Dang I really need to read their book, they just distilled a lot of thoughts I have had floating around in my head since the pandemic in a clear and concise way and added some crucial evidence to back it up. You could tell people lost their minds behind the wheel early on in the pandemic and it just continues to get worse. I am sure I myself have become a more inattentive or less capable driver just from the growing psychological burden that is placed on us that continues to swell as contradictions magnify and the capital’s profit shrinks.

It was primarily an Islamophobic movement in the post-Gulf War and 9/11 era.

That’s what it seems like to me. It was very much the same “white dude pseudo-intellectuals pretend they know everything about the world but only push reactionary ideology” as the Peterson, Rogan, etc. bullshit.

Tying retirement to the stock market is insidious class warfare

Liberals don’t get mad at injustice. They have nothing to offer when you bring up why injustices even happen in the first place, and will eventually get angry at you if you don’t drop the issue. Do liberals get mad about cop city? About charter schools? About health care? About homelessness? About the millions that have died due to COVID?

No. They don’t. They go “Ah jeez that’s terrible” and then they act like they can’t think about it anymore because “it can’t be helped.”

Fucking hate that.

They act like if Republicans didn’t exist everything would be great. Well, if Republicans are the ones holding us back from tearing down a society that murders millions and maims countless more, shouldn’t we violently depose them??

Went through a catastrophe in the last 5 years, and yeah to liberals its all a joke because it happened to a “conservative” area

It’s almost every single piece of action/adventure/fantasy fiction and people fucking rage if you deviate from it, it’s harrowing

How did you get a pic of my rear view mirror (I’m already going 10 mph over the speed limit)

My god the way they draw Putin is so fucking racist

I am noticing a lot of similarities with the postbellum American South. They really want to be the Mississippis and Alabamas of the world?

I am begging you liberals to just be familiar with the most basic parts of Marxism

I conflated some things. In Nazi Germany, some 250,000 people were murdered on the basis of eugenic psychiatry that became popular in America and resulted in the sterilization of about 60,000 people. Eugenics in Nazi Germany was heavily influenced by the movement in America and many psychiatrists who continue to have major influence over the field were supporters, like Adolf Meyer. I could have sworn I read an article more directly drawing comparisons between the eugenic psychology in early 20th century America to the practice today, but I can’t find it so I can’t claim a super strong connection there.

You’re right, I got some things conflated. Nazi Germany were actually using eugenic ideas pushed first by psychiatry in the US in the early 20th century to mass murder up to 250,000 people. Many of the most prominent psychiatrists in the early 20th century in the US were eugenicists, some who have major legacies to this day. I remember reading something previously that linked these eugenicist ideas to modern psychiatry but I can’t find it. I’ll edit my post.

Oh totally, it was pretty entertaining

EDIT: In Nazi Germany, some 250,000 people were murdered on the basis of eugenic psychiatry that became popular in America and resulted in the sterilization of about 60,000 people. Eugenics in Nazi Germany was heavily influenced by the movement in America and many psychiatrists who continue to have major influence over the field were supporters, like Adolf Meyer.

Its a worthy topic to bring up again, there are obviously people that took it too far and into the realm of ideology but I felt like a lot of people were also too dismissive.

The labor aristocracy that benefit from imperialism in the core is actually relatively small. I would imagine maybe 20-30% at most. The majority of people are struggling. How much longer can the manufactured reality of the west hold when people are increasingly become impoverished and starving?

I think you should go and fight!

Michael Hudson sitting in the corner like Jim from the office