Jeremiah Crotser
Community College English Instructor; literature and culture, politics, psychoanalysis, random ideas
- I agree that the Epstein stuff is fucked up—you can hardly overstate the horror. But it’s also true that this guy helped to popularize the idea of the “moral panic.” This “nothing to see here” discourse has always gotten in the way of serious analysis.
- If it's going to be two beers, they'd better be Bells Two Hearted.
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- Reposted by Jeremiah CrotserWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- The thing that I just viscerally cannot stand the most is the people who think they are Christian and support this. I feel the contradiction has become so large that maybe they’ll just even abandoned Christianity in favor of new Savior Trump.
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- It obviously is not as simple as that and the class first people are misrepresenting it as such. Nevertheless, it’s also the case that yes Trump is more appealing to poor people than Republicans used to be. It may be worth actually addressing that question as opposed to pretending it doesn’t exist.
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- Mamdani is not exactly peak woke: he started his campaign talking to Trump voters, he focused relentlessly on economic issues throughout, shamed no one, and spoke of inclusive community building as a chief aim of his politics. He also redefined Dem Socialism to be inclusive of all.
- I don’t think it’s just that they don’t have advocacy infrastructure, I think it’s that the majority of Democrats are unwilling to advance really big proposals for anything. I think with the green new deal it would’ve been fantastic if it had had the muscle of the party behind it, but it did not.
- Was just rewatching Rear Window and thinking of the importance of that courtyard--to the storyline, to the lives of the characters, to the theory of the gaze. I like the abundance emphasis on "high density" living, but there has to be open space, too, and a lot of it, for community to even exist.
- The nationwide lesson that Democrats can learn from Mamdani’s campaign is how to appeal to apolitical Trump voters who voted based on perceived self interest rather than racial/regional identity or nationalism: you win them through economic populism.
- I love Eliot’s line “torment / of love unsatisfied / the greater torment of love satisfied”—I feel like this maps onto the imaginary/symbolic distinction in Lacan. What is the symbolic but accepting the greater torment?
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- Really funny because the answer is that Ronald Reagan decided to mass defund mental institutions in the 1980s. There were of course problems with those institutions, too, but that's what put so many people out on their asses.
- It'd be interesting to try--sure--but I'll bet a hundred bucks that if this were the case, there would instantly be more accidents than there are now because people wouldn't be able to effectively maneuver.
- I think what really confounds the Dems about Mamdani isn't "intifada," it's that he takes the working class seriously. His campaign proves that A). Trump's victory was more about inflation than a population turned fascist and B). You CAN win back the WC if you're real with them.
