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he thinks that the world economic forum is trying to force us to become like china. and the solution is tariffs and industrial policy in america. so we can be not like china. what
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Find your local June 14th protest.
No to Kings.
www.nokings.org
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well-known crypto fascist adam gurri. if you read every seventh word of this piece backwards it spells out "BUY TRUMP COIN." qed
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And I don't mean this in a "Oh, he's manufacturing consent to normalize the use of military force to occupy blah blah blah" way- his audience for this would probably cheer if he nuked LA into a parking lot.
This isn't political policy, this is *content creation*.
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profit = revenue - costs + banana
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“The law matters except when the president decides he’s a dictator for reasons” was an approach entirely predicated on two normal pro-democracy political parties that would police their ranks & weed out fascists from leadership. That doesn’t exist anymore. It was all norms & duct tape, in the end.
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and of course adam's essay
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The plot above shows that as nonviolent protest activity increases, we see spikes in front page headlines that mention civil rights (and related terms like voting rights), and we also observe significantly more people respond that the ‘most important problem’ in America is civil rights. 13/
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Protester-initiated violence (again, irrespective of police violence), helped move the public towards concern for “social control.” In 1968, I find violent protests likely caused a 1.6-7.9% shift among whites towards Nixon’s “law and order” campaign and helped tip the election. 16/
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AS LONG AS ONE OF US LIVES THE NCR WILL NEVER DIE
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We touched on this too. There are so many folks working on housing, transit, and clean energy who have zero problem being progressive, prioritizing redistribution, or otherwise supporting "groups." Many were civil servants in the Biden Admin.
Hard to tell reading the book. bsky.app/profile/sjsh...
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there are reasonable questions to have about ai, especially the unhinged ai hype coming out of silicon valley; i find that it discredits valid criticisms if you leaven them with stuff that is just not true
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so the part where AI hallucinates shit is correct. the part where AI destroys the environment is a meme with little connection to reality. the water use everyone talks about is just the water use involved in electricity generation... which is even higher for, say, streaming music or video
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a second moment of self-reflection might lead you to wonder how accurate the social media consensus is, especially when you admit it is akin to "knowing internet memes"
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and telling them they're wrong about housing policy is unsettling to them, because it challenges their sense of themselves as righteous progressives
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there's the technocratic aspect of yimbyism, amenable to compromise and argument and consensus, and this is always walking right alongside touchy issues of deep political identity
cf. all these long-form interviews with committed nimbys, who *really believe* in what they're doing
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the review gets into this in more detail, but klein and thompson are explicitly trying to move out of the realm of policy fixes and into Master Narratives, and i think on some level that explains both the strong reaction and the larger difficulties
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i am not above such tricks
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especially given that what we think of as value is always a balance between cost and desire--two different things, not a single unitary one
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so prices can't possibly be a basic theoretical unit, capital can't be a factor of production, in order to *understand* a market system it must be reduced to a single (hidden) factor, labor
trying to find that single hidden essence is what drives so many of these epicycles
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i started CAPITAL once (did not finish) and was struck by how *familiar* it felt from reading other post-kantian german philosophers like fichte--this sense that the correct intellectual program is to proceed towards an analysis of the hidden essence of things
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This is why we need to deal with policing through attrition. Split up their duties, staff up da office investigatory powers to deal with rapes, murders, etc. automate traffic enforcement, create alternative crisis response agency where gun isn’t needed, housing reform that fuels the call for cops
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wracking my brains trying to figure out whether value is equal to a) the labor factor of the cost of production or b) the labor factor of the cost of production using the least efficient method,