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An interesting post, but it IS behind a paywall. I highly recommend you subscribe to John Ganz's Substack Unpopular Front if you like to keep up with Marxist intellegencia and good humor. Ganz is an exemplary prose master, wrote "When the Clock Broke." Contains a quote from Evran Abrahamian in the New Left Review and commentary on Chomsky relations with Epstein. Ganz is working on a new book.
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An interesting post, but it IS behind a paywall. I highly recommend you subscribe to John Ganz's Substack Unpopular Front if you like to keep up with Marxist intellegencia and good humor. Ganz is an exemplary prose master, wrote "When the Clock Broke." Contains a quote from Evran Abrahamian in the New Left Review and commentary on Chomsky relations with Epstein. Ganz is working on a new book.
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An interesting post, but it IS behind a paywall. I highly recommend you subscribe to John Ganz's Substack Unpopular Front if you like to keep up with Marxist intellegencia and good humor. Ganz is an exemplary prose master, wrote "When the Clock Broke." Contains a quote from Evran Abrahamian in the New Left Review and commentary on Chomsky relations with Epstein. Ganz is working on a new book.
#JohnGanz #criticalthinking -
An interesting post, but it IS behind a paywall. I highly recommend you subscribe to John Ganz's Substack Unpopular Front if you like to keep up with Marxist intellegencia and good humor. Ganz is an exemplary prose master, wrote "When the Clock Broke." Contains a quote from Evran Abrahamian in the New Left Review and commentary on Chomsky relations with Epstein. Ganz is working on a new book.
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/players-of-games/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/players-of-games/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/players-of-games/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/players-of-games/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Market participation is exhausting (30 Mar 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/30/players-of-games/
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Your link to the Harper’s essay by John Ganz from 2024, The Dead Admonish. Absorbing, thoughtful and honest writing, a fascinating approach to history. I’m a subscriber to Ganz’s substack, Unpopular Front, and hope you can access it. #JohnGanz https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-dead-admonish-us?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Your link to the Harper’s essay by John Ganz from 2024, The Dead Admonish. Absorbing, thoughtful and honest writing, a fascinating approach to history. I’m a subscriber to Ganz’s substack, Unpopular Front, and hope you can access it. #JohnGanz https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-dead-admonish-us?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Your link to the Harper’s essay by John Ganz from 2024, The Dead Admonish. Absorbing, thoughtful and honest writing, a fascinating approach to history. I’m a subscriber to Ganz’s substack, Unpopular Front, and hope you can access it. #JohnGanz https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-dead-admonish-us?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Your link to the Harper’s essay by John Ganz from 2024, The Dead Admonish. Absorbing, thoughtful and honest writing, a fascinating approach to history. I’m a subscriber to Ganz’s substack, Unpopular Front, and hope you can access it. #JohnGanz https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/the-dead-admonish-us?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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The class composition of American proto-fascism
From John Ganz’s newsletter:
You can go down the list and check; SLSCO, CSI Aviation, and Barnard Construction all have a similar pattern: a regional, closely-held company that is “politically integrated,” so to speak.
If you’re familiar with the work of Melinda Cooper, this wouldn’t surprise you. In 2022, she wrote “the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned” and that “[t]he family-based capitalism that stormed the White House along with Trump stretches from the smallest of family businesses to the most rambling of dynasties, and crucially depends on the alliance between the two.” Trump, of course, comes from this social class, whose business practices are “informal,” or, more blunty put, often downright criminal.
When you add in the presence of Thiel-backed firms like Anduril, you begin to get a picture of the Trump coalition’s material basis. It’s an alliance of this family-based regional scam capital and a reactionary fraction of the tech sector that focuses on defense and security. Then you add in ICE’s function as an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob and all the illiterate influencers and, voila, you have the class composition of actually-existing American fascism, which characteristically enough, is also a racket. It’s the mob from top to bottom.
There was a paper in, I think, Monthly Review years ago which I’m struggling to find which looked at mid-range capital in American politics: those firms which are family owned, regionally dominant but largely invisible from a national perspective. It made the argument these are becoming increasingly central to the American right and what Ganz says here immediately made me think back to it.
I’d add in the more feral end of American finance (including Crypto capital, which I don’t think is the same thing politically as the tech-right, though there are overlaps) and elements of the white middle class afraid of falling for whom that fear has long since become racialised.
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The class composition of American proto-fascism
From John Ganz’s newsletter:
You can go down the list and check; SLSCO, CSI Aviation, and Barnard Construction all have a similar pattern: a regional, closely-held company that is “politically integrated,” so to speak.
If you’re familiar with the work of Melinda Cooper, this wouldn’t surprise you. In 2022, she wrote “the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned” and that “[t]he family-based capitalism that stormed the White House along with Trump stretches from the smallest of family businesses to the most rambling of dynasties, and crucially depends on the alliance between the two.” Trump, of course, comes from this social class, whose business practices are “informal,” or, more blunty put, often downright criminal.
When you add in the presence of Thiel-backed firms like Anduril, you begin to get a picture of the Trump coalition’s material basis. It’s an alliance of this family-based regional scam capital and a reactionary fraction of the tech sector that focuses on defense and security. Then you add in ICE’s function as an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob and all the illiterate influencers and, voila, you have the class composition of actually-existing American fascism, which characteristically enough, is also a racket. It’s the mob from top to bottom.
There was a paper in, I think, Monthly Review years ago which I’m struggling to find which looked at mid-range capital in American politics: those firms which are family owned, regionally dominant but largely invisible from a national perspective. It made the argument these are becoming increasingly central to the American right and what Ganz says here immediately made me think back to it.
I’d add in the more feral end of American finance (including Crypto capital, which I don’t think is the same thing politically as the tech-right, though there are overlaps) and elements of the white middle class afraid of falling for whom that fear has long since become racialised.
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The class composition of American proto-fascism
From John Ganz’s newsletter:
You can go down the list and check; SLSCO, CSI Aviation, and Barnard Construction all have a similar pattern: a regional, closely-held company that is “politically integrated,” so to speak.
If you’re familiar with the work of Melinda Cooper, this wouldn’t surprise you. In 2022, she wrote “the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned” and that “[t]he family-based capitalism that stormed the White House along with Trump stretches from the smallest of family businesses to the most rambling of dynasties, and crucially depends on the alliance between the two.” Trump, of course, comes from this social class, whose business practices are “informal,” or, more blunty put, often downright criminal.
When you add in the presence of Thiel-backed firms like Anduril, you begin to get a picture of the Trump coalition’s material basis. It’s an alliance of this family-based regional scam capital and a reactionary fraction of the tech sector that focuses on defense and security. Then you add in ICE’s function as an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob and all the illiterate influencers and, voila, you have the class composition of actually-existing American fascism, which characteristically enough, is also a racket. It’s the mob from top to bottom.
There was a paper in, I think, Monthly Review years ago which I’m struggling to find which looked at mid-range capital in American politics: those firms which are family owned, regionally dominant but largely invisible from a national perspective. It made the argument these are becoming increasingly central to the American right and what Ganz says here immediately made me think back to it.
I’d add in the more feral end of American finance (including Crypto capital, which I don’t think is the same thing politically as the tech-right, though there are overlaps) and elements of the white middle class afraid of falling for whom that fear has long since become racialised.
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The class composition of American proto-fascism
From John Ganz’s newsletter:
You can go down the list and check; SLSCO, CSI Aviation, and Barnard Construction all have a similar pattern: a regional, closely-held company that is “politically integrated,” so to speak.
If you’re familiar with the work of Melinda Cooper, this wouldn’t surprise you. In 2022, she wrote “the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned” and that “[t]he family-based capitalism that stormed the White House along with Trump stretches from the smallest of family businesses to the most rambling of dynasties, and crucially depends on the alliance between the two.” Trump, of course, comes from this social class, whose business practices are “informal,” or, more blunty put, often downright criminal.
When you add in the presence of Thiel-backed firms like Anduril, you begin to get a picture of the Trump coalition’s material basis. It’s an alliance of this family-based regional scam capital and a reactionary fraction of the tech sector that focuses on defense and security. Then you add in ICE’s function as an employment program for the Trumpenproletarian mob and all the illiterate influencers and, voila, you have the class composition of actually-existing American fascism, which characteristically enough, is also a racket. It’s the mob from top to bottom.
There was a paper in, I think, Monthly Review years ago which I’m struggling to find which looked at mid-range capital in American politics: those firms which are family owned, regionally dominant but largely invisible from a national perspective. It made the argument these are becoming increasingly central to the American right and what Ganz says here immediately made me think back to it.
I’d add in the more feral end of American finance (including Crypto capital, which I don’t think is the same thing politically as the tech-right, though there are overlaps) and elements of the white middle class afraid of falling for whom that fear has long since become racialised.
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/
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finally getting to Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/4-oct-2025-pankaj-mishra-john-ganz-genocides-nationhood-resistance-evolution/#PankajMishra #TheWorldAfterGaza #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Shoah #Holocaust #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #India #Hindutva #nationalism #liberation #genocide
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finally getting to Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/4-oct-2025-pankaj-mishra-john-ganz-genocides-nationhood-resistance-evolution/#PankajMishra #TheWorldAfterGaza #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Shoah #Holocaust #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #India #Hindutva #nationalism #liberation #genocide
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finally getting to Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/4-oct-2025-pankaj-mishra-john-ganz-genocides-nationhood-resistance-evolution/#PankajMishra #TheWorldAfterGaza #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Shoah #Holocaust #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #India #Hindutva #nationalism #liberation #genocide
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finally getting to Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/4-oct-2025-pankaj-mishra-john-ganz-genocides-nationhood-resistance-evolution/#PankajMishra #TheWorldAfterGaza #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Shoah #Holocaust #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #India #Hindutva #nationalism #liberation #genocide
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So many good ideas in this conversation between John Ganz and Max Read about libertarian ideas, Italian futurism, cosmopolitanism, urbanism and politics. Genial, witty, recommended commentary on Peter Thiel, who was interviewed by Ross Douthat, and Zohran Mamdani who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York.
#JohnGanz #MaxRead #Thiel #steelmaning #ZohranMamdani #urbanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/talking-thiel-and-zohran-with-max?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
So many good ideas in this conversation between John Ganz and Max Read about libertarian ideas, Italian futurism, cosmopolitanism, urbanism and politics. Genial, witty, recommended commentary on Peter Thiel, who was interviewed by Ross Douthat, and Zohran Mamdani who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York.
#JohnGanz #MaxRead #Thiel #steelmaning #ZohranMamdani #urbanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/talking-thiel-and-zohran-with-max?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
So many good ideas in this conversation between John Ganz and Max Read about libertarian ideas, Italian futurism, cosmopolitanism, urbanism and politics. Genial, witty, recommended commentary on Peter Thiel, who was interviewed by Ross Douthat, and Zohran Mamdani who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York.
#JohnGanz #MaxRead #Thiel #steelmaning #ZohranMamdani #urbanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/talking-thiel-and-zohran-with-max?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
So many good ideas in this conversation between John Ganz and Max Read about libertarian ideas, Italian futurism, cosmopolitanism, urbanism and politics. Genial, witty, recommended commentary on Peter Thiel, who was interviewed by Ross Douthat, and Zohran Mamdani who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York.
#JohnGanz #MaxRead #Thiel #steelmaning #ZohranMamdani #urbanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/talking-thiel-and-zohran-with-max?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
On fascism and its fascinations. This notion of transcendence is interesting.
#JohnGanz #fascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/does-trumpism-have-a-future?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
On fascism and its fascinations. This notion of transcendence is interesting.
#JohnGanz #fascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/does-trumpism-have-a-future?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
On fascism and its fascinations. This notion of transcendence is interesting.
#JohnGanz #fascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/does-trumpism-have-a-future?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
On fascism and its fascinations. This notion of transcendence is interesting.
#JohnGanz #fascism
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/does-trumpism-have-a-future?r=ct3l&utm_medium=ios -
>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<
John Ganz is always worth reading.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity
#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism
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>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<
John Ganz is always worth reading.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity
#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism
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>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<
John Ganz is always worth reading.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity
#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism
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>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<
John Ganz is always worth reading.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity
#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism
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>>... the most typical character of the age is “the non-conformist conformist:” someone who says what everyone else says while flattering themselves that they are telling a bold truth that no else one has the courage to say. Well, it’s easy to be courageous in a crowd.<<
John Ganz is always worth reading.
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/cynicism-and-authenticity
#JohnGanz #UnpopularFront #Cynicism #Authenticity #Arendt #Heidegger #Fascism
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The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony
This from the consistently excellent John Ganz (highly recommend his book) captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate since Trump’s victory. Why has there been such a rush to frame this in hegemonic terms when there was a 1.5% difference in vote share between the two candidates? There’s clearly an elite recomposition underway, with tech capital taking the leadership role for the first time, which is starting to produce substantive outgrowths. Watching JD Vance’s speech I immediately found myself thinking about how Bush era leaders would have talked about issues relating to the oil industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o
The richest people in the world with unprecedented control over the media and communications realign politically and then—coincidentally—there is a “big cultural shift.” Why? “Can’t say for sure, but probably has something to do with how annoying liberals are.” Come the fuck on. They are already putting pressure on the media to soften coverage. It’s not that things are just happening, they are doing things. And the media is already bending or being taken over by regime-friendly oligarchs. It’s not a mystery what’s going on—we can still read about it in the newspaper—so let’s not mystify ourselves.
One last thought. What this insistence on a new order—the vibes—remind me of a lot was the hysterical run-up to the war against Iraq. The sense was created of an unstoppable momentum and there was relentless, insidious sidelining and castigation of critics and dissent. Even if people did not think they were warmongering, they helped the regime’s cause by attacking those who objected as fuddy-duddies, hopelessly out-of-date, and unfashionable. Obviously, we were in a New Era™ after 9/11. Obviously, the administration had the winds of history at its back. It wasn’t conservatives and right-wingers who did a lot of this work, but liberals who rationalized and justified what was a series of absurd lies and ultimately a catastrophe. This is what I was trying to get at when we were moving into a Vichy era: a lot of people are just going to go along to get along. But not all.
#capitalism #digitalElites #hegemony #JDVance #JohnGanz #trump
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The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony
This from the consistently excellent John Ganz (highly recommend his book) captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate since Trump’s victory. Why has there been such a rush to frame this in hegemonic terms when there was a 1.5% difference in vote share between the two candidates? There’s clearly an elite recomposition underway, with tech capital taking the leadership role for the first time, which is starting to produce substantive outgrowths. Watching JD Vance’s speech I immediately found myself thinking about how Bush era leaders would have talked about issues relating to the oil industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o
The richest people in the world with unprecedented control over the media and communications realign politically and then—coincidentally—there is a “big cultural shift.” Why? “Can’t say for sure, but probably has something to do with how annoying liberals are.” Come the fuck on. They are already putting pressure on the media to soften coverage. It’s not that things are just happening, they are doing things. And the media is already bending or being taken over by regime-friendly oligarchs. It’s not a mystery what’s going on—we can still read about it in the newspaper—so let’s not mystify ourselves.
One last thought. What this insistence on a new order—the vibes—remind me of a lot was the hysterical run-up to the war against Iraq. The sense was created of an unstoppable momentum and there was relentless, insidious sidelining and castigation of critics and dissent. Even if people did not think they were warmongering, they helped the regime’s cause by attacking those who objected as fuddy-duddies, hopelessly out-of-date, and unfashionable. Obviously, we were in a New Era™ after 9/11. Obviously, the administration had the winds of history at its back. It wasn’t conservatives and right-wingers who did a lot of this work, but liberals who rationalized and justified what was a series of absurd lies and ultimately a catastrophe. This is what I was trying to get at when we were moving into a Vichy era: a lot of people are just going to go along to get along. But not all.
#capitalism #digitalElites #hegemony #JDVance #JohnGanz #trump
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The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony
This from the consistently excellent John Ganz (highly recommend his book) captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate since Trump’s victory. Why has there been such a rush to frame this in hegemonic terms when there was a 1.5% difference in vote share between the two candidates? There’s clearly an elite recomposition underway, with tech capital taking the leadership role for the first time, which is starting to produce substantive outgrowths. Watching JD Vance’s speech I immediately found myself thinking about how Bush era leaders would have talked about issues relating to the oil industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o
The richest people in the world with unprecedented control over the media and communications realign politically and then—coincidentally—there is a “big cultural shift.” Why? “Can’t say for sure, but probably has something to do with how annoying liberals are.” Come the fuck on. They are already putting pressure on the media to soften coverage. It’s not that things are just happening, they are doing things. And the media is already bending or being taken over by regime-friendly oligarchs. It’s not a mystery what’s going on—we can still read about it in the newspaper—so let’s not mystify ourselves.
One last thought. What this insistence on a new order—the vibes—remind me of a lot was the hysterical run-up to the war against Iraq. The sense was created of an unstoppable momentum and there was relentless, insidious sidelining and castigation of critics and dissent. Even if people did not think they were warmongering, they helped the regime’s cause by attacking those who objected as fuddy-duddies, hopelessly out-of-date, and unfashionable. Obviously, we were in a New Era™ after 9/11. Obviously, the administration had the winds of history at its back. It wasn’t conservatives and right-wingers who did a lot of this work, but liberals who rationalized and justified what was a series of absurd lies and ultimately a catastrophe. This is what I was trying to get at when we were moving into a Vichy era: a lot of people are just going to go along to get along. But not all.
#capitalism #digitalElites #hegemony #JDVance #JohnGanz #trump
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The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony
This from the consistently excellent John Ganz (highly recommend his book) captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate since Trump’s victory. Why has there been such a rush to frame this in hegemonic terms when there was a 1.5% difference in vote share between the two candidates? There’s clearly an elite recomposition underway, with tech capital taking the leadership role for the first time, which is starting to produce substantive outgrowths. Watching JD Vance’s speech I immediately found myself thinking about how Bush era leaders would have talked about issues relating to the oil industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o
The richest people in the world with unprecedented control over the media and communications realign politically and then—coincidentally—there is a “big cultural shift.” Why? “Can’t say for sure, but probably has something to do with how annoying liberals are.” Come the fuck on. They are already putting pressure on the media to soften coverage. It’s not that things are just happening, they are doing things. And the media is already bending or being taken over by regime-friendly oligarchs. It’s not a mystery what’s going on—we can still read about it in the newspaper—so let’s not mystify ourselves.
One last thought. What this insistence on a new order—the vibes—remind me of a lot was the hysterical run-up to the war against Iraq. The sense was created of an unstoppable momentum and there was relentless, insidious sidelining and castigation of critics and dissent. Even if people did not think they were warmongering, they helped the regime’s cause by attacking those who objected as fuddy-duddies, hopelessly out-of-date, and unfashionable. Obviously, we were in a New Era™ after 9/11. Obviously, the administration had the winds of history at its back. It wasn’t conservatives and right-wingers who did a lot of this work, but liberals who rationalized and justified what was a series of absurd lies and ultimately a catastrophe. This is what I was trying to get at when we were moving into a Vichy era: a lot of people are just going to go along to get along. But not all.
#capitalism #digitalElites #hegemony #JDVance #JohnGanz #trump
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The ‘vibes shift’ as a preemptive declaration of hegemony
This from the consistently excellent John Ganz (highly recommend his book) captures something I’ve been struggling to articulate since Trump’s victory. Why has there been such a rush to frame this in hegemonic terms when there was a 1.5% difference in vote share between the two candidates? There’s clearly an elite recomposition underway, with tech capital taking the leadership role for the first time, which is starting to produce substantive outgrowths. Watching JD Vance’s speech I immediately found myself thinking about how Bush era leaders would have talked about issues relating to the oil industry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64E9O1Gv99o
The richest people in the world with unprecedented control over the media and communications realign politically and then—coincidentally—there is a “big cultural shift.” Why? “Can’t say for sure, but probably has something to do with how annoying liberals are.” Come the fuck on. They are already putting pressure on the media to soften coverage. It’s not that things are just happening, they are doing things. And the media is already bending or being taken over by regime-friendly oligarchs. It’s not a mystery what’s going on—we can still read about it in the newspaper—so let’s not mystify ourselves.
One last thought. What this insistence on a new order—the vibes—remind me of a lot was the hysterical run-up to the war against Iraq. The sense was created of an unstoppable momentum and there was relentless, insidious sidelining and castigation of critics and dissent. Even if people did not think they were warmongering, they helped the regime’s cause by attacking those who objected as fuddy-duddies, hopelessly out-of-date, and unfashionable. Obviously, we were in a New Era™ after 9/11. Obviously, the administration had the winds of history at its back. It wasn’t conservatives and right-wingers who did a lot of this work, but liberals who rationalized and justified what was a series of absurd lies and ultimately a catastrophe. This is what I was trying to get at when we were moving into a Vichy era: a lot of people are just going to go along to get along. But not all.
#capitalism #digitalElites #hegemony #JDVance #JohnGanz #trump
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"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts and sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" #JohnGanz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/last-days-discourse-electronic-plebescite/
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"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts and sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" #JohnGanz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/last-days-discourse-electronic-plebescite/
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"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts and sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" #JohnGanz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/last-days-discourse-electronic-plebescite/
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"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts and sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" #JohnGanz https://www.thenation.com/article/society/last-days-discourse-electronic-plebescite/
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John Ganz examines the deep affinities of radical libertarians and fascists:
>> They both cannot recognize any universal interest, only the wars and temporary alliances of particular interests, be they individuals, nations, or races.<<
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
#Politics #Fascism #Libertarianism #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront
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John Ganz examines the deep affinities of radical libertarians and fascists:
>> They both cannot recognize any universal interest, only the wars and temporary alliances of particular interests, be they individuals, nations, or races.<<
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
#Politics #Fascism #Libertarianism #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront
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John Ganz examines the deep affinities of radical libertarians and fascists:
>> They both cannot recognize any universal interest, only the wars and temporary alliances of particular interests, be they individuals, nations, or races.<<
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
#Politics #Fascism #Libertarianism #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront
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John Ganz examines the deep affinities of radical libertarians and fascists:
>> They both cannot recognize any universal interest, only the wars and temporary alliances of particular interests, be they individuals, nations, or races.<<
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
#Politics #Fascism #Libertarianism #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront
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John Ganz examines the deep affinities of radical libertarians and fascists:
>> They both cannot recognize any universal interest, only the wars and temporary alliances of particular interests, be they individuals, nations, or races.<<
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/gold-and-brown
#Politics #Fascism #Libertarianism #JohnGanz #UnpopularFront
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“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.” #JohnGanz https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.” #JohnGanz https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.” #JohnGanz https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real