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Paul Demarty
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Paul Demarty
@FilbenDemarty
Good Marxist, bad Catholic. Peddler of cut-price Menckenisms for @Weekly_Worker. Here for shitposting. About 14% of a real person.
Elsewhere Joined Ocak 2013
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“Get in loser, we’re microdosing Angell’s ‘Great Illusion’.”
Emma Ashford@EmmaMAshford
I’m beginning to wonder if the solution to the war is simply to extend trading hours so there’s no window for escalation on the weekend.
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@dwaldenwrites And when in Bayreuth, keep yourself topped up with the overpriced but more than serviceable Wurstbrötchen
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Optimizing, instrumentalizing nonsense. You prep for Tristan in the traditional way as for any opera: a hearty Italian dinner and a glass and a half or so of good red wine. Refresh with champagne during intermissions.
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Got to say, if the research of Goodwin's book was conducted mainly by AI, then he's done a terrible job of hiding it
andy twelves@andytwelves
EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations. Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?
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Of course, I'm all in favour of this sort of thing
A.T. Levi✩@posadasherself
wikipedia says this party denies its own existence lol
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Oh, this reminds me of the actual best tweet ever, not the one I picked the other day
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Men will literally use the word "proximately" instead of quoting the used-up Gramsci thing about morbid symptoms
Marc Mulholland@katheder
"Societies as atomised as contemporary Britain and America produce neither a competent ruling class nor - without great and proximately thankless effort - a threatening revolutionary class. In this void, time is ripe for any number of grifts and scams." weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/on…
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"Societies as atomised as contemporary Britain and America produce neither a competent ruling class nor - without great and proximately thankless effort - a threatening revolutionary class. In this void, time is ripe for any number of grifts and scams." weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1577/on…
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Oh, this guy is still around is he? Very nostalgic, reminds me of being young and full of piss and vinegar
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
Iran just fired two missies at a target 4000 kilometers away. London is 4400 kilometers from Tehran. Tell me Iran is not a threat to the world. (Paris, Rome, Vienna and Berlin are closer…)
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Me when the DJ drops something from Cyber Records by some guy called Claes or Joris from 2001 that only me and three other people on earth like
Clash Report@clashreport
📸 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during the state dinner at the White House.
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I saw a copy of the Washington Post's fat book of the Mueller report in a charity shop in Exeter today and mused on the fickleness of fate
db@dbessner
Saw at least 6 people in Seattle with “It’s Mueller Time” shirts
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@Tyler_A_Harper So much intellectual energy expended on dressing up a perfectly ordinary situation (unfortunate woman marries a dissolute cad) as some high stakes political thing.
One feels that cads used to be less annoying and self-pitying about it, but that's probably nostalgia
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If I have this right, West’s husband says West is racist for not letting him cheat, West says her critics are racist for being mean to her husband’s Iranian girlfriend on Persian New Year, and now the Iranian girlfriend says the Slate writer is racist for noticing Aham sucks?
Slate@Slate
Kate Lindsay and Scaachi Koul discuss the internet’s response to Lindy West’s new book—and how its subjects are firing back. slate.trib.al/x5cLKHQ
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people desperately try to make literature utilitarian: “it helps us generate empathy” etc.
then people will be like “INFINITE JEST literally made me feel less suicidal” or “I quit drinking because of INFINITE JEST” and the response is like “yeah ok whatever buddy!”
Krapp's Last Vape@SatireRedacted
Infinite Jest is probably responsible for saving more lives than it is for being a signifier of an annoying and largely imaginary lit bro. Infinite Jest as a cultural phenomenon 1) made literature feel both cool and a personal challenge and 2) decreased loneliness.
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The plat version of intellectual history is like the bit in being John Malkovich where he goes into his own mind, except everyone is Chris Cutrone. Over here is Chris Kant, over there Chris Luxemburg. Chris Postone is drinking straight out of the punchbowl
Paul Demarty@FilbenDemarty
Marx had determinate criticisms of other socialists based on their political and theoretical errors as he saw them. He was not 'critical' in some existential way prior to substantive polemic and would rightly object to his name being used for a decadent philosophy of history
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Marx had determinate criticisms of other socialists based on their political and theoretical errors as he saw them. He was not 'critical' in some existential way prior to substantive polemic and would rightly object to his name being used for a decadent philosophy of history
Douglas Lain@DougLain
It's worth keeping in mind that Marx was a critic of socialism. So the truth isn't that "real socialism hasn't been tried," but more that proletariat socialism was defeated. This is very difficult for "leftists" to take up because it doesn't offer them, as intellectuals, a central role and because it requires accepting both defeat and the possibility that they are not the most advanced people in human history.
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