if we are going to have to prioritize systemic reforms, i'd go after the rich who are buying up elections, news outlets, information dissemination systems, and other critical infrastucture, rather than politically marginalized people in the country.
yeah, i'm not sure you'd be allowed to vote in this new voting system that is being proposed
are median voters the problem or are they a symptom of a larger problem that will not be solved by disenfranchising them?
yep. it's a way of never facing up to the fact that their own ideas don't withstand much scrutiny
we should be playing hardball with them, because that is what they are already doing
not saying this is going to be easy. but that should be the stated goal. it is not hard to identify prosecutable crimes that these people have committed
the answer: throw them in jail and either nationalize or split up their companies
this is a really good piece of reporting: www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
my information consumption is now 1/4 pornhub, 1/4 the homeless guy's rants on the subway, 1/4 talking to an early 2000s AIM chatbot, and 1/4 fortune cookies. the opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.
just accept that nothing makes sense
is this an inflection point? maybe? i don't know. you don't know. what i do know is you've been declaring inflection points on a weekly basis for over a year now, so...
i don't know man, people on this site maybe need to stop predicting inflection points, because you are pretty bad at it
i meet a lot of leftists whose vision of the world has been completely atrophied by the fact that they only ever engage with the *critiques* of ideas rather than the ideas themselves that they are supposedly critical of
I'm sure a lot of people are under a lot of pressure right now, but a global head of commodities research should be aware of the concept of chokepoints.
We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.
just wait until [literally any month between birth and 5 years of age]
everyone has completely lost sight of the fact that offsides is meant to take away an offensive advantage (of being ahead of the last defender). when your toe is a milimeter over the theoretical line, there is NO actual advantage there...
wrexham play damn well. a joy to watch
so my question is, if "decolonization of the ear" precedes "political decolonization" (as denning argues) then what political transformation happened in the mediterranean as a result of this new social reality that was taking shape. the obvious candidate is greek democracy and roman republicanism.
this also got combined with a new mass communication technology (alphabetic writing).
but also in the spread of near eastern religions and their transformations in different parts (so much of greek mythology is the result of adoption and reshaping near east myths, and that greek mythology then spreads further westward)
this is evident what is known as the "orientalizing period", where artistic styles from the near east get adopted and reinterpreted around the entire mediterranean.
applying this to the iron age: the circulation of people through the greek and phoenician trading ports around the mediterranean -- along with the gravitational pull that brought people from the countryside to the ports -- created a mixing of cultures and people.
the combination of these dynamics with the advent of a new mass communication technology (the gramophone) created a new social configuation (the "popular" implied in "popular music").
this produced new social, cultural and political realities due to the scrambling of identities at these ports as new people came into contact with other new people all in a new space (within the logic of capitalism).
part of denning's argument is that the circulation of people through the global port cities (nodes) as a result of late 19th and early 20th century empirial spheres (along with the the gravitational pull that brought people from the countryside to the ports) created a particular type of melting pot.
been trying to apply michael denning's theories from "noise uprising" to the iron age. here's what i got:
for an absolutely sickening example of horseshoe theory, look no further than Food Not Bomb's main website, where one of the co-founders has a link to a substack he wrote entitled: A CABAL OF SATANIC ZIONIST CHILD-RAPING CANNIBALS ARE SENDING US TO WAR
and i believe that you should be strategizing towards that goal and trying to construct *new* realities rather than resigning yourself to the existing ideology and hoping to simply redress harms within the confines of its conceptual framework.
i, on the other hand, believe that aspiring towards a universalist future that transcends the concept of race can be a motivating factor for seeking to dismantle the current white supremacist ideology and redress the racist harms that have been inflicted on society over the past half millennia.
