Archie Diamond

Retired hand model

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Mark my words here. I'm not exaggerating. Nathan Cofnas is a Zionist, a hereditarian supremacist and part of the heavily-funded 'Dark Enlightenment' movement, initiated by Nick Land and fronted by Thiel, Yarvin and Tech Bros. They seek the end of democracy and a shift to technocratic population control. Jason Arday was a carefully selected vulnerable target, the first of a campaign designed to discredit the university system and eventually all public institutions. This system, poorly managed by naive, comfortable liberals, is currently being targeted by private equity. It will take more than DEI vanity to defend it. The left must toughen up its intellect and its politics. This is a serious, rich and powerful enemy operating at a global level, probably more powerful, and certainly cleverer and more insidious, than anything we saw in the 1930s. https://t.co/ziYvckbHup

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions.

We can all see everything getting worse and worse before our eyes in real time, but our government officials don’t talk about it. Our mass media outlets don’t report on it. Our education systems don’t recognize it. There’s a giant elephant in the room with us at all times, and normal people are acutely aware of it, but the talking heads keep speaking as though everything’s going to keep ticking along normally into the foreseeable future.

We can all see the summers heating up.

We can all see that there are fewer insects and less wildlife around than when we were young.

We can all see that the western empire is on borrowed time.

We can all see that younger generations are having much more difficulty affording housing and life expenses than their parents and grandparents.

We can all see that technology has stagnated as capitalism’s innovation-for-profit model hits the limit of how far it can carry us as a species.

We can all see the apps, search engines, social media platforms and tech services getting shittier and shittier year by year.

We can all see AI making everything worse and turning everyone into cognitive infants who can’t do anything for themselves while consistently failing to deliver what its proponents say it will deliver.

We can all see the people around us getting dumber, crazier and more miserable as we are pushed into dystopian conditions where everyone gets more and more alienated and must pay a monthly fee for the experience of connection.

We can all see that state authoritarianism is escalating in proportion to public discontent with the status quo.

We all know we’re in a completely unsustainable situation. We all know we are riding a bus with disintegrating wheels.

But it doesn’t get acknowledged by anyone at the top. The news reports are still about the latest celebrity gossip and whether the economy arrow is pointing up or down. The movies and shows are still about wacky and witty characters for whom capitalism is working perfectly fine. The politicians are still talking about culture war issues and the Evil Dictator of the Day.

It is taken as a given that our grandchildren will be living in more or less the same kind of world we are living in, when we all know there’s no way this is true.

The wheels on the bus are coming off, boys and girls. The ride is near its end.

I’m not saying we’re all going to die, I’m just saying this civilization as it presently exists cannot possibly be sustained. Immensely drastic changes are coming up around the bend whether we like it or not, either by a deliberate transformation or by some cataclysmic event occurring against our will.

Life in the 2020s feels so spiritually dissonant because we all know this is the case, but all the sources we’ve been trained to look to for information and context are acting like everything’s perfectly fine. They’re painting a cheery picture over reality while every normal person is staring at the giant black cracks that keep appearing in the paint job.

Which tells you all you need to know about the competency of the people who are steering the bus. The people in charge are just going to keep driving this thing into the ground until there’s nothing left to save. If there’s going to be a world-saving revolution, it’s going to come from we ordinary people who are willing to acknowledge reality, not from the oligarchs and empire managers presently steering things who have been blinded by the pursuit of profit and power.

We either find some way to get their hands off the steering wheel and take control, or we find ourselves confronting the future horrors they’ve been discouraging us from thinking about while they drive us to our doom.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

I’d say a profession that proudly announces *Rod Liddle* is among the best of them, then digs its heels in on their inalienable right to hound minor public figures to death just for fun - really, because they want to do it and they like it - is not bothering to hide what it is.

[Simon de Jever @de_jever]

Sure, no mediocre white man has ever been artificially elevated beyond his capabilities. Unthinkable.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Jason Arday might have lied about the amount he was paid to write a book.

Michael Gove literally bragged the £10bn stolen during the Covid PPE scam was an 'honest mistake'.

One was instantly forgotten about, the other was hounded to his death.

[ANEKO🖤 @JulianaAneko]

Simon Jarvis, a Cambridge professor, pleaded guilty to 12 offences involving indecent images of children. Peter King, an Oxford lecturer, was jailed for offences involving thousands of indecent images of children.
I know some of you are reading these names for the first time…

[Plutôt la Barbie @plutotlabarbie]

Brendan O'Neill's guide to whether or not media scrutiny of a public figure is legitimate:

[Mike McCarthy @its_mccarthy]

There is a reason why this stuff went the way of the dodo, it’s that evolutionary biologists, geneticists, and sociologists like Gould, Lewontin, Tishkoff, and Fischer et al absolutely destroyed it on scientific terms. There is no debate to be had, we already won.

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

Something is rotten in the state of the United Kingdom.
And unless people of good conscience stop tutting and shaking their heads quietly to themselves, and muttering, and going about their daily business in fear, and, instead, stand the fuck up and shout "Enough!" the very worst will happen.
The very worst.
Stand up.
Now.

[Un Étrange En Terre Étrange @LoinDuTribu]

Mate, this is Britain.

We have white men who invented patients, fabricated clinical trials, faked archaeological discoveries, manufactured quotations and generally treated reality like an optional fucking extra.

Malcolm Pearce invented a patient and a three-year clinical trial involving 191 women.

Piltdown Man conned British science for decades with an orangutan jaw and some DIY dentistry.

Johann Hari treated interviews like fan fiction.

Boris Johnson was sacked for inventing quotes and eventually became Prime Minister.

And yes, people exposed them. Journalists investigated them. Academics condemned them.

Fraud did not magically become acceptable because the fraudster was white.

But here’s the funny bit.

The people now circling Jason Arday’s corpse are largely not the people who spent their careers heroically rooting out white establishment bullshit.

They are culture-warriors who suddenly developed a throbbing, almost erotic interest in academic integrity the moment the alleged fabulist was a Black progressive associated with DEI.

The Times didn’t look at Pearce and announce that whiteness had corrupted medicine.

The Spectator didn’t conclude that public schools were destroying meritocracy.

The Daily Telegraph didn’t treat a white fraudster as empirical evidence against white doctors.

Andrew Neil didn’t look at Boris Johnson and demand an inquiry into whether Oxford had been lowering standards for Caucasians.

Those men were fraudsters.

Individuals.

Embarrassments.

Sometimes symptoms of institutional failure.

Jason Arday allegedly tells tall tales and suddenly he becomes a fucking demographic theory.

DEI.

Black professors.

Lowered standards.

Institutional capture.

The entire progressive project hauled into the dock because one Black academic may have been a blagger.

That is the tell.

A white fraudster can embarrass an institution.

A Black fraudster apparently indicts an entire philosophy of racial inclusion.

And before everyone starts engraving FABULIST onto Arday’s tombstone, perhaps separate what was actually demonstrated from what remained disputed, inconsistent or unresolved.

Because if one Jason Arday disproves DEI, then Malcolm Pearce should have disproved white men in medicine sometime around 1995.

Funny how collective guilt becomes such an irresistible intellectual tool only when the collective is somebody else’s.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

Last week I wrote about the double standard at play in the right wing MSM coverage of Jason Arday’s story for @thenerve_news. My column included, a comparison to another Cambridge professor who, back in 2023, was found to have plagiarised work but kept his job bec of the Uni concluded the intellectual theft was “the product of negligent acts but was not deliberate”.  I’ve waited all week for other outlets to reflect that comparison. But no. Presumably because it’s an inconvenient fact that didn’t fit their toxic narrative. 1/

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Arday was less a fantasist than the journalists who have spent the last 48 hours pretending hounding a man to his death was driven by a noble desire to uphold “academic standards” — rather than using a flesh-and-blood human being as a sacrifice in their racist war on “woke”.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahm isn’t even in the illegally occupied West Bank. It’s in what’s been considered Israel since 1948.

The Palestinian wedding goers face down on the ground are the “citizens” Israel tells you have the same rights as Israeli Jews.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

This video shows three young men trying to help an injured person, but Israel bombs them with a missile, killing them all.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Curtis Daly @CurtisDaly_]

Every single time

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

“Mom, forgive me… I took this path to help people.”

A video found on the phone of one of 15 paramedics killed in Rafah captures the moment they came under fire, clearly showing ambulances and civil defense vehicles—not military vehicles as Israel claimed.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The capitalist empire blames all systemic problems on the individual.

The problem isn't billionaire megacorporations polluting the planet, it's that you drive a car.

The problem isn't that it's getting harder and harder to afford to live as the ruling class extracts more and more value from labor, it's that you're not working hard enough and you're making bad decisions.

Soaring police brutality isn't a problem, the problem is that the guy in the current viral police brutality video didn't obey orders correctly.

Israel's not an irredeemably racist endeavor dependent on nonstop violence and apartheid, it's just some naughty settlers and a few bad apples in the IDF.

We don't live in a highly controlled oligarchy where both parties inflict war, ecocide, injustice and tyranny upon the rest of humanity on behalf of their wealthy donors, the problem is that you haven't been voting for the correct candidates.

We don't live under an evil empire that feeds on human blood, it only looks that way because some individuals in charge made some unwise foreign policy decisions at certain points in history.

The blame always lands on the individual, not the system, and you can recognize this as the cynical manipulation that it is because the blame only ever goes one way:

• The individual business executives whose decisions are destroying our ecosystem are never held to account.

• The individual government officials whose depraved foreign policy decisions destroy countless lives are never imprisoned for war crimes.

• The oligarchs who are reaping massive profits expanding the surveillance state and profiteering off war, tyranny and sickness are allowed to keep buying politicians and private islands without suffering any consequences.

Notice how "blame the individual" never applies to these people. If you want THESE individuals to be treated like a problem, then you're a radical. You're an extremist. You need to be put on a terrorist watch list. You and your friends need to be monitored and infiltrated by federal police. When it comes to those who prop up and profit from the system, blaming the individual is strictly prohibited.

Jailing an impoverished man for periodically shoplifting to survive? That's fine; he should have behaved himself. Jailing a billionaire for buying elections and poisoning our planet? That's evil. Shame on you for even thinking that.

Jailing a worker for stealing from her employer? That's as it should be; thieves should be punished. Jailing a wealthy business owner for stealing wages from thousands of employees? Get outta here, Stalin, that's a civil case. They can have their paychecks when they've won their class action lawsuit.

Under the capitalist empire, we are taught that all we can do is make sure we're not a part of the giant permanent underclass who must suffer and toil for meager wages while always one mistake away from destitution. It is taken as a given that the underclass must always exist, and that all we can do is make wise decisions as individuals to ensure that we're not among the unfortunate riff raff our society is built on top of.

It's like we've all been trapped in a crowded room by some psycho who is flooding the room with water, and he's telling us over the loudspeaker "Now you'd better make sure you climb on top of the others, or you'll drown!" In that scenario the psycho is clearly the problem, but we've been trained to see the individuals who can't get their heads above water as the problem.

Whenever anyone goes online to complain about how hard it is to keep their bills paid or buy a house under the current system, they are swarmed by capitalism apologists telling them to work harder, spend less, and try to get a better job. Which is a lot like calling the fire department when a crowded building is burning and being told "Well I guess you'd better stay away from the flames then." No matter how well I as an individual stay away from the flames, there are still people trapped in the burning building who need help. Making the conversation about my actions as an individual is just an excuse to avoid addressing the large-scale nature of the problem.

People consent to this nonsense because we've been indoctrinated into it our entire lives. Propaganda isn't just there to get us to consent to wars, it's there to get us buying into the entire system.

The pop music is about owning stuff and having a good time.

The TV shows are about people who are thriving so much under the current system that they have time and energy to get into hilarious hijinks.

The movies are about protagonists applying their willpower and working hard over musical montages to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals as individuals.

The news stories fixate on the latest attention-grabbing controversy while ignoring terrible things like homelessness and industrial ecocide.

Our schooling tells us that communist countries have always been oppressive totalitarian wastelands and that capitalism offers us freedom and happiness.

At no time are we ever offered the suggestion that things could be better than they are. Over and over again in innumerable ways throughout our lives, we are told that the current order is the only way things could ever be.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual. We need to reclaim our minds from the social engineers who have conditioned us to think this way and begin cultivating unorthodox, unauthorized worldviews. We need to stop blaming each other for the failures of the system, stop scrambling to climb on top of each other to keep our heads above water, and start working together to eliminate the psychos who have trapped us in this room.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The reason the world is upset with Israel is because Israel has murdered ~85,000 people In Gaza alone. It's not because of antisemitism.

Israel is totally unleashed with no red lines, and has reached an unimaginable peak of evil.

[safia aidid @safiyaaaay]

there are literal rapists and abusers in academia, academics who return to campuses after serving in genocidal armies, academics whose research and inventions contribute to the destruction of our planet. Even if we look at academics whose crime was *to lie* +

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is Croatia right now…

Everyone needs to know what is happening in our world right now: Our planet has been experiencing the most extreme heat event in world history. This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life.

July was the hottest month in the United States since we records began in 1895—Washington, USA burned to the ground.

June was the hottest month in Europe, exceeded 40 degrees Celsius, shattering all heat records—caused over 25,000 deaths across the continent.

Venezuela, Columbia, Indonesia, and Malaysia earthquakes crashing. The planet has recorded exactly 10 major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or higher—Earthquakes are not caused by CO2, but climate change can modulate them by secondary effects.

Rivers in China and Europe are drying up, reaching historically low levels—Just for perspective, the drying of these rivers will impact shipping routes, leading to a skyrocketing in the prices of food, fuel, and energy.

El Niño has begun, driving ocean temperatures to record-breaking highs—Nearly three decades ago, a catastrophic El Niño claimed 23,000 lives and inflicted billions of dollars in global economic damage.

Canada burned to the ground, and Greenland's ice sheet is collapsing—slowing down the overturning of heat in the North Atlantic, pushing the whole monsoon system down further south, causing droughts and forest fires over the Amazon rainforest.

The severity of this heatwave is truly hard to comprehend. What's going on there is a foreshadowing of our future.

Scientists confirmed that heatwaves driven by climate change. Climate change is not a "hoax." It’s real and it’s happening.

If you are not a scientist, and you disagree with scientists about science, it’s actually not a disagreement. You're just wrong. Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

This is no longer just a climate crisis. Climate chaos is inevitable. This is a humanitarian crisis. Just because you do not take an interest in climate change, doesn't mean climate change won't take an interest in you.

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil fuel and oil companies, and wildfires after arms and defense industries. And Could reporters stop asking if leaders believe in climate change and start asking if they understand it instead.

The world must remember that we live in a society, not an economy.