political semiotics
if you're curious about the ongoing collapse of liberalism, do mull over Panagiotis Kondylis, who predicted as much in 1991/1992 vmchale.com/static/serve...
people like money. When the woman earns more it's correlated with fewer children.
. @scrubquotes.bsky.social
what did the onion know
reading the nesw
people claim “ageism” and it’s someone running in a contest for one of 100 seats in a country of 300 million, to wield substantial power over their fellow citizens. Hardly the same as job discrimination and we should face full on how insulting it is that they want to get away with this.
it's not "receiving a check of their own money"—workers today are paying a higher percentage than retirees did... www.ssa.gov/oact/ProgDat...
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Check out the orchestral version too! I love dog days music.apple.com/us/album/dog...
love how they resort to this since the actual past wasn't that good lol
analytic philosophy is like vocational school
cubical politics
she's so me ☺️
exactly as Panajotis Kondylis laid out in 1991
classic TERF is a solipsistic repressed gender dysphoric (not sure of the mechanics but once you see it it explains everything) Gets tied up in their own stuff/assuring themselves change is impossible
Israeli functionary arrested in a sting, charged with seeking children online to sexually predate. He skipped out on bail and returned to Israel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'll be upstate 😩 but also yes next time!!!
wait I could vibe with this
British people doing ketamine kinda makes sense with the way they don’t believe they deserve good things
Being thrown off by "annoying" is a trait that undermines political aptitude, lacks surety "maniement désinvolte des normes de toute espèce"—not so common these days!
some will transition no matter the brutality and on the other extreme you have the aboulic self-pity. Trying to contort "feeling miserable on the inside" as a counter to "privilege" just doesn't make sense; the ones who do transition are the only one who can possibly face social barriers/oppression
feeling miserable on the inside isn't socially enforced; oppression can only come from what is recognized by the wider world.
"political categories are defined by friend-foe dynamics not actual content" 🎯 particularly nasty with left NIMBYs; they hate the "vibe" kinda feels like they just don't like nerds
myths are what we fight for. Can’t get complacent and confuse victory for cosmic law, though!
it is! I was watching silly history channel in the background youtu.be/I2eDM1b95bU?...
Bob Diamond tracked down an abandoned subway station from a 1911 newspaper and started digging it out with his friends in Brooklyn
endpoint of cancel culture is that the only people willing to wield such platforms are psychopaths (like andrew tate) think sociodynamics, not soul ontology ethics
making things (e.g. liberalism) seem like a cosmically ordained/destined is part of the rhetorical appeals but it can mean getting blindsided now that liberalism is in peril without champions (p. 65 Macht und Entscheidung, Panajotis Kondylis)
okay. Jesus Christ, our cat, and the dolls will still know that we're married and all of the aforementioned are closer to God than some mangy, corrupt tribunal of the earthly realm. thank you for your attention to this matter
even after you adjust for PPP americans are very comfortable in this moment
Every time I hear Americans claim 90k salary is low, I temporarily enter a fugue state.
art history has an aristocratic reputation within academia, the field arose from rich people justifying their collections. cherry-picking "art history" for "humanities" is disingenuous.
post cats that encourage a strong work ethic
it's not a coherent political group—if you aren't asking for anything, it's nowhere near the same stakes. Are those people going to be around when things get hard?
plenty of (straight) trans women more or less fit in after transitioning
the division is being enacted by people who tapped out, blaming it on supercilious transsexuals is suspect.
POW
pension funds also earn money from stocks, they need it to pay out
Naked self-interest like this totally undermines "self-legislation by reason" "might makes right" tends to be chaotic and violent, the shift shouldn't be minimized with "this is how the system always worked"
>60% of Americans own stocks because of the retirement market (and many benefit from those tax incentives). Saying "equities are a grift" is just excusing pyramid schemes.
going to college = nearly 1 million lifetime earnings boost not "dead"
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oh, breakfast!
I’m not sure it’s intentional but it serves them: destabilize adolescents by neglecting medical care and they get more vulnerable.
girl you can't be acting like this
"self-legislation by reason" is gone, "reason" as an ideal is collapsing along with liberalism
It’s news media specifically
Wes Anderson is like a weaboo for old Europe
quentin tortellini hehehe
“mollify” them by feeding them/validating that they’re in the right 😬
damn.
Violence is always available as ultimate recourse. "Money mediates labor relations" is really not that bad in the grand scheme of things!
sort of interesting how indignant the FT/WSJ get when their reporters get slandered by fraudsters. Seems to be not the way journalism works
“sentimental moralism” => “ostentatious cynicism” is part of the decline of liberalism!
It’s immensely useful for propaganda bots—highly persuasive because it speaks in terms of your worldview. Best case it gets better via CIA funding. The people who throw tantrums at any mention of “AI” are downplaying the danger lol
21st century moodboard
Kondylis posits that labels are defined by friend-foe dynamics; the ideologies mutate. no real coherent content to Tories over their many-hundred year history Even "public debate" is an enlightenment/liberal idea (universal self-legislation by reason)
mercantilists specifically didn't tariff their inputs lol. He's actually just destroying anything good because he resents his betters
“Gefühl und das Leben gegen die Arbeit und die Ökonomie” (autonomization of parts of society) seems related to the neglect of “justice in parceling occupations” in favor of “equality of treats” that social democracy insists on
kind of a bad system where the legislators writing criminal law are the people dispensing treats to old people (and you vote for them both at the same time)
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can’t check out of the economy, it communicates to all
…and if your 401(k) is on edge you care even more since it’s a matter of survival
Rebecca Black being a pop star and cool… !
labubu has been BANNED ❌ in France
"America bad" people don't pay enough attention to object to this. After Bhutan expelled 1/5 of the population (ethnic Nepalis), many were refugees in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
advertisers will pay you to see a video or an image but no advertiser would commission a novel
Best we can is figure out what happened so that our children might pick up the pieces. No idea what to do about media.
Donald Trump ignores a question about Epstein and sets off in a golf cart caravan with "Memory" from Cats the musical playing to soothe him
“Thomas Chatteron Williams” like you can tell his social position from the cadence of his name hfdsfs
“I promise to deliver for Trump voters” Don’t think I’ve ever seen such hostility to their own voters except democrats and Palestine
If you do a random sample that numbers gives good insight, absolutely vindicated by statistics
Citing “art history” is disingenuous. It’s a famously aristocratic discipline, often they have family wealth. The whole field is at worst justifying the prestige of celebrated art.
Israeli extremists are blocking aid trucks headed to Gaza—and they’ve brought their children to help block lifesaving aid from reaching starving children in Gaza www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
"Occupation"->"Job" and "accumulation" (capitalism) -> "consumption" are related. Harder to articulate a notion of "stewardship" (e.g. obligation to those who are younger).
In the US it’s even more stark since >65 vote for the president as their healthcare administrator
"I've been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled." "[E]very stage of this has been predicted, and at every stage action could have been taken." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide
communication across borders at unprecedented speed + video, people atomized into home where they live vicariously by media/imagination (more easily provided than material progress) Sorta reminds me of the fantasy crimes attributed to communists as discussed by Thewelweit 😬
Kondylis mentions this in Mutation du Politique. The Soviet Union set out to champion the international proletariat and the United States championed universal human rights in order to stake something in the global. No more USSR + unimaginative left => liberalism collapses+no more trying for utopia
The US didn’t have institutions like Oxford, so maybe intellectual life was expressed in Protestant churches that we now forget? Something I’d been curious about…
Puritans were invoked by antislavery rhetoric. They’re zealous, not “chill,” but that’s not quite wanton cruelty!
Housing is expensive because people hoard supply and write laws to keep it scarce. Insofar as it’s artificial it’s not hopeless www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...
“harden your hearts and give people what they asked for”
wait yes I’m a fan
salvador dalí internet (sideara st. claire)
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Forbidden from touching food => they are confined to carpentry => they become good carpenters => “you killed god” (are secretly Jews) Such was the world before enlightenment liberalism came into force/reason as an ideal
British people start getting suspicious if they’re not suffering constantly lol
It's a vague vibe-crime against his perceived group identity/others like him. Fantasy tells something about them—it didn't come from seeing the world, it's wholly from his person
he's so tumblr woke "stop depicting it, that means you're endorsing it/morally bad!!!"
every time you point out a limitation it's like free beta testing for the companies lol
polise 911 someone annoying is on the news pleas stop them I don't want to change the channel
He likes musicals lmao Les Misèrables
it's extremely effective at propagandizing. Don't rest on your laurels, be vigilant! all over twitter already
