One of the best
Magicicad
The way that liberals think that incredibly violent, aggressive imperialism is some kind of "distraction" that should be ignored in favor of the Epstein files is astounding to me.
I've been organizing with a pretty organic student group at my college and it's been pretty frustrating to watch the Democrat machine begin to co-opt us (indivisible showing up to student organized protests and ignoring our messaging discipline, and fucking Disrupt trying to absorb us).
The funny thing is that it’s only authoritarianism in the west if it affects white people. The FBI has labeled black activists as national security threats (and very likely assassinated a good number of them) since J Edgar Hoover.
This week is exam week for me so no reading theory. Relatedly, however, I’ve found this interesting phenomenon among mainstream economists arriving back at Marxist understandings of the economy when faced with the reality that mainstream economics is no better than astrology.
Black shirts and reds single handedly made me a communist
Cannot wait for libs to have been against this in 20 years.
Inching my way through George Politzers Elementary Principles of Philosophy. It’s finals season so I get bits in when I can.
I’m sure he is actually an anti-Zionist, but the American political climate will not allow him to say such things, which frankly is demonstrative of the futility of making systemic changes through electoralism.
What pisses me off is that he could’ve done what he did when pressed about Israel, which is divert the conversation back towards issues at home without explicitly taking stance on the issue. Instead he uplifts imperialist propaganda.
Yayed Apple 💀🙏
“Freedom of speech” is an abstract principle that doesn’t exist in any meaningful sense. What does exist is access to or control over platforms and the means to spread their ideas. So in that sense, I think the working class should have control over those platforms.