"A truly working class organisation can never collaborate with the State as do the trade unions. When the unions were first formed the State persecuted them, now it has won them over and incorporated them in the machinery of the State."

Tom Brown, "Trade Unionism or Syndicalism?"

Never was a story of more fun than of Juliet and her womanly expectation.

I'm reminded of Graeber talking about the conversion of Universities into banks as debt became increasingly fundamental to higher ed. I think he was spot on, these universities are acting like market agents rather than principled institutions. You can expect no better from Harvard than Wal Mart.

Citations Needed has a good dozens of episodes covering this. This shit makes me feel like I'm losing my mind.

You ignore BADALEX_ and his knowledge of academia at your own peril.

It's not that building more housing isn't certainly part of the solution to the housing crisis. Deregulation and an increase in housing stock may help middle income earners. But without housing as a mandated human right the most vulnerable among us will remain unhoused.

and consumption will never curb the excesses of the human race. Until these are more broadly held views I really don't know how we reverse the metastasizing cruelty we see at every level of society across the capitalist world.

We're a few weeks away from "Debters prisons -- an old solution to modern problems?"

I'm torn. On one hand a sacrificial eight giving the rest of the caucus plausible deniability does feel very Senate democrat. On the other hand, this doesn't feel like Schumer planned it, or much of anything really. I guess the two aren't entirely mutually exclusive.

I want this in sim city

*Guitar lick*
MU. NI. CI. PAL
TRAAAAANNSSSSIIIIIIITTTTTT

Big if true