If you read the founding fathers pre-revolution and you will discover white men who were rather bloodthirsty for territorial expansion under the pretense of rationalizing enlightenment. It’s actually pretty bleak.
We've uncovered what might be the biggest case of petition fraud in NYC's history, and now I'm taking my opponent to court.
This by @southerngradient.bsky.social starts with the private equity worries and just continues making more and more sense! Good stuff
finance.yahoo.com/economy/arti...
Reading Clara Mattei’s “The Capital Order” about capital’s use of austerity as a tactic, etc. Can’t believe there was a British economist in the 20s named Chiozza Money
"It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the other pole are grouped masses of men who have nothing to sell but their labour-power. Nor is it enough that they are compelled to sell themselves voluntarily. The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition, and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws. The organizations of the capitalist process of production, once it is fully developed, breaks down all resistance. The constant generation of a relative surplus population keeps the law of supply and demand of labour, and therefore wages, within narrow limits which correspond to capital's valorization requirements. The silent compulsion of economic relations sets the seal on the domination of the capitalist over the worker."
"The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition and habit looks upon the requirements of that mode of production as self-evident natural laws."
Marx, Capital I, Part VIII, Ch. 28
The "I made this" meme but the first guy has an Iranian flag, he's handing a globe to American flag guy Iran: I'm blocking the strait America: you're blocking the strait? (concerned) America: (thinking) America: I'm blocking the strait
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Stalk of ironweed looking like a fluted iron column
So that’s why they call it ironweed
A data visualisation of a piece of house music. We used python to analyse the tune and perform analysis of each stem and the piece as a whole.
#datavisualization #houdini #python
Wow we lost the “great Satan” title? Just a “satan” now
Humiliation
a DLSS 5 OFF / ON meme with two identical sticks of computer ram on each side, one labeled $99 and the other labeled $700
this one hurts the most
Richard Lachmann covered this pretty well in his First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship (2020)
Forget whatever it is you have to say.
No one is even interested
The place is full of hungry customers
What we need here is hamburger.
And, hey, don't get discouraged,
And have a nice day!
Bertolt Brecht, from A Reader for City Dwellers
(1926)
Forget your hopes of being
Elected some sort of president.
You'd better shape up quick
If you expect to stay here in the kitchen.
You'll have to learn the basics,
The basics being: We will fix your wagon.
2/3
Forget your dreams of being
Some sort of exception.
What your mother told you
Wasn't necessarily so.
Forget that contract in your pocket
For all the good it does you here.
1/3
Uh
I❤️NY
It’s crazy that he gets there because Foucault made shit up? Whatever gets you there though I guess. The simplest way though is just injustice as manifested everywhere. Marx and the wood theft laws for example
I mean his full throated screed against the great satan is so good and then he has to reveal himself as some cheugy academic
Matt come to Bluesky
Reading Rockhill’s latest and I’m like this is crazy do kids from Iowa just do this
I notice that my post is trending and I think “ oh no, what are you doing?” And sure enough, they’re about to do it. Orig post from 2020: This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.
Hands covered in spackle, spackle all over my phone, searching "is it safe to touch spackle"
If your Elihu is Root
Das is nicht gut
If your Elihu is Vedder
That’s better
A wall of snow blocks cut out with a snow shovel
Enjoying a little snow masonry
Tfw you read a book about how screwed up the world is and you see it was published in 2010
Soon will be making another run
cops are only here to protect property, movies and games are only made to benefit stockholders, buildings are only built for resale value, laws are only enforced when it's profitable
Inshallah
There’s always money in the lemonade stand
