Share this page!

Hari Kunzru Profile picture
Twitter logo
9 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read
I too often ‘raise questions’ by lying through my teeth, whipping up a mob, and then hiding, while my surrogates dribble out the same tired culture war whine that has soundtracked the last four years
Seize Twitter is the new ‘seize the means of production.’ Meme Leninism Image
Image
This sounds very noble and principled until you check and see that he hasn’t actually deleted his account Image
Which, of course, makes it the quintessential Trumpist gesture
Levin’s account is still there. I think he’s worked out that when Trump fades, those 2.7m followers are his biggest career asset.
Just raising questions @megynkelly

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @harikunzru

Hari Kunzru Profile picture
11 Jan
Whether Conservatives win, lose or trash the Capitol, the conclusion is always the same: we should listen to them more and center their feelings
It’s a wonderful political trick, but what is needed now is genuine contrition and self-reflection, not calls for fake ‘unity’ that allow them to skip over their complicity
Let’s really sit with the deep-seated need to claim victimhood that’s at the heart of Trumpism, and the historical illiteracy that it takes to make a claim like this
Read 9 tweets
Hari Kunzru Profile picture
31 Dec 20
It’s the end of the year, and like everyone else I’m happy to see it go. Still, I'm going to do one of those year-in-review threads, so please do mute if you’re not in the mood.
Main achievement: @katiekitamura and I have two happy sane children who have learned some stuff at home. We lost my uncle to covid and my parents haven’t seen their grandchildren in a year, but we’re doing ok.
I wrote a lot of non-fiction this year. In March for @nybooks I reviewed @DaleBeran's book about 4chan, Gamergate and how the angry internet fringe went mainstream nybooks.com/articles/2020/…
Read 19 tweets
Hari Kunzru Profile picture
31 Dec 20
It’s as if the US is half-asleep. It’s unable to rouse itself, even in a crisis. Tranquilized. Opiated.
Some of it is abdication of responsibility by the executive. Some of it is a health system that’s been so stretched that it hasn’t had capacity to plan a vaccination program. But there’s something else. Indifference. Helplessness.
The pollution of the media environment and the politicization of public health information have paralyzed the US virus response and cost thousands of lives. It will be remembered as a criminal act by a destructive administration.
Read 5 tweets
Hari Kunzru Profile picture
7 Nov 20
You may want to mute this account for a while because I feel I may have to individually insult every member of the outgoing administration in crude and personal ways
Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy from your clenched sphincter
Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse inside your Chanel suit
Read 16 tweets
Hari Kunzru Profile picture
24 Sep 20
It's possible that I may have mentioned once or twice that I have a novel out. It's called Red Pill and it's partly set in Berlin. While I was researching it, I found out a lot about life in the former East Berlin. Some of that found its way into the book. But there was more ... ImageImage
I was interested in surveillance. These days we all have a spy in our pocket, and the people watching are mostly from big tech companies, looking to predict our behavior. In the GDR, they had the Stasi Image
At first I was interested in how the Stasi monitored political dissidents and artists - people like the writers Juergen Fuchs and Sascha Anderson Image
Read 18 tweets
Hari Kunzru Profile picture
21 Sep 20
So many questions. Who is ‘they’? Where is the valve? How does the beautiful water save the tiny fish?
I am now googling combinations of smelt / valve / water / tiny fish / in an attempt to find out what he might be referring to.
Turns out it’s a sort of first grade account of his attempt to undermine environmental regulation in Northern California theguardian.com/environment/20…
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @harikunzru has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @harikunzru!

Read all threads by @harikunzru