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 20 Jul 2020 10:07

@NewsFrames @Tim_Hugh_Smith @StevenHurst1977 @David__Osland For instance during the Corbyn antisemitism controversy, the Guardian basically forbade anyone – even Jewish activists – to say the obvious truth that much of the campaign was politically motivated. I was told directly by editors I would not be allowed say this.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020 09:12

RT @alpashah001: A statement from 146 academics across the world, including myself, @noamchomskyT @jaffrelotc @Prakashzone and many others,…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:25

RT @caitoz: The amount of power you have over other people should have an exactly inverse relationship to your right to privacy. The more p…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:19

RT @Tim_Hugh_Smith: @NewsFrames @StevenHurst1977 @davidgraeber @David__Osland Their regular columnists seem increasingly to exhibit groupth…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:19

RT @CPostcapitalism: @davidgraeber The overwhelming majority of bean-counting, gatekeeping & guard labor jobs only exist because of previou…

Mon 20 Jul 2020 01:14

RT @davidwengrow: What with me and @davidgraeber both having a bit of a Luddite streak, I had to ask my teenage son to set up a shared doc…

Sun 19 Jul 2020 20:38

RT @bird_sirin: I’m starting to read Bullshit jobs by @davidgraeber. https://t.co/AGuZk3Exs6

Sun 19 Jul 2020 20:37

RT @JonangusMackay: @LauraAlvarezJC @bunnylookin What billionaire media, inc @BBCNews, have kept from you: All 3 parties—except the #Corby…

Sun 19 Jul 2020 18:49

RT @Pajuanico: “La façon la plus simple de désobéir à la finance, c’est de refuser de payer les dettes.” David GRAEBER https://t.co/N5wCZH1…

Sun 19 Jul 2020 14:24

RT @StevenHurst1977: @David__Osland Exactly, anything else is class privilege & crass self-entitlement, the Guardian like most MSM believe…

Sun 19 Jul 2020 03:17

RT @natalienareau: @AndrewYang Very relevant passage from @davidgraeber about ATM vs voting machines in “The Utopia of Rules.” Fantastic bo…

Sun 19 Jul 2020 02:23

RT @Much2CrowedeD: @JayStill4 Yes. Do they ever? Productively i mean? Paraphrasing David Graeber: If your job suddenly became illegal and…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 21:00

@Itmechr3 and of course if he had written up a critique, he couldn’t have directed at me and I’d hardly have replied, since I had him blocked 5/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:59

@Itmechr3 but you’re still asking for reform. Direct action would mean going out and digging a new well yourself & daring them to stop you. So 2nd, it’s bizarre to claim creating a communal alternative to neoliberal water privatisation is neoliberal. 3rd, we never actually debated this 4/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:56

@Itmechr3 it’s actually hard to list how many ways this is wrong. For starters the actual quote had nothing to do with Madagascar. It’s a hypothetical: say there’s a community where there’s a state-sanctioned water monopoly. If you blockade the mayor’s house that’s civil disobedience 3/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:54

@Itmechr3 apparently he likes to claim I had once given an example of Malagasy who built their own well rather than rely on the state as a form of direct action, & I had no answer when he pointed out that this was just reinforcing neoliberalism 2/

Sat 18 Jul 2020 20:53

@Itmechr3 Doug Henwood tried this on me repeatedly; I once considered him a friend but he’s become so systematically dishonest an interlocutor that I’ve long since blocked him, so I only find out from third parties.

Sat 18 Jul 2020 16:18

RT @davidgraeber: Immodest Proposals series on Radio 4 – work is destroying the planet. to save ourselves we can start by 1. eliminatin…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 16:18

RT @davidgraeber: key point, “it’s not our hedonism that’s destroying the planet, it’s our puritanism,” the fact we feel everyone has to be…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 15:08

@life_on_eairth yes “Russian spies are spying” is somewhat oxymoronic. So are Italian and Brazilian and Indian spies presumably but no one seems to care about those.

Sat 18 Jul 2020 14:31

RT @james_e_baldwin: @Tom_Gann David Graeber wrote good line on this, can’t remember where, but the left contains everything from anarchism…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 14:30

RT @joshtpm: Deputy Secretary of DHS Ken Cuccinelli tells NPR not only are they not stopping the Portland tactics they’re going to take the…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 11:54

RT @InaPraetorius: @davidgraeber @ptcherneva: More work or less work? #JobGuarantee or #UBI? Would be nice to have some kind of clarificati…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 11:53

RT @hughbarnard: @DrAndrewV2 Yes, thanks to both of you, here. This is the difference between ‘our’ reset and the ‘consumer reset’. Our res…

Sat 18 Jul 2020 01:44

@nikadubrovsky both drive on the wrong side of the road; both have elaborate tea ceremonies; are constantly apologising except when they really ought to; have a kind of cult of social awkwardness compensated by drinking culture & love of stand-up comedy …

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