to make any sense at all of this kind of study result, it is definitely necessary to go read the entire thing, and then if it’s a survey, the survey questions themselves, which are often unavailable. and also the article itself is probably paywalled too.
i think what’s most interesting is that these guys look at china, they recognize that amerikkka is fundamentally failing on structural levels, that they’re in the future and we’re in the past, and yet for some reason insist that they’ve managed to devise this mystical, entirely theoretical way to catch back up and get to where china is THAT IS INEXPLICABLY NOT JUST COPYING CHINA??? it boggles the mind, the hubris, the stupidity. they literally insist on reinventing a wheel for the sake of ideological purity and insist that this is the only way to be free.
somebody should convince donald that he needs to dig a moat to go with the wall if he wants it to work. and then that there should be drawbridges. that should waste a little time.
Moran: He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I’m not an expert on them.
liberal media moment
context:
From quite early, then, the Temple administrators developed the habit of advancing goods to local merchants – some of them private, others themselves Temple functionaries – who would then go off and sell it overseas… Before long, we find not only commercial loans, but also consumer loans – usury in the classical sense of the term. By c. 2400 BCE it already appears to have been common practice on the part of local officials, or wealthy merchants, to advance loans to peasants who were in financial trouble on collateral and begin to appropriate their possessions if they were unable to pay…
We have already had occasion to note the predominance of credit money in Mesopotamia, the earliest urban civilization that we know about. In the great temple and palace complexes, not only did money serve largely as an accounting measure rather than physically changing hands, merchants and tradespeople developed credit arrangements of their own. Most of these took the physical form of clay tablets, inscribed with some obligation of future payment, that were then sealed inside clay envelopes and marked with the borrower’s seal. The creditor would keep the envelope as a surety, and it would be broken on repayment. In some times or places, at least, these bullae appear to have become what we would now call negotiable instruments, since the table inside did not simply record a promise to pay the original lender, but was designated “to the bearer” – in other words, a tablet recording a debt of five shekels of silver (at prevailing rates of interest) could circulate as the equivalent of a five-shekel promissory note – that is, as money.
– Graeber, Debt
something something mesopotamia temple complex fascism
itamar ben-gvir, of the JEWISH POWER PARTY? that itamar ben-gvir? but he’s such a peaceful dove /s
genuinely journalistic malpractice to have him quoted as advocating for “jewish power” but not ever actually making note of his literal political party that has seats of power within the current isntraeli government, most importantly of course, himself.
tldr: the price for the usa made shower head was $110 more expensive than the Chinese made version, and literally no one bought the usa one.
“orthodox charlatan weighs in on papacy for some fucking reason”
saying that kid starver has tissue-thin morals is an insult to the structural integrity of tissue
Oh hey look, it’s the reason I never tried to get a formal diagnosis.
this one kind of feels like he let kanye have a spin on the keyboard
i want to make my cryptonazi in-laws confront this so badly. it wouldn’t make them behave better, but it’d sure be cathartic
as good a way to look at it as any. i’m sure some of them honestly believe it’s not a grift, but those are the stupid ones that are there for the whole project to hide behind.
“I was a feminist, I was pro-choice, I was anti-gun,” she said. “He helped me deprogram myself.”
the whole org on founding probably isn’t, but i think hinkledink is very likely an op or compromised if not wholly just a us federal agent
Fascist computer programmers in faux-peasant chic. Someone shoot me now.
libsoftiktok is an overt fascist, and all you do when you pretend otherwise is lose to the pig in the mud. 
and all that. i know you know that, it just bothers me how many people bother entertaining the idea that she’s just stupid. it doesn’t matter, but also she’s not. she just doesn’t care, as it were.
this feels like it’s in an unholy superposition between 
and 
absolutely incredible, no notes