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 30 Jan 2019 03:39

in which I rant about why should robots coming to take our jobs even be a problem? what’s wrong with us that we can’t even figure out how to deal with less demand for work & more wealth? That should be the easiest problem you could possible have. https://t.co/stE0kQite1

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Wed 30 Jan 2019 01:44

offbeat but brilliant Marxist analysis as always: England can survive Brexit by the Abolish the Corn Law approach: combining free trade with sharply reducing hours of labour. (Problem is: is there any industry left to stimulate.) https://t.co/JiUjYZgPfl

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Tue 29 Jan 2019 22:10

“In a similar vein, the economist David Graeber claims that the social usefulness of jobs has declined and even calls many of them ‘bullshit jobs'” That’s right. I’m an economist now. Pay me more. https://t.co/sjeQlLZ6yF

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Tue 29 Jan 2019 09:56

David Cameron is what happens when “meritocracy” means only the cleverest & most ambitious children from of maybe 100 families get to run the country & everyone else no matter how infinitely more capable isn’t even considered. https://t.co/DxsKMLWgl6

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Mon 28 Jan 2019 16:37

Another way to phrase it – I’m guessing under Chavismo I’d likely have been harassed, threatened, possibly jailed. Under whoever Elliot Abrams would install I’d be disappeared, tortured & my body dropped in the ocean

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Mon 28 Jan 2019 15:35

(to expand for those curious: I tend to ask “if I came from Venezuela (etc), how’d I see things?” Obviously one can only guess. But I imagine I’d be strongly anti-regime but also aware of what sort of regimes Elliot Abrams historically creates & supports & be absolutely terrified

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Mon 28 Jan 2019 11:33

best summary of what’s happening in Rojava & it’s relevance to the failures of “Western democracy”, by the always astounding .@elifxeyal – debut of our new video series, the #BlackCoffeeCollective https://t.co/kb5hS3gyCQ

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Sun 27 Jan 2019 19:26

it is obviously not ok to unleash endless waves of economic warfare on a country because you don’t like who they voted in & insanely hypocritical for the same guys who scream & cry about “Russian interference” in US democracy to do things a thousand times worse to Venezuela

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Sun 27 Jan 2019 19:24

people keep asking for my “position” on Venezuela, as if I’m a political party or something. I’m just a person. My personal feelings about the matter are that while Maduro’s regime is in many ways authoritarian, this is obviously a US-orchestrated coup – much as in Brazil https://t.co/e7atV2z14F

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Wed 23 Jan 2019 11:34

interesting: “4 far-right extremist plots and 14 Islamist terrorism plots were foiled in the past two years” – since Islamists are also far right, that’s 18 far right plots & zero left-wing plots. So why did 90% of police infiltrators infiltrate the left? https://t.co/4VY93HYG5M

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Wed 23 Jan 2019 11:21

if there was ever proof that Macron is one of the most vile, cynical politicians on earth, it’s the fact he keeps desperately trying to steer a popular revolt against the crushing of standards of living into a debate about immigration. https://t.co/WCR8xmoVIJ

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Sat 19 Jan 2019 15:12

I am in Berlin! On Monday I will be at .@nikadubrovsky’s event “What Is Wealth”? https://t.co/JwsuGQgNBj

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 21:53

I was sick as a dog when this was filmed (yesterday) but I guess it came out not so bad https://t.co/LfzHHJ8cC8

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 18:24

this is a note for whoever made up the new LSE system where you can now only assess graduate applications online. I just want you to know that I hate you. #lseanthropology

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Wed 16 Jan 2019 15:18

Oh look: ISIS carries out yet another suicide attack that just happens to target the very people Turkish President hates the most & has been most recently threatening. Whatever might be going on!? https://t.co/d7yV43Sys7

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Sun 13 Jan 2019 19:24

as the famous headline read, French “Police to Try Shooting Suspects” – or just protesters. https://t.co/KJoekF9xkV

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Sat 12 Jan 2019 18:30

Leyla Güven, Kurdish MP and political prisoner, has reached day 66 of her hunger strike. The situation is more than critical. https://t.co/4NZXLRQDx4

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Fri 11 Jan 2019 15:41

Medea Benjamin’s position on Rojava (if Turkey’s NATO army massacres Kurds they got what they deserved) is akin to celebrating the Amritsar massacre as a victory over imperialism because the guns were fired by Indian troops

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