from “Exit Right” by @gabrielwinant.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

is the end of an end a new beginning? why doesn’t it feel that way?

Department of Government Efficiency in action!

makes sense if the business model is milking the state. Tesla was once genuinely a market leader in EVs, but it’s not anymore. it will rely on tailored protection that excludes superior rivals from US + perhaps European markets but tolerates whatever degree its own supply chain will remain Chinese.

yeah, there were lots of indicators of monopoly and predation behind corporate profits, even though the Biden Administration was doing its best to put a dent in it. i’m sure the last few days’ euphoria is looking forward to an economy that works for all.

did i miss it? sorry i failed to cite it if i should’ve!

touting a record stock market as an indicator of Biden’s great economy seems kind of dumb now, doesn’t it?

alignments and outcomes: working class + professional class ⇒ social democracy professional class + plutocrats ⇒ liberal plutocracy (“neoliberalism”) working class + plutocrats ⇒ fascism (this is an old thing i periodically repost,)

management of the US dollar is now in the hands of… the people who’ve been buying a ton of bitcoin in a bet on the imminent death of the US dollar.

the resolution to the debate about “deliverism” is it only works if what gets delivered is substantial, material results prior to the election. if what’s delivered is just the legislation, mb some change that will eventually bear fruit but takes time, opponents gin up cynicism and fear no problem.

i’m not quite sure but i’m pretty sure this is really Barry Cynamon, one of the most amazing people, now on BlueSky. @cynamon.bsky.social

hi.

if you are blaming “we” or “the electorate” or “the American people”, you are not doing anything useful.

i am so terrified and heartbroken i am almost catatonic. but the future is not yet written. the worst outcomes are far from certain. we still, all and each, have our parts to play in writing this story.

all things to everyone, it turns out, is no things to anyone.

do people do event studies of heart attack rates around elections?

suddenly everybody is on-board with american carnage.

not just reproductive rights. paid sick leave, minimum wage increases, slapping down “school choice” — all by ballot initiative in red states while they also vote for right-wing tough guys. see Pavlina Tcherneva (in the bad place, sorry) x.com/ptcherneva/s...