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Its not bad. Sometimes Springsteen’s political stuff isnt great. Lost in the Flood is musically one of my favorites, but it has like the highest ratio of cringe lines likes to good lines, ever. Not as topically political as this, it’s not a protest song, but “the streets are lined with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicide” just doesn’t hold up, as much as I can appreciate what he was describing and as sort of poetic he was trying to be.

The fact is, good political music is an exception rather a than a rule, since McCarthyism. The creative pallette doesn’t exist for contemporary artists, and efforts often fall flat. But making something new and relevant sets a bar for other artists to follow. There’s a young musician right now who has an unhealthy obsession with the boss, that is taking notes. Nothing exists without making the effort.

Its a good song imo, but its a little flat, a little dated. That’s okay though. The spirit is right, and the meaning is solid. We talk about how the boss might be past his prime but in the domain of protest music, which is so degenerated, I think he’s pretty damn with it

The right is gonna eat shit when they try to antiwoke scold the boss

To be fair, her podcast, “Ultra” is very good. It’s a history of the “America First” movement from the 1930s through the 60’s. Like we love saying USAmerica is fascist, imperialist, whatever, all true; but the actual formal american fascist movement, the mainstream politicians and business owners who were like “we love Hitler, fascism is the future,” like totally out in the open, I was not aware of that history at all, and I’m an USAmerican who studies history.

Her team had to go into all these archives to dig up the recorded history of this movement, from pre-ww2 through McCarthyism.

I was surprised that Maddow had such a good podcast, def recommend it

Its like 60% - 70% of his personality, get a life Tim Walz

Would love to see them turn the guns around and fight for freedom and human decency

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Trump is going to be so embarassed when he finds out he is breaking laws

Lol Khmer Rouge wasnt opposed by the US it was supported by the US. By no sane definition is Chomsky a tankie.

I’d love to know where youre getting this narrative

Naomi Klein is good, no idea why youre lumping Gladwell, another Epstein intellectual, in with her. She’s not a revolutionary, but she has good insights.

I might have at one time lumped Chomsky and Klein together but these days he’s more of a Gladwell

inevitable only in hindsight

I’m not so sure. I’m still friends with a guy who told me emphatically “you dont understand what we did, we destroyed the global economy” and then explained the whole subprime mortgage scam to me, back in like 2007. Lots of downstream businesses, new home builders, paint and drywall companies, building materials stores, started folding several months before the official crash as well. I wasn’t nearly as aware of things then, I was a grown adult but not yet 30 and with little formal education, but there were definitely huge flashing signs. Only the media, based 100% on the words of the banks and insurance companies, thought that a crash was undetectable.

I’m not sure quite what it would look like yet, but I’m willing to bet if you look where these data centers are being built, when the cash runs out to keep the whole scam afloat, these big companies will stop paying their bills. The smaller companies providing services and supplies will run out of money before the huge mega corpos start showing signs, so that is one of the metrics I’m watching closely. I just happen to live in the shadow of these data centers so I’ll be pretty close to it, that is if I’m right.

The powers that are driving this are actually planning 20, 30 years ahead. Market solutions is a cover for class war. Trump is cashing checks written by Bush, Obama, etc.,

The “line go up” meme is prevalent because the attitude is a flimsy cover for deeper relations and actual class conspiracy

“Machines were the weapon used to quell the revolt of specialized labor” – Karl Marx

Its literally 8 people that own half the worlds wealth

If you eliminate enough jobs and increase unemployment, wages go down across the board. But then you also do away with high wages for highly technical roles

Maga should totally mess around with social media censorship, worked out great in Indonesia

This post should be hanging in MOMA

Developers don’t like the tool that’s being lied about in order for like 100 rich maniacs with precarious tech stock portfolios to have an excuse attack our profession, our wages, our stability. Just so they can retain the rate of profit that they experienced under covid 19 restrictions, because of us.

That’s because we aren’t idiots. We made them rich and theyre like “y’all could use a quality of life reduction.” Of course we don’t like it, it has little to do with marketing.

Hypothesiseses

Keep posting Ls