spugpow.bsky.social
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This is because the real divide in society isn't based on income, but on whether you work a job in which you manipulate matter vs a job in which you manipulate symbols. Musa Al-Gharbi has a good analysis of this.
February 16, 2026 at 8:55 PM
And the next little circle inside firms is going to be AIs
February 12, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Not when they're going after fellow lefties
February 6, 2026 at 6:37 PM
At least the people I follow seem to be increasingly shrill and militant as they get hooked into the incentives of the platform.
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Nothing beats little mustachioed war gods with double axes
January 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM
90% of the phenomenon was professional managerial types leveraging protestant guilt against other professional managerial types to gain status and resources for themselves and their friends during a tough job market.
January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Just in time for the AfD to take over
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The course outlined in the book would have the government in-house most of the functions that it currently outsources to private contractors. The central project is to restore personal agency to bureaucrats in addition to unhobbling the private sector
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Not sure people will still feel this way after AfD comes into power
November 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Let's displace NIMBY city councilmembers
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Musa Al-Gharbi's book We Have Never Been Woke opened my eyes to the fact that politicians are mostly people who manipulate symbols for a living, so they vastly overrate the importance of symbolic factors like identity and presentation. See also, the storm in a teacup over Graham Platner's tattoo
October 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It is liberal censoriousness actually.
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reposted
the thing is, i think pete is fundamentally right: after the chaos of trump II, there will be an opportunity to rebuild things which have been broken for a long time. but doing that *well* will require a deeper analysis of what's gone wrong in our country.

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Reforging America
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October 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM