thephyzique.bsky.social
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All so a bunch of 80+ yr olds with safe seats and fundraising machines can keep their jobs and make millions on stocks.
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You're narrowly losing or narrowly winning against a party that would have been totally unelectable a generation ago. It's unprincipled, transactional and short sighted, and people can smell it rotting.
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You're advocating tactics that win battles and lose the war. A generation of gerontocracts normalizing anti-abortion, anti-union conservatives with a D next to their names who shrink the public sector, deregulate banks and undermine working class institutions.
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IRA is the legislation that began life as Build Back Better. You're padding your list. And what's this? Golden voted against it!
These are not progressives, dog. This is the republican wing of an extremely conservative democratic party that is greasing the slide into authoritarianism.
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"Would have lost these seats to MAGA"
Bro, the seat votes with Trump 100% of the time. It's a MAGA seat my guy.
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Yes. Hegemony is articulated in technological development. So over time we got the social media that neoliberalism wanted us to have.
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Reminds me of Columbia U's response to the student protests. The portion of CU's endowment involved in Israel is quite small, but the administration would rather bring state violence to the campus than concede to *negotiate* that small part of their (not very well run) endowment.
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The worst thing about Connacht is they make it impossible to give up on them.
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Neoliberalism is nihilist in that it replaces all values with market values. It contains several groups that possess other values, like family values conservatives or antiracist mainstream liberals. But on net the stuff that gets done is nihilist neoliberalism no matter who's in office.
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I had the same problem. My baby-steps habit builder was comics/graphic novels. It was easy to pick up House/Powers of X or the Kurt Busiek Conan Omnibus at the end of the day, and that got the sit-and-read muscles back in shape. 2yrs later I'm reading more challenging stuff than before the kid.
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Capitalism is anti-feminist b/c it's anti-care. Empathy + community create alternative centers of power. Social reproduction is a cost Capital pushes onto individuals.
Voters are against Capital doing business as usual while using the language of care much more than they're against care itself.
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Throw in Kathy Hochul's proposed NYPD hotline that's just for scared CEOs and you have the whole system's underbelly exposed by its dumbest practitioners.
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They're aware of the alternatives but those are proscribed by their anti-worker ideology.
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No disagreement here but I'm still not gonna jump up and point any fingers for any reason. It's Shut the F*ck Up Friday full time, for me. I say this all in friendship and solidarity. Not making rules for anyone.
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I know you don't mean any harm but people are being charged with terrorism for expressing solidarity with him so I don't know if anyone wants to dox the creators of images like these.
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Here on the US east coast, Friday afternoon rugby is an awesome way to start the weekend early while still on the clock. I cherish it.
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Arguments for how Harris could have scraped together that extra 2% in 3-4 states are missing the fact that any competent politician should beat the Trump GOP by 20%+.
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It's both. People have agency AND people are produced by material conditions and processes they understand incompletely. Explanations that rely on only one aspect will always be insufficient.
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Paging Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Wendy Brown.
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She's still alive.
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A tough one, but well worth it. Beautiful and true.
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Even Richard J. Daley had the good judgement to cut people loose when they risked becoming liabilities. These national dems can't even run a corrupt political machine with baseline competence.