barb
@kittb.bsky.social
Former marketing writer, currently horrified. Looking for ideas, laughs and commiseration with all you smart funnies.
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Perhaps it’s difficult to forecast how things are going to play out in terms of international relations because there is no real geopolitical plan.
Perhaps what’s happening isn’t about nations at all but about transnational criminals plundering resources without the veil of national interests.
Perhaps what’s happening isn’t about nations at all but about transnational criminals plundering resources without the veil of national interests.
February 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Perhaps it’s difficult to forecast how things are going to play out in terms of international relations because there is no real geopolitical plan.
Perhaps what’s happening isn’t about nations at all but about transnational criminals plundering resources without the veil of national interests.
Perhaps what’s happening isn’t about nations at all but about transnational criminals plundering resources without the veil of national interests.
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The "economic anxiety" theory of Trumpism should've been slain by reality awhile ago, but what @polphilpod.bsky.social calls "the poverty narrative" persists.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
A Disease of Affluence
Trump's supporters are not motivated by economic anxiety, but by its opposite.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:13 PM
The "economic anxiety" theory of Trumpism should've been slain by reality awhile ago, but what @polphilpod.bsky.social calls "the poverty narrative" persists.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
Interesting read in @liberalcurrents.com arguing it's not "the economy, stupid," nor a mere reaction to liberalism by people without agency.
A show like "Storage Wars" but its guys breaking into parked cars
November 24, 2024 at 3:47 AM
A show like "Storage Wars" but its guys breaking into parked cars
Sometimes it helps to remember that someday it will be the day that we get That News.
November 18, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Sometimes it helps to remember that someday it will be the day that we get That News.
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I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around.
November 14, 2024 at 6:31 AM
I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around.
Me wondering if I need to become a prepper
a woman is drinking from a can of pringles .
ALT: a woman is drinking from a can of pringles .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Me wondering if I need to become a prepper
Am I the only one eagerly awaiting the FAFO phase for his voters? Is that the only way out, for them to connect the dots that giving him/Rs power is bad?
November 9, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Am I the only one eagerly awaiting the FAFO phase for his voters? Is that the only way out, for them to connect the dots that giving him/Rs power is bad?