This is just what every Stalinist has said throughout history

(the ones who didn't say it was fascism)

Mandel's an interesting character. Some good comrades I know swear by his analysis but really I think if you were still defending the USSR as a workers' state in the 80s I dunno what to tell you

Fandom is like any aspect of human behaviour. It *starts* from people doing cool things for themselves and their communities, *and* can always be turned into capitalist bucks. Rocky Horror fandom has always been much more creative and interesting than Rocky Horror the film

Oh, is this a screenshot of Dumbledore in the new HP show

Thanks for that, Aleister

One of the most amazing THIS YOU?s I've seen in a long time. Applause.

I originally read this as "Brianna Wu" and near did a spit-take

The hilarious thing is that almost immediately the DKs had to rewrite that song to be about Reagan, with the new title "We've Got A Much Bigger Problem Now"

And my kids *do* meditate in school

All I need to know is that she's been described to me as "Gen Z lesbian Kate Bush", and hot damn, I'm up for that program

The counterexample is Venezuela; but that was IMHO the degeneration of a legitimate Left-populist regime after the "big man" died

If AI takes off the way that Altman and Karp envisage, there will simply not be any jobs created for the "wordcels" who are made redundant. Unless you include bringing domestic servants back as a thing.

The only reason why people are talking like this right now is that the far Right is a global menace and the far Left are a few disgruntled NEETs and tenured hot-take-mongers. And MLs (whom I oppose) would argue that they support REAL democracy, and that China/Cuba are examples of that

Maybe the world where Thomas Matthew Crooks succeeded and Tyler Robinson failed would be *worse* than this one

The thing about crabs in a bucket is that they're operating on the "safety in numbers" principle. So the tradwives need to drag other women down with them because then maybe their husbands won't beat them so bad

On Algae and Animal Spirits Arjun and I did a webinar recently on our book Against Money, organized by Merijn Knibbe.

Vital stuff for practical Marxists to read. Tl;dr: in contrast to neoliberal assertions that the "Invisible Hand" magically allocates resources optimally, money/finance are in fact a planning tool as subjective as any Stalinist party-state's diktats jwmason.substack.com/p/on-algae-a...

On Algae and Animal Spirits Arjun and I did a webinar recently on our book Against Money, organized by Merijn Knibbe.

A point from this excellent article (mainly about something else) backs this up: housing is a long-term asset whose price depends on interest rates, unlike commodities

Which makes Leftists demanding a return to ZIRP just stupid

jwmason.substack.com/p/on-algae-a...

Ukraine has been secretly launching rockets into space from an 'air spaceport' flying at 26,000 feet, lawmaker says

Based if true

www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

You give me a year and all the political power the president has, and I can guarantee that fascism never rises again. All it takes is conviction and to not be a coward.

This is a small account so I'm not going to drag them by name, but freeeeeoooowwwwwww. How many edgy Leftists believe this?

Probably something more like: "fuckin' bougie shitlib gentrifiers going to brunch, if you can't handle a working-class person defying the fascist pig cops by waving a machete around, then YOU are the problem"

The thing is that 200 years ago the Basques were the biggest supporters of the reactionary Carlists. How things change

Thanks for clarifying. Stancil is associated with the "vibecession" discourse, and you were reskeeted by someone who really hates him :)

I'm pretty sure it means "getting stuck in the welfare system"

Really wish more left leaning people understood that copyright/IP law is virtually always in favor of capital and NOT the laborers that produce it.

Even if you retain copyright over your work product, the cost of defending it in court tends to wildly outstrip the financial ability of an individual.

I think others have said that feelings of anxiety and precarity MAY or MAY NOT have something to do with one's objective material wellbeing or "The Economy" as reflected in mass media discourse or both. The debate over whether it's "real" is a proxy for the same stupid Lib vs Left sectarianism

"Vibecession" discourse is silly on all sides. Feelings are real and important AND they're not facts.

Feeling that the economy is bad may be because you're actually 1 paycheck from homelessness OR because equality (for your DoorDash worker) feels like oppression

I continually have to fight my tendency to elitism; it's something I see a lot in anarchists who think the only thing to do is to form religious-style subcultures and hope to recruit the tiny minority who are capable of leading a "principled" life

"lived experience" is not always truth because trauma and moral injury are not truth

The thing is, though, that this goes the other way as well

Hate Stancil as much as you like, he's not anti migrant or anti trans

So many of the old British punks (from Lydon on down) ended up as Brexiteers. There’s a GenX cynicism that - paradoxically - leads a lot of us to become marks for vice signalers

There are a lot of people for whom the pandemic was the best time they've ever had in their entire lives, because their normal habit of staying home and judging people was suddenly The Thing To Do, and 6 years later they still miss it.