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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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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 5h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 9h

Me traveling back in time to 1994 with a dire warning about the future of the World Wide Web

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

Samuel Beckett actually did drive a young Andre the Giant to school, since there was no school bus in their rural French village.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12h

“Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.”

The Unknown Citizen

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12h

This would have been so, so preferable to what was actually on stage

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 12h

lol absolutely want to check that out

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22h

Now that I’d pay to see

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22h

It was a VERY SERIOUS DRAMA OF IDEAS

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22h

Also, shoutout to Tom Stoppard’s Travesties, in which Lenin, James Joyce, and Tristan Tzara, who all lived in Zurich in World War I, collide in the addled memories of a British diplomat. It’s a banger.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22h

This one was called Final Analysis and it culminated in a distraught Freud, having unwittingly talked Hitler out of suicide, turns to the audience and says “My God, what have I done?” Blackout. Curtain.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 22h

The worst play I have ever seen was based on the premise that all of these guys in Vienna interacted with each other in 1913.

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

A sushi restaurant coming to town was front page news in my hometown and this was like 30 minutes outside San Francisco

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

It’s a shame the befuddled-aristocrats-dropping-their-monocles-in-shock trope doesn’t have deep roots in American culture because that’s our whole thing now and we’re not making full use of it.

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

*Immediate massive problems occur when the Libel Generator debuts* pobody’s nerfect! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Network TV would not be dying if any other show was as consistently fun to watch as 911

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Muravchik wrote a really shitty history of socialism and in ole chapter goes on and on about Marx’s bohemian dirtbag habits like it’s a huge dunk. Massive dork.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 2d

Pharaoh gotta have his pyramid

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Damn silenced for truth

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Trump Deathcasting Bluesky is my favorite Bluesky.

Mrs Krabappel’s class looking at Bart, from his POV. Say the line, Bart

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Calling a fucking moron a fucking moron is not dehumanization be serious

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes this person sounds like a real dipshit. Perennial 2015 Brain is one of the banes of our times.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

He’s a president the way Jefferson Davis was a president. A traitor.

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Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Eric, this will be useful at your trial

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Really useless comparison for our current situation. You live in Richmond, dude.

Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought @highestmarx.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah he seems very defensive about anyone questioning his meal ticket