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Mon 6 Jul 2020 15:35

@joe_fishfish @OutriderTed @JillGore8 @HunHo7 No they made the realistic assessment after 4 years of relentless hysterical media behaviour that the real rulers of the country hated him so systematically that even if elected he would never be allowed to do anything for them.

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 15:25

@dominichills5 the arrogance is if anything more racist and more offensive than that of overt adversaries

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:19

@inside_lemon @iainzeno pretty much – or like Chris Hedges they claimed to be avid supporters, tried to give supportive talks (guys like that can’t really do meetings, too egalitarian) but then started denouncing anarchists as “the cancer in Occupy”

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:11

@nunntheless the scam worked so well that there were actually “ambassadors” from the non-existent pirate kingdom in Madagascar going from court to court in Europe trying to find allies, whether they were actually pirates or had anything to do with anyone in Madagascar at all

Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:07

@nunntheless I mean Ratsimilaho wasn’t king at all, neither was Avery or Plantain, the latter clearly had a huge haul of treasure, no place to get rid of it, so he made a deal with some villagers to give them half the loot if any time a white guy cruised by they all pretended he was king

Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:05

@nunntheless the idea Malagasy people might have been engaging in a self-conscious political experiment is unthinkable, and it also never seems to occur to them that a lot of these pirate “kingdoms” that weren’t experiments were scams, though it’s so obvious from the original documents

Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:04

@nunntheless gee, you think there might be a connection there? Even beyond the fact that the supposed “king”, Ratsimilaho, was the half Malagasy son of a pirate who’d been to England and India, presumably on pirate ships etc etc

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:02

@nunntheless so historians haven’t done the basic work of comparing sources. Example: when Malagasy founded the Betsimisaraka confederation, it was in a town where half the inhabitants were pirates, who according to Defoe/Johnson were carrying out a democratic experiment to impress the locals

Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:00

@nunntheless thanks yes. Well, one of the main points of Pirate Enlightenment is that Europeans or even speakers of European languages are treated as living in an entirely different universe as, say, Malagasy-speakers, who are not treated as historical agents in the same way

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:56

@iainzeno maybe I’m thinking of my own experience in Occupy, which was founded mainly by anarchists on anarchist principles. Eventually liberals joined & almost immediately started treating us as outside extremists

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:54

@iainzeno seemed to me this is even more insidious. Half-measures and fence-sitting, yes, but this is more like pushing yourself into a movement created by others then claiming to speak for the movement to tell its creators they are too radical

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:51

@nunntheless the book is about the pirate settlements in Madagascar & their local impact; it makes the argument the real Libertalia was the original Betsimisaraka Confederation, founded by Malagasies synthesising local & pirate democratic traditions

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:49

@nunntheless yes this far I got. I was asking for further info: for whom, covering what, at what stage? Do you read French? I suppose I could send the mss in English

Sun 5 Jul 2020 21:21

@leftyjew oh that would be terrifying. Otoh, not seeing it is scary in a way too. My mom told me a hundred times to tell the doctor no heroic measures if the time came, so when asked I had no choice but to repeat that, but then I felt chills & wasn’t there the night she died two days later

Sun 5 Jul 2020 20:33

@leftyjew Did he have his own family too, did he have a lot of people around him when he died?

Sat 4 Jul 2020 23:17

@statesdj @stoney01960 @ifc2000 @jbhclock @LongDesertTrain @aaronjakes @nytimes @ass_deans Don’t bother. This guy has no interest in reality.

Sat 4 Jul 2020 11:55

@TearNaan Oh definitely. I tried reading Bourdieu in the original French once and started laughing. It was exactly the same as English except the sane words had an “e” at the end

Sat 4 Jul 2020 11:48

@leftyjew @audreyvernon3 That so? was supposed to be “sp?” – how do you spell that phrase anyway?

Sat 4 Jul 2020 02:25

@lightacandleOTM @BBCNews @Renegade_Inc definitely – some of the news is maudlin but at least transparent in its bias, Renegade Inc is excellent. Ross tells me RT has never tried to influence his content, much like his prior experience in BBC where they told him things he couldn’t say all the time

Fri 3 Jul 2020 20:13

@ForosLucius if you are interested in giving voice to the dissemination of ideas, the motives of the executives only makes a difference if it effects what ideas are disseminated and how. Saying “but they’re bad people” is changing the subject

Fri 3 Jul 2020 20:11

@ForosLucius You are moralizing. That’s not politics. I don’t care about the purity of the motives of RT’s funders, I care about who censors you and who doesn’t. RT’s strategy is to put on dissidents & let them say whatever they want.