sentiment and ressentiment.
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the best time to even further alienate your allies is when you are in the middle of a war.
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.
"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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you knew they were taking us into the dark ages, but this is pretty literal.
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i think god owes me reparations for all the people who have died.
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!
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/
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/
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/