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 29 Jun 2020 23:41

@SamuraiElf he wasn’t a practicing Quaker! He was a Quaker like the Marquis de Sade was Catholic.

Mon 29 Jun 2020 23:19

RT @ChanPerco: « On détruit la planète pour nourrir nos ego » alerte David Graeber, l’auteur de « Bullshit jobs » via @LesEchos https://t.c…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 21:55

RT @SkyeCity_: Sir Keir Starmer’s comments on Black Lives Matter were far more racially insensitive than Rebecca Long-Bailey calling Maxine…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 21:02

@girlziplocked @BenjaminVanDyne well I did read something by Emerson when checking out the matter (admittedly superficially) saying that the abolition movement was ultimately a child of Puritanism, in a good way, but it was both an offspring & inversion maybe?

Mon 29 Jun 2020 20:49

@girlziplocked well I’m sure you know your facts, I was using “puritan” in the most expansive sense – but probably too expansive, yeah. (Also I’d forgotten about the role of the Transcendentalists -I must have known that once! Interesting.)

Mon 29 Jun 2020 20:45

@api_kakayou I don’t think everyone is going around trying to maximise something that could be described as “capital”

Mon 29 Jun 2020 20:39

RT @fourfoldway: Brief, insightful, excellent thread. Captures something I’ve tried and failed to express, or even fully understand, for de…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 19:46

@jeremy_data an excellent example! Yes, precisely: if someone says something offensive, is told it’s offensive, & thinks about it & apologises, an almost instant reaction in some activist quarters anyway is to express skepticism that he “really” feels the guilt in his heart.

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 19:44

RT @jeremy_data: @davidgraeber David, I also see activists reject good change in others that appears to be a result of peer pressure rather…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 19:43

@chuckwiller absolutely – when I got kicked out of Yale, everyone signed a document in solidarity, and no one at all offered to help find me another job. The only exceptions were actually African-American

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 18:29

RT @JamesTreakle: Phenomenal thread. Fucking Puritans, man. They really did a number on us. https://t.co/CDbgrIav4y

Mon 29 Jun 2020 18:26

RT @openDemocracy: 🔥 THURSDAY DEBATE 🔥 What can a world in crisis learn from grassroots movements – to get us through this crisis – and he…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 18:18

RT @jrschlosberg: This strikes me as a defining moment. If @UKlabour backs down on these proposals it will make a mockery of @Keir_Starmer…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 18:15

RT @AgendaFvck: Retweet if you agree that there shouldn’t even be a ‘right wing’ of the Labour Party.

Mon 29 Jun 2020 14:15

@Timlagor @RKemb I believe it is literally accurate in this case. I am not however interested in a long conversation about the matter

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:39

RT @davidgraeber: @RKemb yeah the kind of tasks that are least well rewarded are also the hardest to automate. The technical problems that’…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:35

@RKemb yeah the kind of tasks that are least well rewarded are also the hardest to automate. The technical problems that’d have to be solved to make a robot that can tidy up the kitchen are exponentially more difficult than making one than can assemble cars

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:33

RT @vakibs: Neither robotics nor computer science generally is doing anything to improve the comfort or quality of life of humans. Stopped…

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:33

@adambb76 @EclecticRadical um, you think Amazon doesn’t hire people? And you’re the one pronouncing other people wrong? Wow.

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Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:31

@RKemb yeah but the amazing thing is how little there have been. I haven’t seen a single automated delivery or talked to a single person who claims to have got one

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:20

@AlanPennue @DogfoxStudios @girlziplocked well you know what they say of the Quakers, they came to America to do good, but ended up doing well

Mon 29 Jun 2020 12:20

@DogfoxStudios @AlanPennue @girlziplocked it’s also the competitiveness, trying to show you’re superior to other puritans/white activists by the fact you more fully understand and internalise the depth of your corruption & baseness, based in original sin