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