Neither Shark, nor Whale, nor Vampire Squid. Non-Denominational Communist, Retired Catholic.
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Nov 25, 2017 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Anyone else born in the late 1970s / early 1980s feel like they're part of a weird generation that slipped thru the cracks?
And I don't even really want to unpack what I mean by "generation" or "slipped thru the cracks" - I feel like alot of people my age share this feeling for different reasons.
Oct 2, 2017 • 13 tweets • 1 min read
Gonna go out on a limb here and say that nuclear weapons made anarchism obsolete.
Dismantling a nuclear-armed state just means you get a bunch of randos with nukes and a much lower threshold for using them.
Sep 26, 2017 • 39 tweets • 5 min read
In the 1960s, the Young Lords used to get themselves sent to the brig so they could organize fellow conscripts to commit mutiny.
But all they ever accomplished was shutting down aircraft carriers and saving people from getting bombed. They couldn't go viral on Twitter.
Sep 21, 2017 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Ruling-class inbreeding is for real
(this is an interesting lineage to trace - from Tor to Amazon's CIA datacenter to the US Navy to the South American slave trade)
Jul 27, 2017 • 58 tweets • 8 min read
was just reminded I have a whole essay written up about how the FBI took over the SWP that I never posted because it's too a hot topic
since it involves the family of one of the Chapo guys and I used family memoirs as a primary source.
Jul 27, 2017 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
@avantpope I think this is pretty accurate about all of the major communist parties in the US/UK since WWII - Hoover had fully infiltrated the CPUSA
@avantpope and was running it as a honeypot since at least 1960.
(doing a newspaper search of "Allende Regime" from 1972....)
Here's one from 1973 blaming "Leftists" for the coup. Says that blaming CIA would be "paternalistic" newspapers.com/image/30227810…
Jul 19, 2017 • 42 tweets • 10 min read
So 1970s astrologers founding 1980s software consultancies seems to be a thing. I've found 3 of these companies now.
Para Research, which published Marcia Moore's ketamine book, became an IBM vendor in the 80s. ASI computers was created by the tech director
Jul 6, 2017 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Wait until people figure out that Chaturbate is a subsidiary of DynCorp.
I'll put money on this one.
Mar 29, 2016 • 48 tweets • 7 min read
Data Point: Columnist Jack Anderson exposed Remote Viewing program in 1990s and also arranged payoff to Oliver Kisich in 1950's.
(at least if we believe Westbrook Pegler, which for all his bile, didn't seem to be given to libel)