zaxcord.bsky.social
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Relevant video:
youtu.be/2RFfVPfuEDA?...
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This can include non-market "reproductive labor" (caregiving work like mothers taking care of their children and cooking) but also wage labor done in the service industry like baristas In the 2nd case workers are alienated in the same way as industrial workers
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Surplus value doesn't have to be physical goods. There are def Marxists w/ a 19th century aesthetic where working class means a muscular guy hitting I-beams with a sledgehammer (unlike effete female-coded service workers) but in more serious analyses service work is included.
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why do people beef with your cat so hard
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We desperately need Joe Biden's woke army to perform a second carnation revolution
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Bsky can't handle your truth nukes
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ICE, our contemporary gestapo, comes from the same era of expansion in the state "security" apparatus
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How so? Just for one example it normalized extrajudicial "extraordinary rendition" of "terrorists" that Trump is now doing to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Trump being uniquely bad isn't incompatible w/ there being a deep rot in American institutions that made it possible for him to knock it all down.
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rights are a positional good
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Thomas and Alito going L for L
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I think a few rotated sandwiches would seal the agreement pretty easily
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don't forget 30% on foreign aid!
apnews.com/article/ap-p...
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Very true! South Korea is again instructive: the people were out on the streets en masse immediately even tho the declaration was late at night
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And they also even got some members of the president's party to vote for removal in SK. In America we'd get every Republican and 5 Democrats voting against impeachment
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Years of leaded gasoline
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That's for the fell for it again award trendline
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we do have whips, but parties in the US (and by extension whips) have nowhere near the same level of formal power that they do in the UK
e.g., you can't kick anyone out of a party in the US
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Unfortunately vulnerable to bankruptcy due to skyrocketing costs of basic office equipment under Trump's tariff regime
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rainbow turban rebellion
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Are there any cases challenging them right now?
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Saw a huge banner with "FREE KHALIL" in Philly getting cheers from boomers plus a bunch of other smaller signs mentioning kidnapping
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In fact there's decades of art and theory from the 19th/early 20th century about how disconnected to their work people in factories are and how dehumanizing it is to the point where it almost feels like a cliche lol
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they'll be granted a plot of farmland like roman legionaries
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and people would NEVER make securities out of loans!!!especially not loans that are probably never gonna get paid!!!!
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Groceries, notably not goods (I guess they must be services?)
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controversial opinion: fascists are responsible for fascism
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My best guess is that the Euro (already #2 reserve currency) and/or a basket of major currencies will be the ones picking up the most slack
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It's so funny watching the market rally at every bit of even slightly good news then crater again as Trump announces another dumb policy via tweet
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What's going on in Massachusetts?
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Understandable
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extremely good combo of inspirations, do you have a full key?
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Fair enough, I wasn't trying to concern troll or anything! I was just thinking abt things from my perspective as an offline educator where sincerity and charity is generally assumed and wasn't thinking abt how different dealing w/ a large online audience is.
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For sure, someone being slightly confused about historical chronology but still agreeing w/ your claim is not a good reason to repeatedly QT them and act like they're a complete moron lol
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They were all called the KKK but weren't all direct continuations of each other. The first started right after the civil war in 1865 and disbanded in the early 1870s due to persecution by the feds (this ultimately didn't stop segregation, ofc) the second was founded by admirers of the first in 1915.
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Yeah, I think part of the confusion arises from the distinction btwn 1st and 2nd Klans. I suspect when ppl think of Klan-police ties it's usually stuff from the 2nd/3rd which could be more accurately described as arising from the police state of the Jim Crow south
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Yeah I feel like this entire series of exchanges is based on a really uncharitable interpretation of what you were trying to say
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"Stroke the idiot's ego while doing nothing substantive" seems like it's been working pretty well for Sheinbaum on the trade war front, too
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there have been 0 eggs at my local TJoe's for the past 3 weeks lol
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Can you post the full middle one lol
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Western campism
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Yeah bad wording on my part, I meant to say that it's an assumption that liberals in this convo are making when arguing against (some) leftists who dislike liberal constitutionalism and see it as at best an impediment to good outcomes
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There is ofc also the assumption here that liberal constitutionalism is anything like an optimal process which is certainly worth questioning
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Idk, I think a central part of the implicit conflation btwn policy and process comes from the recognition that you can't separate them in practice? So issue is not just that the suboptimal process is objectionable qua process but that it can't/won't lead to optimal outcomes.
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It looks like one of those awful US state flags that are just the state seal on an ugly background but applied to a Dutch province
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www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/hel...
They stopped using this supplier after the backlash but kinda fits lol