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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Mon 17 Aug 2020 00:56

@Timlagor @Of_The_Root @ClimateBen I know, he was running for “a new type of politics” where people would be nice to each other, & discuss issues instead of personalities. The entire political class screamed “fuck off! I don’t want to talk about fucking issues!” and sabotaged & insulted him 24/7 but he held to it.

Mon 17 Aug 2020 00:54

@SkyStapley @iainmunro10 do you ever once hear anyone say, “when I was a student, I was heavily involved in the anti-terraforming movement but now I realise we went too far”? – or “the engineering workers’ union on colony X is on strike again so we’ll have to wait for it to be resolved to talk to them”?

Mon 17 Aug 2020 00:51

@SkyStapley @iainmunro10 I mean 600-odd episodes and no one ever mentions a political division that isn’t racial. No social movements. No profound philosophical cleavages that are resolved through any kind of democratic process.

Mon 17 Aug 2020 00:47

@SkyStapley @iainmunro10 again, they make that claim at some point when they pretty much have to but then go on to act as if it weren’t true. Did you once see anyone so much as discuss an election, referendum, parliamentary manoeuvre, political party, policy debate, untying you might see in a democracy?

Sun 16 Aug 2020 20:26

The financialized version of capitalism we know today is more a political beast in the service of an elite than an efficient economic system.” (Apparently I said that.) https://t.co/yjgtUTbrYR

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Sun 16 Aug 2020 18:38

RT @Of_The_Root: @ClimateBen @davidgraeber “attempts to create false scandals, and a campaign of sustained psychological warfare directed a…

Sun 16 Aug 2020 18:38

RT @Of_The_Root: @ClimateBen The Labor Party threw the election to BoJo. @davidgraeber: “Corbyn was declared “unelectable.” In order to dem…

Sun 16 Aug 2020 17:39

@kevinhirn parents, teachers, mentors, family members, perhaps a smattering of intellectual or political heroes

Sun 16 Aug 2020 17:38

@Prolapsarian No in his case, he was trying for all those years to impress me. But it didn’t work because I only found he even existed yesterday.

Sun 16 Aug 2020 17:32

it’s kind of disorienting when you realise that most of the people you’d most wanted to impress in your life are already dead.

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Sun 16 Aug 2020 16:23

@underscoremarx @iainmunro10 that’s not “just like now.” People, even in the military, let alone NASA, talk about national politics, political issues, politicians, all the time.

Sun 16 Aug 2020 16:21

@underscoremarx @iainmunro10 we’re talking over 600 episodes & somehow no one ever once mentions a party affiliation? Or ok, they’re beyond parties. No one ever assesses an office-holder, says “I didn’t vote for that guy”? Discusses a pol difference & how it is resolved through some democratic mechanism?

Sun 16 Aug 2020 16:18

@underscoremarx @iainmunro10 actually I think once they had to address the issue & they couldn’t very well say it wasn’t a democracy, but look at the show. Ok, the characters are in the military sure. But does anyone even once mention an election, vote, party, or public opinion survey?

Sun 16 Aug 2020 16:17

RT @davidgraeber: @ngon1daai6wai6 Yes Star Trek is also a bunch of Cold War Americans saying “well if WE did Communism, we’d do it way bett…

Sun 16 Aug 2020 15:05

@H_Y_L @iainmunro10 Def. Cook was attempting to be a peaceful explorer and not a conqueror – but in the end he killed a lot of people

Sun 16 Aug 2020 12:43

@ngon1daai6wai6 Yes Star Trek is also a bunch of Cold War Americans saying “well if WE did Communism, we’d do it way better than the Russkies.”

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Sun 16 Aug 2020 12:02

@leemountste @AbiWilks Once again, an example of when anything like this has happened in the past might be helpful?

Sun 16 Aug 2020 12:01

So I was watching Star Trek the other day & it occurred to me: in a way it’s the anti-The Office. It’s a giant floating office building in outer space w/ the same chains of command where everyone has the least bullshit jobs conceivable.

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Sun 16 Aug 2020 11:50

@leemountste @AbiWilks Right like they did in … in … in …? Well I guess the US or Australia might be examples of illegal immigrants taking over & massacring the existing population. But usually you have to conquer them first to do that

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