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27 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
This is fascist garbage.

I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt a few times, but there's no way to talk about "treasured US values" without stomping all over indigenous and Black struggles.
Not long ago this guy was arguing that drug users deserved violence while making a narrow "cultural" exception for alcohol, basically ignoring the ultra-racist US context.

Now he's talking about "unique US values."

Connect the dots.
Mr. "Anti-woke anti-ipdol" over here is trying to pull the "I'm a Latin American" card, blissfully unaware that I'm Peruvian and have traveled extensively within my country, including shanty towns.

What now, Zizek?
One does not need to sound like some kind of bloodthirsty tradcath gushing about "American Traditional Values" to discuss sensible measures against the drug war.

Perhaps you should read Black MLs from the US before gushing about "Free Speech."
Great posts by @tropicalML
Anyway, I'm not veering deeper onto this incoherent and dogmatic "imitate China and Cuba for their drug laws but then push for US Free Speech Values" morass. I just didn't want to stay quiet about it.
PS. Read this essay on Canada.
theoutline.com/post/8686/cana…

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28 Jan
POLITICO just published a hilarious anti-China tract, and I recommend people to seriously put some effort into 1) reading it, 2) contextualizing it.
Anyone discussing China and playing down the "White Supremacy" angle is leading you astray.

DC Lanyards are completely shook.
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Kennan's 1948 memo is an exceptionally revealing white supremacy manifesto, that very clearly defines that the threat is *Communism*, not some vague gushy non-ideological realpolitik battle for resources.
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28 Jan
Adam Curtis apparently is threatening us with another of his nihilistic, both-sides-are-bad, "works" against "totalitarianism."

Remember who Adam Curtis is before pushing his jaded socialist garbage.

h/t @jcfrancisco
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There's literally no reason to read, listen to, or watch the works of British anti-communists in 2021.

If you were ever forced to read Orwell, you've had more than enough for one lifetime.
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People will sit there and let Curtis pump libertarian sewage into their minds for two straight hours, then turn around and mourn gravely about massification and consumerism.
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27 Jan
You know @ASPI_org?

Following Adrian Zenz getting exposed a white supremacist religious fundamentalist, it became the #1 source on all matters China for the White Western Press.

Guess what?
aspistrategist.org.au/australia-day-…
You know those "satellite images" you keep seeing all over?

They all come from Nathan Ruser, a random "computer whiz kid" hired by this weapons-manufacturer.

The kid doesn't even know what role QR codes play in China.
You know that "victim testimony"?

Well, it's packed full of people like Rushan Abbas.
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26 Jan
The Peruvian "left" insists on throwing Venezuela under the bus to try to appear "respectable" for the upcoming elections.

"You have to blame Maduro, not sanctions" they cry out.

I disagree. And it makes them all sound like unconvincing opportunists.
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Sanctions are the modern equivalent of medieval sieges.

Literally no different than catapults and armies parked outside the walls of an ancient city, choking off all trade, hoping that anger, disease, and hunger fester.

And they get *extremely* thorough:
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26 Jan
toads from the AP and The Economist are furious that China has a large Uyghur population from which to draw positive testimony to counter their latest wave of atrocity propaganda

"how *dare* China present happy Uyghurs to oppose our angry, CIA-funded, regime-change Uyghurs!? 🤬"
This Gady Epstein guy is particularly amusing
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19 Jan
Some random thoughts about the psychology of ETIM exiles, Venezuelan/Cuban "expats," QAnon folk, HK rioters, Ukrainian Nazis in Canada, etc.

@moghilemear13's latest thread debunking a @guardian "long read" about the "Uyghur Gulag" got me thinking about it.
So, the woman who was supposedly sent to the gulag previously had a job in PetroChina, in what @moghilemear13 describes as an oil boomtown.

It seems like the pool of people who get radicalized isn't "the bottom of society," but the "upwardly mobile."
I was reading a (bad) essay on Mao Zedong by Zizek a while back, and this bit from him by it always stuck with me.

Zizek is literally quoting *Robert Conquest* (lol), but what made an impression was that the idea of the "subkulak" was so easily dismissed:
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