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Jul 5, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
Thread on the mythology of Nazism and finance capital: A common conspiracy theory held throughout Europe (and still today by some!) was that the October Revolution itself was the work of international Jewish capitalists. Weber (2017) convincingly argues that this "anti-capitalist anti-semitism" helped integrate "anti-bolshevism" into



Jan 29, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
incredible thumbnail from mr beast. The look of absolute horror on the child's face conveys the sublime terror that defeats even our ability to facially express anguish, while Beast's garish false smile mixes with the flat irrational perspective to unite both form and content. Fundamentally, Mr. Beast's videos are only yet another proof of Adorno and Horkheimer's thesis that enlightenment is mystification. Even ignoring the explicitly monetary aspect of Beast's content, what nonetheless shines through is a pathological obsession with the quantitative.