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Increasingly think neofeudalism vs capitalism is a better lens for understanding whatโ€™s going on in contemporary politics than capitalism vs socialism.

01.08.2025 20:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 635    ๐Ÿ” 108    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

The minute you go slightly off the map of โ€œnationally representative sample of people in rich country being asked things that can be asked in under 15-30 minsโ€ your costs increase by an order of magnitude. And thatโ€™s not even that cheap to start with, itโ€™s just relatively easier!

02.08.2025 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

or higher ed. if you make my options into "the current system as it exists, warts and all" and "burn the america's universities down in the name of the culture war" it's not a difficult choice to make, but it's also a pretty shitty one.

04.08.2025 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 159    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the broader left-liberal coalition isn't perfect, and in a different country there are issues and places where I could see myself hoping that a reasonable center-right party disciplined them by not letting them get away with dysfunction on shit like housing, but that isn't our country right now

04.08.2025 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 200    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's right that Hochul is doing this, 100% support, etc etc. but it does fucking suck, dude. I've pretty much given up on being ever able meaningfully act politically on any of the issue areas where I think the right has a meaningful critique through normal two party politics. can't work with 'em.

04.08.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 301    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

the right wing position for the last few decades is that they will engage in naked schmittian friend-enemy politics while the suckers on the other team still try to be pluralistic, and it was always going to collapse under it's own weight.

04.08.2025 15:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 500    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

E.g. the state of France does not exist on its current boundaries because all those places were already filled with 'the French.'

Rather the French state already existed and made everyone in its borders *learn French.*

The state created the nation, not the other way around.

04.08.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 175    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
A tweet reading, stupidly, "Literally every civilized society in history until 60 years ago was ethnonationalist."

A tweet reading, stupidly, "Literally every civilized society in history until 60 years ago was ethnonationalist."

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the Everything App...racism, mostly?

But also bad, obviously wrong history - lots of multi-ethnic pre-modern states: Romans, Persians, Mongols, etc.

Or just note the numbers of Welsh, Irishmen and Scots in key posts in the British Empire.

04.08.2025 16:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 343    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
03.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2983    ๐Ÿ” 507    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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The Trump Administrationโ€™s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

Iโ€™m not a doomer, but seeing all of this stuff laid out in one place, combined with seeing continued reports of businesses and universities and law firms capitulating to threats, combined with SCOTUS seemingly rubber stamping everything, makes me really, really apprehensive.

03.08.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 811    ๐Ÿ” 218    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 18

Wall Street: Haha TACO

Trump: I'm god. I cannot die. I will ban the drinking of water and kill Jerome Powell.

04.08.2025 02:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 670    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But the example and broader point id love to use is that the pope crowned napoleon: rituals of legitimation endure long after they stop being decisive junctures in the distribution of power

04.08.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Russia has elections" usually reaches these people

04.08.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ran into a "what if Trump cancels elections" person irl, shocking reminder that concepts like "competitive authoritarianism" are specialized knowledge

04.08.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you don't have a plan to abolish, fundamentally reform, or reliably circumvent the US Senate, you don't have a meaningful constitutional politics.

30.06.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 217    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

This is what's so infuriating about people trying to retcon 2010s austerity as some genius political jiu-jitsu instead of a huge failure. Long term unemployment in your 20s is insanely damaging.

09.09.2024 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 651    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

Same guy's Dick Cheney movie was way better than I thought it would be!

04.08.2025 05:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's no longer a question of if authoritarianism comes to America; now it's just a question of how bad it gets, and how long it lasts.

It's here. We can get rid of it if we fight together.

04.08.2025 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3189    ๐Ÿ” 804    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 100    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40
THE FALL AND RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

Hirschman's prose has always been tough for me but his life was amazing and his work inspired my favorite Krugman piece: web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...

04.08.2025 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Platoโ€™s โ€œRepublicโ€ is structured like a manosphere podcast, Socrates is the host and Thrasymachus is the guest and they just sit around wildly bullshitting for a few hours about the perfect society.

01.08.2025 22:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 49    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My plan to help young men involves telling them โ€œgo read the classics, thereโ€™s lots of great stuff full of meaning and heroism in there just for youโ€ and also to join a union. The next big thing.

01.08.2025 22:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I dont know how Matt Pearce does it

04.08.2025 05:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The catastrophe of knowledge work waits to be beautiful again, and interesting, and modern From "Mad Men" to the AI era, the problems of underconsumption.

Gotdamn open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

04.08.2025 05:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there is a crown in the gutter and JB Pritzker is the first Democrat to do anything but talk about how he's going to grab it

04.08.2025 05:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 320    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

What do you mean the CIA said in an internal memo in 1995 that they didn't know their former asset was a Nazi? I am CURRENTLY LOOKING AT another internal memo from 1953 that says 'yep this guy was definitely a Nazi'

01.08.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œbut he was legitimately electedโ€

yes he was, and he immediately followed it up by committing a lot of crimes and otherwise attempting to destroy our entire system of government and replace it with autocracy

just because people made a mistake doesnโ€™t mean we canโ€™t fix it

03.08.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3991    ๐Ÿ” 684    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

the problem with pointing out that abbott and paxton are flagrantly out of their lane in terms of legal claims is that we now live in a judiciary that is a slot machine for republicans and they are largely willing to slam the slot machine as many times as necessary until they hit a cash out

04.08.2025 03:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 272    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Like the Cromwell character??

04.08.2025 04:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the future of American politics is American Peronism vs everyone with a braincell

unfortunately the deck is stacked in favor of the former

03.08.2025 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 222    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Nooooโ€ฆ you were just supposed to end all the lib shit! You werenโ€™t supposed to eliminate the reliable statistics and contract law that stem from the lib shit!

03.08.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 394    ๐Ÿ” 74    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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