Pitting generations against each other is just the ploy of neoliberalism to obfuscate its role in economic inequality. Galloway, who benefits greatly from neoliberalism, is one of its premier useful idiots. #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
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Pitting generations against each other is just the ploy of neoliberalism to obfuscate its role in economic inequality. Galloway, who benefits greatly from neoliberalism, is one of its premier useful idiots. #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
This will end well.
What a low-energy message. You can almost feel the lifelessness. I wake up each morning now in hopes of reading that glorious headline: "J.D. Vance Found Alone, Mysteriously Standing Over Trump's Lifeless Body" #IsHeDeadYet 😈
Is it time for Mencius Moldbug to write a fresh edition of the Malleus Maleficarum?
I like the way that A:E is using the genre to exemplify things like techbro hubris and irresponsibility, the naked anti-democratic inevitability of technocratic totalitarianism, and how children have innate moral sentiments. Alien: Earth share.google/nLQuhLGrMgck...
She dropped out right after acing "How to Be a Useful Idiot - 101."
The press isn't even trying anymore. 😔 #ItHasHappenedHere
That Tom Petty and David Bowie are dead, and Trump is still alive, has convinced me there is no God. 😈 #IsHeDeadYet
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Had a colleague in graduate school who was a waiter at Olive Garden. He said he avoided working Sundays to avoid bad-tipping Christians. 🤣
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I keep thinking that Trump is pining--if he's not already in the pine box--for the day when RFK Jr. screws him over and then he can make fun of his voice. #ItHasHappenedHere #IsHeDeadYet
Just sitting around today, playing the chorus of Go To Sleep on a loop while thinking about the mortality of The President of the United States. #IsHeDeadYet youtu.be/NEqiE5e61cA?...
Trump throwing out some big Omen III vibes today. 🤯 #ItHasHappenedHere
Alex, how about some mayonnaise with that sandwich? 🤢
No longer a dogwhistle, just a straight-up letting the dogs loose.
Is Alberta like our Mississippi down here? 😈
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A bottle of Dalmore at this end. Cheers!
😁 I'm seeing a tiny Sleestak. 😆
The lack of a proper deathwatch, a la Biden, shows that the press is skewed toward criticism of the left and explaining the right. #ItHasHappenedHere #IsHeDeadYet
Just started watching The Death of Stalin. 😈
To the person winning Saturday's #Powerball, I want you to know that even though we've never met, I find you one of the most attractive and socially fascinating individuals I hope to meet after the drawing!
I guess I'm pinning my hopes on widespread incompetence at homeschooling. 😁 Please, please, please! 🤞🤞
That is an excellent book that explores the meaning of work and what happens when automation becomes the goal rather than the means towards the goal of human flourishing. I'd recommend reading it alongside "1984" and "Brave New World."
Exactly! We live in a neoliberal hellscape where democracy has been barely tolerated for the last 50 years. It has largely lost touch with the general will. Now, those in power are actively working for the destruction of democracy. #ItHasHappenedHere
The first two were just practice. 😁
Bigots having children is no guarantee of future bigots. Yes, it increases the likelihood, but it's not a slam dunk. I suspect that once these newborns learn that the LGBTQ+ community is no real threat to them but corporations are that they'll see the progressive light. 😁 #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL
I was there in the late 1990s! Wonderful old man with a jacket like Joseph's coat of many colors led me and fellow academic upstairs to arcane treats. 😁
Are we still pretending that corporations have any ethical qualms about killing people in the pursuit of profit? #UBI #MEDICARE4ALL #FREEEDUCATION
Da, comrade.
"Dead Faith" What a great title for a book subtitled, "A History of American Christianity."
@dianelangberg.bsky.social could use a read of this book. "Some corners of Christendom today"?
Every time the media reports that Trump has signed an EO, they should include this picture. #ItHasHappenedHere
Wow!!!🤯
Question: How will we know if corporations are raising prices even on items where the exporter might have lowered price to reduce the increase in a final cost? Seems like a good reason for corporations to show the impact of tarriffs at the port during the time of sale.
BTW, when I went to college, there were booths that the professors manned. We got to meet the professor and sign up for the class using a clipboard. I'm not suggesting we go back to clipboards, just pointing out that we lost something ineffable with electronic registration. 😁
Neil Postman's "Technopoly" and "The End of Education" (a double entendre) are also good reads. Postman also had six questions to ask before implementing any new technology, beginning with "Whose problem does this solve?"
Amen! Also, even with no AI or any other technology, let's do #UBI, #MEDICARE4ALL & #FREEEDUCATION!
What's the context of this post? 🤔
Hey, let's keep up the pressure so @radiofreetom.bsky.social can use it as the reason he goes full MAGA next year, you know, because we didn't adequately appreciate his contributions to the zeitgeist. 🙄
I look forward to Dr. Kellogg's future nomination. Enemas for everyone!
I just got tired of taking 80 back and forth, coming from Tahoe, where my mom lived, to Ohio. I stopped several times just to stand by the side of the road and do a 360. Breathtaking and silent! Imagine trying that on 80? 🙂
I've driven that road! Wonderful!!
I still remember how the Right lost its shit over Elian Gonzalez. Apparently, they've grown less averse to dictatorship. 😔 #ItHasHappenedHere
So, J6 was the Beer Hall Putsch? #ItHasHappenedHere
This 20-year-old book is proving prescient. American Theocracy share.google/7GI8cLLjQM5j...
Didn't this guy just come back from his eighth week of vacationing? 😔 #ItHasHappenedHere
Imagine what Intel employees will beg for when Trump stops payroll. 😁 #ItHasHappenedHere
Thinner, less slovenly version of Ignatius J. Reilly. 🤣
I went through these arguments in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I flirted with WFB-style "conservatism" and Nockian "libertarianism." Then, I read Freud's short work (1930) about the trade-offs we make when living in a civilization. Yarvin thinks we can have our cake and eat it. He's wrong!
Is this where "planking" came from? 😁
Seems increasingly likely that in our future hellscape of a planet, evangelical Christians will inevitably morph into god-fearing cannibals like the Angel Gang in Judge Dredd.
Great book! Can't remember now if I read Reaganland. 🤔 I probably should just read all four again. A good plan if La Nina keeps me housebound this winter. 😁
Fake it 'til you make it dictatorship! #ItHasHappenedHere
This author still believes Galbraith is correct. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom share.google/HT9nJ4LzJH0J...
If it wasn't designed to do it, it won't do it. Sometimes, when it's designed to do it, even then, it doesn't do it. 😁
Author likely suggests, as in her book Vulture Capitalism, that 60% of the economy is already a "planned economy" held in the hands of corporations but "in league" with government. If she had been consulted, the headline might be "Trump Seeks to Take Direct Control of Already Planned Economy." 😁
Indeed. 🤔 Druid and Wicca are formally recognized religions by the Department of Defense. I wonder if Douche-Thought thinks Druid belief should be integrated into policy? I quite like that Druid bit about burning a wicker man. 🤣 @ffrf.org
"Hey, you gotta burn the village to make an omelet." This was the response I got after feeding Thiel's profile into ChatGPT. 😈 #TheAICon
How would you like come over and mow my lawn?
Also, have you ever read the lyrics to La Marseillaise? Damn! youtu.be/7MQ-SC9bmp4?...
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Have a nice life.
You may have a good argument against LLMs, but your social media skills are for shit. I would continue to praise your book on Bluesky; but, apparently, having a penis means I'd only be patronizing you. So, fare thee well in your continuing anti-LLM endeavors. We shall cross paths nevermore.
"Mansplaining"? That's what you got from a bad attempt at gallows humor on a subject that is literally killing people?! Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims | ChatGPT | The Guardian share.google/FkRlkk9XunAY...
Wow! Apparently, you missed the emoji. I apologize for engaging.
You probably get this a lot, but what's the reason to use "extruding" rather than "excreting"? The latter seems a better descriptor. 😉 #TheAICon
Tuna salad would only be a misdemeanor. 😉
I was thinking the other day that when a Euro costs $2 U.S. them Europeans would be mad not to buy our F-35s! 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it a ripping yarn. 😁 The Beekeeper share.google/697aufQ6VxkX...
If they could decide whether it is a restaurant or an "old country store" they might improve the fare? 🤔
We are all socialists, but some of us are more socialist than others, depending on which party is in power. #AnimalFarm 😁
What happens if #RepubliCons can not keep the government open past September 30? #ItHasHappenedHere
And, to do this after the Oval Office scenes in the latest episode of South Park! 🤯 Sickofancy share.google/ZneEngrrPwiI...
The #Trumpcession and the bursting AI bubble will come "like a thief in the night" to those trading stocks, even though the thief has been yelling for years how he's coming to rob your house (tariffs) and maybe engage in a little "prima nocta" with your daughter! #ItHasHappenedHere
I've noticed a few folks spending some time doing "I told ya so" posts, usually with Hillary or Kamala. While this is historically accurate, I'm not sure how it directly addresses resisting the now dynamic move toward fascist government. #ItHasHappenedHere
KFC and McDonald's, riding a golf cart, staying up all night to "Truth," that venous insufficiency should be working its morbid magic very soon. #IsHeDeadYet 😈
I particularly like what the wicked step-sisters did to get their feet in the glass slipper. 😈
Interesting. Seems like we've neutered this storyline with Disney-fied fare like this, like what Twilight series did to vampire genre. It's gone from "Be good or the boogeyman will get you" to "Hey, you don't have to be a boogeyman, your choices make you who you are."
22-point swing is massive! 🤯 #ItHasHappenedHere and voters are responding! 👍👍
You might like this thread, a stroll down horror memory lane. 😁 bsky.app/profile/kigu...
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Pretty brutal scene. I've always thought the actors asked for more money, so the writers were forced to write that scene to please the money men. 😁
Yep. 😔 youtu.be/NHV0YYEvJEg?...
Thank you for your service. 😉 #ItHasHappenedHere
That sounds ooooooold. 🤣
Horror movies are a great way to expand your intellectual horizon. They are often more about defining the idea of humanity. The Walking Dead series is not so much about zombies as it is about how people react to adversity through types of community, whether fascist, communitarian, etc.
It's probably too late of a movie, but this is reminding me of 28 Days Later share.google/VogfXArtmSh0....
