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.

v hyped about this project i've been working on for a while

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.

they should send the little prick on a flag comparison tour across the Balkans

alter ich liebe dieses Land, nirgendwo sonst findet man eine angeblich *linke* Politikerin, die völlig unironisch sowas droppt wie "mein Patenkind lebt in der Westbank"

extremely funny to switch and post this on Bluesky, the most conflict-avoidant bit of social media I've seen in my life

Starmer has played an absolute blinder and officially adopted Mette Fredriksen Thought. convince voters that a strong social democracy needs you to kick out the immigrants, kick out the immigrants, and then proceed to mug everyone off and get rid of social democracy anyway. masterful stuff

you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

I stand with Diane Abbott.

jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar. danke für die Übersetzung!

sie hatte uns was ganz anderes versprochen 😔

it is your pension funds pumping trillions of dollars into venture capital, and it is your states that have been shedding their capacity to do anything about this for half a century. you cannot simply "regulate" this stuff away because your states simply aren't set up to do any of this.

while this is true, it doesn't really matter — nothing prevents capital from deskilling labour (you don't have to pay as much to fix as you do to create), and from saving time by embracing sloppification. bit by bit, most firms will succumb to this pressure to save money.

it has been very clear for a while now that the Berlin police consistently lie to justify brutal violence against Palestine activists, and that they face zero consequences for doing so. it would do a lot of German liberals good to take a break from dooming about Trump and look at their own cities.

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

tbh this might end up helping Lula, and killing the option to run infinite export-driven growth backed by infinite American deficits might actually be precisely the kick up the pants that BRICS desperately needs

are these clear and stringent laws in the room with us right now?

they don't care because we've spent (at least) half a century making sure their sole function is to engineer markets for private capital to efficiently coordinate socioeconomic planning. i don't think we can reform or regulate our way out of this mess, since all of this is *by design*

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

tbh most people's lives kinda suck, yet they remain extremely depoliticised, so techno-optimism becomes literally only way they can envision anything ever getting better

manifesting the Neukölln Commune for 2026