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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If not for the existence of Barack "Drone King" Obama, Paul Krugman would be proof positive as to the abject worthlessness of Nobel prizes.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Krugman always makes me think of this one from one of Lenin's best diss tracks:

The answer is simple: the personal qualities of present-day professors are such that we may find among them even exceptionally stupid people like Tugan. But the social status of professors in bourgeois society is such that only those are allowed to hold such posts who sell science to serve the interests of capital, and agree to utter the most fatuous nonsense, the most unscrupulous drivel and twaddle against the socialists. The bourgeoisie will forgive the professors all this as long as they go on “abolishing” socialism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Damn had I read this before I would have replied to the tweet with this when I saw it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My partners dad is this type of liberal and he dropped this take on me during Christmas lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

God I hate 538 techno-liberal boomer 🤓 dads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You excluded everything people needed to live.

Come on, Paul.

Golden fucking reply. Which of you lovely lefty trolls did this?