the country should have a little slavery, as a treat

and when did Mike Duncan do that? he's never allowed to disagree with Will because other people are mean to him?

"if you ever push back on my bad ideas and inflammatory phrasing you are literally abusing me" unbelievable, you and will need to log off bluesky and on to Betterhelp.com

for a guy who hates the internet so much you'd think you'd log out of it once in your life

>swats hornets nest
what's with all these fucking hornets

are you under the impression this is a charity website?

the shittiness of the modern internet is caused by profit motive of monetizing attention, which is downstream of capitalism. the internet pre-monetization was a much healthier place and the ways the internet drives radicalization are thanks to algorithms optimized for engagement.

did you accidentally radicalize yourself into Liberal Pinochet because you kept getting into fights with people on the internet and getting surprised about it every time

look inwards my friend

I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.

ohhhhh you weren't jerking yourself off secretly you were jerking yourself off publicly by randomly switching to the third person using a rhetorical style no one in history has ever used before

I'm obviously getting nowhere, but I think it's embarrassing to dismiss the foundational sociopolitical underpinning of society when considering how we got to the current moment. This is why a leftist critique is that liberals/Dems will simply recreate the conditions for fascism over and over.

Of COURSE ideology and social groups affect behavior but those concepts exist in a world shaped by material conditions!!! A hunter-gatherer tribe will have different ideologies and social group relations because everything about the way they survive is vastly different!!!!!

But you're so negatively polarized against Marx that even when you walk yourself into a conclusion that would agree with a Marxist analysis (eg media has warped further into a mess due to profit motive) that you shut off any further thought and start lashing out at anyone who has that conclusion.

Religious ideas such as the need to return to "traditional families" center on the idea that a morally strong nation will prosper. And of course all religion was born out of, and evolved afterwards, very much along with material conditions along the way. The point is ideas are inexplicably tied.

You are still not getting it. Ideas that are in contrast with someone's material conditions are still held in the context of those conditions. Racism for example: common complaints are crime and "taking jobs". These are material complaints. White-black relations involve the history of slavery. Etc.

You continue to miss the point that every idea ever held is born in the context of the idea-holder's material conditions and the material conditions of society at large.

If you put a brain in a jar and asked it for ideas, a lot of those ideas would be jar-related.

"the virus is a Chinese bio weapon designed to destroy white Americans and that's why I want to get it 7 times per year"