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 10:38

@w41gy oh yes they primarily serve a political function and one of protecting property, but the revenue-collecting one is increasing in importance; they also do some minor social services to claim legitimacy.

Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:15

American police are basically a shake-down operation. They don’t “fight crime”, mainly they use the threat of violence to extract $$ from Black people, poor people, & migrants etc, largely to give to banks to repay municipal debt. #blacklivesmatter https://t.co/R888nvp46u

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 09:18

RT @mmbilal: “People would write to me & say, it’s true! I’m a corporate lawyer. I contribute nothing to society.” – @davidgraeber, author…

Sun 14 Jun 2020 01:15

@NouriPen @robotforaday @BeckieMarsland Irony is I think exams are rather silly but it’s not like I make the rules

Sun 14 Jun 2020 01:14

@NouriPen @robotforaday @BeckieMarsland Well it wasn’t possible anyway. As usual 95% of those who chose to respond were nice people.

Sat 13 Jun 2020 23:24

@JustinMeggitt @BeckieMarsland @jonbialecki But this is what I deserve for expecting intelligence and good will from twitter

Sat 13 Jun 2020 23:23

@JustinMeggitt @BeckieMarsland @jonbialecki For Gods sake – you honestly think I was complaining about having to grade papers at all? I thought I was remarking on 1. Expecting one person to do 100 in a week, which guarantees you can’t do a good job, 2. Me idiotically trying to do it in two days

Sat 13 Jun 2020 23:20

@weswpg @_Fartzilla They didn’t have a police force. If you wanted to report a theft or assault you couldn’t go to the Gestapo and ask them to investigate.

Sat 13 Jun 2020 21:55

RT @davidwengrow: “Deficit narrative” is not a phrase I’d come across: it accurately describes a lot of work in African archaeology. Even e…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 21:29

@BeckieMarsland Um asshole – I didn’t say it was an injustice. If anything I was complaining about what an idiot I was to try to do it in two days

Sat 13 Jun 2020 19:31

RT @mmbilal: My chat w/ anthropologist, anarchist & co-creator of the line “We are the 99%” @davidgraeber was full of gems. I learned, laug…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 18:36

RT @girlziplocked: Imagine if the firemen from the Fire Department walked around beating the shit out everyone who lit a match because that…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 18:06

@weswpg @_Fartzilla Actually one: Amsterdam during WWII. At one point the Nazis arrested the entire police dept. Property crime did go up but violent crime remained entirely unchanged

Sat 13 Jun 2020 17:39

RT @PhilosophyyBot: As working class jobs have become more precarious and demeaning, professional jobs have become more meaningless and dep…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 17:39

RT @_Fartzilla: Actually as an anthropologist I know what happens when police disappear. I even lived in a place in rural Madagascar where…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 16:35

RT @Zenman1550: David Graeber on harmful jobs, odious debt, and fascists who believe in global warming https://t.co/DyhufkQ6sP

Sat 13 Jun 2020 16:35

RT @TewksburyIan: @davidgraeber “The work of learning, which distinctively belongs in the university, on the other hand is a matter of pers…

Sat 13 Jun 2020 16:02

RT @locke: Highly enjoyed our convo with @davidgraeber on @AJTheTake about essential work, the bullshit economy, and the war on the human i…