"But while the cities become gentrified centers of a trust fund overclass, rural America is ever more entrenched in the “high tech, low life” character of cyberpunk futures."
“…the ‘Bolivarian process’ despite all the drama and legitimately fascinating and significant social experiments…was never anymore “revolutionary” than Mamdani’s mayorship of NYC (or for those with memories longer then a Ticktock reel-Lumumba’s mayorship of Jackson).”
"the slogan of 'fully automated luxury gay space communism' is instructive in this respect. It demands not the use of technique for the manifestation of spirit but the complete triumph of technique over spirit. . ."
"To overcome legal cynicism, there is a need to defend and uphold the original revolutionary and natural function of the law, which is the only way to disarm our opponents of their own legal cynicism."
"Today, even the talk of a “dirty break,” which — despite its regressed character and questionable premises — registered at least some awareness of the need to organize a politically independent force for socialism, seems to have vanished."
"Pirates are not principally a moral problem. They are what happens when the state trains people to do a thing and then declines to hire them to do that thing."
- @BMStudebaker
Patrick continued that “you need to be critical towards that elite class so that you can improve the social organization of your country. And so,” he expressed, “that is sort of what the New Right is becoming.”
@NikosMohammadi
"They do not see themselves as working class, because no one says they are. America says nothing about them, because they, their families, and the community colleges they attend are invisible."
"So, you know, let the kids have their AI; what’s already there. Distributed consciousness classrooms. Boilers and flat roofs. More to the point, let the teachers use AI . . . Let Claude, happy-go-lucky engine of reification, go to school"
"If, under American law, Mangione could be deemed not guilty because he killed a man who led an organization that, in the opinion of many, was unduly exploiting society, who would not live in fear of being killed?"