Al Malarkey

Mother, contact our attorneys.

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@carl_feynman Check out @WeatherWolds

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@curiouswavefn @Noahpinion https://t.co/rLpXRXx8Js

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus has reportedly autonomously cracked 9 out of 353 open Erdős problems and proved 44 out of 492 open conjectures from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@MAKELUCAS @peaklass1 @susanstewart20 She said "daRned"

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@frankie_boy_ @PhillipAdams_1 On the contrary:

https://t.co/RNHP8Nrlnp

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@ahistoryinart The foreshortening is unusually pronounced, would that have been deliberate?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

None of these people are even remotely on the left.

The real important story that happened since the Cold War is perhaps best illustrated by this Margaret Thatcher anecdote: in 2002, she was asked for her greatest achievement. She replied: "Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds."

And guess what: she was right, that was indeed her greatest achievement.

That's what happened throughout the West: the ideological takeover of the "left" by "social democrats" who had no substantial difference to their opponents across the aisle. And in order to maintain the pretense that they were different, they decided to focus their platform on cultural and identity issues while abandoning any challenge to economic or imperial power - reducing civil rights struggles to convenient diversions from questions of class and systemic change. It's not the left that's unpopular, it's this sanitized ersatz of it. Voting essentially became a choice between the same product with different packaging, the illusion of choice.

Even more contemptible: candidates who emerged who were actually on the left, who wanted to drive actual substantial and meaningful change, were endlessly demonized with some of the most dishonest and disgusting tactics in politics. Jeremy Corbyn in the UK is a perfect example of this - smeared as a national security threat (and an antisemite) not just for his economic program but for questioning the wisdom of NATO expansion and opposing Western imperialism. In France we're currently seeing much the same playbook being applied on Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

This ties back to the concept of "extreme center" described by thinkers such as Tariq Ali, Pierre Serna or Alain Deneault. A radicalized form of liberalism that presents itself as moderate and reasonable while actually taking extremist positions in defense of the status quo - whether through unwavering support for imperial adventures abroad or the suppression of democratic alternatives at home. This centrism is 'extreme' in how viciously it reacts to any genuine left-wing challenge to the established order, whether through media smear campaigns, lawfare, or the cynical weaponization of identity politics to defend both domestic inequality and imperial power.

The irony and the situation we today find ourselves in is that this "extreme center," in its zealous defense of neoliberal orthodoxy and its refusal to address fundamental economic grievances, ended up creating the very conditions of social instability and political polarization it claims to stand against. And, ultimately, the conditions of its demise as we're currently seeing throughout the West.

The sad result though is that because the actual left has been so thoroughly demonized, legitimate popular anger and resentment largely get directed towards nihilistic movements that, far from solving our fundamental problems, channel these sentiments into scapegoating and division. These movements won't solve our fundamental problems - while they may break with certain aspects of neoliberal orthodoxy, they mostly offer the aesthetic of rebellion while dropping even the pretense of serving the common good.

That's where we are: the victory of the 'extreme center' over the left has proven to be simultaneously absolute and self-defeating. Thatcher's boast about Blair might have been premature - her true legacy may not just have been making the left compatible with neoliberal economics, but creating a world where our only choice is between the plague and cholera.

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@mbp_phillips @ahistoryinart He had some sick burns

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@AnnMile71721158 @ahistoryinart Except the lower half on the right hand side, it doesn't make sense

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@Billbrowder Fat fucking cowardly cunt

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@Billbrowder Someone had to stand up to the fat coward

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@RadishHarmers Forsooth my foot

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@MagnusCarlsen @BETBYsportsbook

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@ahistoryinart @emmar55 @elonmusk Create a list, and add your favourite accounts and then you will see only their tweets in that list. The list appears right next to 'For you' and 'Following' tabs.

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@InternetHippo So just like your posts, hippo

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@iammrvandy I have eaten
the pets
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@InternetHippo Shouldn't be long now

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@InternetHippo Been eight months and bill's still unpaid, going to engage the debt collectors now

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@InternetHippo If they make another sequel they will surely call it Sex and the Suburbs

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@WillKoehler3D @InternetHippo Should never have veered away from the gold standard for TP imo

[Al Malarkey @colossal_twonk]

@plalor @nytimes https://t.co/9XSVFqsQm7

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

That’s the most active use of passive voice the NYT has ever used to describe Israeli atrocities.