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carlbeijer.bsky.social
Socialist writer. Sign up for my newsletter at https://carlbeijer.substack.com. Writing also at People's Policy Project, Jacobin, etc
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You really should have just leaned into it. It's well known that I have dozens of sockpuppet accounts, but instead of earning me ridicule this has earned me widespread respect and admiration from the Bluesky community

Personally I'm tired of the intense social pressure to speak known languages. Just try to invent your own language. People will look at you like you're crazy, they won't hire you, women won't date you, it goes on and on

Ambitious young women all over the world will get to learn that the glass ceiling is a class ceiling

Donald Trump’s war on gamers continues

This is just the failure of liberalism. Socialism proposes a society that is fundamentally egalitarian. Liberalism proposes to build antifascist institutions propped up by the ruling capitalist class. All fascism had to do to overcome liberalism is capture the ruling class.

The Fertility Question mattbruenig.com/2025/04/13/t...

Convincing Trump that we need to bring anime inspector jobs back to America

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

sumerian scribe, 3000 BCE: yeah most of my day is chiseling the little arrows on the tablets. the arrows can mean grains, clay, poultices, all sortsa stuff (sighing) yeah i guess it's kind of a bullshit job

OK but "an elected official's house" isn't a Tesla so this doesn't count as terrorism

Socialism has become marginally more popular in recent years Meanwhile the liberal strategy of regulating billionaires out of existence has actually moved backwards So yes I'd say that my strategy is making more progress

lol

Please take all of this energy you have for defending IP and redirect it towards abolishing all forms of property and replacing it with a generous welfare state. Thanks in advance

Delete all P law too

Garbage isn't safe to eat? Pfft I've been warning y'all about that since 2023

Seems like Trump's El Salvador stuff is setting a pretty clear legal precedent for deporting IDF veterans residing in the US, perhaps (for example) to nations under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

Her national favorability is at -17, trailing Hakeem Jeffries, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and JD Vance. Even among Democrats she is the third choice for president behind Harris and Buttigieg