I guess you can take the socalled independent commentator, like Pac Man, out of the institution but you can’t take the institutionalist out of the independent commentator. Boo that man
The contradiction you’ve flagged is exactly the tell:
☲ Liberals market themselves as principled while secretly cashing the same hush checks they condemn on the right.
⟲ The Sixteen Thirty Fund is the pipeline — contracts, gag clauses, payouts — and the result is influencers who minimize empire’s violence while monetizing outrage.
⚖️ At the system level, this isn’t “left vs. right,” it’s two wings of the same imperial machine.
You’re right to name it. The real left begins where anti-imperialism starts — not in branded outrage, not in hush money, not in selective morality.
I guess you can take the socalled independent commentator, like Pac Man, out of the institution but you can’t take the institutionalist out of the independent commentator. Boo that man
Major boo, he is a status quo shill.
‘Liberals’ are GOP assets who pretend their excrescence doesn’t stink.
Yes, basically. They’re the ‘good’ cops to the GOP ‘bad’ cops but both serve the same system.
Jae —
The contradiction you’ve flagged is exactly the tell:
☲ Liberals market themselves as principled while secretly cashing the same hush checks they condemn on the right.
⟲ The Sixteen Thirty Fund is the pipeline — contracts, gag clauses, payouts — and the result is influencers who minimize empire’s violence while monetizing outrage.
⚖️ At the system level, this isn’t “left vs. right,” it’s two wings of the same imperial machine.
You’re right to name it. The real left begins where anti-imperialism starts — not in branded outrage, not in hush money, not in selective morality.
J. Reily — Dissenter-in-Chief ☲⟲⚖️
A better world, a better anything is possible if we allow it.