Does loan forgiveness cost too much? Does lowering taxes on the wealthy actually generate revenue? Just remember how tax cuts in the UK crashed the pound and loan forgiveness in the US didn’t affect the dollar’s rise. They know these arguments are specious.

As the commodity form dissolves, real abstraction becomes real hilarity.

Ugh, y’all know Usenet and hotline were peak internet platforms and everything will always be garbage from now on

Solidarity w the UC strikers! ❤️❤️❤️ Everything for everyone!

Everything for everyone! ❤️❤️❤️🥹

The history of electoral leftism over the last 100 years has almost entirely consisted of elected officials making common cause with left-leaning liberals against revolutionary leftist movements and the working class. So why are you surprised???

Seeing Richard Wright in there breaks my heart.

Maybe politicians can explain to their constituents how (when total domination is no longer/not yet an option) international relations can only be detente/compromise or total war, and compromise is much better. Just kidding! We’re all going to die.

So…if we all think there is a looming social or personal apocalypse, borrowing more money than we can reasonably expect to pay back becomes rational. And then manifests as a momentary uptick in consumption. “Apocalyptic exuberance”?

Academia makes a lot more sense when you realize one of its central goals is to create the distinction between certified and uncertified knowledge, and then to drive the comparative value of uncertified knowledge to zero.

In case you didn’t notice, the organizing principle of art is no longer “how can we make art when capitalism(/tradition/media) co-opts everything?” but instead “how can we make art when capitalism refuses to co-opt us?” If this isn’t a sign of a serious crisis idk what is.

“He’s got these categories in his *stupid* head” 🤣

More bank failures. But bourgeois economists are consistently incapable of reading signs instead of analyzing incidents: “The fundamental business of the country, that is the production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.” (Hoover Oct 25 1929)