Reposted by Inalienistben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026roger scruton wrote that conservatism was the ideology of "unthinking men [laudatory]" and that the sin of liberalism/the left was thinking too hard and long about things 1112
Reposted by InalienistJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...404media.coCops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box. 352194733
Reposted by InalienistIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 11/09/2026Trump’s domestic terrorism directive, NSPM-7, links “anti-capitalism” and “anti-Christianity” to political violence. Tina Al-khersan and Azadeh Shahshahani examine its roots in 25 years of post-9/11 policing. #september11 inthesetimes.com/article/war-...inthesetimes.comHow The War on Terror Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years LaterTwenty five years after the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, the U.S government continues to expand its tools of repression to further crush dissent. 2136
Reposted by InalienistEvan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Pigouvian taxes while you're driving, land value taxes when you're parking 0131
Reposted by InalienistMinnesota Leftist @jnfelts76.bsky.social · 11/09/2026youtube.com/watch?v=M-_W...youtube.comThe Anti-Life or How Capitalism Will Die (with Math)YouTube video by Literate Machine 012
Reposted by Inalienistnickforbrains 🏳️🌈 @nickforbrains.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think it’s funny that Rs think we should have warm fuzzies about “capitalism” and we should also be terrified of “socialism.” They can’t define either term and we’re supposed to have an emotional response? Ridiculous. 0105
Reposted by Inalienistfelicity of images @carc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Utopia governed by utilitarian robot where people hack their pain and pleasure centers in an arms race to make themselves more and more into utility monsters so resources are distributed to them and not their enemies 151
Reposted by Inalienistdamniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/09/2026i took my kids to shop for new clothes for the school year today at old navy and i regret to inform you that the 90s have officially returned 6533
Reposted by InalienistEli Sennesh @elisennesh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026First principles are a social coordination mechanism, and an even better one when they're actually true. 001
Reposted by InalienistYour Ad Here [10 chars] @cooluser354.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Punch Nazis includes strasserites, redbrowns, and fourth theorists 1324
Reposted by InalienistMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Reminds me of the reasonablists from Parks & Rec. “they call themselves that so that if you disagree you automatically seem unreasonable” 1533
Reposted by InalienistInalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I disagree with the argument that consequentialism is good. Consequentialism is inconsistent due to a variant of the consequentialist judgment paradox thought experiment put forward by Arthur Ionescu. In this thought experiment, there are 3 elements 101
Inalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This sentence isn't known to be true by any omniscient being. This sentence creates a paradox that logically entails the set of omniscient beings is empty, so there is no God. Atheist Refutes Arguments for God youtu.be/RILIkM354skyoutu.beAtheist Refutes Arguments for God (Redeemed Zoomer Reaction)YouTube video by Alchemist Soil 100
Reposted by InalienistAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 10/09/2026There is a stupid version of leftism that believes no company can ever serve a useful purpose; that they're pure greed and graft 100% of the time, price discovery is fake, etc. Even if you abolished capitalism, someone would need to invent worker-owned insurance and other financial functions. 152
Reposted by InalienistInalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Another mechanism capital uses is straight up wage theft. One could argue capitalism itself is theft at a fundamental level: youtube.com/shorts/5FGyj...youtube.comThe biggest form of theft in AmericaYouTube video by Inalienist 012
Reposted by InalienistAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026No matter how much you throw trans people under the bus, you are still going to get attacked. All you've done is betray a vulnerable minority, anger your base, and made the issue front and center. 8652891329
Inalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Democrats need to avoid punching left. Doing so only helps Republicans in smearing Democrat policies as socialism. We need to associate socialism with good governance. 000
Reposted by InalienistInalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Democratizing the economy is abolishing capitalism. Worker co-ops can compete with each other under socialism. Far from anti-capitalism being illiberal, there are strong arguments based on liberal inalienable rights theory that capitalism itself is illiberal: www.ellerman.org/inalienable-...ellerman.orgInalienable Rights: Part I The Basic ArgumentWhat is the inalienable rights theory that descends from the Reformation through the Enlightenment and that answers the classical apologies for slavery and autocracy based on implicit or explicit volu... 121
Reposted by InalienistAaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“He’s cutting regulations that’s right wing or liberal” open up the schools. Do you know how many regulations are crony capitalism or rent seeking? 321610
Reposted by Inalienistegg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026doing things that help small businesses compete is squarely in the DemSoc wheelhouse. socialism as an economic theory isn’t pro-regulation just for its own sake, overregulation only serves capital who can afford to comply 271
Reposted by InalienistInalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Market economies governed democratically doesn't describe the status quo: www.ellerman.org/on-liberalis... The employer-employee contract is inherently non-democratic. 111
Reposted by Inalienistunderscoredan @underscoredan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Red-hot mad that the demsoc is going liberalism better than any liberal is currently doing 0151
Reposted by InalienistInalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The distinction between social democracy and democratic socialism is overblown. Ernst Wigforss, a pioneer of Swedish social democracy, supported workplace democracy rights that modern democratic socialists advocate. davidellerman.substack.com/p/ernst-joha...davidellerman.substack.comErnst Johannes Wigforss (1881–1977)A pioneer of Swedish social democracy 031
Reposted by InalienistRiggs @bigrigg47.bsky.social · 09/09/2026As a democratic socialist, for me at least, this sort of good-government liberalism is not just a compatible ideology, but a necessary subset of the overall democratic socialist agenda. If you want the government to do lots of good for people, it needs to do a lot, but it also needs to do it well. 101
Reposted by InalienistAthul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2026Like, sorry, you can’t say he’s “not really a democratic socialist” because he understands that governing involves tradeoffs or because he’s gutting protectionist regulations that have nothing to do with democratic socialism 31737
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026my steelman is that good governance doesn't attach to any specific ideological label (though it *excludes* certain ideological labels, like, say, "conservative") 251
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is why I am a liberal socialist and not a Leninist revolutionary. The expected outcome of stochastic violence is "socialism less likely and barbarism more likely" 159412
Reposted by InalienistWell, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 08/09/2026Hayek wrote Road to Serfdom talking about socialism as if it was all Marxism-Leninism. Conservatives spent 75 years dining out on this sleight of hand. What if we do the same with conservatism, equating everything in its direction as leading to MAGA? 141
Reposted by Inalienistaslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 07/09/2026tired of the screeching cries and unbridled panic from people who don’t know the difference between the DSA & the USSR 2121
Reposted by InalienistHT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Many on the left don't seem to get this. If we are going to build an alternative to capitalism we need #EconomicDemocracy, worker controlled cooperatives. We can do this now and many people already are. Join the club! Find out more here. #SocialistSundaycapitalism-creates-poverty.blogspot.comEconomic democracy: building the future, a better world for allA blog for the promotion of social, economic and environmental justice 2179
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026yeah i think everyone involved would prefer DSA vs Establishment Dem politics forever 011
Reposted by InalienistA penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Honestly I think this is an understated aspect of the endless Dem/Left War. There's simply no real ideological contest between Dems and Republicans worthy of any intellectual enthusiasm. No one ever won glory battling a clown. 2333
Reposted by InalienistAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished. 553216695374
Reposted by InalienistClem @clemgrakata.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The apoplectic reaction from Dem leadership to a few Mamdani-backed candidates primarying members of the NY Dem clique really made this abundantly clear. Their reaction was far stronger to that than to LITERAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Tells you everything about their priorities. 03911
Reposted by Inalienistlitho @lith5.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Democratic Party has, by the same logic, made it clear it doesn't "take issue" with some of its elected members opposing due process for immigrants. Guilt-by-association is dumb. 021
Reposted by InalienistMutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 02/09/2026WHY DID THE CONSERVATIVE STUDENT FAIL THEIR CLASS ON SET THEORY? BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO LEARN ABOUT INTERSECTIONALITY!static.klipy.comFozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up ComedyALT: Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy 0216
Reposted by InalienistMutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 05/09/2026look im just saying a proper "scientific socialism" would be more fox-y data driven RCTs to measuring impact of people making conscious interventions instead of hedgehog-y grand theories of where society is going with the intent of getting ahead of where you think things are going 1163
Reposted by InalienistSam @samd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026jesus fucking christ Trump is using our taxpayer dollars to create a global fascist movement 471020311
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026the second one is the actual ideological content of liberalism, and too many people in the first group are very uncomfortable with this (possibly because adherence to the second would imply that "traditional, establishment and pragmatic approaches" are in conflict with liberalism) 063
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026every single "Democrat" that voted for this law needs to be primaried. Forget what you think about Israel, for or against, "banning boycotts" is prima facie fascist and a violation of any reasonable idea of free speech. If you are a support this, you cannot be in an anti-authoritarian coalition. 0115
Reposted by InalienistA French Guy 🇺🇦 @minotaure1848.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026...and all georgists should be socialists 131
Reposted by InalienistFree Land, Free Trade, Free People @freelandtradeppl.bsky.social · 10/03/2026"Individualism and socialism are in truth not antagonistic but correlative. Where the domain of the one principle ends that of the other begins. ... there is in free trade nothing that conflicts with a rational socialism." 1117
Inalienist @inalienist.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Basic income should be rooted in natural resource value and land value taxation to prevent people treating the basic income as unearned. It is income for everyone's share of the country's natural resources. 1105
Reposted by InalienistEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 80148267741
Reposted by InalienistPotato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Security guards in Kroger telling you to buy the sabra hummus at gunpoint 2271
Reposted by Inalienistopen borders now @radtranslib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026i think number go up is very important!! but just as important is that everyone's number goes up, not just some people's 061
Reposted by Inalienistthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/06/2024You need to be able to trust your own judgement before anyone else’s, ultimately—but this means being absolutely rigorous and uncompromising as to your intellectual integrity, and maintaining epistemological humility. Otherwise your judgement means nothing; it takes work to make it trustworthy. 44910
