Hirschman
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Thomas Jefferson Loathers
United States, Census, 1870
United States, Census, 1870
December 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My family is in this picture and I don't like it
New Jersey boomers recreating a warped version of their childhood community in the middle of the Florida swamp and cooking their brains on right wing scams one of the most cursed places I have ever been
December 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
My family is in this picture and I don't like it
Israel will absolutely get closer to Russia as the US becomes slightly less supportive, it's just not a wonderful deal for Israel because Russia sucks, but, well, ok
December 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Israel will absolutely get closer to Russia as the US becomes slightly less supportive, it's just not a wonderful deal for Israel because Russia sucks, but, well, ok
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You still see people doing “economic anxiety” arguments when we’ve long since figured out the Trump base is wealthy whites without degrees.
"The Volk can never fail, it can only be failed" seems to be the operating principle of American political punditry for some godforsaken reason
December 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
You still see people doing “economic anxiety” arguments when we’ve long since figured out the Trump base is wealthy whites without degrees.
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renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
December 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there
Yep
These aren't the options. 🇺🇸 isn't 🇹🇷 (or 🇬🇷 or 🇦🇷) & we owe 70% of it to ourselves:
The options:
1. Debt keeps 📈. 🇯🇵 is at 250+% & 🥱
2. The Fed monetizes it
Yes, we'd have higher inflation &/or borrowing costs. But that's all politics & tradeoffs, not disaster scenarios:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
The options:
1. Debt keeps 📈. 🇯🇵 is at 250+% & 🥱
2. The Fed monetizes it
Yes, we'd have higher inflation &/or borrowing costs. But that's all politics & tradeoffs, not disaster scenarios:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
So, of these four options, we have:
1. Economic collapse
2. financial engineering (that probably won’t work, and even if it does still wouldn’t be great)
3. Eliminate at least part of the American welfare state
4. Increase the average families taxes by $77 every two weeks ($5.50 a day).
hard choice
1. Economic collapse
2. financial engineering (that probably won’t work, and even if it does still wouldn’t be great)
3. Eliminate at least part of the American welfare state
4. Increase the average families taxes by $77 every two weeks ($5.50 a day).
hard choice
December 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Yep
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I guess a man can check out of the group chat full of weight-lifting democratic socialist Kindleberger Groupies with a faith in the eternal and immutable character of the left hand side of the dollar smile but he can never leave.
December 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I guess a man can check out of the group chat full of weight-lifting democratic socialist Kindleberger Groupies with a faith in the eternal and immutable character of the left hand side of the dollar smile but he can never leave.
I actually blame Karthik for laundering some of these ideas about the USD and Treasuries + geopolitics brain genius stuff
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I actually blame Karthik for laundering some of these ideas about the USD and Treasuries + geopolitics brain genius stuff
Respectfully, the Republican Party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also has a supermajority of Justices on the US Supreme Court
Good afternoon to Juan Linz, who was right about presidentialism & wrong that America's "uniquely diffuse" political parties would make us an exception to the rule. In the end, defeating fascism still requires people who swore oaths to do their damn jobs, including those in the president's own party
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Respectfully, the Republican Party controls the House of Representatives and the Senate, and also has a supermajority of Justices on the US Supreme Court
We are deficit troofing (leftishly?) in 2025
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are deficit troofing (leftishly?) in 2025
Where's Romanchuk when you need someone to talk sense about debt markets
December 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Where's Romanchuk when you need someone to talk sense about debt markets
Let's play who's a dumbass about currency and debt! I'll go first! It's you!
December 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Let's play who's a dumbass about currency and debt! I'll go first! It's you!
Continued electrification and the conversion of downtowns into pedestrian-transit-robotaxi zones are two trends that I think will get more widespread over the next decade
December 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Continued electrification and the conversion of downtowns into pedestrian-transit-robotaxi zones are two trends that I think will get more widespread over the next decade
We built a society where millions of Americans live like kings and they’ve started acting like it (dumbasses obsessed with petty status squabbles)
December 30, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We built a society where millions of Americans live like kings and they’ve started acting like it (dumbasses obsessed with petty status squabbles)
Right, like, I visit Florida and Tennessee to see family and dear friends. And I’ve considered/might have to move there for those reasons. Wouldn’t otherwise!
December 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Right, like, I visit Florida and Tennessee to see family and dear friends. And I’ve considered/might have to move there for those reasons. Wouldn’t otherwise!
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Deciding what vision the Democrats will try next will be the core question of the 2028 primary.
In the meantime, while Trump is not done attacking, his attack has 'culminated' - run out of steam.
The 2026 midterms will be the field of the counter-attack.
In the meantime, while Trump is not done attacking, his attack has 'culminated' - run out of steam.
The 2026 midterms will be the field of the counter-attack.
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Deciding what vision the Democrats will try next will be the core question of the 2028 primary.
In the meantime, while Trump is not done attacking, his attack has 'culminated' - run out of steam.
The 2026 midterms will be the field of the counter-attack.
In the meantime, while Trump is not done attacking, his attack has 'culminated' - run out of steam.
The 2026 midterms will be the field of the counter-attack.
Unlike many languages, English has a complex system of grammatical structures to show symbolic distance and formality including “don’t curse at your mother” and “we’re in church”
December 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Unlike many languages, English has a complex system of grammatical structures to show symbolic distance and formality including “don’t curse at your mother” and “we’re in church”
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Biden: and this guy, he really did it. No fooling, walked west planting apple trees, good kid. Did good work for this country.
*smash cut to Indiana nursing home*
250 year old Johnny Appleseed: Joe Biden is one of the best men i have ever meet.
*smash cut to Indiana nursing home*
250 year old Johnny Appleseed: Joe Biden is one of the best men i have ever meet.
“There’s no way a man named Steel-Hands Johnson won a John Henry-esque competition with an industrial metal stamper” cries a nation of Doubting Thomas’.
Somewhere in Delaware a roll of forgotten microfiche begins to glow and hum softly…
Somewhere in Delaware a roll of forgotten microfiche begins to glow and hum softly…
May 9, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Biden: and this guy, he really did it. No fooling, walked west planting apple trees, good kid. Did good work for this country.
*smash cut to Indiana nursing home*
250 year old Johnny Appleseed: Joe Biden is one of the best men i have ever meet.
*smash cut to Indiana nursing home*
250 year old Johnny Appleseed: Joe Biden is one of the best men i have ever meet.
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Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
December 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bluesky is the new place to go for high-level political discussions because half of the pundits, for lack of a better word, have credentials like "Guy who plays in a Portland post-punk band". "Professional video editor in San Diego". "Commodities trader in Nova Scotia". "Person named Sharon"
Let’s get some “is hip-hop revolutionary“ discourse going
December 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Let’s get some “is hip-hop revolutionary“ discourse going
Dipshit Pragmatism >>> Pop Bayesian Social Psychology
December 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dipshit Pragmatism >>> Pop Bayesian Social Psychology
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Suppose that we have an experience.
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Suppose that we have an experience.
I like Newsom or Pritzker against Vance, seems like a cinch
December 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I like Newsom or Pritzker against Vance, seems like a cinch
Periodic reminder that most right wing propaganda (ex-real cult crazy like Qanon) takes a real thing that people really don't like, and DARVOs it or otherwise screws with context or proportion. Part of the propaganda value is to get you, well-meaning liberal, to defend the bad thing and look insane.
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Periodic reminder that most right wing propaganda (ex-real cult crazy like Qanon) takes a real thing that people really don't like, and DARVOs it or otherwise screws with context or proportion. Part of the propaganda value is to get you, well-meaning liberal, to defend the bad thing and look insane.
Is it time to roll out the "nobody knows what eugenics was" posts
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Is it time to roll out the "nobody knows what eugenics was" posts