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@m_s_nelson
me watching all that’s solid melt into air: haha fuck yeah! yes!
me facing with sober senses my real conditions of life: well this fucking sucks! what the fuck
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this isn’t merely a global pandemic, it is a legitimation crisis for the bourgeois state. the door is cracked open, let’s kick it the fuck in
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i wonder if nyc is going to regret the closing of st vincent’s hospital to make way for luxury condominiums, st elizabeth’s for coops, cabrini hospital for luxury apartments, columbus for apartments, doctors hospital for coops, french hospital for apartments, gotham hospital for
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america is haunted by the inability to recognize, let alone reckon with, the incontrovertible fact that the relatively-broad prosperity of 1948-1973 was in fact a historical aberration and no set of economic or social policies will ever bring it back
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the public meltdown over american workers having the opportunity/willingness to push back even slightly over wages/conditions shows just how accustomed the ruling class has gotten over the last 40 years to having an utterly abject and pliable workforce
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nobody talks about how the united states postal service is only unionized bc rank and file workers organized the largest wildcat strike in american history and brought the nixon administration to its knees
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the american petit bourgeoisie might be the most retrograde class formation in world history
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good thing biden put those rail workers complaining over safety in their place a couple months ago, there might have been a dangerous disruption to our rail system
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welcome to biden’s america
Cops bring assault rifles to evict the homeless off of Venice Beach
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capital is dragging us kicking and screaming back into the 19th century
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since pete’s dad is a confirmed marxist this whole quest of his to defeat the old socialist guy is really very oedipal
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and just like that it’s 2003 again
Stay out of major cities. There’s going to be massive terrorist attacks in big cities over these next 14 months.
We have been infiltrated. Our borders are open & the push to create a global Islamic caliphate has been activated.
You don’t want to be in major cities. Stay away.
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one thing we didn’t anticipate about the collapse of civilization is how tedious, lifeless and boring it is
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biden’s transition team and probable cabinet are shaping up to include some of the most blood-drenched corporate ghouls in history, but hey good on you for voting out fascism or whatever
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form a union to, among other things, save yourself from this kind of coworker
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the big 1980s trope about the USSR was that the economy was basically fake. all the false optimism hid a deep dysfunction and terminal decline
USA today is the same: soaring markets alongside zombie corps, hidden jobless, crumbling infrastructure
failing economy, failed state
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there are thousands of these being produced every day - little politicians, little priests, little bosses - who will apply this same energy to convincing you that staying late or working on saturday means you're part of the team
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control-f ‘wages’
control-f ‘compensation’
control-f ‘benefits’
control-f ‘conditions’
‘no results found’
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you: we should ally with cops over our mutual self-interest because after all they are workers too
cops:
Police attacking striking firefighters in France, who are out on strike over the same issues police were demonstrating over two weeks ago.
#pompiers
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the stupidest shit about american politics is the tendency to make every issue - from the economy to jeffrey epstein - a democrat vs republican thing
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30,000 union steelworkers are less than 24 hours from a massive potential strike, but americans are obsessing about 1000 truckers in ottawa
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what’s shocking is not that china has overtaken the united states in male life expectancy (rising power, declining power etc) but that it achieved this bc america has abandoned its working class to disease and deaths of despair in such a statistically significant manner
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the last 24 hours really confirmed it again: communists are the adults in the room
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the less you know about finance the more you understand how absurd it is
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everyone knows that lucifer is a fallen angel, but few recognize that the grinch is a fallen santa
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workers across the world fought at centuries-long struggle against the imposition of piece work bc of its atomizing and precarious nature. not only has the hourly wage been degraded, now thanks to tech we can celebrate the internalized discipline of self-directed exploitation
Sam Lyon made over $8,000 in one month after delivering for Uber Eats for 12 hours per day, every day, for a month. Watch this video to see a full breakdown of his expenses. (in partnership with
@acorns
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#investinyou
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the next 24 hours are just going to be a sea of crab dances and african pallbearers and we will feel closer to each other than we have in months
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i'm honestly surprised how quickly and seamlessly we coasted right into dystopia
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ugh just found out on top of everything else he’s a gusano
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as usual the working class - their conditions, their travails, their domination by capital - is only trotted out when it can be used to score cheap political points
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the recent past makes so much more sense when you realize that we're 12.5 years into an economic depression
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not sure who needs the hear this, but the reason why the ruling class doesn’t care if tens of millions get their homes foreclosed upon is because private equity and real estate investment trusts are just itching to buy them up for a song then rent them out at double the price
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the US reaching 1980s USSR levels of embolic gerontocracy
U.S. Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell froze and appeared unwell while speaking at a press conference
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political economy turned demonology
What happened?
#BlackRock
and
#Vanguard
happened.
They buy all the houses in entire neighborhoods and leave them empty.
Soon after local businesses go out of business and either move elsewhere or close shop.
No shops, the people end up moving where the shops are.
This is
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john deere workers threw a second tentative agreement back in the company’s face and all i see is doom and gloom on the TL about the democrats come on man
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not sure who needs to hear this but the woke/antiwoke culture war is just a battle between two factions of middle class intellectuals trying to do what middle class intellectuals have done throughout history: lay claim to moral leadership over the ignorant benighted working class
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trump will have this unpaid army of alt-light trolls skilled at mashing up weird funny ads like this owning dems, while biden will have 7 figure nepotistic PR teams made of the failsons of DC royalty crapping out poll-tested, anodyne, bloodless dreck... it's gonna be a massacre
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most dudes through history were not ebic knights, sir, they were dirt farmers, some fished
@mrice97
Men like this used to lead legions into battle. Now he sits in traffic, on the way to the same cubicle every day. Where he will listen to some HR harpy lecture him on how he is the problem, while he watches as his society slowly decays. He may have brief moments of happiness with
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i’m just old enough to remember getting called a fascist sympathizer for predicting just this in the hysteria after 1/6 🤡
Joe Biden’s new anti-terrorism initiative classifies “anarchist violent extremists” that “oppose all forms of capitalism, corporate globalization, and governing institutions, which are perceived as harmful to society” as “domestic violent extremists.”
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impressive propaganda feats of 2019
-internationalism is anti-semitism
-socialism is misogyny
-coups in latin america are good, actually
-russia/ukraine etc
-principles are purity tests
-antifa are the real fascists
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apropos of nothing: in the depths of the great depression, when farmers all over america were being foreclosed upon and faced with eviction, they would grab their guns and surround the courthouses en mass to shut down eviction courts and, what do you know, it often did the trick
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america is perpetually haunted by two historical archetypes: the fordist factory worker and the yeoman farmer. each has been overcome by historical development, but live on as political/cultural signifiers even when the conditions that created them are gone and never coming back
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elon musk seems like a financial genius because he’s ridden several waves of fintech speculation, monopolization and extreme gov’t asset-price support over the last 20 years. his twitter deal is so laughably bad that MBA profs will be using it as a cautionary tale for years after
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redditors trolling melvin capital to protect game stop leading to a cascade that heralds the socialization of finance is a plot point put of some unwritten leninist cyberpunk novel and i’m here for it
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@robbystarbuck
i’m not even a practicing catholic and can tell you francis’s doctrine is in line with catholic social teaching that goes back to Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum of 1891 and affirmed by all popes since you dipshit, you absolute rube
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disappointed to find that many commenters think that a european cathedral built from 13th-19th cent in the HRE would have been built directly by slaves. that’s a severe misunderstanding of the feudal class structure and a fundamentally americanized reading of world history
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this is like a parody of a newscast you'd see in some dystopian flick like v for vendetta wow
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and this year's Hero of Proletarian Labor medal goes to...
MTA worker caught having sex at railyard — while collecting overtime
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in 2015 my union international, w absolutely NO input from the rank & file or even local leadership, endorsed hillary clinton THE DAY she announced she was running!
anyone who thinks criticizing the culinary union’s leadership on policy is ‘viciously attacking’ workers is nuts
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we're in such a dumb desperate moment it would somehow be fitting for americans to rediscover the power of industrial action by way of some basketball millionaires
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the MAGA mov't had, until today, always ran up against an internal barrier to its activity which was its veneration of law enforcement and the flag. this is not a coup or a revolution, but it is the populist right overflowing the ideological bounds that it set for itself
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america makes the coolest cranks man. i for one support hamster wheel across the atlantic dude, i celebrate his zany enterprise
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this unique period becomes the benchmark for normative social structure, gender roles, household composition, cultural production, industrial relations, & even what liberatory social movements are supposed to look like even tho this era was vanishingly small in US/world history
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motherfucking piece of shit fuck you
The far left roasted Biden for not getting rail workers sick days in initial negotiations when the national supply chain was on the line.
But long after the far left stopped caring because it was no longer trending, Biden was still working, and in the end he won for workers.
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looting, arson and property destruction are things that fed up people have done since the dawn of time and it's kinda silly to see so many people losing their heads over it
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please please please eliminate my union plan and replace it with socialized healthcare! one less thing my union has to bargain and if construct slows down i wouldn’t have to worry about losing it.
don’t use rank and file union workers as pawns, you rat-faced sociopathic bastard!
There are 14 million union workers in America who have fought hard for strong, employer-provided health benefits. Medicare for All Who Want It protects their plans and union members' freedom to choose the coverage that's best for them.
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evil project manager vibe
This morning I’m in East Palestine, Ohio, to see the site of the Norfolk Southern derailment, hear updates from investigators, and meet first responders. USDOT will continue its work to ensure safety and accountability.
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turns out you can only treat the working people of the united states as human capital stock for so long before they're compelled to assert their humanity by any means necessary
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dune is a movie about how brutalism will be vindicated in give or take 10,000 years
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i held my tongue a couple days ago bc i’m a mature adult, but people really gotta be realistic about change through the ballot box.. a few progressives winning their primaries in a collapsing country is less than useless if it keeps the fiction of electoral change alive
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when workers were organizing and fighting for a better life in the 19th century most of them came right off the farm & knew how fucked up wage labor was. now capital is trying to undo all the gains of the 20th century and people don't fight because they think this life is normal
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the three biggest shipping companies own 80% of the world’s container freight and consolidation led them to shed 13% of their capacity in 2020. meanwhile, shipping rates have quadrupled. hapag-lloyd, for one, expects profits to rise between 815% to 1025% over last year’s levels
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people asking 'where is the labor movement right now!?' when the united states hasn't had a labor movement in at least 40 years
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as someone who works in construction i’m gonna to be thinking about the choices made here for a long time
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nytimes comment section is fascinating to watch right now
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primitive posters are still out there, marker in hand, the trailblazers who made this all possible
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*dodging $3k baby strollers to get on line for $28 single-origin wheatgrass at the park slope coop* this is just like kandahar, to me
Checked out Brooklyn, felt more unsafe than afghanistan by a mile
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@CBSNews
wow cool we all have *access* to space now just like we all have *access* to lamborghinis, luxury yachts and, ya know, health care
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each of those structures had a material base that simply can’t/won’t return: US capitalist hegemony and global rates of profit necessary to sustain that entire social world. arguing for a return to, say, the single-breadwinner family today cannot be anything but cynical moralism
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i can be pretty hardhearted sometimes but shit like this makes me wanna cry
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it turns out when you abuse and flagrantly underpay your factory employees you get what you pay for in the end
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it’s obvious now, just several hours later, that this whole spectacle will be recuperated back into partisan american politics with no reflection on the context of it - this acute and ongoing crisis - or the momentous social forces at work tearing this dumb country apart
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historian here, the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.
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in reality, the american working class fought hard but was defeated by a five decade frontal assault from capital. to turn this into a conflict between middle class managers and union-hating workers is not just bad history, it’s deeply conservative and opportunistic
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watching the UK left getting completely blackpilled on electoralism in real time
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god who gives a shit
Trotskyism is Leninism.
Stalinism is Revisionism.
Periodt.
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after the covid crisis you will either be lucky enough to be one of these absolute demons or you will be the unlucky person who bicycles around 18 hours a day to bring them their duck confit by grubhub
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how about the time evo morales' plane was forced down over spain on the way back to bolivia bc obama thought he was spiriting edward snowden away in the luggage compartment and it should have been an international incident but nobody cared because of US hegemony
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gullible bitcoin boosters will insist that crypto has all the properties of commodity money - indeed that it can replace the dollar, euro, renminbi et al - and then turn around and treat it exactly like a speculative asset lol
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the two sides will debate over vaccinations and mandates etc but in the end, in america, it will always redound back to the individual, as intended. this is a country where there’s no common purpose or sense of common good or any meaningful help ever on the way. sick society
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the ‘calling it unskilled labor is classist’ argument pretends to offer dignity for low wage workers but evades understanding of the in-built tendency towards the deskilling and degradation of work within the class relation
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the hardcore preppers are nuts not because they think civilization is breaking down but because they think individuals can do anything to protect themselves from it
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*stares in US railworker*
BREAKING 🚨 | The Biden administration have condemned the UK government's anti-strike laws.
US labour secretary Marty Walsh said "I would not support anything that would take away from workers".
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the phrase 'shop at walmart' really punctuates how people like this have an understanding of class that is largely based on cultural signifiers and consumption choices
Why would any hyper educated lefty care about rhetoric that resonates with people who shop at Walmart? For the prep school left, politics is a fashion statement, a way of showing off exquisite tastes and subcultural knowledge.
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impossible without revolutionized social relations of production, common techno-fetishist L
Some say it’s a mere myth but I think Rome was really close to an Industrial Revolution when it fell
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the american far right has managed to craft for itself a comprehensive and totalizing worldview, complete with its own historiography, political theory, and even, with qanon, its own cosmology. it may be paranoid and deluded, but its internally coherent in its own dumb way
I wonder if BLM knows Antifa was allied with Hitler and helped him come to power. It feels as if that would be a source of tension, given BLM's focus on history. Does Antifa owe reparations to anyone who lost a family member or property to Nazi Germany?
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human trafficking simps, marxist bodybuilding, epic cannonball runs, collapsing commercial real estate market, M4A as a lifestyle choice.. what an amazing day to be online
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financial times comments section is a very interesting place to trawl during a banking crisis
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breaking up a picket line in the bronx... the police cannot be reformed
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apprenticeship/interning is like grooming but for wage labor
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stop with the ‘Das Kapital’. just be normal and call it Capital
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