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There's a deep and annoying temptation among those who fancy themselves not unintelligent to imagine that stupid people can't be successful - belied e...

Anything Wolfgang Streeck or Mike Davis or Robert Brenner Andreas Malm's Fossil Capital Gindin and Panitch's The Making of Global Capitalism Ellen Woo...

https://twitter.com/SocialistBoomer/status/1334782061207453697

No, Trump is a realist see, which is why he has not at any point been denying reality like the clown he is since the election and has gracefully accep...

:rofl: On the other hand, people as, uh, 'gifted' as Hippyhead are exemplary of how Trump gets to be as popular as he is. Morons mistaking other moron...

There is literally nothing political about 'pessimism', which is a sideshow for privileged first-world whiners luxuriating in their own romanticized s...

An interesting perspective from one of my go-to commentators: "American institutions have often been the friend of the most authoritarian projects, as...

No one needs to respond to your made-up bullshit with actual figures other than to point out the fact that you're making shit up.

Aw, you upset that your larping isn't being taken seriously?

No, I'm not engaging with shit you pulled out of your arse other than to call it out for having been pulled out of your arse.

And that's supposed to be some kind of differentia specifica? What's next? That most of them have skin? Vacuity in place of fabrication. Wonderful. In...

It's not a matter of agreeing or disagreeing its the fact that you fabricated shit out of thin air and expect anyone to put in any effort to take that...

No you fuck, you don't get to make shit up and ask to be proven wrong.

It's hard to imagine the degree of ideological indoctrination it takes to make up fantasy lists of supposed behavioural and psycological traits of the...

Destroy or attenuate the profit motive. There's no reason why the world has to be fucked up because of some man-made institution that could be otherwi...

Yep. The pandemic proved what everyone already knew - that if the 1% dropped dead tomorrow, nothing at all would change. All value comes from those wh...

Your body appears to itself, which you are.

Damn. Just looked it up. I guess corporations are people when it suits them and not people when it doesn't.

Watching these people eat themselves is my politically favourite thing right now.

11. They are societal parasites.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/30/europe/france-security-law-change-intl/index.html The French set half of Paris and more on fire and tore down fucki...

Wilden and identity politics?

From the essay collection? I've a couple of articles in there, but not that one. Sounds interesting.

Necessary because the fortunes of our concepts are derivitave of the fortunes of the world at large, and without tracking the latter you can't track t...

So I went and read the excursus on Lacan. Loved it. "For the child’s own mirror image cannot as such add anything to the child’s self”-findings that h...

I think that's pretty fair. My own speculative take on it is that imaginary identification does not preceed symbolic identification but in fact procee...

This is cool but I wonder how much of this is beating on an open door. The mirror stage, qua stage, is for Lacan marked by failure from the beginning ...

Perry Anderson - Lineages of the Absolutist State Perry Anderson - In The Tracks of Historical Materialism Moar histore.

Ah, so 2057 then.

Assuming Trump does not have a sudden change of heart in the next two months, he will have been the first US president since Carter to not have sent U...

Would that we be so lucky. I fully expect a renewed flood of 14 y. o. Petermites in the forum soon after his new book is released, if not sooner.

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I know Strike Anywhere - I didn't realize they were still around! Will give that a spin. ahhm, Haven't listened to UNKLE in aggess. CL: https://www.yo...

Not far enough; and vice versa. That there isn't more of a generalized traffic between both philosophy and science - in both directions - is a sad ind...

Presumably because people lack imagination.

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Meanwhile, from Erin Brockovich, eponym of the movie in her name: "As picks for President-elect Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tran...

Why? Account for your position.

I was responding to an empty, substanceless quip that engaged with nothing of what I posted. Consider it a response in kind. Frankly, given Biden's 40...

https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-to-recognize-the-signs-of-trauma-bonding/

Didn't realize you were just an undercover corporatist shill. Shame.

The centrist muppets are already beginning to moan and bitch that the left won't play ball with Biden's corporate-soaked transition team: https://www....

On the necessity of telling the Biden administration to go fuck itself as quickly as possible: "The Biden administration will generate backlash just l...

I think it's almost to Putin credit that he's made it seem as though Russia is a far bigger fry than it is. I think it helps too that the US likes to ...

This is super interesting. I was thinking about something along these lines today while daydreaming - that I seriously give very little shits about Ru...

BuT BiDeN WiLl Be BeTtEr FoR CliMaTe ChAnGe :roll: "Following a campaign promising bold climate action, president-elect Joe Biden’s transition team na...

How are you finding it? It said that it was originally written as the last part of another work, and I felt that it really reads like it. Like a side ...

Don't be mean like that.

I do like this being more creative with our murderous epithets. Everyone always makes Hitler and Stalin comparisons. Very rarely Dzerzhinsky! My go-to...