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Julia Steinberger Profile picture
@JKSteinberger
Nov 10 • 6 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
A couple of things.
1. Being able to ratio Ursula Von der Leyen when she commiserates with racist football hooligans, rather than murdered Palestinian children, and expose media misinformation in real time, is a core reason to stay on twitter. This stuff doesn't happen elsewhere.
I am not ready to cede this space to the fascists.
2. regarding the misinformation, there is something deeply disquieting about how and why our media is generally failing us, not just on the events of Amsterdam, but in Palestine/Lebanon generally, and climate & ecological crises.
I am seeing lots of parallels and it's not so easy to explain. Something about the coverage being commentary rather than caring deeply about facts and reasons on the ground. Media coverage viewing everything through the lens of elites and their views, rather than facts & systems
... that concern the real lives of the vast majority. I can't quite put my finger on how to describe it, but it's very clear that it's greasing the slippery slope to crushing all human rights and destroying liveability on this planet. Not good.
PS of course #NotAllMedia, certainly #NotAllJournalists, many of whom are the best of the best. But it's exactly the disconnect between the expression/analysis of the best of them, those who care to understand what is really going on, and the sort of bloodless superficial ...
accounts that get broadcast that bugs me most. We should be caring about this stuff. We should be learning about it from people who care. And the news is designed to bring disengagement, or engagement on the wrong side, or in futile ways. It's not helping.

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Nov 12
Just absolute pits of despair. It's not just the crimes our governments are committing, it's that even "good" media like the @guardian are presenting civilian victims as incidental. No, this is and has been deliberate genocide, with "defence" as a flimsy fig leaf.
It's well past time to start from a baseline of assuming Israel knows and wants to inflict the damage it does, rather than assuming some kind of innocent blundering. This is all deliberate, planned, calculated, done very much on purpose. The murder of children, rape of prisoners,
destruction of all civilian infrastructure, schools, universities, mosques, churches, parcs, ancient sites, agriculture, ecosystems, all of it. It's all deliberate, planned, funded and armed and materially-strategically supported by the US, UK and German governments.
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Oct 23
Reading political theory because I must or go even more mad, and this article by Richard Day ... phew.
So much of what we are doing on here is "politics of demand" during an era of accelerating genocide and climate collapse, no less. Unforgivable. Image
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"the politics of demand is by necessity limited in scope: it can change the content of structures of domination and exploitation, but it cannot change their form."
Even worse:
"every demand, in anticipating a response, perpetuates these structures ... This leads to a positive feedback loop, in which the ever-increasing depth and breadth of apparatuses of discipline and control create ever-new sites of antagonism ..."
Read 6 tweets
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Oct 11
Been wondering all week how Fox managed to outperform pretty much all liberal media in the US on Israeli crimes (especially against fellow journalists). The most jingoistic racist conspiracy-friendly outlet outperformed liberal ones. What does this mean???
A few thoughts.
1/
This won't be profound or even factual, btw, just I am searching for reasons, because it is a significant development.
1⃣ US news outlets wanted to send their own journalists to Gaza, but were forbidden by Israel. Bias against using reporting by Palestinian journalists led ...
2/
even someone like Christiane @amanpour to say "we don't have reporters on the ground in Gaza" and basically not report or broadcast on it except in Israel's terms, for most of last year. Since the summer more outlets are rebroadcasting Palestinian journalists.
3/
Read 13 tweets
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Sep 21
Fun sidenote to the past year of horror: turns out I have been grinding my teeth so badly, my dentist said my molars are all cracked, likely to develop cavities and I will end up loosing my teeth.
When he told me, I was not at all surprised.
An unrelated 🧵.
The thread is actually related, because for the first time in days, my crippling tooth pain has relented a bit. So I get to share some thoughts that have been stewing, from Israel's US & EU-backed genocide to the despondency & weird despair of so many in the climate movement.
2/
US foreign policy is mega-aggressive, but was originally formulated as defensive: we need to control other countries, because everyone wants a US living standard, and that is not possible. So to maintain inequality, we have to control global resources (especially oil) & trade.
3/
Read 23 tweets
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Sep 16
I am reading Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution" prompted by the tremendous Wendy Brown's "In the ruins of neoliberalism" and can I say it is wildly entertaining. She oscillates between being SO DAMN WRONG it causes me to swear loudly in public (*), and so damn insightful ...
it is lifechanging in its implications. It's quite the ride. 😂
Wrong side:
* Western thought is the only thought. Gah. Despite the US constitution being inspired by the Iroquois confederation. I swear to god.
* Neglecting/glorifying/invisibilising colonialism, slavery, racism, sexism. All these great men, free to think about political institutions, no mention of who they sacrificed & their great thoughts. No swear words are sufficient here. I mean all this praise of Jefferson. 💀💀💀
Read 17 tweets
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Sep 7
One thing that terrifies me is that we have now analysed, understood and NORMALISED our leaders' inaction on climate (and outrageous human rights abuses, including jailing activists). "Don't Look Up" was a brilliant film, but it pushed us along this normalisation trajectory.
🧵1/
Instead, we should be analysing and strategising how to build power and fight back against this inaction, not be satisfied at being nihilistic, smug, righteous commentators of the apocalypse, satisfied with being on the right side of topics, and continually losing.
2/
I am seeing far too much of this smug doomer commentating, and far too little actual analysis and strategy proposals. My contribution was this research/analysis on the anti-democratic climate-denying neoliberal Atlas Network.
3/
 jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-up…
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