Christopher Tolve

Writer/Researcher for The Philip DeFranco Show/Rogue Rocket. Tweets, RTs, likes are solely my own. Mostly random thoughts about the news or books I’m reading.

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@javieraliaga_ @llddiiss There’s not a lot of racism in America, so someone needs to add some, and that’s where I come in. Lol

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@njhochman @amspectator Disgusting

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@lastpositivist Is this a joke? Dune is explicitly based on Arab/Muslim anti-colonialism. Lol

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@gabrielwinant This is of course, correct. I am perpetually disappointed by a left that wants to pretend the 1970s didn’t happen, and that it’s nothing more than a mere ideological choice preventing a return to new deal liberalism. We need to seriously grapple with the new world we inhabit

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@BrankoMilan I’m in the same boat. I read somewhere that Finley is considered to have revolutionized the field of classical studies., But I’m not sure how much debate still happens over his conclusions.

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@FoxNews This headline …

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@haymarketbooks Hobsbawm’s Age of Extremes

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Tragic

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It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.

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@njhochman Maybe because he didn’t actually write it?

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@gabrielwinant My answer to this has always been that Israel is the exception that underpins the western human rights order. It is the hidden particular making the universalist claims behind western foreign policy possible.

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@njhochman Lmao, how historically ignorant do you have to be to think United States saved any Somali from anything

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@HeerJeet @MazMHussain I would agree in historical reality, but I meant ideologically

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@HeerJeet @MazMHussain I would even go so far as to say that the central imperative of the western human rights regime is “never again“

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@BBCBreaking @AntheaButler Um, what?

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@NaomiAKlein @GBBranstetter I recall you describing something similar happening in Sri Lanka back in the Shock Doctrine

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I have tried to watch blade runner twice now, and both times I have fallen asleep halfway through it

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Yes, Musk forcing Twitter into a two-tiered payment model is not a good thing, but to be honest if you’re reading more than 1000 tweets per day, you’re consuming too much Twitter

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@AP This is pulled straight from an essay by David Lazar. Strange that the AP did not credit him

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@lastpositivist The argument I’m familiar with is that Greek democracy would not have been possible without slavery because slaves enabled a minority to have leisure time for politics/art/philosophy

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@dbessner Agree with this, but also think the value in the emphasis on the historical link between Germany/US is it showing that, Contrary to popular assumption, both are reconcilable