Tristan Schweiger

The main lesson the ruling class seems to have taken from Gaza is that they don't even need to bother manufacturing consent anymore.

So many people in this administration need to go to prison for life.

Remember when we used to enforce anti-trust laws in this country? (Neither do I, I’m only in my 40s.)

this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child

This has got to be the funniest, stupidest, and most deranged collapse of an empire in the history of the world by a wide, wide margin.

And they say the Democratic Party isn’t responsive to its base.

There have been many false-start "This is it" moments but bear with me. There is literally no constituency for this Greenland shit (polls at 30% *among GOP*). There are mechanisms in place to stop this and people with power to use them. If those people and mechanisms fail now, they will never work.

The most disastrous VP choice in US history is Lincoln swapping Andrew Johnson for Hannibal Hamlin. The second most is probably FDR swapping Truman for Henry Wallace.

The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)

Americans love telling ourselves this mythology that the United States was founded in revolution to oppose tyranny and yet turn into the most pathetic, bootlicking swine any time there’s a protest movement.

Dune is mainly the juvenile ravings of a libertarian crank, but the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines probably does need to happen.

The worst people in the world are so mad about Mamdani’s inaugural speech, and that’s beautiful.

Senate Democrats are led by a man who, by his own account, bases major political decisions on what an imaginary elderly Long Island Republican couple who live entirely in his mind tell him.

Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”

Of course, as agents of the ruling class, it's their mission not to understand to the contrary.

Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.

It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.

Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.

The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers.

That's it. That's all.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.

They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!

Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.

Based as hell.

Thank you, Johanna. Solidarity.

RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.

It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.

You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice.

Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.

Not that the old model of university president was, you know, “good,” but at least they did believe their core mission was research and education.

In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

University administrators would love nothing more than to have no students and no faculty and simply run the real estate investment firms of their dreams.

Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.

It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter