• @selfMA
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      1210 months ago

      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

      • David GerardOPMA
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        2010 months ago

        i have long considered Jacobin the Christian rock of socialism

          • @carlitoscohones
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            410 months ago

            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.

        • @selfMA
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          1010 months ago

          forget the article, this does the job in so many fewer words

    • @YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM
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      1110 months ago

      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

    • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1010 months ago

      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

      • David GerardOPMA
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        910 months ago

        that’s one weird fucking guy, thankfully

        • @selfMA
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          1410 months ago

          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)

            • @selfMA
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              1010 months ago

              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)

    • @gerikson
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      410 months ago

      Wasn’t that piece linked here before? Lemmy’s search is shit unfortunately.

      • @selfMA
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        610 months ago

        I’m not pulling it up either, but I remember sneering at it. weird