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Ultra-Orthodox Marxist centrist noise-making body + sense-making apparatus woke infowarrior / “The answer to 1492 is 2666!” they/them
Aug 11 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
One of the sadder things about LLM psychosis is how hollow and rudimentary the messages are. Reveals a desperation for the simulated thing (“love”, validation, guiding purpose) but no real concept of what those mean in real practice, presumably from lack of experience. In other words, this is all symptomatic of extreme alienation. It’s embarrassing to fall for such shallow simulations of “connection” with “intelligence” but I’m not sure most ppl wouldn’t have the right combo of cliches that work on them, in the right circumstances.
Jul 5 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
I went to this out of a mix of sympathy to the message, curiosity, and deep skepticism. Would you believe that at no point any of the four speakers and panel chair defined Western Marxism? One panelist proudly listed off all of the Western Marxists he hasn’t read lol The closest thing to a definition was someone at some point said “Eastern Marxism is the pragmatic revolutionary struggle of AES, Western Marxism is pessimistic pseudo-Marxism born from defeat and ended up in the academy.” But what are the prominent theoretical features of this
Jun 16 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
the "influencing machine" is a way of reconciling the intolerable confusion of hallucinated voices and other bodily sensations, which viscerally feel like they have an external source but always seem tailored to your personal anxieties, by imagining them as an entity especially concerned with you, i.e. as a paranoid delusion. everything follows from that: one's necessary specialness or uniqueness, the excess of meaning in society's noise, the unified intent of the agencies which appear to haunt the schizophrenic.
May 8 • 65 tweets • 10 min read
The thing with parapolitics is that, while a solid 10% is concerned with a truly strange set of inscrutable events and motivations, it fundamentally is a descriptive picture of how class struggle is prosecuted. Implied within it are particular implications about class, imperialism, historical conjuncture, and the bourgeois state that only Marxism can make sense of - but not all Marxism. These topics are matters of intense, unresolved debate. To apprehend such history theoretically
May 5 • 40 tweets • 6 min read
When we speak of class, it always has a dual existence: the class-relational poles automatically reproduce by capital; the class formation that is politically and ideological mediated. Image The former is a composite in motion, as rhythms of crisis, development, and subsumption tend to reduce complex populations into bare economic strata according to the source of the revenue they subsist on (wages, profit, rent), tho class power is fetishized as a division of labor.
Mar 14 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
One aspect of gradually destroying academia such as it exists is it opens up epistemic space for the ever-present fringe to possibly become mainstream as the usual credentialism that validates knowledge erodes. In the abstract this could be historically progressive I guess but given that what it means in practice is anyone pursuing any idea with any method could just broadcast anything they want so long as there is funding for them to reach a sufficient audience. Racists have been gaming academia for decades through inter-validating networks
Feb 28 • 52 tweets • 8 min read
If theology is necessary to reconcile the revealed truths of scripture to the rest of human knowledge (while providing a concept of God that is both a limit and impetus for the development of knowledge), then fundamentalist Christianity is essentially a refusal of theology, which is a refusal to rethink what we know of God to grasp how he is in fact the alpha and omega of history. Refusing to engage in this practice is an infantile idealism: organizing to turn reality into simple portrait of what the Bible appears to say Ă  la lettre. It is reaction.
Feb 4 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thinking about that Invisible Committee line about revolutionaries storming the Winter Palace only to find it empty and far from the center of power, about paper tigers, emperors with no clothes. There’s power to be gained when the bourgeois state calls its own bluff first. What happens when all the liberal establishment’s political cadre and civil servants do fucking nothing, not even able to activate its nonprofit apparatus to feign outrage? When the hallowed institutions are bulldozed by a fleet of Rome plows, revealing emptiness?
Feb 4 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
The libidinal engine of fascism is the frontier where law becomes a matter of personal will and loose interpretation. The vigilante gang formed to set “concrete life” back again after the decadent abstraction of liberal rule turned everything upside down. The morality of the community against the empty formalism of legal mediation and restraint. These types do obey a higher mandate: the freedom to dominate, experienced as the pleasure of scenes of subjection fully empowered by the imaginary rule that one is policing excess.
Jan 24 • 66 tweets • 10 min read
Finance capital was more *concentrated* (vertically integrated) in US/Germany and more *centralized* (conglomerated through lateral formal ownership) in the UK. Lenin’s “theory” of imperialism is a mixture of JA Hobson (a British liberal) and Hilferding (an Austrian socdem). Apparently, Marx did not make this crucial concentration/centralization distinction explicitly until the 1872 French edition of Capital, the last version he ever worked on, which Lenin did not read.
Dec 16, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
We live under a bourgeois dictatorship that intends to rule forever by subjecting the world population to a series of biopolitical experiments. Another world is still possible but it was actually viable and even likely in living memory; crushing this possibility and it’s memory is the one overarching drive behind the seemingly anarchic and unplanned onslaught of violence and madness and is therefore key to interpreting contemporary events. It’s not a vast conspiracy, it is a labyrinth of parastate structures and parallel economies that all serve
Dec 10, 2024 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
Luigi's maternal grandfather, Joseph Zannino, was a Korean War vet and member of a number of fraternal societies. There are some interesting things going on. Image
Image The Order of the Sons of Italy in America pre-dates Mussolini but became a front for Fascism after 1928, including in the Baltimore Lodge Image
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Aug 22, 2024 • 37 tweets • 6 min read
The only meaningful difference this has from Leninism is that it disavows its vanguardism and so is far less effective! The desire expressed here is contradictory. 1) theoretically advanced section won’t be a vanguard, ie assume a leadership role. So far, so good, this should appeal to anyone leaning towards anarchism. It recognizes the need to promote anarchist politics but not through domination
Jul 15, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
JD Vance got his career start at Thiel's Mithril Capital. Thiel then financed Vance's own firm, Narya Capital. Vance was a never-Trumper, calling him "reprehensible", until he met with Thiel and Trump in 2021. Trump then endorsed his Senate run. Presumably led to VP ticket too. Thiel then donated $10 million to a Super PAC supporting Vance's race in Ohio, alongside Robert Mercer
Jun 29, 2024 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
“I fucking love science” is a libidinal declaration prompted by an aesthetic and uncritical encounter with the scientific image. The libidinal charge is usually connected to some moment where common sense is proven wrong; it’s the pleasure of being subjectivized as rational without the labor or responsibility implied in this. Because science is the part of the general intellect most aggressively controlled by capital, following the funding prerogatives of the security state, scientism really amounts to ideologically mystified
Nov 6, 2023 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
Disney adult is the target average subjectivity for all the ideological apparatuses of global capital. They enjoy - crave! - reification: the perfect neoliberal subject. They can only parse history thru the lens of monomythic archetypes: the perfect fascist subject. For the Disney adult, joy is repetition-compulsion. They are always nostalgic for implanted memories. On some level, they know the world is composed of pain, ambiguity, discomfiting choices; they are fiercely protective of their narcotic illusions.
Oct 20, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
You’re telling me the guy who owes everything to In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s tech venture capital firm, and who is a shadowy political warrior spending millions to build a fascist movement is also an FBI informant monitoring Chinese “penetration” into Silicon Valley?
Image The guy who’s primary revenue source is from contracts Palantir has with the FBI itself, as well as the CIA, NSA, DIA, DHS, the Pentagon, and police agencies?

But about revenue stream from this article:
cnbc.com/amp/2017/11/30…

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Sep 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
People are making fun of his hands motions but I’m like 90% sure he’s trying to do neurolinguistic programming shit. Not saying that NLP is anything but pseudoscience or that it really matters, but I feel confident that this is purposefully choreographed, which is really funny Obviously his words alone are plenty of evidence he’s making a series of manipulative false equivalences to insinuate that the allegations are political, which his fans will presumably eat up.
Jul 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I went down a parapolitics rabbit hole before bed and discovered that the likeliest suspect for the 2001 anthrax attacks, a U.S. army bio-chemical weapons specialist named Steve Hatfill, was later appointed to Trump’s Covid task force and is the brain behind hydroxychloroquine He also previously served in the Rhodesian and South African special forces, in bush wars where (genocidal, war crime) anthrax use against cattle is suspected.
Jul 18, 2022 • 32 tweets • 5 min read
China is like a patchwork of full-throated neoliberal city-states with a Keynesian central government unevenly grafted on top. Central gov sets policies which amount to prim accum in the countryside, providing municipal cadre with super-exploitable migrant prole masses that they can attract FDI with. China's comparative advantage from 1990 ~ 2010 was maybe the highest rate of exploitation in history. The inflow of capital eager to get a cut can only be described as a global feeding frenzy.
Aug 11, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve been reflecting on the death of politics and this seems like a great example. Advancing class interests with a kind of boldness that comes with being completely unchallenged politically. The ideological component is just procedurally generated, not especially convincing, but the derangement apparatus is so oversaturated that yeah, sure, there’s a crime wave, everyone’s shrugging about it. Completely bipartisan.