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Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:53

@Sternchancer well there’s a whole bunch of stuff. Thanks for the offer though. I’ll just wait for LSE to go back online. Apparently publishers are suddenly rejecting its login for some reason.

Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:52

@simchaonn The ghost of Gandhi came to me in a dream & said “I abhor violence but in the case of Elsevier I’d make an exception. No bombs please. They kill innocents. But if every time an academic met someone from Elsevier, she kicked them in the shins… Think about it.” (Gandhi. Not me.)

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Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:48

@arborlowenviron well I did email the author for the most important book but I’m well aware that the publishers don’t give the author the final pdf of their own book just for that reason. Articles, yeah.

Sun 23 Aug 2020 08:32

@ChristinGorman you obviously asked a very rich American, since the question is how much money they can contribute, not whether they can do it.

Sun 23 Aug 2020 08:17

@MikkoAhtisaari @inside_lemon @Chomskyter I’m very worried this might come true. Trump will definitely run from the left of Biden in key ways. It’s possible that his revealed incompetence might make the awfulness of Biden’s policy positions irrelevant, but I do worry

Sat 22 Aug 2020 21:30

@Ckcs19 I see Trump as a failed fascist demagogue. He’d clearly like to be a fascist leader but lacks the skills or movement to really pull it off. No doubt you disagree. That’s your right.

Sat 22 Aug 2020 16:25

@Palomar_qfwfq @tropicalontour He just doesn’t think of it that way. They’re incapable of asking such questions so they can only perceive it as a personal insult

Sat 22 Aug 2020 16:24

@ShreoshiB Well yes he’s a failed fascist demagogue just like he’s a failed anti-imperialist

Sat 22 Aug 2020 16:23

@ValtteriAaltone @Tapiolalibrary Only been a couple times for academic conferences. I mainly remember the reindeer sushi and the fact that all the naked statues in the capital make you feel even colder

Sat 22 Aug 2020 12:10

@girlziplocked actually the amazing thing is that ALL of them haven’t spoken to me, not just that cousin, but all the other cousins seem to have cut me off in solidarity. I never hear a peep from any of them, even for Pesach or when someone is born, married or dies

Sat 22 Aug 2020 12:06

@girlziplocked I pointed out the obvious contradiction: so you feel you deserve 3 giant houses but I shouldn’t even get to keep the modest place I grew up? What great contributions to society have you performed that so dwarf anything I might have done? Family hasn’t spoken to me since. 2/

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Sat 22 Aug 2020 12:03

@girlziplocked I have an “anarchist” cousin who has 2 houses in the Hamptons, & brownstone in the W Village (was a mathematician, did stocks, made fortune…) When I was kicked out of my family home in Penn South at the urging of cops he asked why I was complaining, rules are rules… 1/

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Sat 22 Aug 2020 09:59

@MarkInThyme Yes I was just reading the reason the Paris Commune could be suppressed is that they never developed a means of telling the rest of France what was going on there – granted they only had a couple months

Thu 20 Aug 2020 20:41

@DavW_ @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ See what I mean? You’ve decided for your own reasons that Trump isn’t racist and absolutely nothing will convince you otherwise. If he said “why yes, I am racist” while burning a cross and firing all his black staff simultaneously you’d still say the same thing. Bye.

Thu 20 Aug 2020 17:10

@DavW_ @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ does this Trump quote qualify? “Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks.”

Thu 20 Aug 2020 14:30

@SamClarke__ @Tabby_Kinder So that’s how much the paid the guy who came up with “Stay Alert”

Thu 20 Aug 2020 09:51

@DavW_ @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ criteria are everything because I’ve seen this game: someone says “prove X” but refuse to say what will constitute proof. So anything you throw at them they just dismiss it. Unless they are willing to state in advance what they will accept as proof there’s no point in talking

Thu 20 Aug 2020 00:11

@dominichills5 @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ we must learn to distinguish moral turpitude, violence, militarist tendencies, and “imperialism/empire” which is a specific shake-down structure of domination and extraction

Thu 20 Aug 2020 00:10

@dominichills5 @djhanson_87 @DavidCayJ the sanctions on Iran have been enormously effective, by attacking third parties, in moving huge parts of the world economy away from the dollar as the medium of foreign trade