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@irl_neil

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11 days

Japan before the Islamic Revolution....

ちょっと昔の日本の景色bot

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13 days

1978年、新宿から見た新宿三丁目方面

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I've actually never seen a workplace's morale collapse so much and so fast. From excitement to misery in days. I was already burnt out but there are lifers here who are at each other's throats now.

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NYT push notification featuring my pizzeria. Sold out last three nights. I crave death.

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Unbelievable: a girl I know from high school (who I don't know of as a radical) just posted this on Instagram

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@nkulw Lol

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What will your job be on the pre-1999 technology commune?

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Hear me out - an Amish-style community, but the technology cutoff is, like, 1998.

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this could be a monty python bit

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British paratroopers are met by French customs as they parachute into Normandy to reenact the D-Day invasion, June 2024.

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@dramaticirony third generation cave dweller

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@GMomurder Arrow pointing at circle A saying "all they do is write on bathroom walls"

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Really astounding level of unearned smugness from this guy. He actually thinks he's the prince of twitter or something.

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@i_zzzzzz The ice cream in question

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Owners of some of the most valuable and productive agricultural land in the world. But Americans have been known to be duped by the agricultural bourgeoise posing as hard scrabble rural proletarians...

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Cool comparative chart of public ownership circa 1978

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@GMomurder This guy in particular

Hugh Chongqing (@hughchongqing) • Instagram reel

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@joolsd Love the guy in the replies complaining about this in LA. Latinos selling fruit on the streets of LA is like a 120 year tradition lol

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The five most terrifying words in the English language are: "My latest in The Atlantic"

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@gcaw

6 months

The International Court of Justice should charge Palestine with genocide too: the case for having the court hear two cases at once. My latest in @TheAtlantic :

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40 years ago this would have been a Reaganite punchline. These days I feel like you could get a lot of people on board with removing all the excessive “consumer choice” and branding we have to put up with.

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The good people of WSB are hunkering to take down South Africa in the currency market because uppity ANC types have ruined the country and done white genocide while marxist bands of pirates(?) roam the country. Great stuff!

From the wallstreetbets community on Reddit

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NYT push notification featuring my pizzeria. Sold out last three nights. I crave death.

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5 years

So uhhhh...James C Scott donated 3 grand to Warren....so I guess he wants the state to see more clearly

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6 years

@profmusgrave This is a fun and smart video on just this point. Highly rec.

Homer Simpson: An economic analysis

Mall santa, carny, and CEO: How Homer Simpson’s jobs represent America.Here's the full article and list of jobs: http://www.vox.com/2016/9/6/12752476/the-sim...

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@bo_austin_ Dudes repeatedly involved in revolutionary activities, getting arrested & released in like 4 different countries, 2 different continents

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Yeah that's gonna be a big NO from me

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Alright the Tooze China stanning is getting funny

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its been five years (sorry) since Anderson launched his salvo on Tooze. How are we feeling on the Tooze/NLR shadow war? Tooze looking pretty good these days imo

New Left Review

@NewLeftReview

5 years

In the latest NLR⁠—Perry Anderson seeks clues to the politics and method behind @adam_tooze 's oeuvre

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Some of you are FT Marxists, some of you are Odd Lots left-libersls. Me? I'm listening NPR's Marketplace twice a day (political commitments vague)

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2 years

In a world full of reactionary regimes the Israelis aim for the top.

Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي

@NTarnopolsky

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. @IsraelPolice officers equipped with batons ensure that no one in East Jerusalem will celebrate Morocco's victory too joyfully. There's zero justification for this.

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Gonna tell future generations about the brief moment where the internet was useful

Internet Archive

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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚 More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead 👉

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The original from The Economist is even cooler/more comprehensive!

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Not hearing much about the rules based international order these days

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4 years

Lol neoliberalism really is dead

Francis Fukuyama

@FukuyamaFrancis

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My latest blog post: In Praise of Industrial Policy

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1) owns 39 restaurants? Sounds like more like regional gentry not small biz owner. 2) lmao the double whammy of Biden saying we gave you bastards loans to stay open and now youre gonna have to pay $15 hr.

Townhall.com

@townhallcom

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Joe Biden tells a small business owner that his industry is "really going to be in a bind for a little while," and goes on to say that if he wants to hire workers, he'll just have to pay a $15/hr minimum wage:

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Between price fixing, the in house hot dog factory and relatively high wages, Costco is like a mini midcentury planned economy.

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Actually disgusting. What a failure as a society.

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It's crazy how the 2020 public was more pro-immigration than ever before, and the 2024 public is more anti-immigrant than at any time in the last 2 decades

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More than ever its apparent that Americans over a certain age have a pathological fear of a return to the 1970s. Fuel shortages, inflation, political unrest. The whole society has been restructured to prevent this by any means. Its prob stronger than any New Deal or WW2 fealty.

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@blewglass European farmers in particular are probably the most coddled and subsidized class in the world

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@bucephalus424 As ever, Braudel has an answer

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oh heavenly father what have I done to deserve this punishment

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@nkulw I'm omw out of course but i think no

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Yeah the cars are the problem with this one

push the needle

@pushtheneedle

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then theres albert speer’s plan for berlin had the nazi’s won world war ii. would have bulldozed a charming city for big ugly car centric infrastructure barf

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People in the suburbs/exurbs will regularly just sit in their idling cars, burning fuel, for twenty or thirty minutes. Strange ritual.

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Tooze revealed recently that reading Anderson's critique of Fukuyama changed his life (starts around 26:26)

Bunga in NYC: The End of The End of History (Live Debate + Book...

To mark the launch of The End of the End of History, "a clear, powerful and panoramic analysis of our world at the dawn of the 2020s", Alex Hochuli, co-autho...

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Usually think the lefty AOC hate is overly dramatic. Yeah she's an opportunist elected, whatever. This is depressing though.

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NEW: Rep. @AOC tells us she spoke to President Biden over the weekend and it’s time to end the speculation over his future: “Joe Biden is our nominee. He is not leaving this race. He is in this race and I support him.”

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The definitive map of regions of the US

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Chaos under heaven; market is excellent

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Bernie was right when he dipped back into his old crotchety leftist self

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@jdcmedlock "making Marx safe for furries" is the funniest thing I've read on here

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People are radicalizing!

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@ryanaboyd The app is called Prvst and it records your lecture to ensure quality and student success

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2 years

Its morning again in Joe Brandon's America

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My windows are open, and I just heard someone out on the street yell "are you fucking serious" and then shout with joy.

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Rooney's books are resonating with Chinese “small-town test-takers” who like the social critique but think Rooney's feminism could use some work...

The Economist

@TheEconomist

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Millions of young Chinese have been cooped up by lockdowns. The imagination has been their only escape route. Sally Rooney’s Ireland is a destination of choice

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This is the top post on the sub rn. from "the-crazed-crusader" Now I'm sure plenty of people didn't catch this. The friend who shared with me didn't realize it was full of white supremacist shit. But incredibly disturbing regardless.

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One of these days historians are gonna have to figure out Northeast Asia's 20th century. Its too important to be left to the econs fixated on the (necessary but one dimensional question) what made them "grow"

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@dramaticirony Filtering out Ganesh

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California is so small here because the War Dept in 1940 was filled with old army and navy guys who didn't want to believe how important air power was going to be

Vintage Maps

@vintagemapstore

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"How the War Department sees the country", 1940

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confession: i have not read a tooze chartbook in at least 9 months

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Global Southern California

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Pachuco style is becoming popular in Vietnam 🇻🇳

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@as_a_worker @Aelkus Im not a Settlers guy but I do think the settler-colonial Jeffersonian yeoman stuff lives on in homeowner politics. Especially in the sprawl of the West. The fordist thing is true but less particular to the US.

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@nkulw also the min wage is going up in LA today so they were going to have to do a round of wage increases anyway

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2 years

Alright the Fukuyama posting has gone way too far. What are you even doing here?

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@ArmandDoma

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Francis Fukuyama was right; the liberal democratic order is undefeatable

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Anyone write about how collector's/reseller's brain has infected everything. Every hobby now is full of people buying up loads of shit they wont use. Meanwhile people are buying up like old vhs tapes because they think theyre about to explode in value

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@nkulw Update: "wage increases based on merit" are being floated

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Farmers in the southwest are gonna do this in half a decade when the feds make them actually pay for their water and the takes are going to kill me.

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@__acadame I couldn't believe a show (supposedly) set in late 40s Hollywood wouldn't feature left wing politics and the blacklist. Then I realized it was Ryan Murphy's attempt to save the past from itself or something.

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4 years

Now reading. Excited for this one. So far @samuelmoyn 's foreward does a nice job of situating the book in the "neoliberalism debates"

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4 years

The three poles of EU declinism: ordoliberalism, Green technophobia and xenophobia. Sickeningly I have more faith in American political economy at this point.

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3 years

Nice line but not fully satisfying. The sense that "the Left" was entitled to third world masses and that "islamism" simply took over some potential popular energy is both presumptuous and not really born out. This is frankly a bit left orientalist.

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This paragraph from Fred Jameson’s @LRB response to 9/11 published immediately afterward still sticks with me.

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@JStein_WaPo Jeff, let them know we want the checks. Thanks.

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@HeerJeet Warren your enthusiasm

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The whole self-proclaimed tooze bro thing really fell off after that New York magazine profile huh? Even Tooze seems to have stepped back. Owl of Minerva flies at dusk.

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Alright, only posting good stuff from now on

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1 year

How is your socialism going to win over the public if it doesn't have the following qualities? -cigarette trees -lemonade springs -a lake of stew and of whiskey, too -jails are made of tin and you can walk right out again -they hung the jerk that invented work

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Its crazy how much the culture is turning Japanese right now. Biggest peak since the 90s. Every new restaurant in LA is trying to do "japanese style". Everyone on Instagram is in japan, was just there, is about to go. HBO and Apple have tv shows about Americans in Japan. Etc etc

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@joolsd @nntaleb Taleb may not like it, but this is what peak guerilla performance looks like

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The end of history was so nuts dude. There was a big Hong Kong handover club event in 1997 ft Grace Jones, Boy George, Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold. You can listen to the radio 1 essential mix recording here (sans Jones sadly):

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Valuable insights that only the Eurasia Group can bring you

ian bremmer

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if youre not following the unrest in bangaldesh…you should be parliament dissolved pm resigned/fled nobel laureate muhammad yunus to head country’s interim govt

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Noah is kinda right about this. We've basically accepted the right wing narrative that economics is on their side and lefty ideas are totally wrong.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

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The reason so many people think economics = shilling for big business and the rich is that Republicans keep saying this, and political voices drown out academic voices.

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oooooh baby

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@kevinbaker @dee_bee_h When I was a bus driver people would often come up to me at the terminal as I was getting off a shift asking about which route to take. "Sorry but..." I would say as I handed them a printed schedule "I don't work for free. Study up."

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Melinda Cooper does it again. So many useful observations but I think I liked this line best: "Quite simply, the family is a tax haven like no other."

In This House We Prey | Melinda Cooper

The family can be a tax haven like no other.

thebaffler.com

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@erikmbaker "the essential nation" is a sick name for a book on US hubris

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@lionel_trolling liquidate newspaper opinion writers

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Me, driving across the state: California needs a developmental dictatorship

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I still can't get over how Coppola read Graeber and Fukuyama and was like "what if robert moses had paul goodman's sensibilities and the aesthetic tastes of Saudi princelings"

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What would your job be in the collapsing socialist state? I'd like to imagine being a cool gangster stripping the factories for parts in collusion with the state managers but I'd probably just be the disillusioned cleaning person who doesn't have dreams anymore

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I've acquired something of a holy grail for inflation political economy

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@DavidKlion Turns out the real grift was all the friends they made along the way.

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Imagine being the guy who got the last kolkhoz award

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Awarding the best collective farmers, USSR, 1980s.

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We never should have let center-left twitter get hold of Kalecki

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@rhymeswithstan All memes lead back to the cave

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@gasstationALE Solidarity stretching backwards

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In retrospect, that "what if we planned the economy like Walmart" book was the last time anyone thought about Walmart for more than 5 seconds. Walmart used to be held up as everything wrong with American economy, society, culture. major PR coup for Walmart I guess.

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@bo_austin_ Park Chung Hee, welcome to the left

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@davidrkadler Economist beat them to it

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Been some talk about a post-COVID vibe shift towards vibrant liberated hedonism. Maybe so, but I think this'll be temporary. Alienated pessimism is coming back in a big way. Noir is gonna be big. Heard it here first folks.

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Obviously we just need more bureaucrat representation in the culture. Movies about backwater magistrates, novels about planners. Procedurals, thrillers, period dramas. Whatever, send it my way.

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It's finally happening....

Michael Pettis

@michaelxpettis

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Just had a very nice evening at my home with Cui Zhiyuan, Adam Tooze, Chen Long, Huang Haidong, Grace Zhou, and Wang Qing. I think we managed to resolve most of the world's problems, although it might have been the beer.

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Neoliberalism is dead like keynesianism "died." Its all a mixed economy, a certain set of policy tools is being supplanted and recombined with older and newer tools. Capitalism is still here, history is still over. Everyone calm down and go back to your meals.

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Reports of the death of neoliberalism are greatly exaggerated

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Company town instagram goes crazy

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Nationalize or abolish time, the eternal left wing conflict

Jean-Luc Mélenchon

@JLMelenchon

2 years

Le modèle économique que nous défendons cherche à accorder les rythmes de la production et de la nature. Nous allons nationaliser le temps, matière première invisible. Cette nationalisation, c'est ce qu'on appelle la planification écologique. #MelenchonToulouse

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