Mani Moksha

No context reminder: resentment of normies is intellectually lazy and politically corrosive.

I prefer analysis.

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

The Islamic Rep is at a point where surviving this war and surviving its aftermath at home are the same thing.

It's hard to focus on Israel's airstrikes in Lebanon due to Israel's invasion of Syria, which is hard to focus on due to Israel's atrocities in the West Bank, which are hard to focus on due to Israel's genocide in Gaza, which is hard to focus on due to Israel's war on Iran.

"Abundance" is the new "PMC"

IMO Israel's objective isn't to neutralize Iran's nuclear program or ballistic capabilities. It's ultimately to degrade its industrial capacity and economy to the point of destabilizing it as a nation state.

Being a leftist is fun because it's mostly you and your buddies very loudly saying "this system doesn't work and if we don't do anything about it shits gonna get bad" only to be told "shut up don't be unrealistic" and then shit gets bad and those same people are like "wow I hope you're happy."

The notion of "male loneliness epidemic" is rhetorical and lends itself to masculinist rationalizations for shitty behavior. But the sociological trend depicted here is more than rhetorical fodder. We need a politics that can at least offramp young men from the manosphere (from acct in other app)

Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

Essential reading. A mass movement is rooted in solidarity not social affiliation - an important lesson at a time when people across society are radicalizing in contradictory ways, but open to collective projects resisting domination.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Now people realize, from daily exposure to him, that Musk happily lies when it suits his interests, they have much more reason to be sceptical about robot maids and robot taxis and AI powered this and that. Tesla makes cars and it should be valued as such 4/x

Lest we forget: "US workers–including some who may have voted for Trump–are not our enemy. In most cases, they are reeling from 40 years of neoliberalism and a worsening cost-of-living crisis."

Perhaps it's a stretch, but Zelensky might benefit from the fiasco by adding momentum to Europe's break with US foreign policy and military dependence.

I aspire to write like this:

I guess coasters are 'woke.'

Do we think that the word "fascist" is over-used in American politics? Has its force diminished?

"The 1979 anti-disco bonfire in Comiskey Park can serve as a cultural window into today's anti-DEI purges, helping us to understand..." someone run with this and cite me as a co-author.

Just to underline - the US voted with Russia and North Korea on a UN resolution on Ukraine. China abstained

I know this political crisis extends from more enduring structural crises. But the sheer impulsiveness and megalomania of Musk and Trump makes this connection harder to see (and to sell). I feel like the notion of "flooding the zone" doesn't quite capture this.

As a socialist working in tech, I should have an answer for you...but I'm behind on my readings. Out of curiosity, what are some examples of the rejectionist view that you don't find convincing?

As a worker in tech, I approve of this message.

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

Is there a way leftists can harness the upswell of Canadian nationalism?

This also happened at Twitter when Musk arrived and started to decimate its staff.

On the flipside, perhaps it can also be harnessed as a platform for a popular front counter politics?

DEI is now a 'cumulative target' that represents any social arrangements not overtly organized around white /male supremacy as objects for attack.

Meta has suffered numerous leaks at the hands of its employees. I don't buy the bravado, and I bet their employees don't either.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling Many are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of Native people being stopped and questioned.

“We should not have to prove our citizenship. We are the original people in this country, but we’re in a scary time right now, and I don’t want any American Indian to get lost in the system. [ICE] ‘lost’ children the last time they did this. It’s just like the boarding school experience.”