RT @GreenRojava: Communalize your water, your land and the energy of your country to build a free life! “Ava xwe, axa xwe u enirjiya welat…

RT @lapinesque: With hydroelectric power heavily restricted by Turkey, drinking water cut off by Turkish attacks, a currency crisis caused…

RT @PaulRobbins15: David Graeber’s obit of Roy Bhaskar is the CLEAREST explanation of Critical Realism I’ve ever read: http://t.co/t97gHe…

@STimpromptu @jasonhickel … “because the overall percentages are going down.” What struck me was that almost anyone else would have at least pretended some kind of sympathy for all that suffering, but for him, being right & the other side being wrong was all that seemed to actually matter to him.

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@STimpromptu @jasonhickel gotta admit I saw a little clip of him in a debate, and instantly decided he wasn’t a particularly well-meaning person. Someone was saying the total numbers in extreme poverty had gone up & he replied without missing a beat, “that doesn’t matter …”

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RT @amayor: @ozofperception @davidgraeber see Medieval Robots by E R Truitt @MedievalRobots and #GodsandRobots by A. Mayor https://t.co/VW…

RT @myndzi: @davidgraeber When I first encountered World of Warcraft in 2006, watching my kids multi-tasking to progress bars, whilst chatt…

@ozofperception yes I’m never sure which of those accounts to take seriously and to what extent

thinking of examples of technologies deployed in games & rituals but nowhere else: like ancient Mesoamerican toys on wheels, even where wheels were never used in transport, or the ancient Greek use of steam power only to open temple doors. Anyone know additional examples?

RT @Prokrida: “This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels…

RT @elifxeyal: Excited to chair “The Coronavirus Pandemic as a Litmus Test of Capitalist Modernity” We’re joined by @HarshaWalia, @KasinaM…

RT @nikadubrovsky: 2/ Most young people live in big cities, which already vote against the regime. For Russia, Moscow and Peter are almost…

RT @nikadubrovsky: Putin’s loss of popularity among young Russians is encouraging. On the other hand, Russia is a country with an aging pop…

RT @nikadubrovsky: @GiantEye @EcoGeck @davidgraeber @jasonhickel @CitationsPod And when the population outraged by poverty and injustice, s…

RT @nikadubrovsky: @GiantEye @EcoGeck @davidgraeber @jasonhickel @CitationsPod Soviet propaganda was directed not only at the population, b…

@ScaleSilver49 @jasonhickel I really don’t understand my generation, let alone the boomers who are just before me. Do they just not care what they’re passing on to their children?

RT @ronanburtenshaw: Even by the standards of British politics, the speed by which ‘key workers’ went from being celebrated every week to b…

@ScaleSilver49 @jasonhickel So it’s exactly his complacent attitude which ensures capitalism won’t reform itself but will just get worse until the seas boil & we all die. Kind of awful thing to do to your children

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@ScaleSilver49 @jasonhickel Odd use of “we” – if everyone hated racism there would be no racism. Capitalists only spread the wealth around in mid-century because they were afraid of communism. Now there’s no reason so the poor are getting poorer

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RT @thrilway: “Whenever someone starts talking about the ‘free market,’ it’s a good idea to look around for the man with the gun. He’s neve…

RT @TimothySPropst: I was listening to a @davidgraeber audiobook and this immediately sprang to mind… #publiceducation https://t.co/YciC…

@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

@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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RT @AliAlbrecht5: Not only the young but from age groups are abandoning the Labour party, because of Sir Keir Starmer QC. By his words and…

RT @HullLecturer: When Labour’s numbers were rising, there were regular reports to press. Nothing since leadership election. Is this becaus…

RT @PhilipGAlston: It’s time for a new approach to poverty eradication that tackles inequality, embraces redistribution, and takes tax just…