The author previously wrote "The Socialist Case for Longtermism” in Jacobin, worked as a Python dev and data analytics person, and worked for McKinsey.
I like some people who have written for Jacobin, sometimes I even enjoy an article here and there, but the magazine as a whole remains utterly unbeaten in the “will walk the length of Manhattan in a “GIANT RUBE” sandwich board for clicks” stakes
after what I’ve heard my local circles say about jacobin (and unfortunately I don’t remember many details — I should see if anybody’s got an article I can share) I’m no longer shocked when I find out they’re platforming and redwashing shitty capitalist mouthpieces
Okay but I feel like they’re more on the Sixpence None the Richer side of Christian rock (the “hey, that song’s a catchy bop!” kind where you’re surprised when you find out their Christian) and not the really obvious waste-of-guitars kind, like a hair metal band called something like “Ĥe Gëŧz Ǘ§” that only performs drum heavy anthems about communion.
this reminds me of a plankton organization or something called “blockchain socialism”, where the only thing that they have taken from socialism was aesthetics and probably they also thought that gays are fine people, but nothing beyond that. they would say “Monero can be used for anti-state purposes, therefore it’s good for leftism” and shit like that
I think I’ve met that guy! they’re the weirdest person I’ve ever seen get bounced from a leftist group under suspicion of being a fed (the weird crypto shit was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
it’s kind of amazing how many financial scams try to appropriate leftist language and motivations to lure in marks, while the actual scheme is one of the most unrepentantly greedy and wasteful things you can do without going to prison (and some of them cross even that line)
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The author previously wrote "The Socialist Case for Longtermism” in Jacobin, worked as a Python dev and data analytics person, and worked for McKinsey.
I like some people who have written for Jacobin, sometimes I even enjoy an article here and there, but the magazine as a whole remains utterly unbeaten in the “will walk the length of Manhattan in a “GIANT RUBE” sandwich board for clicks” stakes
Wasn’t that piece linked here before? Lemmy’s search is shit unfortunately.
I’m not pulling it up either, but I remember sneering at it. weird
I don’t recall
after what I’ve heard my local circles say about jacobin (and unfortunately I don’t remember many details — I should see if anybody’s got an article I can share) I’m no longer shocked when I find out they’re platforming and redwashing shitty capitalist mouthpieces
i have long considered Jacobin the Christian rock of socialism
forget the article, this does the job in so many fewer words
Okay but I feel like they’re more on the Sixpence None the Richer side of Christian rock (the “hey, that song’s a catchy bop!” kind where you’re surprised when you find out their Christian) and not the really obvious waste-of-guitars kind, like a hair metal band called something like “Ĥe Gëŧz Ǘ§” that only performs drum heavy anthems about communion.
This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.
I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably “The German Question” a couple of weeks ago.
I get this is a damning with faint praise but sometimes when you’re looking around in the American leftist press and you find
the people who got Reality Winner sent to prison and who were GG’s home for years, and just had layoffs,
and Nathan J Robinson’s vanity zine,
and you just desperately are willing to settle for anything, anyone at all.
@gnomicutterance @sneerclub Are you familiar with An=my Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”?
this reminds me of a plankton organization or something called “blockchain socialism”, where the only thing that they have taken from socialism was aesthetics and probably they also thought that gays are fine people, but nothing beyond that. they would say “Monero can be used for anti-state purposes, therefore it’s good for leftism” and shit like that
that’s one weird fucking guy, thankfully
I think I’ve met that guy! they’re the weirdest person I’ve ever seen get bounced from a leftist group under suspicion of being a fed (the weird crypto shit was the straw that broke the camel’s back)
the famously leftist pastime, speculation/gambling on nonproductive assets
it’s kind of amazing how many financial scams try to appropriate leftist language and motivations to lure in marks, while the actual scheme is one of the most unrepentantly greedy and wasteful things you can do without going to prison (and some of them cross even that line)