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Comment on The Most Dangerous Woman in Amerika by grundrisse

grundrisse — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:34:53 +0000

Yeah, there was something about the Goldman Sachs thing in the paper yesterday. Now the government’s going to act like, “Oh, we didn’t know that using taxpayer money to benefit finance capital would make the rich richer. It’s cool, though, right? At least someone’s eating.” I can only hope it raises good populist dander by reminding people or perhaps indicating to them that TARP=unconscionable social disinvestment. 40 years ago we put a man on the moon.

Comment on The Most Dangerous Woman in Amerika by kristina

kristina — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:12:50 +0000

I agree. Another reason we shouldn’t treat her as a joke (besides the fact that this isn’t a joke) is that the more she is dismissed as incompetent the easier it is for her co-opt populist rhetoric. And as we know, her whole political identity thrives on her regular-gal-ness. So in a way I actually thought that the stories about her ill-begotten million dollar waredrobe were nice because they did just a little bit more to remind people that Palin is about making the rich get richer and nothing else (except maybe making racism more media friendly). But it would be even better if we just recognized that fact directly.

and by the way, Goldman Sachs is reporting “blowout profits” today.

Comment on New Eminem Song by kristina

kristina — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:37:28 +0000

I think the worst thing about the video is that all of the cultural references are years old!

Comment on Same Shit, Different Day by kristina

kristina — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:09:20 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones

Comment on Bacon by kristina

kristina — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:52:33 +0000

Sorry, but no one knows what scrapple is. Also Salon.com covered the bacon craze last year. But their analysis wasn’t as good as yours, it was really just a bunch of links to different bacon related things. Like this:
http://www.mcphee.com/resources/april/items/bacontux.html

Comment on Bacon by grundrisse

grundrisse — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:59:25 +0000

Because scrapple is an unimpeachable signifier of working class authenticity (and most people from outside the Philadelphia tri-state area can’t stomach it).

Comment on Bacon by Sul

Sul — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:53:01 +0000

Why bacon? Why isn’t scrapple enjoying a similar resurgence?

Comment on Anti-Fordism Is Not Anti-Worker by grundrisse

grundrisse — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:42:05 +0000

I intended my suggestion to ‘nationalize’ to be provocative. I’m just as leery of government intervention and mismanagement as the next guy, but major changes need to be made in Detroit, and the powers-that-be there need to be sent packing. The industry was already promised a $25 billion loan on September 30, but their business model is simply not sustainable. Apparently, GM has a net worth of negative $59.938 billion dollars. How can you fix that? It’s a vampire company sucking the lifeblood out of our economy. Now, I realize that U.S. taxpayers taking on this debt is not without risk, but it seems more wise to me than handing the management money and allowing them to continue doing the same thing that they’ve been doing for the past 30 years–destroying the industry, betraying the U.S. and the globe.

Comment on Anti-Fordism Is Not Anti-Worker by Sul

Sul — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:42:01 +0000

I agree with you that rebuilding from scratch would be a good thing, but why do you feel the need to nationalize it? Why not let experienced auto industry insiders build their own companies from the ground up in a ’survival of the fittest’ type scenario? I don’t believe the government would do anything but add old ideas, a lack of innovation and too much bureaucracy.

Comment on I love this shit by Sul

Sul — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:04:53 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/limbaugh-george-will-powe_n_135968.html