torpike.bsky.social

torpike.bsky.social

@torpike.bsky.social

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The scottish economist?

Doctor Wind Turkey@dog-envier.bsky.social

I was teaching Adam Smith on sympathy and, to my delight, he doesn't just *assume* that you can't directly feel someone else's feelings, he explicitly argues for it. (He's trying to show that sympathy is imaginative perspective-taking rather than something more like perception.)

Just say what you want instead of inventing a sympathetic person who might have also been affected

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

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it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

This seems barely true? This idea that every democrat made the economy better, while ever republican has made it worse has been featured on primetime since 2016

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Its always funny how claims are laundered as confessions. He is not under duress and he is willingly making these statements, that while I believe them to be directionally true, he very much wants to persuade us of.

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In fact there was a point in time when it seemed like shumer wouldn't prevent a shutdown and his left opposition felt like its cruel to leave americans hurting for electing trump.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social

(The theory is not, I think, that the ruling class does not "know how" to rule. It is that widely dispersed class *cannot* rule, and needs to develop some specialized agency to represent it.)

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

sure sure you can have hegemony by trade, ideology and cultural influence, but does that make your dick hard?

The New York mayoral candidate correctly believes that both the marginal propensity to consume and the marginal utility of consumption are decreasing

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

The New York mayoral candidate mistakenly believes the economy is a zero-sum game, writes Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute. https://on.ft.com/44IOZe2

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