Yes. And the politics of it will be crucial Are we going to draw them into a broad left coalition with other, (often already deskilled) workers, or are they going to join the far right? Both are paths that a middle class under attack has taken in the past

on which note, really enjoyed this: disjunctionsmag.com/articles/asy...

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

americans urgently need to get better at imagining ourselves as perpetrators not victims

it is hard to be optimistic about—or even to imagine—a future for this planet and for the human race, for as long as the United States continues to exist

Nå, det kunne have været værre. Stadig lidt nedslående at der ikke er større folkelig opbakning til klima, miljø og dyrevelfærd, men det skal selvfølgelig holdes op mod danskenes frygt for at møde en brun person på gaden. Man må huske proportionerne.

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the conditions of production, confined to the mines of the Congo and to the sweatshops of Kenya and India and the Philippines, are presumably of little interest to consumer capitalism

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"But let it be noted here: the delusions of the Oligarchs might at first manifest as infrastructure, but we will later have to analyse them as societal ruins" — particularly relevant insight given how data center buildouts are near-universally framed as inevitable.

Was Habermas “one of the greatest” philosophers, as this obituary asserts? I very much doubt it. In any case, his reputation will be tarnished by his (unmentioned) complaisance in the Gaza genocide.

this is incredibly serious

there is not a strong enough 'death to america' vibe on this website if we're being quite honest

interesting how a highly relevant and contemporary global political issue is entirely missing here

there's an analogy to be made here with platform labour, a social arrangement that seems able to maintain its legitimacy amongst workers, through operating in a similar fashion when it comes to worldmaking. but insofar as it comes to desire, I suspect that what we might need here is more Deleuze

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we joined you in committing war crimes and murdering brown people, why do you hate us :(

also worth pointing out that it took two years of genocide to get AkademikerPension to drop investments into the Israeli government — meaning that we absolutely do need to channel more activist energy in this direction.

Durand makes a similar point in Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

extremely absurd to talk about choosing NATO when half of NATO is trying to invade you and another quarter is trying to pretend it isn't happening, and that it wouldn't be such a big deal if it did anyway

considering how much of Denmark's economy is sustained on enforcing Novo Nordisk's ability to collect intellectual property rents on pharmaceuticals by gutting generics worldwide, the "narco-terrorist" descriptor would actually be more accurate in their context than it would be with Venezuela

tbh we didn't expect developments in imperialism to coincide so neatly with the issue on imperialism

maybe she'll finally stop kicking Arab families out of their homes (unlikely)

he doesn't need it, Denmark gave American troops effectively unlimited use of Danish military bases in June 🤡

you'd think, but Danish media and intelligentsia are busy drawing up absurd justifications for this. truly nowhere else in Europe that buys as much into some notion of white brotherhood as Denmark does.

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Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

die von Merz betriebene Politik der Spaltung und der Diskurs der Integration marschieren (noch immer) Hand in Hand Manuela Bojadžijev & ich haben diese rassistische Logik vor fast 3 Jahren hier analysiert — seitdem haben sich CDU & co weiter radikalisiert: geschichtedergegenwart.ch/spaltung-von...

two years into the Israeli mass-extermination campaign and the Berlin Police see fit to spontaneously ban any expressions of sympathy for Gazans. nie wieder Deutschland, aber diesmal im Ernst.

The vulnerability of the queer community is used to draw out the dangerousness of the Muslim. Not different to racial discourses of protecting white women from black men. This is run of the mill bigotry but it’s accepted because its subjects are people who are ruining Germany’s post-war happy ending

alarmed (but entirely unsurprised)

"especially American ones, with whom the Belarusian émigré is fighting his own personal cold war" is an absolutely insane qualifier for a link to an NLR piece that has nothing to do with any of this

worth being critical about what the point of Western recognition of Palestine even is amidst a Western-backed genocide of Palestinians, but it is extremely funny that FDP zombies are even worse than the AfD on this count 🤡

And the countries that pride themselves in being apparent democracies have abandoned their own citizens, including elected representatives, to the whims of a government currently committing an internationally-recognised genocide

case in point, if there's one thing this dumb fucking website is good at its papering over far-right rhetoric with toxic wholesomeness

this also feels inevitable in Europe — years of real-estate speculation + creating infinite short-term lets for bottom-feeders doing professional shitcoin speculation have created the perfect storm that the far-right are very well-equipped to capitalise on

Hab das gelesen und dachte ok vllt bisschen sehr inflammatory, und 3 Posts später die Nachricht das der Bundestag den israelischen anti UN think-tank UNwatch eingeladen hat um sie zu briefen 🙃

It was really engaging to think about imperialism with Costas Lapavitsas and Claude Serfati at Historical Materialism this summer - with a lively French audience! Promising that so many young people are interested in Marxism and (anti-)imperialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwW...

the closest thing to a peep out of bluesky was doubling down on suspending the accounts of people being shot at, bombed, and starved to death by israel. bluesky's efforts to deny palestinians access to aid will be studied in the future political violence is bad, unless you can do it with a keyboard

why is bsky moderating so egregiously? because they're tech fash who are trying to keep a brave face for the liberals with money

Abundance (of brain rot)

I fucking hate Bluesky, anytime anything *happens* the platform-mandated wholesomeness algorithm kicks in and you get endless cat videos and other twee garbage forced down your throat

I mean it has been abundantly clear for a while now that Bluesky is a whiter, more middle-class version of Linkedin

everything also makes more sense once you realise that he genuinely believes this stuff and isn't just a terrible political operator

ngl this is an improvement

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

never forget how many "respectable" western publications and journalists bear direct responsibility for enabling this

European Century of Humiliation

when even the most craven liberals in the rest of the western world have started scrambling to pretend they opposed Israel's genocide all along, Germany remains steadfast and true to its proud tradition of appreciating a genocide whenever it sees one. this country is going to need another Nuremberg.