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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The sale of an item, instead of being the end of the exchange, becomes the beginning of a parasitic relationship; one that siphons value from the same commodity again & again, long after it was supposedly sold.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

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You Will Own Nothing: The Age of Rentier Capitalism

Replacing property with permission

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wrote about how capital is quietly changing the meaning of ownership. From PlayStation ending physical discs to software subscriptions and paywalled cars, a sale no longer ends an exchange, it transforms it into rent. Link below 👇

We watch our shows on streaming services, we upload our photos to the cloud storage, we buy ebooks with voidable licenses on e-readers that may just stop working one day if Amazon says so, we buy smart home devices with advertising you can't turn off, even our cars now have paywalls. A sale is no longer a sale, it is a temporary arrangement granting us access to a good for a limited period of time, to be revoked at will. In the pursuit of forever profits, rather than innovation, the capitalist class has decided they would prefer to keep charging you for the same thing again and again. Capitalists are moving on from simple commodity production to a more nebulous commodity: permission. You will own nothing, but will you be happy?

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I wrote about how Palantir is not some new foreign evil but is actually completely unremarkable and merely the next logical step of a system that abstracts, commoditizes, and tracks every aspect of human life Link below 👇

have built myself. When reduced to its parts, what is Palantir but yet another collection of metrics and dashboards, insights and analytics, events and signals, but directed at entire populations instead of customers? While consumer or b2b products track what you click, what you buy, where you drop off, what predicts churn, to determine how a company should act on a consumer base, the logic embedded in that is the same as the logic embedded in technofascism. People are transformed into signals that are used to determine how to coerce or control them. To either get them to perform a desired behavior (like complete a purchase), or to predict whether they are a danger to the state. In both cases the human being is mere commodity.
It is only logical to see the former "neutral" implementation of technology as merely the nascent expression of one that exists to dominate and repress the masses. Industrial capitalism at

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ДАЙТЕ ЕЙ ГОТОВИТЬ ☭☭🍰🌸🥧 @sovietcakelady.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The capitalists of old gave such concessions because unified labor was a very real threat, the USSR's entire existence gave workers in the imperial core a standard. The entire history of the US post WWII was to destroy that & the moment the USSR was dissolved was the moment that all went away!

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don’t know how anyone still convinces themselves we live in a democracy when all our politicians are in the 10% of every 90/10 issue.

Sam Altman, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer breaking ground at the Saline Twp data center project

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Me, atheistly: I like the Woke Pope

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kentropic @kentropic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is why oligarchs have steadily undermined public education & the humanities, including (especially) history: in the hope that we’ll all forget the collective power of organized ordinary people.

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Orchestructive @orchestructive.com · 18/05/2026

We are very quickly (like historically unprecedentedly quickly) going to enter into an economy where things will be cheap to make, expensive to buy, and no one can afford them HUGE corporations will crumble, then merge/be bought Nothing they make will work well No one will be able to buy anything

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A critique of AI and its evangelists as the newest snake oil salesmen in the proud capitalist tradition, written by someone with a Disco Elysium profile pic? here for it

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Connor Rorick @crorick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is such a profoundly saddening situation. I don’t think people realize just how brutally screwed we are.

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Rframpt3D - Character Artist - Available for work @dennissangill.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Incredible piece. you should go read it

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I wrote about how AI is destroying my career and what it means that highly skilled jobs are being deskilled with nothing to replace them Link below 👇

$era. Having to hire human workers who might have pesky demands for more pay, better hours, or better working conditions is but a nuisance to them. They want to streamline their businesses by - ideally - not needing to hire humans at all. They are being sold a dream of a 100% agent operated business where they purchase tokens instead of labor hours, and at a fraction of the cost. After all, agents won't ever try to unionize. They don't need weekends off. They don't get sick or fall pregnant. They can't strike. They won't fight back. When the one of the last vestiges of upward mobility ("just learn to code") is being increasingly proletarianized and made redundant, it signals that the owner class has completely abandoned the notion that a minimum quality of life must be made possible for workers, even aspirationally. The oligarchs of old used to talk about a "riot tax": some minimal concessions by capitalism to prevent the working class from an uprising; a base level standard of comfort that would quell a revolution. Our modern day oligarchs no longer feel such impulses. They (either rightly or wrongly) predict that no such uprising will occur, even if their wildest dreams come true and 25% of the workforce becomes unemployed and unemployable.$

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 02/05/2026

Did you guys hear about Will Stancil leaking the Tinder ICE Honey Trap details just to take credit for the work done by women for months (ruining the entire operation by doing so)?

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This happened in under 10 hours

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🇵🇸🇱🇧🇨🇺Chud Destroyer @communismwillwin.com · 16/02/2026

“This is what it’s like to live in a de facto one-party state. No matter what the popular support for an issue is, the will of the voters is never reflected in policy, and no matter which party wins, the Republicans get almost everything they want.”

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Democrats are not exactly like republicans, they are a compliment to them. They are not weak, they are ideologically committed. They are behaving exactly as you should expect people who believe deeply in this system to behave. My latest: www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/one-party-...

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One Party State

What Republicans are doing could never work without a willing accomplice

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This probably won’t play well on Bluesky but I’m saying it anyway. If AOC wants to win and not only win but be a transformative president, she has to get some better foreign policy thinkers to guide her. Matt Dussism that tries to marry woke NATO Atlanticism with a muddied anti-imperialism 1/3

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“Life has taught me some hard lessons & the hardest of these is that not every story has a happy ending. Sometimes it’s just an ending. So I don’t know, maybe it’s important to hang on to the improbable because at least it’s not this.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

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Losing What You Never Had

Is this all there is?

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Admitting that you’ll vote for someone worse than Trump if they have a D next to their name. We know!!!

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

If we accept this, we will accept anything. My latest. www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/if-we-acce...

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If We Accept This, We Will Accept Anything

On what this moment requires

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

“I believe that there are millions of Renee Goods & Alex Prettis in this country & I believe we’re stronger, braver & more steadfast any of these low rent Nazis. I believe in you & I believe we can win. We only need to decide.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

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If We Accept This, We Will Accept Anything

On what this moment requires

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I knew this was going to happen and I really resent everyone that has acted as if it wasn’t even a real possibility

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Here’s the thing man: there’s already violence in the streets. You’re just saying it should only be on the side of the state.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

People are quickly going to come to the conclusion that there’s only one thing left that they can do to fight back if they see that everyone in power has abandoned them

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I wrote about the death of consensus reality www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/the-death-...

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I’ve never said there’s nothing you could do. Try reading a book and learning about the things you need to do when voting stops mattering. Your intellectual laziness is not my failing.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Sooooo what’s the “primary every Dem” solution to these people just doing whatever and installing a dictatorship?

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The senate has approved four of this guy’s federal court appointees in the past 3 days. One of them got more than a dozen Democratic votes that weren’t even needed for confirmation.

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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

“We must go to war for a future where this barbarism is not only unacceptable, but rare. Where there is no reward for inhumanity. If we want to live in a society, building one from scratch is our only hope.” - @scarletred.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dialecti...

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We Do Not Live In A Society

We Need To Build One

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Andre Easton is a socialist candidate running to primary Ritchie Torres in NY-15. Watch the video.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The tattoo is undoubtedly bad but I want to caution folks against using Jewish Insider as a source that Platner knew it was a deaths head. Jewish Insider is responsible for a lot of genocidal propaganda and should not be seen as credible under any circumstances

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Instead of looking for the next Zohran we should be asking where is our next Malcolm? our next Fidel? our next Lenin? I wrote about how we can avoid the mistakes of the past by forming structures outside of our institutions whereby natural leaders emerge www.dialecticsofdecline.com/p/where-are-...

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Where Are The Revolutionaries?

̶Who is the next Z̶o̶h̶r̶a̶n̶ Fidel?

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I’m on so many lists with the word tankie in them. I can’t believe people still use this word in 2025

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

i don’t normally endorse block lists (i’m on some, weirdly lumped in with people i myself have blocked) but i don’t see how blocking all these accts with one button is bad. most importantly, DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM. they already own X so they wouldn’t be here if they weren’t trying to start shit.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

“Every parade has a right to exist” is going to be knocking around in my brain forever

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Judging by how bad cops are at solving crime I bet getting away with murder is actually way easier than the shows make it seem

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I wrote this a while ago about criticisms on the left of the Palestine protests and I think it can also be applied to criticisms of the liberal No Kings protests. I think the category error I see the most is in expecting the protest itself to be an end and not a means

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skoals @muscleskoals.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

IF there’s free and fair elections and IF democrats manage to win all they need to do is rebuild every federal agency and program from the ground up. easy peasy

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I do not think it is too outlandish at this point to imagine that Elon is directly feeding a lot of this user information directly these nazis

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I have been crowing on about how voting can’t save us from this mess for such a long time. Maybe this will be the thing that makes it click for people. I might be way off base but I think it’s delusional for people to talk about the midterms or 28 elections as if they are going to be real.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I am way too emotionally invested in these people to not get another season of this show :(

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This book is gonna give me nightmares man (The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp)

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The Hell Curve @thehellcurve.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Remember when stonetoss got IDed and Musk made it a bannable offense to tweet his name.

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It’s like you don’t want more people to come here

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