Marble Liberal
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Marble Liberal
@marbleliberal.bsky.social
· Aug 26
I just want a partner who's a little monk who knows who Isaiah Berlin is, DMs open
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people are complicated and stupid.
so, if I’m understanding this correctly, the 4chan weirdos behind gamergate were sexist freaks but at the same time, one of the main targets of their harassment is… also a racist freak?
February 16, 2026 at 3:12 AM
people are complicated and stupid.
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she's accusing people objecting to her not living in the constituency until recently of being biased against her because she's Palestinian. these are very different things!
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 AM
she's accusing people objecting to her not living in the constituency until recently of being biased against her because she's Palestinian. these are very different things!
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It suggests to me that you don’t take bigotry serious if you don’t the intellectual honesty to hold back from spurious but personally advantageous accusations.
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
It suggests to me that you don’t take bigotry serious if you don’t the intellectual honesty to hold back from spurious but personally advantageous accusations.
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I don’t want to vote for someone who was a republican in 2016.
February 16, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I don’t want to vote for someone who was a republican in 2016.
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She has Sinema/Fetterman energy I am calling it.
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
She has Sinema/Fetterman energy I am calling it.
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“Texan is code for Palestinian” no it isn’t
February 16, 2026 at 3:03 AM
“Texan is code for Palestinian” no it isn’t
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but it's silly to accuse people of bigotry over this. just silly.
February 16, 2026 at 2:59 AM
but it's silly to accuse people of bigotry over this. just silly.
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Ask me sometime about Berlin queer spaces. They're extremely like this; people treat me like a maven because I occasionally read the news and can say a few sentences about the latest austerity program.
February 16, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Ask me sometime about Berlin queer spaces. They're extremely like this; people treat me like a maven because I occasionally read the news and can say a few sentences about the latest austerity program.
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The key to understanding these people is to stop thinking of their statements as representing ideas they've had about political issues and start thinking of them as displays of tribal affiliation and status in an anthropological sense.
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
The key to understanding these people is to stop thinking of their statements as representing ideas they've had about political issues and start thinking of them as displays of tribal affiliation and status in an anthropological sense.
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they're not actually high engagement *with the politics*, they're high engagement with very limited and highly stupid online social circles.
I remain perplexed by high engagement, low information voters
You know how the House Democrats are _that_ close to requiring ICE to follow the CONSTITUTION in getting judicial warrants for entering homes, but it's controversial? Let's both hope that Biss discovers a previously-unknown appetite for defying those holding his leash on that vote!
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
they're not actually high engagement *with the politics*, they're high engagement with very limited and highly stupid online social circles.
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The mongol empire was a multicultural economic zone.
Every war the Holy Roman Empire fought was for a multicultural economic zone, and they ripped
@balthusknot.bsky.social
@balthusknot.bsky.social
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The mongol empire was a multicultural economic zone.
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The USSR was definitionally a multicultural economic zone.
Every war the Holy Roman Empire fought was for a multicultural economic zone, and they ripped
@balthusknot.bsky.social
@balthusknot.bsky.social
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 16, 2026 at 1:17 AM
The USSR was definitionally a multicultural economic zone.
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A white person centering themselves on immigration issues during ICE's full assault on anyone brown is gross enough, but comparing the criticism of "carpetbagger" to the immigrant experience is just....whew... disgusting.
February 16, 2026 at 12:06 AM
A white person centering themselves on immigration issues during ICE's full assault on anyone brown is gross enough, but comparing the criticism of "carpetbagger" to the immigrant experience is just....whew... disgusting.
Every war the Holy Roman Empire fought was for a multicultural economic zone, and they ripped
@balthusknot.bsky.social
@balthusknot.bsky.social
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Every war the Holy Roman Empire fought was for a multicultural economic zone, and they ripped
@balthusknot.bsky.social
@balthusknot.bsky.social
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I again emphasize that you can't separate Erika Kirk from pageant culture
February 16, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I again emphasize that you can't separate Erika Kirk from pageant culture
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Discovered that Douglas MacArthur was apparently known as the "Fighting Dude" during the First World War due to his dandyism (Dude was an American term for Dandy)
March 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Discovered that Douglas MacArthur was apparently known as the "Fighting Dude" during the First World War due to his dandyism (Dude was an American term for Dandy)
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great news: everything that had a perceptible price jump - and this is a lot of shit actually, I paid double what it should have cost to get an a/c unit put in to my upstairs unit - is because of tariffs
February 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
great news: everything that had a perceptible price jump - and this is a lot of shit actually, I paid double what it should have cost to get an a/c unit put in to my upstairs unit - is because of tariffs
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This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
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Again, a key problem is that we've turned "working class" from a quantifiable term to an abstract one.
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
February 15, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Again, a key problem is that we've turned "working class" from a quantifiable term to an abstract one.
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
It now better means "jobs I personally think are worthwhile" rather than an income or education range.
So we have people now who think 6 figure salaries after taxes are "working class".
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And the fact that the median salary of our media is in the upper-middle class plays a lot to do with it.
THEY were struggling (because they were above the income threshold for much of the relief), they then used their sizeable voices to tell people that it was the "working class" struggling.
THEY were struggling (because they were above the income threshold for much of the relief), they then used their sizeable voices to tell people that it was the "working class" struggling.
February 15, 2026 at 9:26 PM
And the fact that the median salary of our media is in the upper-middle class plays a lot to do with it.
THEY were struggling (because they were above the income threshold for much of the relief), they then used their sizeable voices to tell people that it was the "working class" struggling.
THEY were struggling (because they were above the income threshold for much of the relief), they then used their sizeable voices to tell people that it was the "working class" struggling.
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This, too, is Gender.
If you’re a man who makes six figures but gets dirty while doing it you’re Authentically Working Class, but if you’re a woman who’s a teacher’s aide making below median wage you’re somehow An Elite.
If you’re a man who makes six figures but gets dirty while doing it you’re Authentically Working Class, but if you’re a woman who’s a teacher’s aide making below median wage you’re somehow An Elite.
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This, too, is Gender.
If you’re a man who makes six figures but gets dirty while doing it you’re Authentically Working Class, but if you’re a woman who’s a teacher’s aide making below median wage you’re somehow An Elite.
If you’re a man who makes six figures but gets dirty while doing it you’re Authentically Working Class, but if you’re a woman who’s a teacher’s aide making below median wage you’re somehow An Elite.
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Once again at that stage in the forever primary where too online Democrats looking at populism and say "sure it's intrinsically radioactive to the truth but I'm Built Different and a Good Person so it will be Fine"
But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.
February 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Once again at that stage in the forever primary where too online Democrats looking at populism and say "sure it's intrinsically radioactive to the truth but I'm Built Different and a Good Person so it will be Fine"
The metaphor is metallurgical: we are an alloy made up of all peoples
btw, the "melting pot" was literal
there was an early 20th century theater show format where performers would exhibit ethnic costumes and dances, climb into a pot, and emerge as Americans
(this filmed version was obviously unusually lavish)
there was an early 20th century theater show format where performers would exhibit ethnic costumes and dances, climb into a pot, and emerge as Americans
(this filmed version was obviously unusually lavish)
February 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM
The metaphor is metallurgical: we are an alloy made up of all peoples
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Seeing a lot of comments about this being a tragic accident, we should feel bad for this elderly woman etc.
If you drive 70 mph in a residential area, you're an asshole.
If you kill 4 people as a consequence of being an asshole, you should go to jail and definitely never be allowed to drive again
If you drive 70 mph in a residential area, you're an asshole.
If you kill 4 people as a consequence of being an asshole, you should go to jail and definitely never be allowed to drive again
Call me a carceral urbanist but I think that you should have to go to jail if you kill an entire family with your car.
Further, we should hold elderly drivers in particular responsible for the their actions because we need to create a deterrence effect to encourage people to stop driving.
Further, we should hold elderly drivers in particular responsible for the their actions because we need to create a deterrence effect to encourage people to stop driving.
The woman prosecutors said killed a family of four after ramming into a bus stop with her car in San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood will avoid jail time after changing her plea in court.
February 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Seeing a lot of comments about this being a tragic accident, we should feel bad for this elderly woman etc.
If you drive 70 mph in a residential area, you're an asshole.
If you kill 4 people as a consequence of being an asshole, you should go to jail and definitely never be allowed to drive again
If you drive 70 mph in a residential area, you're an asshole.
If you kill 4 people as a consequence of being an asshole, you should go to jail and definitely never be allowed to drive again
They're the guys Marx is describing in 18th brumaire of Louis Napoleon, they yearn for a Hitler
I do think that the fact that the stars of the online “left” are all definitionally self-employed small-business owners is underdiscussed
Having the same class interest as a realtor and hating Democrats is a less interesting combination than many think!
Having the same class interest as a realtor and hating Democrats is a less interesting combination than many think!
I think "Hasan doesn't want his taxes raised" is an underrated explanation for his behavior
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
They're the guys Marx is describing in 18th brumaire of Louis Napoleon, they yearn for a Hitler