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Jill, the party is led by a guy that quotes George Wallace to praise Israel and another who uses his imaginary friends as an excuse to not give people healthcare. They’re going to disappoint people because that’s what they do. Do you want power or just to endlessly praise it?
My favorite current work on ideology boundary2.org/2024/05/willia…
his SEP article on ideology is very good too plato.stanford.edu/entries/i…
This is such a powerful line of dullard thinking, it's like a guy who thinks when psychoanalysts talk about objects they literally mean fun knick-knacks or when marx talks about material he means steel
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When you are doing a labor organizing campaign, you have to convince people. When you're canvassing, running comms, the goal is to convince and organize people. Persuasion is one of our greatest tools as socialists
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finally finished freud's introductory lectures on psychoanalysis! Liked this bit in the second to last lecture on psychoanalysis as essentially an emotional "after-education", feels like it starts to bridge the clinical and overall social problem well
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These Social Democracy revivalists will name drop Gramsci but If you ask them to apply his pessimism of the intellect to their own projects they will start throwing a hissy fit and calling you a loser. Like I've watched neo socdem movements crash & burn all throughout the 2010s
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If I were this guy I would just do it tonight. No note
I’d like to point learning from Soviet socialism doesn’t mean reading a Paresh Chattopadhyay book on commodity production and thinking you know everything you know who you are
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So thankful and blessed that the DSA-right factions who’ve openly threatened to split DSA saved the org from imploding by one vote yet again. They do it all out of the goodness of their own hearts and we owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude.
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Lack of consciousness doesn't make it less dangerous, to be clear. But it's gonna make it much more embarrassing when the extent of the damage reveals itself. Perhaps Anthropic want Claude to be sentient because it'd be more embarrassing if society got totalled by a tag cloud






























