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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 25m

This is just capitalism!

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 11h

Still hasn't endorsed Mamdani

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 12h

This is capitalist America bro

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 12h

Hilarious to read this kind of macho posturing from a guy whose body type is "Grimace"

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

It's literally just reporting the finding. You people have emotional problems

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to think of a more blatant dismissal of "right populism" than Trump leveraging PMC salaries to slash Medicaid www.axios.com/2025/10/07/t...

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

Doxxing can't do much to me

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

There really isn't a good microblogging service for socialists to use at this point. Most socialists are on Twitter but your privacy and your account simply aren't secure there. Bluesky is more secure but it hardly has any socialists, particularly outside the US.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

Twitter is a machine for doxxing the left www.peoplesline.org/p/twitter-is...

Twitter is a one-way doxxing machine for the right

You probably should not post there if you value your privacy!

www.peoplesline.org

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 1d

Literally published an article on Stephen Miller and Curtis Yarvin yesterday.

Why don't you freaks just say "no criticizing Democrats no matter how far right they go"? It's obviously what you mean!

R Towle @rtowle.bsky.social · 1d

People like Carl busy nitpicking democrats and silent on the GOP or taking any action beyond dissecting Dem imperfections:

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

It's cool that our ostensibly liberal governors are too mealy-mouthed to oppose ICE itself and have instead chosen to make the same states rights argument that segregationists made against Eisenhower federalizing the National Guard in Little Rock

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

If the salt march happened today you'd just get a million frog avis responding to news coverage of it with "fake" and nothing would change

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Neoliberalism has jerked our discourse so far to the right that even Democrats seem to have forgotten that the power the federal government wields over the states is democratic and that we should oppose particular uses of that power, not oppose the federal government as such

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

It's cool that our ostensibly liberal governors are too mealy-mouthed to oppose ICE itself and have instead chosen to make the same states rights argument that segregationists made against Eisenhower federalizing the National Guard in Little Rock

Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 2d

Whether in its 'liberal' or 'conservative' tendencies, capital is constantly telling you exactly what it cares about, and yet so many people remain totally mystified

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Folks will look for any excuse they can find to shit on poor people!

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think we need a mass transfer of wealth from Muslims to Jews, who voted for Harris and against Trump in much greater numbers?

maonu @vem.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Like I'm sorry but it's impossible to see people make arguments against helping workers that you wouldn't make on any other issue and not think "these people are my enemy, they want me to suffer"

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats shouldn't call on Trump to give workers $2000. After all, Trump might take credit for it

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats shouldn't call on Trump to defend the civil rights of trans people. After all, Trump might take credit for it

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats shouldn't call on Trump to withdraw federal forces from blue state cities. After all, Trump might take credit for it

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

lol jesus you people are monsters

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Far from the best @spicycurry.bsky.social · 2d

Really good stuff from Carl on Moldbug that gets to the essential appeal of the guy

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: On Curtis Yarvin and the politics of posting like Sephiroth.
www.peoplesline.org/p/why-does-c...

Why does Curtis Yarvin think he is Sephiroth?

Reaction and the politics of talking like a supervillain.

www.peoplesline.org

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

That's just capitalism bruh

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 2d

I will agree that framing this as tariff relief is idiotic however

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