Anthropologist, 🌍⭐️⚒United Freaks of America, l ❤️ @JournalSpectre , he/him, somdomite
Mar 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
It’s a cliche to say that discourse on the internet is stupid—cliches are ofc often true, and describe the blatantly obvious. This is one of those cliches, definitely. The discourse is often very very silly, wrong, shallow, and aggressively unreflective …
And while that’s so true as to become a constant background refrain of the discourse itself ,
Mar 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Risk taking is actually very important developmentally, across a life.
That said; one fact contrary to this is that young people are much more likely to identify as queer and trans and transition. When was a young person this seemed like and *was* a very very big risk, bigger than sex or drugs
Dec 17, 2020 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
Now that we already have maxed out hospitals and still-rising Covid infection and death rate, mass evictions in winter with many times more looming, and have learned that, actually young people are dying from the virus...
Now that we know these conditions —viral and social—are also killing people at much higher rates through accidents, untreated medical conditions, overdose and exposure ....
Dec 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
DSA : lets recruit 100k ppl (politics completely unknown/irrelevant) and be the biggest baddest org of socialists !
Also DSA : 1100 socialist with a track record over 6 years of having p much exactly the same political priorities and premises as DSAs most active currents and members
Dec 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
spectrejournal.com/whats-in-a-slo… if you missed this absolutely ⚒️🔥💥 piece in @JournalSpectre , don’t do that
“In The German Ideology, Marx critiqued idealism’s treatment of consciousness as an autonomous social force devoid of material grounding. Marx argued that this philosophical phantasm attributes all human relations, activity, and “their chains and limitations” to consciousness.”
Dec 14, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Very sad to hear of the passing of one of my teachers, Dr. Leith Mullings. I only took a couple classes with her but I learned so much —her comments on papers were very specific, exact. She taught many of my favorite anthropologists.
Her own work was incredibly prescient and radical, not just proposing but proving a lot of the implications and premises of Marxism and Black radical feminisms for Social Reproduction Theory.
Sep 30, 2020 • 19 tweets • 2 min read
I don’t know why this is somehow still the frame some on the left are using, but even if “Bernie would have won,” he didn’t. He lost.
And that was extremely likely from jump. Unfortunately. I do think he was better than the other Democratic candidates.
Sep 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It’s actually worse -Wallace assumed trump commands the fash, and so did biden. Then Trump confirmed this.
Why are liberals pretending Biden is the incumbent in these analyses
Sep 29, 2020 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
“In the 1932 presidential election the Nazis ran Hitler, and the main bourgeois parties ran Von Hindenburg, the Junker general who represented the right wing of the Weimar republic but not fascism.“
“The Social-Democrats, leading a mass workers’ movement, had no doubt about what was practical, realist, hard-headed politics and what was “utopian fantasy”: so they supported Hindenburg as the obvious Lesser Evil. “
Sep 27, 2020 • 12 tweets • 1 min read
It’s true, I’m extra hard on fellow-Texans who inhabit the right-wing edge of socialist and “socialist” politics,
In part, because, I worry that y’all lifelong East Coast socialists are easily fooled and not too sophisticated
Sep 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Nah. Either the whole court hinged on all of us treating it as a political faction fight—including rbg—or it didn’t.
It makes sense to me that she didn’t, that wasn’t much her thing and she wasn’t as lib as she’s made out to be
Sep 27, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Don’t you sort of wish the “socialist” on the NYT oped page was more invested in defending socialist politics or even liberal ones than in defending conservatives against made -up anti catholic smears? nytimes.com/2020/09/26/opi…
I’d tag liz but she blocked me right after asking her first substantive political question wrt to her recent bullying bs
Because people asked for an explanation of this, EB has a position on homosexuals, in American Conservative. Google it. She says gays are cool as long as they don’t have gay sex. This is a homophobic opinion.
It also demonstrates exactly that liz knows exactly the difference between erotic desire and fucking, and makes a moral distinction there. Meaning she was lying about not understanding Sophie.
Sep 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It’s weird that the NYT hired as a permanent socialist commentator the most “socially conservative” socialist they could find
That definitely won’t discredit socialism at all to liberal readers who care about queer shit, racism or feminism, at all 🤷🏻♀️
Sep 23, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Spectre Journal’s Tithi Bhattacharya interviewed Meagan Day, Justin Charles, and Charlie Post about the left, electoral strategy : spectrejournal.com/the-interregnu…“
...and class and social movements after the defeat of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. In the first section below, each answers Bhattacharya’s questions, and in the second part, they respond to one another.
Sep 22, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Christian Democratic “Socialism” is actually just mean-girl queerantagonism , femininity as pretending-to-be stupid, and crying giant crocodile tears about abortion. Exactly like the non-socialist right-wing Christian activists and evangelicals I grew up with, but Ivy-League.🤷🏻♀️
Catholics are typically more interesting than this, shame.
Sep 21, 2020 • 13 tweets • 1 min read
Hot take: all the right wing social democrat and also the crypto-fash adjuncts or ex-grad students out there who constantly invoke the PMC (Professional Managerial Class) as the enemy of the working class...
While also assuming that their own completed (or aborted) engagement with higher positions them as internally critical members of said PMC
Sep 21, 2020 • 51 tweets • 7 min read
The fash-hugging pair of herd-immunity and incel articles I read from @jacobin today were worrying
To put it mildly
Sep 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I understand the cynicism, to be sure , but don’t think we should be dunking on libs for sayjng they will riot in the streets over the Supreme Court and abortion.
I sure as shit hope so, but I am guessing they will need some rioting lessons 🤷🏻♀️
Sep 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Comments from a friend “jacobin has apparently decided that it’s a good idea to side with the far right in criticizing lockdowns and to keep spreading some populist stupidities about “managerial class” protecting itself at the expense of the working class”
