ZinkMax
@zinkmax.bsky.social
Radical pragmatic pluralist, conservative anarchist
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New fear unlocked
Getting on flight and just watched the life leave a guy’s eyes as he dropped his passport while boarding and it fell through the little crack between the boarding platform and the plane onto the tarmac.
November 27, 2024 at 6:35 PM
New fear unlocked
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2024 PitchingNinja Award for Evil Late Movement on a Two Seamer. 👿🏆
Winner: Framber Valdez
Winner: Framber Valdez
November 24, 2024 at 12:38 PM
2024 PitchingNinja Award for Evil Late Movement on a Two Seamer. 👿🏆
Winner: Framber Valdez
Winner: Framber Valdez
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the least informative word in political discourse is “organize”.
what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative?
you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing.
okay. what now?
what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative?
you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing.
okay. what now?
November 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM
the least informative word in political discourse is “organize”.
what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative?
you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing.
okay. what now?
what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative?
you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing.
okay. what now?
Cute!
this is one of my favorite custom feeds, Quiet Posters
it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗
it shows you posts from people you follow who don't post that much! so it surfaces friends' posts that might otherwise get drowned out in the Following feed (which is reverse chronological) 🤗
November 23, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Cute!
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“It’s also important to remember that CPI and PCE, by their very nature, are weighted to the consumption expenditures of higher income households. That’s because they spend more.” @nathantankus.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets
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November 23, 2024 at 7:36 AM
“It’s also important to remember that CPI and PCE, by their very nature, are weighted to the consumption expenditures of higher income households. That’s because they spend more.” @nathantankus.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
Exceptional piece. One need not discount the effect of the right-wing dis-and-misinfo narrative shaping media machine to see how aggregated statistics could mislead you on how the working class were 'experiencing the economy' over the past 4~5 years
NEW: my very long election take is here. The key is to understand how beneficial the pandemic era programs were and how painful their expiration was
www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets
Announcement: I'm putting on an end of year sale. For just 55 dollars a year you can subscribe and receive premium pieces of Notes on the Crises. This also helps support the FOIA efforts I've been eng...
www.crisesnotes.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Exceptional piece. One need not discount the effect of the right-wing dis-and-misinfo narrative shaping media machine to see how aggregated statistics could mislead you on how the working class were 'experiencing the economy' over the past 4~5 years
Arendt is eternal
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
November 14, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Arendt is eternal
OH MY GOD IT DOESN'T STOP
November 13, 2024 at 8:52 PM
OH MY GOD IT DOESN'T STOP
This is the most blackpilling one yet
America’s premier Assad apologist for Director of National Intelligence and Matt Gaetz, sus Venmo guy, for Attorney General
November 13, 2024 at 8:50 PM
This is the most blackpilling one yet
The Twitter exodus and the rise of Bluesky represents the decay of neoliberalism and the formalising of anarcho-syndicalism in the digital space. In this essay I will...
The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.
November 13, 2024 at 3:28 PM
The Twitter exodus and the rise of Bluesky represents the decay of neoliberalism and the formalising of anarcho-syndicalism in the digital space. In this essay I will...
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The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.
November 13, 2024 at 3:06 PM
The thing that really differentiates Bluesky is that it doesn’t feel like it was designed by a bunch of people who will lose their jobs if I spend a little less time on Bluesky.
It's early but the picks so far feel this way - and unfortunately it sets things up nicely for the (ostensibly) ideologically driven people around him
My money is on the Reverse Hitler Revenge Arc. Instead of trying to make his empire huge and strong to fuel his delusions of grandeur, he tries to cut this country down until everyone and everything in it is as broken, pathetic, and ugly as he is.
I know people think Trump is signaling that he thinks he’s got ultimate power with these cabinet picks and that would be a powerful play for a fascist and maybe that’s what he’s doing, but I’m just… remembering him on the campaign trail and wondering if if he’s just completely lost it
November 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
It's early but the picks so far feel this way - and unfortunately it sets things up nicely for the (ostensibly) ideologically driven people around him
Rothbardian praxeology and its consequences have been a distaster for the human race
This is what they imagine Moldbug to be right? While, uh, look at the guy.
November 13, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Rothbardian praxeology and its consequences have been a distaster for the human race
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Then it hit me: The big success of the US right over the last decade or so, helped by a cadre of centrists, is convincing a lot of people that the Democratic Party is whoever you think is the most radical, most annoying person on the internet. Therefore, voting Republican is a vote against them.
3/x
3/x
November 12, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Then it hit me: The big success of the US right over the last decade or so, helped by a cadre of centrists, is convincing a lot of people that the Democratic Party is whoever you think is the most radical, most annoying person on the internet. Therefore, voting Republican is a vote against them.
3/x
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So the incoming admin's biggest domestic targets are:
-The Media
-Academia
-The Civil service
Total Curtis Yarvin victory. I've said it before and it sounds fucking stupid, but the neoreactionary canon is required reading for all opponents of facism. Know your enemy!
-The Media
-Academia
-The Civil service
Total Curtis Yarvin victory. I've said it before and it sounds fucking stupid, but the neoreactionary canon is required reading for all opponents of facism. Know your enemy!
November 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
So the incoming admin's biggest domestic targets are:
-The Media
-Academia
-The Civil service
Total Curtis Yarvin victory. I've said it before and it sounds fucking stupid, but the neoreactionary canon is required reading for all opponents of facism. Know your enemy!
-The Media
-Academia
-The Civil service
Total Curtis Yarvin victory. I've said it before and it sounds fucking stupid, but the neoreactionary canon is required reading for all opponents of facism. Know your enemy!
Conditions might not be deteriorating, but growth has massively stagnated. When the upward trend, assumed to continue, instead plateaus hard, it feels unsettling - like neoliberalism isn't delivering the promised goods anymore.
“Material conditions in the US continue to deteriorate” is an utterly deranged statement, comparable with hysterical right-wing panics over crime and immigration, and you believe it for exactly the same reason: validating, choose-your-own-adventure style online information environments
You're right, but for the wrong reasons.
The barrier to leftism is lowering as material conditions in the US continue to deteriorate.
Liberals who love the status quo are quickly becoming the "got mine" of the country, while victims of the US education system still can't afford a house.
The barrier to leftism is lowering as material conditions in the US continue to deteriorate.
Liberals who love the status quo are quickly becoming the "got mine" of the country, while victims of the US education system still can't afford a house.
November 13, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Conditions might not be deteriorating, but growth has massively stagnated. When the upward trend, assumed to continue, instead plateaus hard, it feels unsettling - like neoliberalism isn't delivering the promised goods anymore.
Can't wait for Blake Treinen and Michael King overlays to blow up on bluesky
Baseball is IMPOSSIBLE!! ⚾
Check out this Two Seamer & Knuckle Curve Overlay.
Check out this Two Seamer & Knuckle Curve Overlay.
November 13, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Can't wait for Blake Treinen and Michael King overlays to blow up on bluesky
Who's gonna stop him? The Supreme Court? Congress? 😮💨
Presidents can’t create departments so Elon’s new thing is technically going to be an Office of Government Efficiency. Very sorry to say this, but…OOGE.
November 13, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Who's gonna stop him? The Supreme Court? Congress? 😮💨
I feel like we're returning to a pre-enlightenment age, courtesy of a few vindictive billionaires with a persecution complex
November 13, 2024 at 7:28 AM
I feel like we're returning to a pre-enlightenment age, courtesy of a few vindictive billionaires with a persecution complex
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Thanks to the first Canada acquired H5N1 case, there’s an uptick in “bird flu pandemic imminent” and “omg it’s gone H2H!” posts. Those are not accurate.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
November 11, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Thanks to the first Canada acquired H5N1 case, there’s an uptick in “bird flu pandemic imminent” and “omg it’s gone H2H!” posts. Those are not accurate.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.
However, given the situation in the US, I have some real concerns about this that grow progressively more grave.