this is something I wish I could discuss synchronously in private because I have thoughts about "is the nation-state form the correct response here" for that very real need and desire

its instrumental - its a wedge to deny trans people our identity (trans women specifically).

you are like full on sephiroth posting now lmao

like I said, please just go vote Republican instead of trying to do right-wing entryism. You clearly look down on people who aren't as wealthy as you.

Conservatives make me upset, yes. I don't care if you vote D now, you're just intelligent enough to realize fascism threatens the portfolio (which, to be fair, a lot of people with your profile fail to realize.)

Anyway, when we win we will double your taxes to fund UBI.

I would rather not have your vote than have reactionary white men influence the coalition. I beg of you, go.

a subset of bluesky users that lean towards demographics disproportionately likely to struggle with poverty

Im going to say the same thing I said to the "socialist" guy spewing Hitler particles about cities - please go vote Republican, I beg you. That is your natural home.

it is a bad look to be adopting almost verbatim 2010 right-wing frameworks around how to understand poverty to win interfactional disputes against leftists or whatever

I wonder if there’s some Reason that the heavy industry unions are still in the tank for Trump after 11 years while the left-leaning unions are all for the service and public sectors

Something that rhymes with “fender” perhaps

"Prices are high and the hiring rate is at Great Recession levels, surely that can't be why"

And the hiring rate is *critical* because you need to, in most cases, change jobs to capture wage gains

People who are *more engaged* are less concerned about prices, and media engagement (including social media) skews high income. The vibecession thesis is not only wrong, but *directly opposite of reality*

Here’s a model of consumer sentiment that doesn’t suck On the question of why Americans are so glum, the answer is still (mostly) the prices, stupid. But you have to know where to look

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-17... yeah its a wrap i think

This is the underlying subtext of the entire discourse - *it is your fault you are struggling financially*

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"Women can't physically run the marathon, therefore women aren't allowed to run the marathon, and if they try we're going to assault them, and look no women have run the marathon, proving that women can't run the marathon."

some remarks on nature

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yeah dudes get real uncomfy when you tell them "the birth rate crisis" is because children are getting SAed less

I am a lady and a Black people and like this is doing too much;
whoever answers the call answers the call, and as someone who would have liked to have written for it, i wasn't in a place where I could devote serious time to it

The timing just didn't work out and it sucks and I hope there's a 2nd

yeah it's important to note that we left control of tech in the hands of the Social Order, then used that tech to challenge the Social Order, and the Social Order reacted very predictably

it's not "solved" really, but it's easy to work around if you have a reasonable amount of domain knowledge

automation won't usher in post-scarcity without changing the political order

we desperately need a radically pro-technology leftist movement, one that rejects palantir and silicon valley’s vision of “technology” without also becoming radicalized against technology

I'm very much in agreement, I'm just empathetic to the underlying reasons why the reaction was the way it was

tbh i thought the product itself (even aside from the political economy aspects) was undercooked until i tried claude

10000% agreed!!!!! and i think it betrays a sort of pessimism, like, that we will always live in an exploitative capitalist political economy and all efficiency advances will just be leveraged against workers/everyone else

because the automation came before we even took the tiniest step in the direction of the communism so now if you're a neurodivergent artist for whom a 9-5 is inaccessible and/or torture and or undoable, you're kind of fucked

yeah i get what you mean but you can't blame ppl for getting upset

Rebirth to what? That's the question. In nearly every case, it is a rebirth to a constructed "natural" order of existence.

"This is our cave. This is our labyrinth. The maze is sunless but not unlit. What lights this maze is telos: not the true sun, but a false one we ourselves have built."

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Of course it's nonsensical - because it's about power, and power just makes shit up

I'm doing a thing! And it's about it's more than just Sally Barry, but she kinda changed the world and isn't as well-known.

Like I keep saying, I very much believe the Country over Party voter is maxed out.

Agreed, since it’s only when unpacking the concept ‘natural’ via examining the writings of conservatives like Roger Scruton do we reveal that it’s a thick concept that carries with it numerous ideological and metaphysical commitments re. a society that privileges the few over many, many others