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24 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What I like about this thread, and what I try to do generally, is show that "theory" isn't some arcane thing like an ancient language.

When theory clicks it should feel quotidian and pertinent. It's writing that makes things that you're already familiar with make *more* sense.
If you look at Marx's 1844 manuscripts, Marx was all about pop culture. He referenced plays and novels freely. In Capital he references Robinson Crusoe!

The idea that pop references in any way disfigure theory is pure nonsense.
redsails.org/third-manuscri… ImageImage
A certain @MarxinHell basically kinda wrote a whole book about this...
goodreads.com/book/show/3000…
Anyway, watch Black Sails.

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27 Jul
Liberalism was born out of the capitalist need to somehow justify 1) rebellion against the monarchy while simultaneously 2) putting down slave rebellions.

This reveals how the anti-state "both sides can be bad at the same time" tradition of anarchism really is pure liberalism.
Liberalism fundamentally *is* that equivocation, that incessant demand for "nuance," that fear of "going too far," that ability to claim you uphold a certain ideal while your material reality blatantly undermines it at every step.
China may objectively, provably, unquestionably have world-historic achievements in freedom-enhancing poverty eradication and peaceful development, but liberalism allows Westerners to disregard this reality and insist that they stand for freedom and the rest for authority.
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26 Jul
Wild to think it's been one year.

Back then I was absolutely terrified that I was making a mistake, since I have never been there. Maybe I had missed some key evidence.

Now, in hindsight, any instances of hesitation appear excessively cautious.
It taught me a lot about how propaganda works.

Hundreds and hundreds of people replied angrily, but not *once* on the basis of any particular challenge. It was endless indignation that I dared express skepticism.

This incident was particularly funny. 😄
BCT never refuted anything, by the way.

Nobody did. I hoped that my chain of arguments would more-or-less hold up, but I didn't expect it to survive intact.

Every "expert" who bombastically gloated they'd shred my thread went on to expose themselves.
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25 Jul
It's fun seeing, through Twitter, how the social caste of professional propagandists expresses solidarity.

"You go, colleague! We have blue checks and we're getting paid, so we don't need to read the rabble."

Joanna Kakissis is Professor of Journalism at Princeton!
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Kakissis isn't just a chauvinist.

As a journalist, she spreads atrocity propaganda via news media.

As an academic, she trains new "journalists" to think like her.

The clincher? She does it all by mining Libya for her stories!

Absolutely shameless.
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Before war, armies of "journalists" furnish atrocity propaganda to persuade mass audiences to support invasions.

After the war, they tell tragic stories about the victims to make those same audiences feel like they're atoning for their support.

Always lucrative! Image
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15 Jul
Every Uyghur that the Western press puts on blast is a fraud.

Rushan Abbas worked at Guantanamo Bay.
Nury Turkel works for the State Department.
Sayragul Sauytbay changed her story (and isn't Uyghur).
Tursunay Ziyawudun changed her story.
Arsalan Hidayat is a serial liar.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Uyghur bloggers in China, workers at various government agencies, superstars like Merxat Yalkun and Dilraba Dilmurat, etc. are superciliously dismissed as "propaganda agents."

Americans don't want truth, they just want their atrocity propaganda reinforced.
Just look at this garbage.
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15 Jul
I'm amused at how many people insist and insist on defending that sheepdog bastard Bernie Sanders.

Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Joe Manchin, Liz Warren, and Bernie Sanders. The entire "spectrum"!😄
The same thing applies to China and Xinjiang as it does to Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

People are strong enough and smart enough, they stand together.

Psychotic imperialist "leftists" in the US meanwhile stand for absolutely nothing.
The problem with social fascists that there's nothing there to argue against.

I am good at arguments and research but these people operate on... I don't even know how to describe it.

Like a fanatical group loyalty, but the group is "biggest political losers in America."
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14 Jul
As I keep saying: the entire purpose of "Western Marxist Academia" is simply trying to de-fang Marx, cleave him from Engels and Lenin (to say nothing of Stalin and Deng), try to make him compatible with their anti-revolutionary, anticommunist, professional-liberal sensibilities.
The biggest recent example of this was that Daniel Bessner ghoul, but I've made several threads documenting the phenomenon.
Lenin had the classic formulation. (marxists.org/archive/lenin/…)

And it was well-updated to account for the 20th century and its "socialist intellectuals" by Domenico Losurdo. (redsails.org/losurdo-and-ga…)
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