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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3h

“dilemmata”

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17h

"businesses just exist to make money for owners" was cynical, but perhaps partly true. When openly endorsed by capitalists, it made everything worse!

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17h

it's all tik toks, fleeting images without any time-sense and thus no causality, no stable personhood...

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 17h

"Selbstverwicklungideologie" was born from radical individualism and came to legitimate consumerism

(Kondylis 1990)

(imo this form of individualism is the wrong politics for the moment)

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think there are any “conservatives” left, not even old bourgeois (uptight). GOP is more “cruelty clowns,” don’t really bother with ideological or even rhetorical justification it’s just violence

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3d

holy

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3d

“foreign policy is lower priority” was true in the past few decades because no one did anything as voter-hostile and anti-human as Biden

It’ll definitely be an issue if we have presidential primaries again

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3d

she admitted as much afterwards. And she called out Biden for supporting netenyahu while netenyahu was pulling strings for Trump

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 3d

we need to roll up our sleeves and work. Playing armchair quarterback to democrats when you don’t trust their ability to politic is contradictory.

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 4d

like once someone pointed it out I was like :o

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 4d

the way he tucks his neck into his shirt is still so wild to me.

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 4d

most "leftists" are just entitled consumers who twist socialist language, kinda fits they're not excited about the work/education/technological progress side of communism.

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 4d

“You’re in fuckin New York, and you don’t fuckin bully people here … little bitch!”

people like stridency and zeal, tepidly rolling over undermines authority while accomplishing nothing—people hate "woke" because of the munchausen left (which accomplishes nothing by insisting on ridiculous rules).

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

one drink in I become bisexual two drinks I start getting attracted gay men but drop the bisexuality (?)

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

y'all can't keep trotting out the "liberalism leads to fascism line" like... the Frankenstein corpse of the USSR is not exactly impressive

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think Trump has much of anything in common with the “conservatives” of the 20th century in terms of content.

He took the GOP voting coalition in 2020 but “this was an inevitable result of capitalism” is just dumb

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

That's just consumerism. America is already consumerist!

And it has its downsides, e.g. ostentation.

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

the "AI is a bubble" people insist it's always going to be laughable => they blind people to propaganda botnets.

Bots are incredibly persuasive because they can adopt the user's language/worldview!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 5d

AI botnets get funding for propaganda and advertising, I don't know the math-y side well enough to know whether something reliable will fall out of all the money being thrown at it.

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

how does that compare to giving it to others with similar incomes? Why artists specifically?

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

must be weird to be a homophobic straight person in the GOP these days lol

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

much more so than class today, hence lgbt vote split is pretty stark.

The fact that such stark insincerity is allowed seems like a separate development (20 years ago Condoleezza Rice was part of the republicans but she wasn’t out)

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

people in general are less earnest/sincere but yeah 15 years ago you couldn’t be homophobic and openly gay it’s wild

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maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

Trump is the first person in history stupid enough to tariff inputs though, right? Is there any scholarship that addresses this situation?

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 6d

I mean yeah, they're worse people. Why would you give a handout to the people who voted for Hitler at the expense of people who voted against him