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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Tue 7 Jul 2020 02:02

@brockplus just kids who’ve been forced to sit in small rooms for months on end. Can’t really blame them for wanting to have a little fun & they don’t hurt anyone that I’ve seen, but there’s so many better reasons to fight the police.

Tue 7 Jul 2020 01:41

RT @chaviland42: @davidgraeber I can’t speak to rioting, but I think the size of the BLM protests in the US showed the extent to which bull…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 23:32

@CianydeArgentum @Timlagor it’s got relatively small countries with reliable material infrastructures.

Mon 6 Jul 2020 21:10

@Itmechr3 I’ve been thinking about comparing them but have been too busy writing other things to get time to read any of the Veblen books I’ve piled around the house

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:34

@LucioMM1 @boniazadi if you choose to define all guerrillas as terrorists, why do you think your choice of definition should interest anybody else?

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:27

RT @FoundationKevok: The PKK take care of nature and believe in social ecology 🌳, while the Turkish Army burns down entire forests in their…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:26

RT @FoundationKevok: The PKK heroically saved 40,000 Yazidis on Mount Sinjar from ISIS & Turkey’s genocide in 2014. And the reward they get…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:25

RT @boniazadi: The PKK never wanted violence. But what are Kurds supposed to do when the Turkish Army burns down 4,000 Kurdish villages and…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:25

RT @FoundationKevok: Over 40% of the heroic PKK guerrillas are women, making them the most female freedom fighter army on Earth. They are a…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:25

RT @boniazadi: #PKKisNotTerrorist The Kurdish PKK represent the fight for a free Kurdistan. It is a disgrace how some corrupt governments l…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 18:12

@JohnsonsSolicit Well it’s not like they are rioting for or against anything in particular –

Mon 6 Jul 2020 16:58

There are so many countries where practically rye entire left is being purged, jailed, or fleeing for their lives. Some are quite large (India, Turkey…) can’t we just arrange for them to all flee to one smallish European country like Belgium or Slovenia; and then take over?

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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 15:28

RT @OutriderTed: @JillGore8 @HunHo7 They were, but much of the working class, I think, instinctively felt the EU’s neoliberal nature. And m…

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 12:26

here’s me somewhat in the guise of Noel Coward (well sipping cognac in pyjamas anyway) reading from the last paragraphs of a long essay on Merina kings as babies, as a way of testing a new microphone https://t.co/xomaPkQfis

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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