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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Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:17

@SMBHarris1 @SirPaulHartley @STimpromptu @jasonhickel oh I’d say Pinker’s argument overtly racist. Look, you could make an argument it’s only through discovering principles of rational liberal governance, doctrines of equality before the law, etc, that we overcame our violent Hobbesian past 1/

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:15

RT @lightacandleOTM: @davidgraeber An interesting update to your ‘Debt’ book! https://t.co/jkTOjZgg54

Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:14

RT @GretaThunberg: School strike week 99. The climate crisis doesn’t go on summer holiday, so we keep on protesting. #climatestrikeonline…

Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:13

RT @qikipedia: The USA has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of its prison population. 95% are in jail for non-violent offences.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:12

RT @OwenJones84: Dawn Butler has been forced to close her office after receiving racist threats, driven by right wing extremists offended b…

Fri 10 Jul 2020 10:09

RT @greatwhitebark: @kercle Interesting question! At his local comp, would have achieved average grades and a degree of notoriety, scraped…

Fri 10 Jul 2020 09:22

RT @SirPaulHartley: @davidgraeber @STimpromptu @jasonhickel I find it hard to think of a book – at least a well regarded one – as intellect…

Fri 10 Jul 2020 03:00

@ItzSmiT we don’t have a lot of statues of Muhammed in America. Actually I think it’d be kind of haram anyway.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 02:56

@ztarasj I wanted to do essays about Tarantino’s Hollywood and the Joker, showing that they were both movies where the real villain is the audience. But who had time & especially energy to sell them.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 02:01

@ztarasj I make occasional efforts. I did a good review of Parasite with Nika that N+1 was about to run, then changed their mind during the pandemic. There’s always the Batman thing…

Fri 10 Jul 2020 01:52

this is of course the American dream offered to immigrants: because of the open frontier, only one generation or less of waged labour is required then you move up, & a new generation of immigrants replaces you. “Just accept it. Selling yourself is just a stepping stone.”

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 01:49

sex work seems to stand as a metaphor for proletarian labour (the gas station), so it’s significant – as Nika instantly noted – that only men are shown doing it. Message: if men had accepted the wage system (capitalism), it would have been a temporary condition (for individuals)

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 01:43

RT @deerhoof: @davidgraeber the wireless microphone was invented in 1949 for an ice show https://t.co/vaa8oD7r10 https://t.co/a0ykA1nRhS

Fri 10 Jul 2020 01:43

@adambanksdotcom @STimpromptu @jasonhickel his name was on the flight logs of Epstein’s private jet. https://t.co/7s5tSHk6Ky

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 01:04

@ThisOneQuestion I don’t think the authors can imagine equality being anything other than symbolic.

Fri 10 Jul 2020 00:23

“why, the capitalists would have done so for us, since after all, they had control over the means of symbolic production.”

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 00:21

so the implicit message seems to be: “we could have ended racism, overcome homophobia, and achieved women’s equality – well… at least to the degree we have done so now – fifty years earlier if only the left hadn’t insisted on all that anti-capitalist nonsense.”

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Fri 10 Jul 2020 00:17

just saw the miniseries Hollywood & it seemed compelling until I realised “wait they just did a whole series set in 1947 Hollywood which purports to be radical but makes no mention of HUAC, blacklists, or Communism. “Let’s imagine a world where politics was always just identity.”

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Thu 9 Jul 2020 22:24

got to admit I was feeling a little guilty being too harsh on Pinker in the first chapter of my upcoming book … then I read this: https://t.co/sa4aenMKbN

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Thu 9 Jul 2020 22:17

RT @Jpaul05Paul: Here’s me criticizing John Green’s Crash Course summary of @davidgraeber Debt: the first 5,000 years. https://t.co/PQ6Tw97…

Thu 9 Jul 2020 22:17

RT @celticmaid4: @GoodLawProject @mrjamesob @UoNHRLC @CarolineLucas @RichardBurgon @jeremycorbyn @davidgraeber @GeorgeMonbiot @PeterStefano…

Thu 9 Jul 2020 22:00

RT @IrkwmKurdish: Join us Sunday 12th July at 18:00 BST/19:00 CEST/13:00 EDT, “The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Litmus Test of Capitalist Mod…

Thu 9 Jul 2020 21:59

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Thu 9 Jul 2020 21:59

RT @elifxeyal: I just want the confidence of this french boy interviewing me for his thesis on Kurds in thinking that his position is the d…

Thu 9 Jul 2020 21:00

RT @paulpowlesland: The absolute state of the English legal system… By order of Mr Justice Fancourt, people on twitter can now be impriso…

Thu 9 Jul 2020 21:00

RT @lapinesque: A friend of mine is a lawyer trying to prevent the felling of a magnificent & much loved tree in London at behest of a luxu…