Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com

sentiment and ressentiment.

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actually i am very feckful.

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careful what you wish for…

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Would you like an extra hour of content?

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we are all the victims of our dinners.

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the best time to even further alienate your allies is when you are in the middle of a war.

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wait, so we were the victims in the Greenland thing?

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if we’re gonna be perfectionist, i’m afraid we’ll be back to square one.

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what if we escalated to the *26th* amendment?

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😢

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"we would be better off if we had an actual race to the top rather than our current race to the bottom." @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com // the headline is a bit unfortunate, bc it suggests hostility and perhaps military risk in the competition i hope we avoid. we should agree to a race to the top!

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Steve Randy Waldman
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you knew they were taking us into the dark ages, but this is pretty literal.

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ha!

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i wish we called straits narrows. it sounds cooler.

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Yes. Quite.

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that sounds like the tag line to a horror movie.

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i think god owes me reparations for all the people who have died.

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I hope that's right!

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look, you have to give the Trump administration props for efficiency. it took a years before Bush administration's adventure was universally recognized as a catastrophic debacle. this administration managed to achieve that in a matter of weeks. mission accomplished!

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I think it's a great point that what you might call the divide-and-conquer strategy towards labor of the neoliberal period, where a professional class is persuaded to identify with capital and break solidarity, is changing, as the trends seem now to increasingly proletarianize professionals. 1/

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But I think that's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it does indicate an alignment of interest. On the other hand, it's in the context of getting crushed, and a game of musical chairs, where people try to cling to fewer more privileged positions. 2/

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Objectively, these modern professions have to be more cohesive and work harder to disrupt production than traditional factories, where long linear production chains meant a relatively small number of people could cause outsize stoppages. 3/

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Nevertheless it's worth working at, and we've seen teachers and nurses have some remarkable successes! /fin

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