Increasingly think neofeudalism vs capitalism is a better lens for understanding whatโs going on in contemporary politics than capitalism vs socialism.
01.08.2025 20:52 โ ๐ 635 ๐ 108 ๐ฌ 28 ๐ 31@abovoadmala.bsky.social
Increasingly think neofeudalism vs capitalism is a better lens for understanding whatโs going on in contemporary politics than capitalism vs socialism.
01.08.2025 20:52 โ ๐ 635 ๐ 108 ๐ฌ 28 ๐ 31The minute you go slightly off the map of โnationally 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 thatโs not even that cheap to start with, itโs just relatively easier!
02.08.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 56 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0or 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 ๐ 159 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0the 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 ๐ 200 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0it'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 ๐ 301 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1the 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 ๐ 500 ๐ 74 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 6E.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.
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.
Iโm 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 ๐ 811 ๐ 218 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 18Wall Street: Haha TACO
Trump: I'm god. I cannot die. I will ban the drinking of water and kill Jerome Powell.
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 ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Russia has elections" usually reaches these people
04.08.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Ran 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 ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If 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 ๐ 217 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 4This 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 ๐ 651 ๐ 53 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 14Same guy's Dick Cheney movie was way better than I thought it would be!
04.08.2025 05:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It'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.
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 ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Platoโs โRepublicโ 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 ๐ 49 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0My plan to help young men involves telling them โgo read the classics, thereโs 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 ๐ 45 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I dont know how Matt Pearce does it
04.08.2025 05:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0there 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 ๐ 320 ๐ 30 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4What 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 ๐ 13 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โbut 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 doesnโt mean we canโt fix it
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 ๐ 272 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Like the Cromwell character??
04.08.2025 04:44 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the future of American politics is American Peronism vs everyone with a braincell
unfortunately the deck is stacked in favor of the former
Nooooโฆ you were just supposed to end all the lib shit! You werenโt supposed to eliminate the reliable statistics and contract law that stem from the lib shit!
03.08.2025 23:48 โ ๐ 394 ๐ 74 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 2