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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Tue 18 Aug 2020 17:23

RT @jroberdinho: Remember the government’s list of key workers? If you’re on it we should unite and form a political movement. That list an…

Tue 18 Aug 2020 09:55

RT @BRAVENEWEUROPE1: Patrick Cockburn – The Decline in Power of the Oil States https://t.co/pEZGeEWdO1 @Sontheimer @painesrepublic @d_why…

Tue 18 Aug 2020 07:20

RT @suziegeewizz: Next, Zoomers should get together and demand free tuition, a return to maintenance grants, and the abolition of student l…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:59

RT @davidwengrow: Why do we cling to a concept of “Civilisation” that’s elitist, authoritarian, and systematically excludes the contributio…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:33

RT @mnovember2: @davidgraeber Seymore Hersh who broke the My Lai massacre and Abu Ghraib stories was seen as over the hill and out of touch…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:06

RT @AdieOfKent: @davidgraeber it is worse than that, if the Iraq War happened right now then no one would no that no WMDs were found as as…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:01

@richmondie yeah there’s a few papers still doing it now. Oddly in London it’s mainly the Telegraph. But it’s withering at the vine.

Mon 17 Aug 2020 22:00

RT @mnovember2: @davidgraeber The famous footage of the civilians being machine-gunned in Iraq was hawked around all major media outs by A…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 21:59

RT @I_Sokratis: @davidgraeber In Greece investigative journalists that found evidence on the huge pharmaceuticals scandal (Novartis paying…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 20:57

RT @info_zampa: @davidgraeber I agree of course but you think in the UK is any better? Just visit @medialens website which is a real treasu…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 20:53

RT @davidwengrow: Nice to get a shout out on Steve Muhlberger’s World History blog – his (1993) ‘Democracy’s Place in World History’ (with…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 15:24

RT @JonangusMackay: ◾Clear indication: UK’s neoliberal vultures consider that which #Corbyn stands for to constitute—still—a real threat t…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 14:30

RT @GeorgeMonbiot: People tell me “it’s ridiculous to say the UK is the most corrupt nation on Earth. Look at Zimbabwe! Look at Nigeria!” B…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 13:15

@MElmaazi @alexburns @NewYorker it’s also true that since the question is no longer “did he engage in any prepub norms & practices?” but “did he engage in the exact same ones as the mainstream?” this would sort of prove my point. Did Woodward & Bernstein coordinate in this way with the gov’t?

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:57

the epitome of this is the Assange case; when investigative journalism switched largely outside established institutions as no one else would do it, journalists in those institutions almost universally declared such investigative reporters “not really journalists”

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:52

one interesting angle I’ve been talking to John Summers about is the class composition of journalists. They used to lack college degrees & while notoriously cynical also represented working class intellectual life. Journalism degrees & then internships totally destroyed that.

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:50

Couldn’t have put it better myself. As proof, I didn’t put it better myself. But I might put it as well in the future since I suspect I will steal his line. https://t.co/LO1XpbRMlT

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:48

RT @wales_steve: Nobody can argue with this. Even when there are obvious issues to investigate like the sabotage in Labour, the MSM is not…

Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:46

@Normanjam67 I was thinking more of my mother. Teachers. I remember when Lula became President of Brazil they ask if there was anything he regretted & he said it was sad his mother was dead, she was so proud when he got a job as a metalworker because it was such a good job

Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:42

since the ’70s, US investigative journalism basically died. Journalists rely on handouts & official leaks & most look with suspicion on unofficial leaks.They are servants of power. It Watergate happened today, most mainstream journalists’ instinct would be to go after Deep Throat

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:30

@SkyStapley @iainmunro10 I can imagine lots of alternative approaches to democracy but they imply none of them. There definitely ARE issues discussed: what to do about androids, genetic enhancement, etc etc. there just no sign key political issues are resolved through any democratic process

Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:27

@leemountste @GaryGzgru @AbiWilks Okay Nazi guy is getting boring. I don’t even particularly want to sleep with his wife. Block.

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Mon 17 Aug 2020 09:25

@ChubbyRoots Yes. We all organize our lives around certain values and they can only be realized in another’s eyes