Newsletter #12:
The only way to make sense of what is happening in the world, why our previous + current efforts and failing, and what real resistance will need to look like is to bring back ideology.
www.thefictitiouscapital.com/p/12-moments...
Literal “Friends of IDF” event happening in the Bay Area. Seeing the genocidal psychopaths in person was surreal.
But the masses are with Palestine. Incredible show of solidarity across religions, ethnicities, etc.
Newsletter #12:
The only way to make sense of what is happening in the world, why our previous + current efforts and failing, and what real resistance will need to look like is to bring back ideology.
www.thefictitiouscapital.com/p/12-moments...
Economists sitting on their moral + intellectual pedestal are a bigger danger than climate deniers.
Liberal enablers of fascism are a bigger threat than fascists.
The sooner people realize who the real targets of resistance should be, the sooner we can make some actual progress.
Some thoughts addressing those of us already sharing our pin about apartheid.
But that’s not enough. This doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
We must do more and push others around us to do more.
Short 🧵👇
Really admire how people like Fukuyama have maintained their relevance while doing fuck all.
This piece is basically a monologue & a series of assertions with barely any data or examples (except one from 2009).
And great liberal washing of the IMF! 🔪
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/belt-r...
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3/ PLEASE learn, liberals are not leftists!!
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Some thoughts addressing those of us already sharing our pin about apartheid.
But that’s not enough. This doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
We must do more and push others around us to do more.
Short 🧵👇
Can't explain how true this is. I grew up during the War on Terror in Pakistan, have studied the history of violence, gone through archives of brutal imagery from Bosnia/Rwanda/Cambodia.
But this. To watch a genocide happen live. To watch a genocide be cheered on.
@nathantankus.bsky.social
It’s these kinds of people, who sadly happen to lead a whole ass department at Stanford (I mean it is Stanford so) that light fires while hiding behind their fluffy liberal rhetoric.
Just terrible and sad. Seen so many students fall for this because of the credentials/networks such people offer.
Maybe a silly question but does being loaded mean we’re on the Excel list or is there something on bluesky to be looking for?
Rinse-repeat from the Empire. Disinfo psyops, dehumanize the oppressed, bomb the fuck out of them, use chemical weapons, distract people w/ continued media bias.
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Laos, etc.
Every time people study this & build careers around it, only to champion it the next time.
everyone who has ever done palestine solidarity work knows one thing; we have literally tried fucking everything to make people hear and to acknowledge what is happening; we have begged, we have shouted, we have appealed, we have organized. The one thing we haven't and will never try is silence.
4/ I am more cynical than most, but even I have enough faith in humanity that at some point the rubber-band will snap and people will wake up to the brutality they have either supported or refused to condemn.
3/ Part of it will be geopolitical opportunism, part Israel's fascist regime overextending itself to the point that it's backers will also reassess, & part people globally realizing that this is a literal genocide, the likes of which most of us have only read about (Bosnia, Rwanda, etc.)
2/ This delusion isn't going to last. As with other things in the world these days, the occupation of Palestine is going through a phase-shift. Soon, there is going to be no neutrality.
Gonna build on this:
1/ Most of the world seems to be deluded into thinking that they are going to half-ass their way through this. The usual suspects are tripping over themselves to suck up to Israel, while the others (incl. China, ME, Pakistan, etc.) are trying to stay neutral.
1/ Been asked by a number of people whether I think anything from the Palestinian side over the last 48 hours has been worth condemning. And it’s a question we (people of the GS generally) get asked every time we critique the Empire.
My response (short form):
Great thanks!
Looking to build my network here — would be great to get some support in getting to the climate, heterodox economics, anti colonial movement spaces!
Thread on my work thus (writings + podcasts below) 🙏🏽
@farhana.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @kateraworth.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social
Also been on multiple of my favorite podcasts talking about energy, heterodox economics, the Global South etc!
The Great Simplification: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzD...
Steve Keen and friends: m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-jq...
Some of my writings have covered:
— Understanding how energy works
— How money works #MMT
— Debunking myths about the US$ system
— Primer on raw materials
— Primer on RE (how cheap/clean they are)
— Explainer on the extreme weather of 2023
fictitiouscapital.substack.com
New here so looking to (re)build Twitter network!
I have a Substack where I write about energy, money, climate & geopolitics to better explain our civilizational phase shift.
Help @70sbachchan.bsky.social @tykeynes.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
5/ But we have also the nuance & awareness to not create false equivalencies b/w the occupier-occupied because there is no moral standard that equates the choices of the rich/powerful with those who’ve had their parents/siblings/children massacred.
So please, spare us the moral inquisition.
4/ We have the heart and gall to condemn violence where we see it because our traditions (religious, ideological, etc.) are rooted in love & Justice. We can criticize both the occupier and also the barbaric parts of the resistance. That makes us morally superior.
