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Pangloss Dreadnought
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Pangloss Dreadnought
@Pan_Dread
Imperialist Thatcherite, America Eagle Burger Institute
Katılım Ocak 2026
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With no options left, a Venezuelan family living in Colorado walks into ICE custody, seeking to go back home denverpost.com/2026/05/24/col…
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@CameronCorduroy Housing, childcare, healthcare and education are considerably more expensive and putting pressure on households.
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i've mostly given up on vibecession discourse
it's just the same nonsense slop arguments of "i don't care about your stats just look around and tell me things aren't bad" ad infinitum
left-wing version of right-wing crime panic
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@Spraytham @nolightupstairs This week proved Gen Z thinks cooking is too hard and beneath them. They are gonna be out in the intellectual wilderness for awhile after that.
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@nolightupstairs Does the economic data dispute anything about a housing crisis or downward generational mobility or is the stock market the end-all-be-all?
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I kind of think if you're gonna take a "no the economists and professionals are wrong" you don't get to use the economist's lingo. Recession is a technical term. Find your own word and demonstrate the concept's robustness because we're literally not in a recession.
onion person@CantEverDie
@LinkofSunshine i mean yeah we’re probably in another great recession based on all indicators of the economy and consumer sentiment
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@CompletedStreet @EmmmieG Do you even know who you're mad at, or why? Who is this for? Are you mad about cars, pesticides, fruit markets? Or just trying to signal that you hate everything American?
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Other countries: Fresh, affordable food available within walking distance of every neighborhood.
U.S.: 15 brands of genetically modified hyper-processed ice cream that requires a $35,000 vehicle to access.
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@mammasaysstuff @quiet_rightie @bonchieredstate Most of that money went to people who aren't wealthy. This format isn't big enough to educate you on why balanced budgets - especially for fiat guarantors - isn't desirable.
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If you believe that, you don’t want to understand. $40 trillion in debt ($35 trillion since 2000) and 26% incurred under Trump as President will suffocate everyone who isn’t wealthy. Balancing the budget should have been priority number one, not giving billionaires another tax cut. At the top of a business cycle, we should have been running a surplus and paying down debt.
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@mammasaysstuff @bonchieredstate There are several ways to access 401k funds pre-59.5.
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Exclude 401(k) funds that can’t be accessed without penalty until retirement, and tell me exactly how most people’s daily lives are positively impacted by greater corporate profits, which are reflected in stock prices? I have a couple gold rings, but I don’t have any gold bars, so … You can play games all you want, but the truth is that stock market wealth is concentrated at the top of the wealth distribution.
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@PhilWMagness @TherynDArnold Ironically he instablocked me for helpfully defining Marxism for him
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@TherynDArnold I see you're still pleasant as always, Theryn.
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"The right's criticism of Marxism in the academy is just a smear of things they dislike!" - Guy in the academy who's writing an explicitly Marxist dissertation & whose only academic publications are Marxist advocacy
Theryn@TherynDArnold
this discourse is very silly esp. as the Right does not necessarily define Marxism in any meaningful way but rather lumps in disparate views (post-structuralism/queer theory/antiracism). the Right's "Marxism" is a floating signifier for anything it dislikes in the academy.
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@TherynDArnold There's a clear lineage x.com/Pan_Dread/stat…
Pangloss Dreadnought@Pan_Dread
The Marxism Family Tree: Marxism->Frankfurt School-> Critical Theory-> [ Social Justice, DEI, Postcolonialism, class essentialism, Gender theory, revisionist history/1619]. Academics know the game is up so they revert to word games, but when we say "Marxist" we mean all of it.
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this discourse is very silly esp. as the Right does not necessarily define Marxism in any meaningful way but rather lumps in disparate views (post-structuralism/queer theory/antiracism). the Right's "Marxism" is a floating signifier for anything it dislikes in the academy.
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
There are a ton of Marxists in academia and Tyler knows that, and also knows that the grant system doesnt directly incentivize class-centric Marxism and instead asks academic Marxists to find ways to twist their real interests into the race/gender/climate rubric.
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The Marxism Family Tree: Marxism->Frankfurt School-> Critical Theory-> [ Social Justice, DEI, Postcolonialism, class essentialism, Gender theory, revisionist history/1619]. Academics know the game is up so they revert to word games, but when we say "Marxist" we mean all of it.
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@Tyler_A_Harper You clearly did not write that to persuade conservatives of anything, so why are you sharing it here, now?
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Do the “universities are hotbeds of Marxist indoctrination” people have a favored explanation for why all of these alleged vipers dens of anti-capitalism primarily produce graduates that staff the Fortune 500?
Thomas A Brown@reallythistoo
When a large majority of graduates have a better opinion of socialism than capitalism, I think whether their professors identified as Marxist is missing the point. It's obviously leftist economics and history they were taught. Is that strictly "Marxism"? Choose your Scotsman.
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@sixtynineIQ @toastyJ @steadylunes @thinkingwest There's a bizarre disconnect in the country where it's never been better objectively, but some consumers think it's terrible. wsj.com/economy/consum…
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@toastyJ @steadylunes @thinkingwest This is bullshit and you know it. The Iran war was completely voluntary, Covid just happened.
And now we have a national average gas price that’s something like $5 and our inflation rate nearly doubled.
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The FDR worship needs to end.
Putting him over Washington? Criminal behavior
Jeanne 🇺🇦✝️ | 26-27 • 10.0 GB@JeanIsWitherin
I just took APUSH and genuinely forgot what a few of these guys even did
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@JamesWHankins1 For intellectual rigor it's important to agree that Marx added useful tools for understanding the world that expanded on Hegel and are distinct from his odious positions. All revisionist history is also downstream of Marx though, and that 90% is who we're focused on.
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Most historians I know believe that Marxism provides some useful intellectual tools but are not dogmatic. The question to me is whether you can use the 'tools' without buying into the metaphysical assumptions that support them.
Theo Mercer@theomercer1877
@JamesWHankins1 Are they comfortable hiring Marxists because they agree with the ideology or just to be contrarian?
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@Tyler_A_Harper @PhilWMagness @JacobAShell Your word games only fortify our righteous fury. Every bad idea in academia from the last 70 years is downstream of Marx. You can play "not THOSE dialectics" but know we'll tear down until the cancer's out; we'll boot the Hegelians if we need to.
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@PhilWMagness @JacobAShell It’s not a sleight of hand: Marxism is, first and foremost, an account of class exploitation and conflict. You cannot simply substitute “class” for some other demographic box (gender, race, whatever) and still have Marxism left over.
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There are a ton of Marxists in academia and Tyler knows that, and also knows that the grant system doesnt directly incentivize class-centric Marxism and instead asks academic Marxists to find ways to twist their real interests into the race/gender/climate rubric.
Tyler Austin Harper@Tyler_A_Harper
On the academia is full of Marxists debate: it’s illustrative to look at Mellon, the largest source of academic humanities funding by orders of magnitude. Projects tagged w/ Marxism in their grant database? 0 Gender studies? 46 Black studies? 25 Social Justice? 42 Latinx? 451
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@BrandonWarmke When we signal that we're coming to turn the Marxists out we mean all Frankfurt School / Critical Theory / 1619 / intersectional victimhood / Anti-colonial studies. We're not prevaricating on "not THOSE dialectics" - does that help clarify?
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Keep seeing this but it’s really apples to oranges. Marxism is a specific political ideology w very specific ideas. Marxists are <1% of the US pop. Most socialists aren’t even Marxists.
The GOP is a *political party* w a weird collection of views. And they’re half the country.
Sam Haselby@samhaselby
@BrandonWarmke It is true there is political homogeneity in many departments, and that it excludes Republicans, but it also excludes Marxists, who are a teeny tiny fraction of professors.
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@Kin_Loch @olivertraldi Critical Theory is directly downstream of Marxist dialectics, and critical theory is upstream of every horror academia has unleashed since the 1970s. It is true that Marx is interesting, and also true that you're being obtuse
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@olivertraldi Who is discoursing about this? Marx is interesting, you should read him in college or grad school. Simple as
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I don't really understand the discourse about Marxists in the academy. It seems true to me that Marxism is far more popular among academics than among non-academics. It also seems true to me that Marxism is not rewarded with DEI-style grants, except when it overlaps with them.
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@alsosortofadam Not sure whether you are caught up with the conversation or see Greg's hide-and-seek routine as more becoming of an adult, but here it is anyway. x.com/PhilWMagness/s…
Phil Magness@PhilWMagness
@GregGrandin Do you describe yourself as a Marxist?
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@Pan_Dread No one in the coversation is talking about "secret Marxists"
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I think if Magness were really such the empirical researcher he claims to be, he would settle this by doing some NLP to categorize references to Marx in actual published work. But in reality he's just addicted to Twitter.
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@alsosortofadam I posit academics aligned to ideologies relevant to their professional work where they prefer to keep that alignment hidden is categorically bad. Therefore you chiding Phil's techniques to uncover them as not Scooby-Doo enough is missing the target.
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@Pan_Dread I'm not sure if you're asking a sincere q, but I think it's based on a misunderstanding of what I'm saying
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@JackMal94371989 @Recursion_Agent You can easily cook delicious meals for yourself under $2. I'd be happy show you but I know it would just make you madder
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@Recursion_Agent It actually is and always has been the norm to eat out of you are three or less : cooking at home is not economical in groups of less than four which is why you had friends over for dinner
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This is ahistorical nonsense. In the 1950s, the vast majority of meals were cooked and eaten at home. (75% to 40% today) Food out was a rare treat, and options were much less expensive and expectations much lower.
ChemicalBooty@GodThatLimps
People don't realize this but "cook your own food at home, it's cheaper" is a very modern phenomenon. It was significantly more cost efficient to have one restaurant bulk buy ingredients and cooking supplies instead of making each person do so individually.
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