“Kamala Fell to the Same Cabal That Destroyed University Presidents” by Moe Tkacik prospect.org/power/2024-1... ht @ddayen.bsky.social
Kamala Fell to the Same Cabal That Destroyed University Presidents
Link Preview: Kamala Fell to the Same Cabal That Destroyed University Presidents: The billionaire class used the Gaza siege to purge leftists, and even left populism. Caught up in the wake were the cautious elites.
enter, withdraw. enter, withdraw. Paris Agreement is for lovers.
don’t forget @tomashirstecon.bsky.social!
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hi.
“The Party Should Throw Them a Party” by @resnikoff.bsky.social resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/the-party-... // excellent on the need for thick ties between real-life humans to build coalitions and realities resilient to a captured, fickle parasocial online
The Party Should Throw Them a Party
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when history is on the march, run.
i think it may look more like, hey, of course we love you, but you were never more than visitors here. we just cleared out some nice beachfront real estate in your true homeland. don’t you think you wouldn’t be happier there? we’ll increasingly insist you would be happier there.
both of these groups may find themselves disappointed, Arab Americans for what will happen imminently in Israel/Palestine, right-leaning Jews for what happens in the United States. these people take a whole lot for granted, people obsessed with their Judaism who’ve learned nothing from history.
i mean it could be a great consolation prize if the revenue model is to get acquired by people more than happy to run it at a loss… are we relying on principled resistance to that?
the more bluesky “wins” in terms of engendering an exodus from Twitter, the more it will become a target of capture by a political movement whose modus operandi includes capturing the media. how technically resilient is or isn’t bluesky to that? time is of the essence now.
Abnormal Returns, old-school finance blogger and link blogger is here! @abnormalreturns.bsky.social
democracy, whatever.
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In any case, China seems the senior partner in that relationship, so even if their current “no limits” partnership holds, if European countries are China-allied, it seems unlikely Russia would risk something, um, bold.
one path by which this event may mark the end of the American century is that whatever vestiges of a soft power / aspirational advantage the United States still had over China is lost. 1/
if the indispensable nation is going to be a venal autocracy anyway, China may seem a lot more attractive than the United States. alliances and inclinations of the US’ erstwhile foreign partners may quickly reconfigure themselves to that. /fin
thanks!
is there a way to download archives of one’s BlueSky posts?
“We're still the same country that we were on Monday. We just have changed our form of government.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/D7cKOaBdFWo
Jon Stewart on Trump’s Win and What’s Next w/ Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show
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i feel like some random kidney cell still kidneying in the body of a thing that just blew its own head off.
The title of the Frank opinion piece is terrible — sabotage, I think, by editors at the Times. The piece literally does not use the word “elite”, not once, beyond the title that they slapped on it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/o...
Opinion | The Elites Had It Coming
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I gotta say, the exuberant dunking of the piece crowding my timeline reinforces rather than challenges the thesis. The timeline doth protest too much. 2/
Why is it so painful to wonder if Democrats’ repeated choice to downplay New-Deal-style liberalism and run on a business-friendly optimistic centrism may have played a role in Harris’ loss (and Clinton’s)? 3/
(The tragedy, of course, is that the Biden-Harris Administration *governed* in the tradition of New-Deal-style liberalism. But they were shy about touting business-controversial achievements like successful antitrust suits. They did the actual work, but preferred to talk about other things.) /fin
from Thomas Frank www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/o... (the piece is badly titled.)
Text: Liberals had nine years to decipher Mr. Trump's appeal - and they failed. The Democrats are a party of college graduates, as the whole world understands by now, of Ph.D.s and genius-grant winners and the best consultants money can buy. Mr. Trump is a con man straight out of Mark Twain; he will say anything, promise anything, do nothing. But his movement baffled the party of education and innovation. Their most brilliant minds couldn't figure him out.