I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 12:22

London versus World Bank (also with singing police. Well actually, no, singing guy & fake police…) http://t.co/seYXsher5W

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 11:01

800 ISIS fighters in Mosul drove out 25,000 Iraqi troops. Now 20x that can’t dislodge 8000 YPG. That’s the difference a revolution makes.

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 10:53

IS fighter in Kobane: “Erdogan helped us a lot but we don’t need him any more. Turkey is next.” http://t.co/64wjazMTYp

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 10:50

apologies to my followers – here is the geographically correct map of how far the Proclaimers were willing to walk http://t.co/2Y0rVCCwoK

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Tue 14 Oct 2014 14:15

More screaming from the “let the fascists massacre the revolutionaries so I can stay pure” crowd. At this point it’s kind of just sad

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Tue 14 Oct 2014 10:13

Turkey still refusing to allow Peshmerga to send supplies/reinforcements to Kobane http://t.co/KFDm45LSu9

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 17:44

he said Kobane YPG also say “look, if the International Left had an air force, we would definitely have asked them first.”

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 17:40

confirmed there was long & heated debate about whether to call for US airstrikes (they ARE anti-imperialists) but finally saw no other way

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 16:56

talked to someone in contact with defenders of Kobane; morale high; say 10 anti-tank missiles would probably turn the whole thing around

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:59

sense if winning some moral purity game is more important to them than their own professed ends (8/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:59

claim is perceived as having moral authority among leftists is validating intervention. Yet they keep doing it! Doing so only makes (7/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:58

do is pretend that I am pro-NATO because that would be sending exactly the message they claim they don’t want sent: that a person who (6/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:57

doors to further intervention, then objectors’d emphasize that even I am opposed to NATO in every other way. The last thing they’d do (5/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:55

lending my “moral authority” (such as it is) to NATO by suggesting there’s even 1 tiny way anything it does can be good, thus opening (4/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:54

the defenders Kobane on their immediate tactical needs. Then I want NATO out. You’d think if the objection to my position is that I’m (3/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:53

support: I’ve constantly said I’m against the existence of NATO let alone its intervention in the MidEast. I’ve merely said I defer to (2/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:52

One more reason I think many Western “anti-imperialists” are more interested in moral superiority games than the causes they claim to (1/8)

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Mon 13 Oct 2014 11:33

EU praises Kobane (but does not airdrop weapons, ammo, or pressure Turkey to open border & stop assisting IS) http://t.co/P31XsGmh6g

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Sun 12 Oct 2014 14:25

it tells you all you need to know about some “Leftists” that on learning of an epic struggle of revolutionaries vs fascists, the first (1/2)

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Sun 12 Oct 2014 12:07

hey media people: Kurdish protests are NOT asking Turkey to fight ISIS. Asking Turkey to end blockade & stop supporting ISIS

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Sun 12 Oct 2014 01:42

my own intervention was mainly aimed at rallying the left, because… well, come on. Now we have to sway more mainstream opinion.

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Sun 12 Oct 2014 01:41

any PR geniuses out there? I was talking to Kurdish media team, they’re looking for ideas how to get word out about Rojava

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