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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very good second half about the lobotomizing side-effects of the conservative welfare state’s promise of "eternal college for aggrieved liberals." Will be interesting to see what will become of these losers once austerity hits their sector as America’s oligarchs have to re-orientate post Trump.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ironically, the Trump people want nothing so much as to govern a socialist economy or at least be FDR

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The overall Reacher season was pretty good but more than anything, I will spend a while thinking about that final scene of Reacher sharing bread with the homeless woman. It was a beautiful encapsulating of both America‘s boundless cruelty and normal people‘s natural solidarity and urge to resist it.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Islamic incusion" is "concerning to most Texans." I do love these guys for the wild shit they cook up and how they represent a funhouse mirror of reality. Really doing justice to Marx' camera obscura. But at some point you really have to take a step back: Islamic incursion in Texas. Mentally ill.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Rob: You know Katie, I‘m feeling optimistic. The economy has good fundamentals and Q3 earnings are up. I‘m going long on the dollar *and* 10-year bonds. Katie: I‘m going short on the concept of air travel and, lets say uhhm, supermarkets.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You know, a functioning political party might want to curtail the stuff that its political enemy is using for scams or the country‘s enemy is using for funding, or that is being used to defraud its own voters. An actual party could maybe whip its members; maybe even when it held the presidency?

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If the Dems were to ever give (in to) something demanded by the base, this would open up Pandora‘s Box of material demands which is something the party will not and, crucially, can not deliver on under the structural conditions imposed on it by the 90s neoliberlization of its electorate.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The only control or 'guardrails' that Al needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" This is one of those Trump lines that is both inanely stupid and something you can write several different 2-houre lectures around, depending on the subject of the course

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Its ironic that the GOP reached the apex of its potential power with Bush Sr., his cadre of former CIA hitmen, and psychos like Rove or Bill Barr, but what killed him was the same impulse to un-fuck the post-Reagan economy. It‘s all happening again but infinitely dumber without Rove, Barr etc.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The AI summary of two decades of annoying, pandering, pathetic, juvenile, and evil bullshit. I can‘t imagine anybody wanting to watch this that hasn‘t already come around to him being a POS loser since he tried Sieg-Heiling his way to X‘s top 10 most re-X‘d Xs of the year. There‘s no catharsis here.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What‘s interesting is that McConnell might just be receiving the last bit of social solidarity left withing the GOP. As the coalition devours itself, nobody of any stature is throwing him under the bus, even though he seems to have been literally run over by one. The payout for a life‘s dedication.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The US President‘s greatest power since '45 has been to bend reality to his will via the sheer might of US influence. Ironic that right as the greatest modern fabulist assumes office, this power dissolves into a dialectical morras of screaming against the intrusion of reality.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From time to time, I really do miss Twitter. The percentage of Nazis is now too high for my taste, but I do miss checking in on my closeted guys like SunEnjoyer or BronzeAgeVitalist. I miss Jash‘s idiotic book reports or Charles Haywood reinventing Strasserism and seeling Franco-themed bars of soap.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Saying this as a former union organizer: Like with the seizure of oil tankers at the start of the admin, it is clear and frankly impressive how well the think tank right has managed to do various power analyses to find lynchpins and bottlenecks they can exert pressure on to further their goals.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Translation: You‘re not getting public healthcare, housing, or just school lunches. But if you‘re lucky, you get to subsidize a machine for generating industrial amounds of child porn and memes about how half the population should be either killed, or placed in breeding pens. Onshoring!

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Books written, movies made, cash cashed, posts posted, brain fried

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This owns So. Fucking. Much. Mexican stand-off but you also point a gun to you own head. The gamble here is that the appointed Fed psycho Warsh cares more about the US’ standard of living and health of industry (which I made my whole thing via idiotic tariffs!), than I do, the elected president.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Worth restating every now and then: Marxist theory allows for understanding individual incentives and structures of capitalism. But once approaching its logical endpoint its most powerful actors are able to retreat from the laws of capitalism. At that point, their individual neuroses start to matter

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Trump pretending to be his publicist, talking to Vanity Fair journos about how awesome Donald Trump‘s chandeliers are.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This has been a major factor for the radicalization of our current cycle of nouveau capitalists. The comparisons to Gould, Morgan etc. are frequent but a point to stress is that Zuck etc. never faced the same pressures and thus never learned how to manage a fundamentally oppositional employee base.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Early on Matt Christman said that the true horror of Trump was that all of US pop culture, commentary, even PoMo art in its entirety had predicted Trump but that nothing pointed beyond him. Now, the US has surpassed peak Verhoeven, which only confirms his observation. There is still nothing beyond.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Fascinating to witness in real time Markest People understanding that 1) there is no such thing as The Market and 2) there is no such thing as the rational Homo Economicus. Trump deliberately pissing off the entire world is now 'trickling down‘ to the US essential credit rating.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All social media is based on funneling, channeling, and profiteering off of the massive social alienation produced by late capitalism, which in turn produces these kinds of companies and business models that only further said alienation. LB is part of this but also, basically, the only good service.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is a very real connection between friends of mine in Europe not being able to get a job, and Americans being gradually driven insane by the contradictions of living in the World Capital of Freedom, but not having access to medical procedures basic to any civilized society.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump 1 was characterized by him, daily, saying the dumbest shit imaginable, but there being little to no consequences. Trump 2 is still him saying the dumbest shit imaginable, but now his entire cabinet does so too and occasionally there are horrendous consequences. The whiplash administration.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is exactly why I emphasize the active voice during writing classes: clarity and you sound less like a fool. But when the liberal consensus is at stake, sacrifices must made; like good grammar. Thank you New York Times.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I‘m sorry you career got shot to shit Col. Josh Gaspard but why did you Parachute into Afghanistan? Why were you in Iraq? Why did you stick around in the US military even after learning what an illegal disaster this all was? Or why did you apparently never learn that fucking lesson. Fuck these peope

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I genuinely do not see the downside to this. We are hurdling towards unimaginable catastrophe regardless of what Hegseth or even Trump do. These are all GWOT people, most of them have killed people, all of them violated at least intl. and prob US law by being part of this disaster.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Genuinely thought this was about trans politics, but it is just about naming that fucking lake. This isn‘t cowardice, this is a maximizing of "securing bag". Nobody fears consequences over renaming a fucking lake for Americans. What they fear is a 48-96h dip in stock bc. Trump tweeted about it.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You can‘t even call that line a product of focus-group brain. What the fuck are you talking about even? This was Nov. 7th. How are you throwing a constituency under the bus rather than the candidate. This is politics 101. Again, this is not a party. He is providing his kids job security at KPMG.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

smth smth Freddy Mercury, smth smth skin-tight suit, smth smth about biting dust. Kinda wild to see how much Democrats suck even in the lowest of low positions. Appreciate DSA etc but this is a terminal fucking party. No coming back. Take the shell and, at best, remold it.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 01/09/2026

A liberal is a conservative who just got mugged by the police

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

DSA being able to doing entryism stems from the same central problem that allows Gottheimer et al to wage war against essentially their own constituents: The Democratic Party is *not* a political party in the sense that the GOP, the CCP, or any one in really any parliamentary system are.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The President has AI neurosis. It‘s a natural fit: Trump will constantly create alternate realities for him where‘s he is not owned, not a loser etc. But he is also very lazy, which is why all his lies and stories are so shoddy. AI lets him live his alt. reality without having to do any work. Cool!

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Anytime Americans marvel at a pure expression of eurotrash culture, I think of that Tyler Cowen quote about how Europeans are these intelligent, sophisticated creatures whose incompetence will tank capitalism immediately if given the reigns and like… yeah. Tank it all for the sake of this.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There should be a medal that gets handed out for just being normal. Not like a big ceremonial one, but smth akin to the plentitude of Sovety hero of X. Just, "American hero of being regular." American hero of not shouting at your neighbor. American hero of behaving normal in Target.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bouie reads. That‘s sinply it. He‘s not a historian, not a sociologist, certainly not a Marxist. What Bouie is, is a person who reads academic literature in his spare time. It must be at least 20 years since David French last read a book that didn’t have a write-up National Review.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In her great wisdom, my mom always told me: "It‘s a country of 370 million people. You can not generalize about Americans." I‘ve always tried to heed her advice and transmit it to my students. Anyway, Americans are fucking pathetic and only a war on their own government can prove otherwise.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

US conservatives have one big advantage in how close the twitch endings of their nervous system are tied to the logics and side effects of capitalism. Yeah you can read Marx to *get* it all, but you'll never *feel* it the way they do. So I wonder, when did she know her balling career would end soon?

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yeah Trump is cruel, vindictive, petty, perhaps the dumbest man America has managed to produce. But he is also genuinely hilarious. Do it, you fat fucking pussy.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Something Amber A'Lee frost said after the 2020 election really got stuck in my head: discussing her article about Mothership Connection and its All-Caps Headlines inovation, she said the Dem‘s consultants were taking Bernie‘s small donor funding model and turning it into "a golem of cynicism"

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It‘s good that the US is prepping to give this inbred moron nukes, because that will make it so much more spicy when he finally spirals out as the country‘s only industry dies off, social unreast rises, and he finally understands that he‘s been duped for decades by literally everybody. Awesome.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How can thse people never find normal, non-ominous names. Human Diversity Foundation makes evil clones in a Deus Ex reboot. It is the name Umbrella goes under in a Resident Evil movie. Can you name yourself as the thing you‘re against but not say you‘re against it like "End Citizens United Now"?

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The recurring discourse of Americans complaining about Free Speech(TM) or a lack thereof in Europe is the most "you don‘t even go to this school anymore" ass conversation possible. It exists solely to make you dumber.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This entire affair reveals to me once again that: 1) most people who talk about universities have absolutely no idea how they work. Which is also why the NYT is so infuriating and 2) people who do are becoming increasingly stircrazy as they are forced into the zero-sum environ of a dying institution

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Not to go all Pontypool, but there must be something about the english language that causes people to develop brain fog when talking about 'free speech'. Free speech is dumb and it is not a thing in Europe. You are legally not allowed to advocate for racial euthanasia. Same under academic freedom.

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The FT asking: obviously Pervert Glasses(TM) is great as an abstract exercise in branding, but is Pervert Glasses(TM) an actually good marketing choice for companies with as solid a reputation as Facebook?

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My Führer, the Court rejected your Ballroom For years my generals have been lying to me and betrying me! And yet I built that ballroom all on my own while you were still at archecture school, learning about Wagner with Kate Wagner! Its all over now. Do what you must, you can find me in Mar-A-Lago…

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What this means is SC has even less reason to hand Trump his ballroom since the NatSec argument is out of the window. The Downfall memes where Hitler learns about the ballroom’s final instance rejection are going to be So Fucking Fire. "Ganz auf mich allein gestellt habe ich den Ballsaal gebaut!"

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The original rizzler @rizzotherad.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It‘s so cool that how market actors are finally coming to the open realization that US credibility is completely shot, but they are doing it in relation to the one market where a collapse of credibility would also guarantee a collapse of, like, everything?

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