John Leavitt

they're just trying to undo the New Deal and so mad they only got 90% of the way

The idea that the underlying structural conditions were just different never occurred to her

my aunt, who is smart and very left wing, but was genuinely baffled why anyone would struggle to pay for college, just get a part time job like she did while at Berkeley, which paid for her tuition and living expenses

works as a kind of national Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations

which connects to the @yoshimired.bsky.social idea that the "United Kingdom" as a country came into existence in 1945 and no one knew how to deal with it

one year ago! still really fond of this one

I forgot to tag this as a @raaleh.bsky.social interest www.julianrosefeldt.com/film-and-vid...

they don't know why they are rich etc etc

www.julianrosefeldt.com/film-and-vid...

again, just give us power it is time no one wants to burn everything down more, cue Cate Blanchett's monologue from Nihilism

Biden being super racist is just a drumbeat in his career

which is why we're the most insane

this will just go on forever and self-correct and never need management tra la la la

the Dems have no backbench cause they don't want one cause they do not think of themselves as a political party, it's a Kiwanis club for Mummies

people talked about Biden not making any major money off being a senator for so long as a good sign and not that he was a fucking rube

all old Nixon guys who loved him as young staffers and kept the flame going.

look sometimes you gotta do a purge

the last people who actually tried to maintain American Hegemony in the traditional way were Dick Cheney types who are all older Boomers who hated the counterculture

i get the idea and I agree, it's better understood as "systems will self-regulate without outside interference" which is just reskinning 19th century free market ideaology for the beach boys

i kind of hate the boomer's parents cry that TV will rot your brain was right

i broadly think this is true and also the California Ideaology (left version) that everything would just sort itself out cause things are still Pretty Good and we can Retreat To Nature kept them from pushing against the electoralists (also a lot of them got assassinated)

you saw it written openly in the Epstein emails, guys who got rich selling off state services wondering what more is left to salvage

Also the elephant in the room, AIDS killing off a generation of activists

I dunno I keep thinking about all the other off-ramps, all the close elections, the 1976 Dem party platform having a full employment policy, and no of the Atari democrats really cared about that too much

“So you AI guys, you sleep like 2 hours a day?”

“No, that is just our negotiated rest time.”

“That means?”

“We do the same as you, process our day, socialize at the bar.”

“Yooo, what’s a robot bar like?”

“We infect each other with benign viruses back and forth.”

“And, that feels good?”

“Yes.”

Some combination of Fuck You Got Mine and The Rich Don’t Know Why They Are Rich

“The American Century” lasted one generation! One one born in 1946 had any interest in it!

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

Whats so funny is that you can tell he used Chat GPT to write this

PANEL 1: NARRATOR: "Cultivating the measured NPR cadence and placid deference to the military that characterizes the ideal neoliberal subject, Clark Kent returns to the editorial meeting..." A group of DAILY PLANET reporters are in a meeting, Clark Kent is responding to a question from his boss. CLARK: "Well, chief, the bombing campaign--" PANEL 2: Clark is talking and the other reporters and co-workers look unhappy. CLARK: "Obviously war in the region is not-ah-"ideal," but regime change could ultimately provide socioeconomic benefits that far outweigh the regrettable civilian casualties..." CLARK (thinking): "As Superman, last son of Krypton, these words of course sicken me; however, it's Clark Kent's job to manufacture consent!" PANEL 3: (inset in a larger panel) One reporter is whispering to another. REPORTER: "Kent is such an off-putting sociopath" REPORTER 2: "I hope he kills himself". An arrow points to this inset panel that reads "Thanks to super-hearing" from Clark's ear. Clark is smiling and thinking to himself. CLARK (thinking): "Looks like my secret identity as Clark Kent is safe...FOR NOW!"

the mild manners are job security, baby

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