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John Ganz
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dottore, ingegnere, avvocato When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — coming June 2024 from @fsgbooks
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Apr 22 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
i think there are two bullshit narratives going on: one that there is zero antisemitism ever expressed at these protests and that's just an establishment lie, and two, that there's some kind of modern day nazi rally going on at columbia and woke SA troopers are after jews Maybe you don’t think it’s important, maybe it doesn’t bother you, that’s up to you , but I’m not gonna pretend it doesn’t exist for the sake of the party like or whatever
Dec 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Herzl's witnessing of the Dreyfus Affair is often given as the inciting moment for the Zionist affair, but as Shlomo Avineri, who recently died, discovered, that's a bit of a myth
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Sep 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
europeans have apparently developed their own insatiable appetite for what they call "cheeseburgers" and "tacos." we are not forcing them to do anything. these shitty places are all run by europeans and packed with europeans. no american is trying to eat a taco in france
Sep 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
i think part of the reason the economy feels bad (along with inflation) is that even though there are periods of relative prosperity there's a sense they are temporary and bad times are always right around the corner. people don't feel secure in their jobs/careers we just go from bubble to bubble, things always seem to get worse, opportunities seem to shrink, possibilities seem more austere. the institutional security people once felt working for a corporation is gone. there's short-term relief, and people can do well, but its not secure
Jun 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
of course jokes in poor taste about tragedies can be funny, because they are self-consciously wicked but asking people to think being cruel is virtuous is a bit much kind of ruins the fun tbh
Jun 19, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
i think the trick to being a writer or any other creative profession is realizing it’s an idiosyncratic life and you need to figure out a process that works for you. it takes time but usually you arrive at it organically if you’re dedicated some people need to do the monastic thing, other people can write coming off 3 hours of sleep with a bad hangover
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
there's a variety of ultraleftism on here that has like an indie rock snob attitude to politics, they will hold a position until mainstream liberals share it, and then its no longer cool, so then they have to shift to a more niche position i may be an extremely obnoxious person but i try not to select my political positions on the basis of how obnoxious they are
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my little friend were you searching for your name on my twitter to find a joke from like 6 months ago 4 months sorry
Jun 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Yes, it is tiring. Once again, this recommends the analogy that Robin disdains. The fascist regimes combined the dynamism and plebiscitary punch of the mass movement with the preexisting agenda of anti-democratic conservative elites Prior to the Matteotti crisis, Mussolini's regime was constitutional. Each step to dictatorship was the elite trying to normalize and tame the movement within conventional political constraints. In Germany, the deeply conservative judiciary paved the way.
Jun 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
he’s certainly fun and exciting to them but many think he’s an extraordinarily accomplished and capable person, some to the point of believing he had nearly magical powers. but this is basically just describing charismatic authority he’s the very image of success for a lot of people
Jun 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
People try to take away information from these Russian propaganda talk shows, but it's clear that they are just a bunch of people sitting around and saying lunatic and outrageous stuff to just to dumb down the level of discourse to total idiocy, this is what people will repeat to their barber, to their friends, to the taxi driver, etc. it's just putting garbage out there so people can't and won't think
Jun 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Since this is coming up again, I'll just reiterate my position: I believe the best case of the fascism analogy is that it conceived Trump would attempt some kind of illegal putsch to remain in power. He did— the fact that it was unsuccessful just confirms the stipulation of many from the beginning: that this thing had some features of a fascist movement, but not others, and has some obvious and glaring political weaknesses. There were many failed and pseudo-fascisms in Europe as well.
Jun 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
These are inextricably interrelated claims: the war provided a concrete utopia for the fascists, they actually experienced it and took it to be a model for the kind of society they wanted to create I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense and I'm actually more sympathetic to the causal claim. The proto-fascisms of late 19th/early 20th century, reactions to the belle epoque, would not have crystallized into fascism without the war
Jun 9, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
whatever you do as a writer do not start a newsletter, subscribe to mine instead im not what advice i can give to writers. unfortunately i built a career by having a terrible personality online
Jun 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
my other idea for a show besides wesley snipes, esquire where he is an attorney who just karate kicks people in court is about a young guy whose roommate is a bat, he tries to have friends over, the bat tries to bite them, the bat gives his girlfriend a disease, etc. wesley snipes, esquire at 8, batmate at 9
Jun 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Ah they think what is being overproduced is elites, but in fact what is being overproduces are ...commodities...interesting "elite overproduction" thesis is weirdly marxian in the sense that its saying basically "the social arrangements and the needs of production are out of wack and this is creating social and political upheaval" but its reactionary in the sense that its just "make them shut up"
May 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
none of the people who post about electoralism failing and the need for more radical steps are gonna do shit. okay,so go baader meinhof then, libs on social media are not stopping you, you can try that if you want. now...just so i dont go in trouble again, i dont think anybody actually should "go baader meinhof"
May 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
If I was a gun owning parent of one of these children and the police wouldn't do anything, I'd strongly consider shooting this guy, which just goes to show this whole "armed society is a polite society" stuff is total bullshit An armed man is showing up where your children are being dropped off. You live in a society with mass killings of children are not uncommon. You own a gun yourself. Well,... This is the problem with all of this, we're just edging towards Hobbesian state of nature
May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
By Dylan Riley's definition of fascism—a mass mobilized civil society unhappy with political establishment and demanding an authoritarian, technocratic democracy—Ross Perot looks pretty fascist But he lacks a lot of the nastier elements as well. There's certainly some nationalism and militarism but he's not terribly bellicose or violent in his rhetoric about internal enemies. There's not a high degree of racism or nativism.
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I have sort of given up on media criticism, because it's hopeless, but this spectacle of major figures in the press defending Kaitlan Collins's and CNN performance as a piece of valiant and principled newsgathering is so transparently cynical and self-interested It's the league of people who have done a really shitty job at this so far. It's the solidarity of dunces.
May 17, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
half-baked theory that voters dislike ideological appeals because they dont understand them and also they creep them out; party intellectuals turn some discontent into an entire worldview, i.e. "anti-wokeness" voters might express agreement with much of its specifics in surveys, but then do not like it when its served back to them in a totalizing package. then the party is like "why isn't this working! you want this!"