Jonah Paul

Don’t mind me, I’m just vibe banking a $30 trillion economy

found my new favorite game

Xi read ‘Business Secrets of the Bolsheviks’ by Mark Corrigan

Chopped uncs ftw! Beamtown is back baby!

structural crisis machine go brrrr

Interesting. I just described myself as a "historian of fascism" without thinking about it. Am I? I guess it turns out I am.

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“This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them.”

LFG!
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November 5th SCOTUS will decide. Not holding my breath.

Recession signals or?

TIL that the rise in precious metals is a vote of no confidence in the American bond market

Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection - Dissent Magazine The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, uninco...

Reading her piece in Dissent it dawned on me that what MAGA means by working class isn’t even really an identity EP Thompson sense, but a crude inheritance. “Meemaw worked in a coal mine, that’s why i’m a working class guy who employs a dozen subcontractors.”

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Have you read Melinda Cooper on this (or listened on the Dig)? She says US idea of class is completely baffling.

Would you like to sit down to my PR trap and help yourselves to a glass of humiliation and self-embarrassment?

Seems they are animated by aggrieved sense of not being normal and motivated to replace America’s multicultural polity with a white christian one by any means.

Hegseth, a rapist whose own mother disowned him for it, stood before the US top military brass to announce that survivors of sexual assault have no more recourse to the already meager means of military accountability.

And you better believe sexual assault is rampant in the military. Sickening.

What’s up with these Cthulhu ass ads all over Trump’s feed? He’s been messing with that elder god tech

Worth testing various hypotheses

The ads are rapidly getting recession coded

☝️ One Battle After Another reference. Go see it!

The Trump admin said “Deploy Van Halen”

Each tiny mistake from Trump’s team is one butterfly wing’s flap away from a world war

they’re gonna make a trump car

vibe shift

Flawed certainly, but military strategist consensus is he was a genius who transformed modern warfare.

And that could be massively leveraged by the left if we study what’s working for our adversaries.

Forget Klein’s obsequious “politics the right way”.

Listen to Daniel Martinez HoSang’s thoughtful analysis on how an open racists are winning over racial minorities.

Thinking about when one of my favorite directors (Ridley Scott) and actors (Joaquin Phoenix) made a film on one of history’s most interesting figures (Napoleon)—failing in basically every respect.

An art crime.

I intend to reintermediate immediately

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

Projecting farce