Paul Demarty

Good Marxist, bad Catholic, phenomenology hobbyist. Peddler of cut-price Menckenisms for @Weekly_Worker. Here for shitposting. About 14% of a real person.

[Grace @gracecamille_]

well what are you doing with all those efficient hours, Mr Important Genius

[john @johnsemley3000]

The Tunnel Reader that @DeepVellum published with the Tunnel reprint is a great idea. especially cos it is (non-pejoratively) non-academic. need a book like this for Pynchon. lots of scholarship, but it's all "Tally Me Banana: Postcolonial Fruit Diasporas in Gravity's Rainbow"...

[Good Willsmith @GoodWillsmith]

last night at ~3:30AM one of the bartenders asked me to play “some nasty metal to get ppl out of here” so i put on Meshuggah “Straws Pulled at Random” but this backfired because all the wasted patrons there were rly into it. i watched a guy hold his phone up to Shazam Meshuggah

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

Happy GitHub copilot pricing Armageddon day, to all currently having a giant panic attack

[David Jamieson @David_Jamieson7]

Semi-apologetic SNP figures are starting to crop-up with 'here's where something went wrong🤔' takes.

But everyone has just been waiting for something like this scandal to break. There's been a slowly thickening stench of rot around SNP HQ and Scot Gov for a decade.

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

That war in 1979, of course, was the invasion of Vietnam in retaliation for their overthrow of the Khmer Rouge, with the say-so of the US.

Always fascinating to see how 30 years of Chinese foreign policy is completely memory-holed by Beijing's contemporary fans

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire has killed millions of people in its nonstop wars, in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Palestine, Yugoslavia, Panama, Nicaragua, Grenada, etc.

China has not fought a single war since 1979.

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

Therefore you get the Current Thing where people vaguely suggest there were "excesses" but can't say exactly what was excessive or why they happened to fall for it, and how they plan to not fall for similar manias in future

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

It's more the cumulative thing where every individual woke tic is an excuse not to think. Standpoint epistemology just ends up being a menu of extremely stereotyped dogmas. Relentless ostracism means there is no openness to external challenge. Etc

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

For those of us (nearly everyone) who recognize Woke 1.0 as a failure, what’s something specific you’re willing to say it got wrong? Here’s mine: the practice of describing policies that were, like, Kerner Commission recommendations as “prison abolition” to get attention was dumb

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

By being an adult human being with a brain capable of comprehending irony and other kinds of authorial distance

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

I love that biographies on Discogs are all written 20 years ago by PR people who are, quite possibly, now dead

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Aside from this confirming that the US is a global gangster, haven’t crypto freaks been telling us for ages that cryptos are beyond the reach of government?

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

Unwanted opening ceremonies have allowed me to see an eclectic mix:
Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Enrique Iglesias, Imagine Dragons, Shaggy, Linkin Park, Shakira, Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Robbie Williams, Lenny Kravitz, David Guetta, Zara Larsson, Dua Lipa and now the Killers

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

You're right to push back on that. The unexamined life *can* be worth living. Here's why it's probably right for you

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

And this, my friends, is what happens when you don't sentence Tony Blair to several million consecutive life terms

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So, I have a friend who works at the BBC.

Yesterday, they told me the Tony Blair Institute basically selected the entire panel for @bbcquestiontime — hence why there was no balance and it was essentially dangerous big tech propaganda. Loads of staff pissed off, but silenced.

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

@ghostofchristo1 Ok, i can see that in terms of the official dem account (or the groyperised US government accounts). I'm pretty sure Dennis was actually sacked from a government job over some spicy post however. I'm not sure this is a case of institutional alignment

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

You know a thing is good and definitely a legit business when bots have to steal random political accounts to promote it

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

"How dare this leftie say that whinging bellend Gad Saad is representative of my movement" - another whinging bellend

[West Coast Platonist @Tool_Being]

They can’t engage with real right wing critiques because their entire movement is just mobilizing third-world spite at this point. So what do they do? They stab at straw men. Saying Saad is a “new right intellectual” is analogous to claiming Oprah is a left wing intellectual.

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

A good laugh, and don't we all need one of those every now and again

[Matt McManus @MattPolProf]

My review of "Suicidal Empathy" by Gad Saad for @jacobin

Officially the third worst book Ive ever read.

https://t.co/m5w0B2Hb7G

[Paul Demarty @FilbenDemarty]

Yes indeed, I'm constantly telling it to make me rich without putting in any effort, and it constantly writes the same markdown file telling me to have richer parents