
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What happens to you at the plumbing store?
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And they forgot to brag about the excellent parking lots all over the place!
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At least in the old days the nobles did not have the option of quietly being vaccinated
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Late-stage landlording: You do all the work and assume all the risk, I get all the money!
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He works for the megadonors to his party, no one else.
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Jessica, if you like free parking you are a socialist. There is no debate socialism yes or no. Bigots cloak their fury over sharing with people they don't in lofty principles about self reliance. Nasty trick getting everyone to think it ain't socialism if it only benefits privileged people.
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When I learned google shows different results to users depending on what it "knows" about them, I looked for a setting so it would show me as if it "knew" nothing about me. I wanted to see the difference! It would take a workaround so fuck em, I use duck duck.
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The background rumble of political utterances goes in one ear and out the other until some isolated bit sounds like what you want to hear. Trump's incoherent BS sooner or later includes a nugget that hits home for every person who mostly tunes politics out.
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we are beyond this polite lead/led stuff.
"Do you want a boot on your neck?"
"That's cool as long as there's a bunch of necks for me to stomp on."
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Mobutu level brazen kleptocratic corruption
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not seeing any level of premise anymore
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shorter Atlantic: Bitches made them do it!
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schools and universities shouldn't be businesses
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not a bad guy but methinks he is still fighting the previous war
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Any reaching across the aisle that could possibly pay off can happen off camera. For the show, there must be nothing but laughing across the aisle. If you can't do that make way for someone who can.
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Patinkin's boss: "Hate reads are reads!"
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If there is going to be a sustainable economy in Vermont it won't be digital nomads sitting in the newest houses with the best views ordering stuff on apps.
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gee, if the comparison *led* you to think about diet, exercise, crime, car dependency etc. as well as how health car gets paid for I would not call it misleading.
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That a few platforms have captured so much of what is spent on advertising by selling access to content that they neither pay or take responsibility for is why we are in the straits we're in. Tax is just the start of what we need to do about it.