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Rob Larson

@ironicprofessor.bsky.social

Economics professor | author Mastering the Universe, Bit Tyrants and Capitalism vs Freedom | house economist Current Affairs | AFT local 2196 | steal from the rich and drink to the poor

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Must be a misprint, I was told the Left are the real antisemites because we’re against ethnic cleansing

01.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 43    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy weekend to those who celebrate

31.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Tuttle Twins Learn Incredibly Wrong History Lessons The libertarian propaganda series is back and worse than ever.

By popular demand, I have read some more fine Tuttle Twins books and written a very slightly critical review for Current Affairs. They are very poor

30.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Purely FYI, even the Wall Street Journal is using class analysis now

29.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to Klein’s show giving a similar airing to Russians who wish to carve up Ukraine.

28.10.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Job creators” entering a new phase in their creativity

27.10.2025 18:28 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/17/a...

25.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICYMI I reviewed Matt MCManus’s contentious new title Liberal Spcialism on the @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social this week. The book’s a great read, do yourself a favor

25.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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Happy weekend to those who celebrate

25.10.2025 00:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You ladies failed in your mission of delivering David’s treats

23.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Aaaaand here we are again

21.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They feeling of I’m not doing my work, but at least it’s Amazon’s fault

20.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Great news, some poor American towns are desperate enough to be adequately exploitable for global capital, years of joy

19.10.2025 19:27 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ah yes, one of those ceasefires with no cessation of fire

18.10.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy weekend to those who celebrate

17.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Oh my god, waiter can I get a glass of wine with this please

17.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How about body-worn name tags while we’re at it

16.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Google’s Monopoly Sentence: Barely a Slap on the Wrist For years, across multiple presidential administrations, the US government has been pursuing aggressive lawsuits against the tech giants. The toothless sentence Google recently received for its illega...

Hot damn! I’m in the Jacobin today, writing up Google’s sentence for it’s legally-ruled monopoly, which is an even lighter slap on the tentacle than I expected:
jacobin.com/2025/10/google-monopoly-lawsuit-big-tech

16.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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16.10.2025 15:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Just in case a drop of water remains to be exploited

15.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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“Ceasefire,” day 1

14.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Foreign aid to countries we destroyed and impoverished is being replaced by direct corporate purchasing of their assets, which is better, according to the head of literally the Rockefeller Foundation

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Happy weekend to those who celebrate

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It’s Friday, so it’s time for some homes of those who live life far above our heads, from the Journal’s “Mansion” section

10.10.2025 17:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ha ha ha I hate it here

08.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

“Thank you for not torturing us.”
-A grateful student this morning

06.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Formerly known as “rich”

06.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spoiler alert: It was by using a gigantic amount of water in his drought-stricken county to fill a new lake

04.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy weekend to those who celebrate

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