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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought

@highestmarx.bsky.social

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Political theorist and anonymous adjunct, planting seeds beneath the snow.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · Jan 28

Our biggest problems as a country are all downstream of our failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 11h

I dunno about that, has anyone gone to work on that profile pic?

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 11h

All Cops Are Bastards

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

A 50yo black man was having a stroke, and police officers in Eagan - including ones who are *specially trained* to spot strokes - threw him in a jail cell for hours. He suffered a massive brain bleed, causing his brain to *squeeze out through the bottom of his skull*.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 14h

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 18h

Trump is best understood in the context of American fascism (Jim Crow, the Klan, etc.) but this right here is very Hitler-coded.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 23h

Hard yes

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that I forgot the word “dad” is driving me crazy

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

He looks like the world’s most divorced watching his kid’s soccer game from just outside the range of the restraining order

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

The Passion of the Christ II: You Only Live Twice

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

This is a journey

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News is proud to present Civil Rights Roundtable, with Lee Atwater, Strom Thurmond, and an AI avatar of Ben Tillman

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Bari is finally going to give CBS’s audience of nursing homes and shut-ins what it wants.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Ok well good luck being an unpleasant crank. This is a pretty good site for it.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to follow another person’s delusions. Your writing doesn’t help either.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes. You’re on a lethally high dose of cope if you think Joe Biden was going to beat Donald Trump last year. You sound like a “Bernie would have won” guy in 2017.

We all have maladaptive coping mechanisms for dealing with the ongoing catastrophe but this one is no good.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Who gives a fuck what those creepy weirdos think?

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

So you think Biden was gonna turn it all around in August? Were you conscious in 2024? Also, what exogenous event occurred earlier this year might explain the outcome of Canada’s elections?

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Is your claim that Sulzberger was committed to putting Harris in the White House and was using Bernie Bros to do so? Can you smell toast right now?

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Biden would have lost by 10 points and Trump would have won states that haven’t gone Republican in decades. He would have won a genuine mandate for authoritarianism.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I see/read something like this I cope by thinking about mass tribunals and gallows erected in silent prison yards and that’s not psychologically healthy at all

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

I teach at an urban public university and I spent years tutoring wealthy private school kids and yes this is happening and it’s very very bad

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

This is the median Republican personality type: The world exists for me alone and if any people or policies disrupt this belief I yell and yell until someone else punishes them for me.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

I think of my grandparents’ generation during the Depression and how so many of them became lifelong Democrats because they learned a lesson right down to their bones about the danger of the Republican Party

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

Buddy there’s several entire states that should depopulated and either rewilded or returned to indigenous sovereignty

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 1d

*raises hand* I think we all deserve a little suffering. Lincoln was right. The judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1d

"Everything happens as if Mao or Franco had already died several times and had been replaced by his double."
- Simulacra and Simulation

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