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Wed 12 Aug 2020 14:59

@SirPaulHartley @davidwengrow well it was originally supposed to be spring 2021 but we were a few months late with the mss. Hoping it won’t be delayed overmuch.

Wed 12 Aug 2020 12:22

@Yahweh47613078 @davidwengrow Dawn of the New Everything – not quite but disturbingly close. Funny I knew all his other books…

Wed 12 Aug 2020 12:21

@SaltleyGates @davidwengrow I kind of figured they’d get Christian Slater. Who’d play (other) David?

Wed 12 Aug 2020 11:29

@geofffhughes @davidwengrow @dorshilton @mnvrsngh alas I think you have a lot in common with almost everyone in that respect

Wed 12 Aug 2020 11:12

@geofffhughes @davidwengrow @dorshilton @mnvrsngh oh it’s in … let’s see, HAU somewhere, in Jason Hickel’s volume on hierarchy… then it’s in Possibilities in the first essay, and in Value too somewhere

Wed 12 Aug 2020 11:09

@dreemywyrd @dorshilton @mnvrsngh @davidwengrow “The Dawn of Everything.” If we can convince them to use it.

Wed 12 Aug 2020 08:16

@geofffhughes @davidwengrow @dorshilton @mnvrsngh on the other hand, turns out the archaeological evidence suggests that Hocart, perhaps completely by accident, got it right

Wed 12 Aug 2020 08:16

@geofffhughes @davidwengrow @dorshilton @mnvrsngh I have the Dumontian takedown published like four times now and it doesn’t seem to impress scholars much (at least they never cite it) so tbh I kind of gave up on flogging away at it. I think I mention it somewhere.

Wed 12 Aug 2020 08:11

@geofffhughes @davidwengrow @dorshilton @mnvrsngh someone beat you to it. But things that look like royal burials go back at least 30k years. They probably aren’t royal in the Calusa sense, but theatrical seasonal kings, but it still shows the accustomed narrative needs massive revamping

Tue 11 Aug 2020 00:01

@mnovember2 been sick for a month, mysterious cause, weird soapy taste in my mouth, exhaustion, stomach, lung ache… all tests come out negative, but I do have a tooth infection possibly so I’m having root canal in the morning

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Mon 10 Aug 2020 15:28

@stutoon @RoccoLostInHull @TheMendozaWoman or they can speak English a lot better than they can speak German or French or Norwegian etc. What BS? You asked a question I gave the answer.

Mon 10 Aug 2020 13:48

@RoccoLostInHull @stutoon @TheMendozaWoman Well you put common sense out there maybe something will click for someone, even if only later on and not necessarily the specific fellow you’re addressing

Mon 10 Aug 2020 12:50

@stutoon @RoccoLostInHull @TheMendozaWoman say you were banned from Europe & ended up in Indonesia. You need to get a job to support your family. Where would you go? You wouldn’t be on a boat trying to get to Australia or New Zealand?

Mon 10 Aug 2020 12:47

@stutoon @RoccoLostInHull @TheMendozaWoman probably because you have a cousin here already or someone with an actual real house you can stay in at least temporarily; that’s what it usually turns out to be. Also people tend to go places where they can speak the language at least a little.

Sun 9 Aug 2020 23:31

@me_mccarron I don’t think most of the people who are condemning each other for sectarian reasons are especially economically insecure actually.

Sun 9 Aug 2020 07:13

@AnarchoP yes that’s the problem: a lot of groups not only don’t want a mass base for their group, which is fine, some don’t want the majority of people to be radicalised at all, because then why would they be special?

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Sun 9 Aug 2020 07:12

@fake__monkey @catdadaeternal key to successful political engagement over time is to learn how to pace yourself, step back sometime, be nice to yourself/recharge… Otherwise everyone burns out eventually.

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Sun 9 Aug 2020 00:08

@hamasinpitta @EagleSyrian1 is there anything in the world more silly than someone who claims to be a leftist, but who’s instinctual reaction on hearing there’s a popular uprising against a brutal & corrupt regime is to oppose it

Sat 8 Aug 2020 15:00

@AnarchoP Some of the Libcom crowd engaged in some of the most personally sleazy & destructive behavior I have ever witnessed, specifically against fellow lefties with whom they had almost zero political difference out of sheer sectarian asshattery

Sat 8 Aug 2020 12:51

@inside_lemon @mnovember2 this requires both genocidal intention way beyond anything documented from China before, or anyone really since the 18th century, AND the most effective secrecy campaign in world history in defense of said genocide

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Sat 8 Aug 2020 12:49

@inside_lemon @mnovember2 if you want to sicken and kill everyone in the world except your own population, I suppose. But if so the Chinese government would have some secret vaccine & somehow manage to get a billion people not to tattle. That seems like it’d be hard to do.

Sat 8 Aug 2020 09:55

@mcdee_andy @markwri589 @JoeRRyle yeah here’s obviously an antisemite. There’s nothing like having to listen to the goyim lecturing leftie Jews like me why the right-wing Jews are right about our own former left-wing leader. Such incredibly destructive behaviour