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If only there were signs
August 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Yo
August 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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When I was in college they taught me that capitalism means that there are capitalists, who own productive resources, like say factories, and they hire people to make stuff and then sell it. They can't pay their workers so much that they don't make a profit, but they have to pay them at least enough that they can afford to buy the stuff the factory produces. Feudalism, in contrast, is when you just take your profits directly by charging rent, fees and dues, turning people into debt peons, or otherwise shaking them down. Nowadays the vast majority of corporate profits don't come from making or selling things but from "finance," which is a euphemism for other peoples' debts-charging rents, fees, interest and whatnot. It's feudalism in the classic definition: "direct juro-political extraction" as they sometimes put it. - David Graeber
August 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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If only there were signs..
July 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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June 23, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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June 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Careful, you might get an eye poked out by a violin bow
June 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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LA version
June 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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They use ai to print their identification ?
June 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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The success of Protestantism in establishing itself as a legitimate Christian religion outside the Roman Catholic Church was a reflection of the disinte- gration of the centuries-old authority structure of European Christendom, known as respublica Christiana. It was this disintegration which provided the opportunity for national identities and nations to emerge. Nationalism and the Reformation, though springing from different sources, thus were made possible by the same development. They emerged within a short pe- riod of each other and, as the example of England clearly shows, developed…
May 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This sacred part of the human is not the part that lays claim to rights, which belong to a lower domain. To illustrate this lower region, Weil gives the example of a child who watches with eager entitlement to make sure he will get an equal slice of cake. The word 'justice' is used to refer to both parts of the human soul: the part that cries out in the face of evil, and the part that wants equal cake.
May 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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May 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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He’s the virus
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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This history of this is pretty interesting

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April 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Madison, fed 39
It is ESSENTIAL to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion, or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans, and claim for their government the honorable title of republic. - Madison, Fed 39
April 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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April 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Just finished this, a roller coaster!
April 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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April 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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15% loss in 2 months is quite a ‘strategy’
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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April 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM