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Tue 7 Jul 2020 22:38

@SamLowryBR @jasonhickel no he’s looking for the online responses by whoever is most likely to say it’s all a crock, everything is getting better, and memorising the best lines for his next interview

Tue 7 Jul 2020 22:33

@ScaleSilver49 @jasonhickel yeah I think if it hasn’t worked for 200 years we can say that one is settled let’s try something else now

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Tue 7 Jul 2020 14:21

@nikel99 I tend to be suspicious of “it’s all planned” narratives. If you meet these guys, which I occasionally do – I mean the Cummings types, not the BJs obviously – you realise they’re just not THAT smart.

Tue 7 Jul 2020 14:14

@Itmechr3 I knew Veblen had worked a bit with the IWW and that “sabotage” was a buzz-word at the time, but didn’t realise Kropotkin has also described profiteering in this way.

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:56

@Itmechr3 I need to look at this as well! Ironically I just co-wrote an intro to the new PM edition of Mutual Aid, and have a huge pile of Veblen books my French friends advised me to read, but, who has time? I should definitely look into this!

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:49

@weird_al_77 @jasonhickel yeah they basically have no arguments left for the existing system, so they have to insist any alternative must by definition be even worse

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Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:37

@simchaonn obviously I didn’t really fit in there, even though the late ’70s were the height of American liberalism so the majority of students at that point were on scholarship. I hear in the ’80s it went right back to old-fashioned unapologetic ruling classism

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:36

@simchaonn they didn’t. I had a weird hobby at age 11 of translating Maya hieroglyphics. Which weren’t yet translated in the ’70s. I sent a letter to one of them, and they arranged to get me into a fancy school, as Scotty MacNeish was based at the Peabody

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:34

@enfantmarxiste it’s totally bizarre, especially because my “preconceptions” are based on 20 years of activist engagement with people on the ground, while their established truth is a bunch of World Bank statistics that everyone knows are a political football

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:31

@hartsellml @jasonhickel as John Locke once said, you can’t make a person taller by declaring there’s now 13 inches in a foot

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Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:16

@enfantmarxiste don’t want to go into it. Just suffice to say they employ extremely dirty tactics & I wouldn’t touch any of the core members I dealt with with a barge-pole now. Kind of awful people. They’ve also been politically disastrous for the US left but that’s another story

Tue 7 Jul 2020 13:08

@hamasinpitta @georgeeaton yes they destroyed our culture. Historically they will be remembered as on par with Alaric the Goth or Attila the Hun.

Tue 7 Jul 2020 11:02

@MayhemH @Prolapsarian It’s not like we’re displacing anyone. Adding moreTurkish and Indian (etc) options under the new lefty-in-exile regime is hardly a disaster

Tue 7 Jul 2020 02:02

@brockplus just kids who’ve been forced to sit in small rooms for months on end. Can’t really blame them for wanting to have a little fun & they don’t hurt anyone that I’ve seen, but there’s so many better reasons to fight the police.

Mon 6 Jul 2020 23:32

@CianydeArgentum @Timlagor it’s got relatively small countries with reliable material infrastructures.

Mon 6 Jul 2020 21:10

@Itmechr3 I’ve been thinking about comparing them but have been too busy writing other things to get time to read any of the Veblen books I’ve piled around the house

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:34

@LucioMM1 @boniazadi if you choose to define all guerrillas as terrorists, why do you think your choice of definition should interest anybody else?

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:12

@JohnsonsSolicit Well it’s not like they are rioting for or against anything in particular –