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Kristian Niemietz Profile picture
@K_Niemietz
Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The Left.
I mean, it's not a crime not to know how much we spend on healthcare, or how that compares to 10 years ago, or to other countries. I wouldn't know that either, if it weren't part of my job.
But if you don't know those things, then don't be so super-confident about your opinions.
Everyone complains about Twitter being aggressive, rude and hostile. I don't mind that at all. But what I truly hate about this platform is that the average Twitter user is so unbelievably self-confident, when they really, really, really should not be.
Exhibit A
"Unjustified self-confidence is the curse of the tweeting classes."
-Anonymous Twitter Poet

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Jan 3
Finally, the media takes a stand against the bourgeois, late-capitalist, white supremacist, Islamophobic and transphobic tool of oppression known as "writing your own stuff".
And so does Twitter. Image
Höhö, and now, the Left suddenly cares about "academic freedom".
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"The ground is being prepared for a new political upsurge, which the lessons of the last period could potentially lift onto a higher level than Corbynism." socialistparty.org.uk/articles/11053…
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Many of those striking were first politicised by their experiences of Corbynism. [...] The hero status of Mick Lynch [...] gave a glimpse of the power of the workers’ movement"
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Apr 20, 2023
"...the difference between a militant French working class with the willingness to assert its rights on the streets [...], and its benighted British counterpart that would rather remain tied to its master by bonds of subservience and deference."
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"How else to explain the fact that at the same time the French are out in the streets [...] creating havoc [...], millions of Brits are preparing [...] street parties in celebration of the coronation of King Charles on May 6?"
"[T]he mass bleeds, [...] it is being robbed and exploited [...]
[T]he mass itself is responsible for this horrible state of affairs. It clings to its masters, loves the whip, and is the first to cry Crucify! the moment a protesting voice is raised"
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Apr 19, 2023
Hickel.
He unironically quotes Hickel 😭😭
Hickel is a charlatan who peddles trendy nonsense for cheap applause and status.
Example: He claims that current poverty measures don't work for pre-capitalist times, because most people were small-scale subsistence farmers, who didn't have a money income: They just...
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...consumed what they produced. So if you say they earned <$2 a day, this is meaningless, because they didn't "earn" anything - they just farmed.
However, people who apply current poverty measures to, say, the 17th century are, of course, aware of that and correct for that. So...
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Apr 19, 2023
now trending in lowercase letters
how cool is that Image
Wondering:
Could it be that Twitter has already been entirely replaced by AI?
Could it be that I'm the only real person left here, and that this is all just a gigantic experiment, the aim of which is to test for how long I'll keep going until I notice it? Image
Otto. They're coming for you. Image
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