Mich Ciurria

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Maybe some request for money are genuine, but I would do my research before sending money to strangers via PayPal, Crypto, and other electronic payment methods. 5/5

where they are imprisoned, malnourished, and tortured if they don't meet scamming quotas. So, a lot of those "scam likely" calls come from slave operations. Be aware that capitalism has, as one would predict, given rise to a scam economy fuelled by colonialism and modern-day slavery. 4/5

Indeed, there is a whole scamming industry consisting of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of human trafficking victims working for 20 hours a day in fortified call centres... 3/5

People should be aware that, due to capitalism, the world is full of scammers, so you should assume that random people asking you for money are scammers. 2/5

I was just informed that my friends have been giving money to an alleged photographer from Gaza, Sarah Murtaja. If you Google "Sarah Murtaja," there are multiple results stating that she is a scammer. 1/5

The US is going down & they’re taking us with them. 🚢⚓️🌊☠️

I think he plans to invade all three - he’s made up his mind, and maybe he can pull it off. For him, countries are real estate for his portfolio. He’s going to acquire them one way or the other. Now he has the largest military in the world behind him. 6/6

In his Qantico speech the other day, he reiterated for the unpteenth time that Canada should become the 51st state. ‘You can do it voluntarily,’ he said. Which implies that you can also get involuntarily colonized - you choose. 5/6

On that note, is Trump going to invade Canada? 4/6

JD Vance recently visited a US army base in Greenland for no other reason than to tell US soldiers that Denmark can’t be trusted to govern it responsibly and that Greenland is essential to US security. The same day, Trump said ‘We need Greenland…, we have to have Greenland.’ 3/6

Now the Venezuelan government is arming civilians & telling them to form militias in preparation for an invasion.
On that note, is Trump going to invade Greenland? 2/6

Is Trump going to invade Venezuela? The US navy destroyed ‘at least three’ Venezuelan boats for allegedly transporting drugs (but probably not), and Trump has been saying since 2017 that he wants to invade Venezuela. 1/6

‘The 218-page complaint accuses Ms Owens of spreading "verifiably false and devastating lies" about the Macrons, including that Brigitte was born a man.’ ‘Macrons will submit ‘scientific evidence' in defamation case to prove Brigitte is a woman.’

What ‘evidence’ are they going to submit? A copy of Gender Trouble? The Second Sex? The only relevant evidence is in a book on gender theory.

Professors defend Charlie Kirk assassination on Bluesky \ In response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, various university faculty and staff have expressed views on Bluesky that appear to support his killing.

None of these people defended Kirk’s death. None. This is just a smear campaign to get people fired.

2 news stories on a black man found hanged, deemed suicide

Black man found hanged, no foul play suspected. It’s the same story over and over, isn’t it?

Trump’s friends are fascists. Who can deny it? Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said that homeless people who ‘don’t use the resources given to them’ should be killed by ‘involuntary lethal injection… or something - just kill them.’

I have yet to see a single leftist celebrating: most, as far as I can tell, are bracing for the violent blowback that's just around the corner. 5/5

So no, most leftists are not "celebrating" Kirk's assassination, even if they're not sad that Kirk can no longer pollute national discourse with his eugenic talking points. 4/5

But regardless of who did it, everyone can agree that Kirk's assassination will trigger right-wing backlash, including a broader deployment of the National Guard, intensified ICE patrols, McCarthy-style investigations into university personnel, and other Draconian measures. 3/5

Nor will leftists believe the FBI's official report, since they generally don't trust the FBI (indeed, the investigation into the FBI's potential involvement in Malcolm X's assassination is still ongoing, 60 years later). 2/5

Despite popular opinion, I don't think that most leftists - even those who support political violence - are "celebrating" Charlie Kirk's assassination. One reason is that no one knows who assassinated him, or why...1/5

Jaggar wrote about this before I was born but, in my eperience, the profession has done very little to address these problems, and, in fact, barely recognizes them AS problems any more. In any case, let me know if you’re interested in seeing my draft. :) 5/5

all to monopolize the practice of philosophy & generate market value for it. Instead of making philosophy universally accessible, professionalization has commodified it, restricted access to it, & alienated society from it. 4/5

Professionalization incentivizes philosophers to invent esoteric language to mystify the public; write about abstractions that no one cares about; and restrict entry to the discipline by creating stricter standards that implicitly discriminate against minorities, 3/5

in part because it makes philosophy look like some rarefied, esoteric specialization that only trained experts (especially white men) can do, instead of a relational practice & way of life that should be accessible to everyone. 2/5

I’m writing a paper fluenced by Alison Jaggar’s work on how the professionalization of philosophy creates conflicts of interest between professional philosophers and the public..1/5

Whenever a philosopher is entertaining some capitalist bullshit, there's always a dark money trail to some dead white guy. 4/4

they're taking money from a libertarian organisation that pays people to make free-market capitalism look less shitty than it really is. I didn't listen to my own advice to follow bad ideas to the money! 3/4

I didn't know this at the time, but the Initiative receives funding from the Frick Initiative, a libertarian program at WashU. No wonder they take seriously Brennan's libertarian hackery...2/4