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Grumpy Jules
@grumpyjules.bsky.social
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MMT & degrowth, history, nerdy stuff, math, science, decolonization, decarbonization - taxes don't fund spending for currency-issuing governments realprogressives.org
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How have both parties built a digital #policestate that criminalizes #poverty protest & anyone messing w/ profits? Join us tonight @ 8 ET for Macro n Chill to listen to & discuss our latest @CheeseMacro ep. Nothing To Hide ft. Heidi Boghosian.

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November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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People are ready to understand what the nature of the Palestinian struggle really is, and shifting our perspective from a lot of the liberal bromides, towards really understanding that this is about settler colonization, and this is about a process that has been in place, even prior to the Nakba of 1948. So, it's been an unrelenting process of settler colonization that is abetted by imperialism, and shifting from the imperial mandate of Great Britain, to now the United States. Omar Zahzah, MNC Ep 348
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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ICYMI
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The US government is a government of the oligarchs, by the oligarchs & for the oligarchs. Doesn't matter whether it's Biden or Trump. Look at the economic advisors they surround themselves with. These are the exact same type of people who have been hollowing out US industry for the last 40 years. These are the people are now suddenly trying to bring manufacturing back to the US?! You gotta be very gullible to believe that. - Carl Zha, MNC Ep 328
May 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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At what point will people say, "I'm not going to watch these screens anymore. I'm not going to let social media tell me what to do. I'm going to get out into the street and flip the bird to your cameras and then rip them off the telephone poles." It's going to take that. I don't think we'll be able to sit around and wait for Bernie Sanders and AOC to do it. They're the controlled opposition. Peter Byrne, MNC Ep 326
May 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Happy tax season MFers 😂😭
Knowing my federal taxes just delete money from the economy & pay for nothing makes paying them suck more.
April 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Not spending on universal basic services and overall public good is a political CHOICE not scarcity of dollars. It keeps labor in line & desperate so capital can thrive.
April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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In light of the current cuts to federal spending and the forthcoming recession, this seemed relevant...
March 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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TONIGHT 8pm ET/5pm PT
There’s much to discuss about austerity as a form of murder. Is it possible to fix a system that is designed to control the working class? Is oppression a glitch or a necessity under predatory capitalism? events.teams.microsoft.com/event/192e33...
January 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Source unknown to me but 🔥 ✊❤️
December 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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We also need ppl to understand that taxes are not what pays for any federal government spending, whether it’s on war or public healthcare.
December 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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😂
Open enrollment…open season
December 5, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Interesting turn of events … 🤔
@ProudSocialist on Twitter Tuesday: Anthem says it won't pay for complete duration of anesthesia for patients' surgeries. Yesterday: Health insurance CEO fatally shot in New York. Today: Anthem walks back unpopular policy and says it will pay for full duration of anesthesia for patients' surgeries.
December 5, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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If you’ve never read this book, you’re missing out!! Holy moley 🤯
I’m listening while I work… we’re gonna talk abt it at Book Club on Thursday. Wanna get in on it?
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December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Come join our group discussion! 😎
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December 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Only a few more sessions in 2024 with our Chill community. This week, we'll listen to and discuss Macro N Cheese podcast episode #305: Trump, the Fed, & the Crypto Insurgency, ft Rohan Grey

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December 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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Yup.
The grim reaper running the controls of an arcade style claw machine full of people instead of toys, grinning as he finally fucking gets Henry Kissinger with the claw.
November 30, 2023 at 4:40 AM
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Can anyone else hear this image?
If you can, you are my people. 😂
#GenX
Image of comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon
November 27, 2023 at 10:46 PM
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The federal government is the monopoly issuer of our currency. It is not reliant on our taxes to pay for anything. Please ffs, realize the illogic of believing otherwise and stop passing on the lie.
A sign that says “There’s no such thing as taxpayer funded it’s all government funded”
November 26, 2023 at 12:58 PM
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That sign is the opposite of the truth. Please don’t perpetuate such destructive lies. Taxes do not fund federal govt spending.
A man whispering in the ear of a woman with a shocked expression “Did you know taxes don’t fund federal spending?”
November 18, 2023 at 4:51 AM
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Hello from laundry day. Last load in the dryer to be fluffed at least 13 times before actually getting folded or worn sometime in the coming week. 😂
A picture of me looking through the clear window in the door of my clothes dryer.
October 30, 2023 at 1:43 AM
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Idk who made this but 😂 I love it
Photo of the broken open end of a chocolate covered candy bar with a yellow tinted image of Michael Parenti speaking into a microphone photoshopped inside and a caption that reads: PARENTS PLEASE CHECK YOUR KIDS CANDY THIS HALLOWEEN. I JUST FOUND A YELLOW PARENTI IN OUR SONS CANDY AND NOW HE'S POUNDING HIS FIST ON THE TABLE RANTING ABOUT THE OVER EXPLOITATION OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
October 27, 2023 at 1:58 PM
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Wise words from the bad place.
#EconSky
Tweet from Steven Hail (@SteveHailAus) that reads “Neoclassical economics is a religion, and religions are not about evidence.”
October 27, 2023 at 12:04 PM
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🚨 PSA for people still not getting it:

Public svcs don’t mean providers work for free, it means the currency-issuing govt pays their salaries instead of the recipients of the svcs.

And no, b4 u get all galaxy brained, it’s NOT anyone’s tax dollars.
Image of a person thinking deeply with mathematical equations swirling around.
October 15, 2023 at 6:05 PM