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« Reply #2160 on: August 06, 2020, 01:55:10 PM »
None of y'all praising Communism ever heard of Voldemort and it shows.

Voldemort was a true progressive, Harry was a status-quo neoliberal. :juche
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« Reply #2161 on: August 06, 2020, 07:26:12 PM »
https://harpers.org/archive/2020/02/trumpism-after-trump/

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The pair worked as assistants to Niall Ferguson, the conservative historian who had gotten himself into trouble at Stanford’s Hoover Institution for encouraging “oppo research” on a liberal student. “Oh man, it was bullshit. They only got Ferguson because Susan Rice’s son accidentally forwarded a whole email chain to some unreliable student.”

“Wait, you mean Susan Rice—”

“Totally conservative, her son, yeah,” said Undergrad One.

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Tucker riled his audience a bit when he exposed his knowledge of the American left. He found bits to admire in Warren’s “economic patriotism,” and as long as the left kept quiet about the minorities and the migrants, some of them were promising candidates for a left-right nationalist pact. For this was Tucker’s great insight: the social-democratic left was essentially right about economics. It would be good to nationalize social media; it would be good to boost American wages.

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I took my seat early at the dinner for Hawley. A recent convert to Mormonism was bad-mouthing the Supreme Court justices: Trump had to do better. “You really don’t like Kavanaugh?” I asked her. “No, I mean Gorsuch. Have you read his decisions on Indians? He wants to give it all back to the Indians. Insidious rulings.”

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« Reply #2163 on: August 07, 2020, 01:43:57 PM »
I suppose the operative question is will it amount to anything? Our liberal friends love a good feel-bad story when they don't have to do anything to rectify it, and the opposition to regime change proffered by national conservatives and / or paleoconservatives (do we even have to pretend these guys exist anymore?) stretches the human capacity for credulity beyond its recorded limits.

There's also the whole thing where Indonesia served as a blueprint for "less bad" Cold Warrior events ("Jakarta is coming" was both a threat and a promise), don't think anyone is willing to discard fruit from the poison tree there.

The author himself said that he didn't think he would have been able to write the book during the Obama presidency (ironically given his childhood). Hard not to chalk this up to Bhaskar's observation that, "what's good for The Nation isn't what's good for the nation."

Speaking of, this should be interesting.

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1291750949971730434

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« Reply #2164 on: August 09, 2020, 02:27:34 AM »
The Jakarta Method, so hot right now. Can't believe how much play this book is getting from liberals
yeah, been seeing this book referred to a lot and the claim that pretty much everything is a cia psyop on twitter

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« Reply #2165 on: August 09, 2020, 05:39:12 AM »
The author of the Jakarta Method was on TrueAnon (The paywalled feed, but it's not exactly hard to find it for free...) for a three-parts episode about a Nazi-pedophile-Junta black site settlement in Chile and the last episode was a larger discussion around his book. He was also a guest on their episode about Brazil and Bolsonaro.

The Jakarta Method, so hot right now. Can't believe how much play this book is getting from liberals
yeah, been seeing this book referred to a lot and the claim that pretty much everything is a cia psyop on twitter

Honestly he came across as rather level headed and open about what was speculative in his talk.
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« Reply #2166 on: August 09, 2020, 12:27:13 PM »
None of y'all praising Communism ever heard of Voldemort and it shows.

Voldemort was a true progressive, Harry was a status-quo neoliberal. :juche

Voldemort actually came from Gryffindore  :bedroomeyes

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« Reply #2167 on: August 09, 2020, 02:37:48 PM »
Another old article that could be posted in another thread but is going here because it deals with icky intersecting topics that I apologize in advance for if it was already already posted.

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/09/puerto-rico-energy-electricity-solar-natural-gas/

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« Reply #2168 on: August 09, 2020, 02:43:23 PM »
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« Reply #2169 on: August 09, 2020, 02:44:38 PM »
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« Reply #2170 on: August 09, 2020, 03:04:01 PM »
https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1292527042685292550

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« Reply #2171 on: August 09, 2020, 03:26:29 PM »
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« Reply #2172 on: August 09, 2020, 06:09:58 PM »
The millionaires and the billionaires are not the only ones who should have access to subsidized, unrefined Russian oil. Thank you.

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« Reply #2174 on: August 10, 2020, 03:14:04 PM »
Part of being a socialst? Even the buddha would be more heated.

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« Reply #2175 on: August 10, 2020, 03:16:08 PM »
It takes a lot of guts and love to be shot at multiple times and insist that the carceral archipelago is not a solution. That's unrivaled character.
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« Reply #2176 on: August 10, 2020, 03:19:40 PM »
Let's just hope it doesn't get them killed some other time.

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« Reply #2177 on: August 10, 2020, 03:44:29 PM »
It takes a lot of guts and love to be shot at multiple times and insist that the carceral archipelago is not a solution. That's unrivaled character.

"[W]hile there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

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« Reply #2179 on: August 11, 2020, 11:05:45 PM »
Will read. Related, Trump has overseen the largest reduction in protected public lands in American history over the course of his term. I genuinely don't understand why it's possible or legal for him to just sign an executive order and give away so much land.
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« Reply #2180 on: August 11, 2020, 11:22:11 PM »
I genuinely don't understand why it's possible or legal for him to just sign an executive order and give away so much land.
Because that's how most of the land was protected in the first place.

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« Reply #2181 on: August 11, 2020, 11:22:42 PM »
It wasn't an act of law?
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« Reply #2183 on: August 11, 2020, 11:28:39 PM »
:leon I thought congress declared federal lands individually, my bad

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« Reply #2184 on: August 11, 2020, 11:34:27 PM »
:leon I thought congress declared federal lands individually, my bad

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« Reply #2185 on: August 13, 2020, 03:37:26 PM »
Xavier: Renegade Angel is back. :rejoice
almost pissed myself laughing at this :lol

Workshopping a way of making the squatters' rights episode about Euro Amerikans. :maduro

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« Reply #2186 on: August 13, 2020, 03:48:38 PM »
Just close your eyes, listen to the lines, and it already is :lol



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« Reply #2188 on: August 14, 2020, 02:11:34 PM »
Siri... show me the wrong take on the Alex Morse scandal

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1293950805083652099
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« Reply #2189 on: August 14, 2020, 02:38:21 PM »
I'm glad that story is getting covered, but the voices amplifying it in unison come off as having some other intention. Don't know what it is and tbh I don't really care.

See also: the near daily amplification of a nobody on Twitter who has a different take on sexual mores.

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« Reply #2190 on: August 14, 2020, 09:30:24 PM »
Moved this here so that we'd spare the wank dad thread this misery.

I like your creative way of interpreting expropriation, we need that kind of ingenuity in the socialist movement. :like
I'm being cheeky but only to point out why "germany didn't raise taxes" can't explain chartalism's failure in the german empire. It did tax the public, just not legally.

I would say that you're making a taxation is theft argument instead of being cheeky.

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It is disingenuous to pretend like the economic consequences are primarily the result of the financing decisions of the government. To the extent that Germany expected to plunder its borders, there was a shortfall. But inflation was stabilized to 2% by the end of the war and it didn't become a problem again until the French decided to fuck Germany to death.

Love the bold, very econ textbook.

Anyway, that link you posted states that the German Empire was different from its competitors in that it had poor money markets and you yourself took the position that its poverty in foreign money markets was to blame in particular. I believe money markets arise with the commoditization of money, a characteristic of money that chartalism rejects. (If either of those base premises are wrong please feel free to correct me.)

If I'm right with both of those premises this feels like the time my 7th grade English teacher gave us a Christmas brain teaser that consisted of the alphabet without the letter L and my friend at the time kept shouting, "There's no L!" There's no L!" without realizing he was saying Noël.

That is of course unless the absence of mature money markets in the German Empire can be explained by something other than an institutional skepticism of money as a commodity. The Empire and the Third Republic roughly correspond in existence, but the Third Republic was far more bourgeois driven whereas the Empire had its lovely nobility to mediate.


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« Reply #2192 on: August 17, 2020, 10:34:35 AM »
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Adolph Reed is a son of the segregated South, a native of New Orleans who organized poor Black people and antiwar soldiers in the late 1960s and became a leading Socialist scholar at a trio of top universities.

Along the way, he acquired the conviction, controversial today, that the left is too focused on race and not enough on class. Lasting victories were achieved, he believed, when working class and poor people of all races fought shoulder to shoulder for their rights.

In late May, Professor Reed, now 73 and a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was invited to speak to the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter. The match seemed a natural. Possessed of a barbed wit, the man who campaigned for Senator Bernie Sanders and skewered President Barack Obama as a man of “vacuous to repressive neoliberal politics” would address the D.S.A.’s largest chapter, the crucible that gave rise to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a new generation of leftist activism.

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His chosen topic was unsparing: He planned to argue that the left’s intense focus on the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on Black people undermined multiracial organizing, which he sees as key to health and economic justice.

Notices went up. Anger built. How could we invite a man to speak, members asked, who downplays racism in a time of plague and protest? To let him talk, the organization’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus stated, was “reactionary, class reductionist and at best, tone deaf.”

“We cannot be afraid to discuss race and racism because it could get mishandled by racists,” the caucus stated. “That’s cowardly and cedes power to the racial capitalists.”

Amid murmurs that opponents might crash his Zoom talk, Professor Reed and D.S.A. leaders agreed to cancel it, a striking moment as perhaps the nation’s most powerful Socialist organization rejected a Black Marxist professor’s talk because of his views on race.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/adolph-reed-controversy.html

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« Reply #2194 on: August 23, 2020, 01:51:26 PM »


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« Reply #2196 on: August 25, 2020, 07:28:29 PM »
https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/


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« Reply #2197 on: September 10, 2020, 05:45:13 PM »
holy shit david graeber died last week

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« Reply #2198 on: October 16, 2020, 03:16:20 PM »


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"any time you engage with people who are on the front lines of any type of being targeted or suffering. the extent that you align yourself and then you're open to learn from them, it means that you expose yourself even if you're not legally vulnerable to endure the conditions that they're enduring. like between emotional connectors in terms of learning from each other, in terms of shared intelligence. that there is a bonding that goes on and you carry that with you." ;)

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« Reply #2199 on: October 16, 2020, 11:15:48 PM »
holy shit david graeber died last week
He lives on in previously unreleased interview footage!

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"any time you engage with people who are on the front lines of any type of being targeted or suffering. the extent that you align yourself and then you're open to learn from them, it means that you expose yourself even if you're not legally vulnerable to endure the conditions that they're enduring. like between emotional connectors in terms of learning from each other, in terms of shared intelligence. that there is a bonding that goes on and you carry that with you." ;)

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« Reply #2203 on: November 22, 2020, 07:48:14 PM »
https://toynbeeprize.org/posts/katrina-forrester/

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To take a couple of examples: on the one hand, Rawls developed a vision of society that flattens certain types of conflict and prioritizes certain forms of consensus quite common among postwar “liberal consensus” theorists. On the other, Rawls also borrowed ideas from liberal critics of the administrative state—for instance, Frank Knight, one of the early neo-liberal economists at Chicago. These connections to mid-century liberalism were often submerged in Rawls’s published philosophical writings, so his unpublished materials collected by archivists at Harvard University are crucial to making sense of them. But it’s clear when reading those materials that Rawls’s account of society and the state emerged from a particular ideological constellation in the postwar US, when many liberals were skeptical about the extension of the state and were looking for novel ways to both legitimize and critique it. 


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« Reply #2205 on: December 03, 2020, 11:16:16 PM »
Quote from: Republic, 557a
...and presumably, it [the political regime] turns into a democracy when the poor are victorious, when they kill some of their opponents and send others into exile, give an equal share in the constitution and public office to those who remain, and when public office in the city is allocated for the most part by lot.
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« Reply #2209 on: February 26, 2021, 09:51:02 AM »
https://twitter.com/ethanbrown72/status/1262733756160446466
Hey man, they're not called No Evil Business Practices. :doge
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I don't mind Jamie but she's kind of weak in those sort of arguments even being fair that it's kind of hard to really articulate a stateless society.

I don't believe in it, personally.
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