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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Sun 14 Jun 2020 20:36

friend in Paris told me today that Nazis marching vs #BLM had rolled out antisemitic banners, which has been helping a lot with unity on the other side, & what’s more CNN’s auto translator has been rendering “molotov cocktails” as “mazel tov cocktails” so it’s becoming a phrase

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 16:59

@NouriPen @BeckieMarsland @robotforaday But I did in fact grade the papers and turned them around quickly so what are we even talking about. Like these two have never once grumbled about how much work they were assigned in how much time! Yes. I’m sure.

Sun 14 Jun 2020 15:21

RT @EclecticRadical: @hamasinpitta @davidgraeber @flamedeirosss That too, yes, but cops will still have arrest and ticket quotas. Police qu…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 15:08

RT @mnovember2: @davidgraeber I stood behind 2 police sergeants in a supermarket line , from what I understood the path to promotion lay in…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 14:05

RT @SamuraiElf: It’s an ugly history and one that is covered amongst others medical experimentations on the black community in the book a…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 14:03

RT @docadam: “The police spend very little time dealing with violent criminals—90% is spent dealing with infractions of various administrat…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:53

RT @docadam: “The police, then, are essentially just bureaucrats with weapons. Their main role in society is to bring the threat of physica…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:52

RT @r04k_: “…socialism for the oligarchy and austerity for the many, in the end, feeds the racist ultra-right.” https://t.co/nonBIPPmUT

Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:52

RT @nikadubrovsky: We had just seen Kingsman 2 with @davidgraeber It full of priceless priceless trolling of the government’s’ attitude to…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:46

interesting conversation between Assange (from prison) and Varoufakis about the economy https://t.co/Y8BoMootO8

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:43

RT @iainzeno: @davidgraeber Very thought provoking article to out it mildly. Who would have thought of connecting the dots to profit seekin…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:38

RT @EclecticRadical: @davidgraeber @flamedeirosss There’s evidence to suggest abolition would lower the crime rate. When the NYPD went on s…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:56

RT @flamedeirosss: @davidgraeber Thanks for sharing! Since my PhD thesis, I’ve been using your discussion at the Utopia of Rules to analyze…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:56

@Itsnotadistrac1 10% on crimes of any kind, the percentages for violent crime would be much much lower.

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:54

RT @nomthepom: It’s amazing how quickly our unexamined truths unravel once we start to examine them. https://t.co/8nS1yZFVEv

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:50

@dorneylass there was a police strike in NYC a few years back where the cops decided to only do “essential law enforcement” (some phrase like that – basically, just actually fight crime) for a week. City revenues plummeted.

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:45

RT @sionlewin: This massively. When I was surrounded by skinheads: zero police. When I had poorly visible lights on my bike: two police in…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:35

RT @MitalMan: @gathara @davidgraeber Here it is (it was in relation to Ferguson) https://t.co/FGxrNZ4MGl

Sun 14 Jun 2020 11:51

RT @Nadine_Writes: A selfless, rather strapping #BlackLivesMatter king carries an injured, helpless far-right protester to safety, near Wat…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 11:50

RT @JamesAALongman: Idea: don’t share images of fascist thugs in London, share this instead. The lone brave protester who took a knee in…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:42

from my own small contribution to police abolition some years ago – #blacklivesmatter #AbolishThePolice https://t.co/09FcnPTuSF

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:39

@jazzpanflute there are definitely judges who were caught getting kickbacks for that sort of thing

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